Man eats 47 cheese sandwiches in 10 min. – There’s a rising star on the competitive eating circuit. California man Joey Chestnut downed 47 grilled cheese sandwiches in ten minutes this weekend in Las Vegas to set a world record. That’s eleven more sandwiches than the old record of 36.
Beer ingredient may fight prostate cancer – For many men, a finding by Oregon researchers sounds too good to be true: an ingredient in beer seems to help prevent prostate cancer, at least in lab experiments. The trouble is you’d theoretically have to drink about 17 beers a day for any potential benefit. And no one’s advising that. “Dear, you’ve drunk too much already.” “But it helps fight prostate cancer!”
Bulky man barely injured as car rolls over him – German police said the extra body mass prevented the 30-year-old man from suffering potentially fatal injuries when a Volkswagen Polo drove over him after he braked suddenly on his bicycle at a crossroads and fell off in front of the car. A guess there’s finally a reason to be fat.
Burning Safari (mirror) (from MS newsgroup) – a really cute and funny animation about how futuristic robots go on a safari to take pictures and gets pwned by a monkey. Gobelins has a bunch more interesting animations in their gallery.
Jack the cat chases black bear up tree – Neighbor Suzanne Giovanetti first spotted Jack’s accomplishment after her husband saw a bear climb a tree on the edge of their northern New Jersey property on Sunday. Giovanetti thought Jack was simply looking up at the bear, but soon realized the much larger animal was afraid of the hissing cat. After about 15 minutes, the bear descended and tried to run away, but Jack chased it up another tree.
Sleepy workers costing billions – Japanese routinely work long hours, as much from cultural constraints on leaving before colleagues as from volume of work. Suited salarymen napping, often standing up, are a common sight on crowded commuter trains.
Speeding man was drying wet car – Police confiscated the car and driver’s license of a Dutchman caught speeding who said he only wanted to dry his car after he had washed it. An awesome excuse to tell the police officer why you’re speeding.
iPods knock over beer mugs (from /.) – That iPods are “in” on college campuses might not surprise you. That Apple’s portable music players are more popular than beer? Now that’s surprising. Beer traditionally has had the biggest buzz with college students: Seventy-five percent consider drinking beer “in” on their campuses, according to Student Monitor’s Lifestyle & Media Study.
How NOT to steal a SideKick II (from /.) – An interesting story where someone’s cell phone got stolen is able to track the user and report her findings. I dunno if the person was a guy or girl, but she talks like a girl, so I’m going to assume it’s a she. Anyway, the person who took the cell phone (or claims to have bought it from a taxi driver) apparently took pictures of herself and her friends and family and uploaded online. Of course being on someone else’s account, the original owner had access to all these photos. The latest outcome seems that she sold the cell phone, but I have a hunch it was another friend of the thief trying to get the original owner off their tail.
Police: Mom asks son to sell pot for bail – A woman who police say asked her son to sell marijuana to raise money to bail her out of jail faces an additional charge.
Dvorak Admits To Trolling Mac Users (from /.) – I was talking with Dvorak at the Vloggercon party this evening, and he started telling a story about how he deliberately pisses Mac users off to get flow for his stories, and I said, hold a minute, I want to record this, and shit if he didn’t stop and repeat it for me and my video camera. I guess now I’m an official video blogger. You can see the video here (torrent). I’ve also posted the video here (streaming) (mirror). Basically Joh Dvorak gives a talk about how he gets “numbers” for his site. First he posts a story that’ll get Mac users angry and stir up a riot. However, he’d also word it in such an ambiguous way, it’ll give him outs. After tons of hate mail, he’ll post a follow-up response saying how everyone misunderstood and misinterpretted him and this pisses off the Mac users even more. Finally he posts a 3rd entry completely opposite of his original entry, saying how wrong he was all along and everyone else was right and the “numbers go through the ceiling”. Pretty sad I’d have to say.
That Burning Safair animation was awesome! I tried to watch a couple others, but since I don’t speak French I found them kind of boring.