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Zakk Wylde’s New Blair’s Berserker Sauces
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Several months back I had mentioned that Black Label Society/Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde was teaming up with Blair's to create Berserker Brand Hot Sauces. Well, the sauce formulas have been made, the bottles are ready to be filled and labeled and shipped to your door after October 15th. You can pre-order the Berserker Hot Sauces from Zakk's site ot the Blair website.
And what kind of scorching elixirs have Zakk and Blair concocted? Berserker is available in four flavors: Zakk Wylde's Original Hot Sauce (mild), Wylde's Sonic Brew Hot Sauce (medium), Zakk Wylde's Stronger Than Death Hot Sauce (hot), and Zakk Wylde's Shot to Hell Hot Sauce (extremely hot). It is advertised on both sites that Shot to Hell "contains ingredients 600 times hotter than a jalapeno chili". If this is using the same semantics that is on Blair's Mega Death and Jersey Death (which are advertised on the bottles as having ingredients 500 times and 750 times jalapeno heat, respectively), then thsi sauce id pushing 600,000 Scoville Heat Units. Yowza! That's pretty darn hot.
Build a Solar Food Dehydrator
Here's a clever contraption that should be added to my Ultimate Guide to Drying Hot Peppers guide: a homemade solar-powered dehydrator. The homegrownevolution.com site has a nice little write-up describing their successful experiences with one they had built, plus provide a few links with instructions on how to construct your own. I still think an electric food dehydrator is the best method of drying fruits and vegetables, but if you're looking to save a few dollars on electricity costs one of these solar dehydrators may be a great alternative.
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Making Acorn Flour
From what I've heard (I've yet to try it myself), acorn flour has a very distinct, very tasty flavor, adding a robustness and nuttiness to recipes that hum-drum wheat flour lacks. Here's an online tutorial on how to create acorn flour that covers collecting, shelling, grinding, washing and drying acorns.
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CaptureFox Records Your Screen and Voice in Firefox to Create Videos
CaptureFox is a cool new Firefox extension that can record your screen movements and voice (through a microphone, of course) to create screencasts. It's great for producing videos for on-screen demos, lessons and tutorials. Just in case you're wondering, this add-on will record any activity or program displayed on your computer, and not specifically within the Firefox window. The only set-back with this is that you must start the program in Firefox - so if you want to create a video that doesn't involve an internet browser (say, like a Photoshop tutorial) you'll have to get a video editing program to clip out the first few frames.
While it's still very much in development, it's simple to use and works with no problems on my PC (as of this writing this only works in XP and Vista). CaptureFox outputs your video in AVI format and lets you adjust the video quality.
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Need Sound Answers? Go to the Audiophile Wiki
Need information on a variety of audio-related topics? Unsure of a topic or musical term? Then check out the Audiophile Wiki. It's the brainchild of Paul McGowan of PS Audio, and is built for both the novices and experts alike. But like any wiki, it's a work in progress and benefits from the input of everyone -- including you. If you'd like to help edit and add topics, please sign up and make this the go-to sound resource.
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Awesome Lasagna Recipe Site
To me, lasagna is like pizza - it's a dish almost everyone loves and you can't go wrong serving it to your hungry dinner mates.
Are you looking for a killer lasagna recipe? A great little blog I've stumbled across is mylasagnarecipe.com. The site owner offers their own mouth-watering variation of the meaty, cheesy, and chewy dish plus over a dozen other lasagna recipes to try.
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USB Mini Fridge
Totally impractical but cool nonetheless is the USB Mini Fridge - a real, working refrigerator that plugs into a USB port on your computer. It's very limited as to what you can store in this little box (a 12-oz beverage can or small glass), but it does effectively chill it's contents to a nice, cool 45° Fahrenheit. It's available for $32.99 plus shipping at the PerpetualKid.com website.
Chef Dies After Eating ‘Superhot’ Chilli For Bet
This was posted a few days ago on the Telegraph.co.uk:
"Chef dies after eating 'superhot' chilli for bet
An amateur chef died the day after eating a "superhot" chilli in a bet with his friend over who could make the hottest dish, an inquest heard.
Andrew Lee, 33, suffered heart failure the morning after he ate the chilli.
Toxicology tests are now being carried out to see if the fork lift truck driver suffered a fatal reaction to the dish or whether anything else contributed to his death.
Mr Lee, of Edlington, Doncaster was apparently in perfect health and...
Creepy Video Of Children Singing For Obama
I don't know exactly how I felt after watching this - disturbed, scared, or nauseous. These Children of the Corn-esque kiddos conjure up images of the pre-programmed communist North Korean populace or the Hitler Youth. And yes, this is apparently real and not a parody.
"Sing For Change Obama":
Spore Mania!
(This may sound like an extra long Twitter post, but so what...) Lately the craze at our house has been the new Spore game. It has to be hands-down the game of the year. It's majorly addictive - my sons and I are constantly jonesin' to play it. So far I've only gotten to the beginning of the Tribal Stage, whereas the boys are still in the Creature Stage.
Blair's New Bottles and Boxes
Blair Lazar has just sent this message:
"Dear Chilipal,
It is with the greatest Honor for me to Announce the Pre-Release Of The All New Death Sauce Line-up, New Labels, New Boxes, Ultra Death Sauce, Not to mention, This is the First Batch Of sauce that Contains Habanero and Jolokia Chilis From our Very Own Pepper Farm just North of the Equator. For the First time ever, I am offering a Mega Pre-Release Special for the Hard Core Chilihead. A First Run Set including all 9 bottles of My Kick your Ass Hot Death Sauce Line up, That I personally cooked, Bottled, Labeled, Sealed and blessed with all every ounce of Karma in my Soul.
I made a Total of 36 Pre-Production Bottles of Each sauce. I Kept and Use half a dozen of each for myself, friends and Family and I am making the remaining 30 Sets available to my Chilipals around the World. Each Label and Awesome New Box is Signed and Numbered, Plus I am adding in a Secret Special Bottle that only you will receive. So it’s Ten Bottles Total. How Much you ask??? $10,000. Per Set. Ok, Only F-in With ya. And yes, I am aware The Death Sauce Phenomenon has brought in over $12,000 for a single rare bottle. But that’s from resellers; Bless um all I say. So here’s the deal, direct from the Source (That’s Me) and Never available again, $499 Per Set, I know you say “Blair that’s only $50 Per Bottle”. Yep, So Good For you, Re-Sell um if you choose to or better yet Keep um as the rare of rarest I have ever done. Your Call, Just Enjoy um. I have so much more to share but that’s it for now. Order at extremefood.com
Your chilipal,
Blair
PS And Yes a Very Limited Halloween Reserve will be announced soon."
The World's Best Wallpaper Site - InterfaceLIFT
Computer wallpaper sites are a dime a dozen, but the very best place in the world for free wallpapers is InterfaceLIFT. It offers hundreds of high quality wallpapers for FREE, for all sorts of screen resolutions ranging from dual and triple monitors to widescreen to mobile devices, from 2560 x 1600 to 320 x 240 pixels. What really sets this site apart from most other wallpaper sources is the abundance of absolutely mind-blowingly gorgeous photography present in these graphics. Some are so good you'll want to change your desktop background every other week. Believe me, this is a place you'll wanna bookmark.
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