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Microsoft Trying To Poach Amazon And Google Employees With Bacon

Microsoft is trying to hire new employees by luring them with god’s greatest creation, the devil’s most delicious treat and man’s greatest love: bacon. They’ve set up a bacon cart outside of Amazon’s offices and will give away free bacon to everyone. EAT BACON, WORK MICROSOFT.

June 30, 2011
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How Your Bacon Is Made: The Jarvis JR-50 Super Pig Decapitator

Slaughterhouses are dangerous places to work, what with all the tightly packed cutting implements and atomised brain matter you’re inhaling. The Jarvis JR-50 Head Dropper aims to make hog processing safer for everyone but the hogs. The name even sounds peaceable.

June 10, 2011
Online

Bacon Ipsum Turns Your Dummy Text Into Yummy Text

Anyone harnesses the written word for a living is eye-bleedingly familiar with lorem ipsum the long string of Latin jibber-jabber that acts as a placeholder until your actual dictional genius shines through. Good news! It’s dead. Bacon ipsum killed it.

May 17, 2011
Cameras

Breakfast Is Most Delicious At 1000fps

It’s getting to the point where I’m not sure there’s anything not improved by slow motion. Even one of the most lavish—and most brutally upended—breakfast spreads I’ve ever seen. Will nobody think of the bacon?

May 16, 2011
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Use Leftover Bacon Drippings To Make An Oil Lamp

Storm season is here, and if the power goes out for a long time you may want a light source that doesn’t run on batteries. We’ve shown you once how to build an emergency oil lamp from a can of tuna, but if you don’t like the smell of fish, try on this bacon fat-powered lamp for size.

May 11, 2011
Gadgets

Wake Up To The Smell Of Sizzling Bacon… And Oinks

Bacon alarm clocks were pretty rudimentary six years ago. I mean, they didn’t even have a snout or furry ears! The best bit about this BAKON one is that the instructions are all on Instructables, so you can build your own.

April 18, 2011
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Instructables Bacon Challenge: Everybody But Your Arteries Wins

We post a lot of Instructables DIY projects around these parts, along with a surprising amount of bacon. So when those two forces of good deliciously co-mingle, we feel duty-bound to keep you in the loop.

April 11, 2011
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The Bacon Bazooka: Meat Your Maker

Of all the ridiculous ways to shuffle off this mortal coil, I think I might just choose the Bacon Bazooka: a 1m long, battery-operated weapon encased in 6.8kg of piggy goodness.

April 7, 2011
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Finally, Bacon Cologne!

No longer do you have to dribble bacon down your chin to get a hint of pig on your throat—perfumers Fargginay have invented bacon cologne which has a mix of 11 essential oils in both the Gold (citrus) and Classic (spicy maple) variants, which cost $US36 each.

March 7, 2011
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It’s National Bacon Week. Let’s Celebrate With Gadgety Bacon Goodness

Gizmodo AU

According to Australian Pork Limited, this week is Australian Bacon Week. Being lovers of (almost) all things bacon here at Gizmodo, we thought it would be a good idea to look at five of our favourite bacon-related gadgets and peripherals.

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