Ozrem, Serbia hosted an international culinary competition in which chefs prepared the testicles of many different animals in creative ways:

The food — politely called "white kidneys" in Serbian — is believed to be rich in testosterone. In the Balkans, it is considered to help men's libido.

"The bulls' testicles are the best, goulash style," said last year's winner Zoltan Levai, stirring a metal pot heated by a wood fire and filled with vegetables and large testicles that he said were provided from a state-run slaughter house.

The festival — which includes dishes like testicle pizza and testicles in bechamel sauce flavored with a variety of herbs found in the region.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gP3SCc0zMq1BD6No9L44_H13zNUwD9HTAKPO0 via Jammie Wearing Fool | Photo (unrelated) of Texas calf fries by Flickr user austrini used under Creative Commons license

Previously: Cooking with Balls

Taylor Lautner, the actor who plays the werewolf Jacob in the Twilight movies, has sued a RV dealership that failed to deliver a rented RV to Lautner. The dealer responded by challenging the buff actor to a push-up contest:

On Monday the 30th, Brent McMahon, owner of McMahon's RV, proposed that the matter be settled by means of a push-up contest. McMahon said that if the werewolf won, he would pay the $40,000 allegedly being demanded to settle the case; but if McMahon won, he would donate the money to Children's Hospital of Orange County.

That sounds like a great idea to me, but the werewolf's camp rejected the idea immediately. "McMahon RV's response to our client's legitimate claim," an attorney declared in an all-too-attorney-like statement, "demonstrates the lack of professionalism that Mr. McMahon, his company and his employees have exhibited from the outset, and that compelled the filing of this lawsuit in the first place." The push-up contest was simply a "facetious suggestion," he said, and maybe it was, but it is also an awesome suggestion and seems to me like a perfectly good way to settle a lawsuit.

Link | Photo: AP

The architecture firm Minarc designed and built a kitchen sink that's made from old rubber tires. It's called RUBBiSH and is made in the following manner:

The rubber from the tires is melted down and cleansed of debris, and the tiny inherent metal fibers that give a tire its road resistance are then formed into a sheet. This sheet is stretched over a base frame—made of wood, metal, or any other material out of which bathroom furniture can be fashioned—and anchored down by the drain collar. This creates a shallow-sloped surface for water to be siphoned away, but not a clunky profile; in fact, the material used is so minimal that, the manufacturer claims, the sinks use less than one pound of rubber.

Link via Make | Photo: Minarc

Cathy of Olds Nighty-Eight made a Star Wars-themed blueberry pie for her young son using cookie cutters as molds:

Danny's most recent request was to bake some doodleberry pie. Obviously, we didn't have any doodleberries handy. We went to Costco and bought blueberries instead. He said that would be fine. I knew pie would be ok to bake because I don't really like pie. It wouldn't be much of a temptation to eat the whole thing. Plus, I've never baked a pie from scratch. We both win. He gets pie. I get to stop saying I've never baked a pie from scratch before

I don't know what a doodleberry is but I'm afraid to Google it and find out.

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Nerdcore has a roundup of three signs of changing times in East Asia: an interview with the last traditional swordmaker in Taiwan, the decline of the geisha tradition, and the diminished demand in Japan for actors skilled in the martial arts of the samurai.

The last swordsmith in Taiwan is 65 years old and makes his blades using human bones with the permission of the deceased's relatives. He says that according to tradition, the bones infuse a spirit into the completed sword.

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Troy Polamalu plays for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He wears long hair to honor his Samoan heritage. It's gotten Polamalu in trouble before -- he was once tackled from behind by his someone who grabbed his locks, as you can see from the video at the link. To make sure that nothing unfortunate happens to his hair, Polamalu has insured it for a million dollars:

Lloyds of London has written a policy on the Pittsburgh Steelers safety's locks, in the kind of publicity stunt that rises to the top of search engines on the week before real sports resume after Labor Day. There's a serious reason for Polamalu's 'do: he has not cut it since 2000 and wears it as a tribute to his Samoan ancestors. But there's a product tie-in on the insurance: Polamalu endorses Head & Shoulders shampoo, whose parent company sought the policy.

Link via Geekosystem | Photo: Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press

Etsy seller sewtara made a coffee cup cozy that keeps you updated on how quickly it's caffeinating you. It's made of embroidered muslin with a cotton lining.

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YouTube user errrick recorded his kitten, Claire, playing the classic Nintendo game Duck Hunt. She's a poor shot.

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Previously:
Nintendo Duck Hunt/Predator
Behind the Scenes in Duck Hunt

Carroll J. Boylan patented this gadget in 1995. Supposedly, you can load your dishes into a dishwasher without leaving the table:

A space-saving dishwasher has a washing basin having side and bottom walls and an open top, and a vertically shiftable rack assembly for carrying dishes. A shifting mechanism is coupled with the rack assembly for selectively shifting the latter between a lower cleaning position, wherein the rack assembly is disposed within the basin below the open top, and an upper loading position, wherein the rack assembly is disposed above the open top of the basin. The dishwasher further includes a lid member for covering the open top of the basin when the rack assembly is in the cleaning position. Structure is also provided for cleaning the dishes carried in the rack assembly, when the assembly is in the cleaning position. The dishwasher is particularly designed for installment within an opening of a substantially horizontally extending table-top or kitchen counter top.

Would you find this invention useful?

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN%2F5687752 via Anticipate This!

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Yoga instructor Leeta Koontz suggests that yoga may be helpful for your dog. Urlesque has a roundup of her trippy videos, the first of which talks about the spiritual connection between you and your dog. The above video specifically addresses placing your dog in the Downward Facing Dog yoga position.

Link | Previously: Dog Yoga in Japan

Covered is Robert Goodin's ongoing project to invite artists to remake classic comic book covers. Pictured above is one example: a 1966 Jimmy Olsen cover by Curt Swan and George Klein next to Lauren Gregg's version.

Link via Nerdcore | Lauren Gregg's Website

Tuned Pale Ale is a product by designer Matt Braun. There's a musical scale down the side of each bottle. You can drink down to a particular level, blow on rim, and the bottle will play a note. If you get a few people together with these bottles, you'll be able to perform a melody. Braun writes:

This product aims to promote more of this type of social interaction. This product aims to inform users about the musical qualities of existing bottles and to make the bottle a better instrument.

Link via Gizmodo | Photo: Tuned Pale Ale

Artist/musician Molly Lewis modified coloring books to turn dinosaurs into trendy hipsters. Poor Tyrannosaurus Rex. At least he'll have a project and a mission to join.

Link via Geekosystem | Molly Lewis' Website

Previously: When Coloring Books Go Bad

Artist Jeremy May carves holes into books and laminates the results in order to create rings. Pictured above is a ring made from Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman.

If you were able to wear a book as a ring like this, which book would you choose?

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There's a railroad trestle over Gregson Street in Durham, North Carolina that has a clearance of only 11 feet, 8 inches. Truck drivers have been crashing into it since as early as 1956. The above video shows 13 crashes taking place there over a 13 month period, but the link is to a site chronicling even more crashes at the site over more than 50 years. Link via The Presurfer