Designer Neil Caldwell creates red, green, blue, even purple! BACON.

Go for it:

While they might un-nerve the neighbours, fusion reactors of this kind are perfectly legal in the US.

“As long as they [private citizens] obtain that material [the components of the reactor] legally, they could do whatever they want,” says Anne Stark, senior public information officer for California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

It’s perfectly safe:

“There is no chance of any kind of accident with fusion,” says Neil Calder, communications chief for Iter, a multi-national project begun in 1985 with the aim of demonstrating the feasibility of fusion power.

“There’s no CO2 pollution, there’s no greenhouse gases, you can’t use it for proliferation [the spread of nuclear weapons] – it has so many advantages,” he said.

Acting Amsterdam mayor Lodewijk Asscher is considering using police offcers posing as Jews in an attempt to stamp out anti-semitic violence, the Parool reports on Monday.

A spokesman said the suggestion, made last week by Labour MP Ahmed Marcouch, fits in with Asscher’s decision to take unorthodox measures to try to reduce verbal and physical attacks on Jews in the capital.

Secret tv recordings by the Jewish broadcasting company Joodse Omroep broadcast on Sunday showed young men shouting and making Nazi salutes at a rabbi when he visited different areas of the city.

The city’s police already use people posing as pensioners and gay men in an effort to catch muggers and gay-bashers.

The Associated Press: Cops bust woman, 74, for pouring mayo in book drop.

Joy L. Cassidy was picked up Sunday at the library, moments after police say she pulled through the outside drive-through and dumped a jar of mayo in the box designated for reading materials

… vandalism that started in May 2009. Library employees have reported finding books in the drop box covered in corn syrup and ketchup.

Went to a “Country Buffet” last night.  (They are owned by the same people who own OCB)

It’s basically exactly the same as OCB.  However, this location was newer than the OCBs in MN, and had some new features (like a steak grill!)  I figure that’s a feature of the relative newness, not the missing adjective on the name.

Prepare your final status update for when you die with MyWebWill | VentureBeat.

A quirky, little startup that lets you prepare your social media presence for when you die is now out of beta testing and open to the public.

MyWebWill stores people’s passwords and wishes, so that their online identities can be shut down or handed over to friends and family when they pass away

John McCain to ‘Jersey Shore’ star Snooki: ‘I would never tax your tanning bed!’.

McCain, a skin cancer survivor, replied Wednesday on Twitter, saying “u r right, I would never tax your tanning bed! Pres Obama’s tax/spend policy is quite The Situation. but I do rec wearing sunscreen!”

The text for a 30 second radio ad is usually equivalent to 7 lines of text, double spaced, in capital letters.

Because I guess I write radio ads now.

Tiffani Thiessen welcomes a baby girl – CNN.com.

I smell a spin-off….