Per CNN:
For only the second time in nearly three decades, there won’t be a Bush on the presidential ballot this November. But that absence may not be a permanent one, the current White House occupants hinted Sunday.
President Bush was asked by a SkyNews correspondent whether the end of his term marked the end of the [...]

The Washington Post runs a story not for the faint of stomach about a number of Minnesota meatpackers falling ill:
Their working hypothesis is that the harvesting technique — known as “blowing brains” on the floor — produces aerosols of brain matter. Once inhaled, the material prompts the immune system to produce antibodies that attack the [...]

The title says just about all anyone really wants to know about this thing: yes, it’s a cheeseburger in a can. Yet another disgusting example of freak food, sure, but I for one welcome the coming canning of all foods–I’ll take my steak frites in its own juices, please.
[Via Gizmodo]

And they are you

“THEY GO INCOGNITO” by STEPH CALVERT
Sheryl Crow once said, “If it makes you happy, it can’t be that bad.” I think I may—may—disagree with her wise words in this case only, since I still wholeheartedly agree with her visionary stance on drinking beer at noon on Tuesday. Because, like, heroin makes you [...]

Only in LA:
On Saturday night SymbioticA will be talking about some of their past projects, such as growing humane leather from individual skin cells and using a rotating micro-gravity bioreactor to create an actual human ear.
If you want to bind your own books? Grow your own purse? I’m lost on this one.
Via BoingBoing