Made to order weekly from a mixture of pork, beef, and veal, these Chi (where else?) produced monstrosities of meat are 16" long, 7lbs and designed to be divvied up into slices, yielding approximately 50 burger-style dog discs or one thing you should never let your friends put in your mouth, even in jest.
They have a hilariously produced dog-touting commercial at BigAssHotDog.com
Just-launched, ATL-based Wavee's a unique electronics auction site throwing up 20-30 items every day -- from MacBooks and LG flat screens to Wiis and Bose speaker systems, all of which can end up going for silly-cheap prices (e.g., a $100 Best Buy gift card recently went for $3) -- but with a unique twist: whenever you or anyone else bids, 20 seconds are added to the clock, a feature sorely lacking from the Falcons' game this past Monday night.
Just launched out of Santa Monica by a web designer and his sometime-actor friend, Random Creepy Guy is a photo blog composed of otherwise-good-lookin' pictures "ruined" by various deranged outsiders, and possibly, their sometime-actor friend.
Snap an iPhone pic of an indecipherable sign, menu, etc., and this 99-cent, locally developed app will use optical character recognition to translate from 16 languages, plus pull up geo-relevant Wiki entries, and provide audible pronunciation tips, because how will you ever navigate foreign lands without knowing how to properly intone "Caution: Deaf Children at Play"?
Get the app, see it work YouTube style, and give feedback at PicTranslator.com
Engineered by a company that crafts communications equipment for the Department of Defense, and originally only intended for demo purposes at trade shows, the Egg's a 21st-Century version of the ubiquitous 1960s/Mork & Mindy-era "egg chair", now outfitted as a 5.1 Dolby Digital cocoon that'll provide an aggressively pleasurable media experience, unless you're watching Cocoon.
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