Author: Joey deVilla

Found via Geek and Sundry, via Wil Wheaton.

Derek Powazek and Heather Champ, two people who’ve had a great influence on the social side of the web (in ways that probably affect you), passed through Accordion City last weekend. They stayed at the Gladstone and asked for a local to help them find a place in the neighbourhood to have a little meet-up, and I arranged for one at the ever-reliable Rhino. After following their work for ages — I was reading Derek’s The Fray since the ’90s and have tried (and failed) to make it to the legendary Fray Cafe event at South by Southwest each of the three times I’ve been, I check out JPG regularly, and Heather’s work as Flickr’s community manager and now at Findery is well known — I was glad to finally meet them in person! My friends Katie Hrycak and Andrew Louis also dropped by.

Fun fact: Heather’s Canadian! She’s from Ottawa and went to Guelph for university.

The only disappointment was the Rhino’s bourbon selection (I promised Derek that I’d find a place that served it), which is limited to Maker’s Mark and one other that I’ve forgotten. I know that their strength is their wonderful beer selection, but it’d be nice if they stocked some Woodford or Bulleit.

Katie shot the photo above on Derek’s phone outside the Rhino at the end of our meet-up. After that, it was beers at the Cadillac Lounge, topped off with Dark ‘n’ Stormies at Unit Bar.

Here’s an interesting compilation: 70 minutes of (mostly) Russian car collisions, from mild fender-benders to all-out flip-the-car moments, most of which were shot using dashboard-mounted cameras. None of the video depict injuries; just car and other property damage, plus some exclamations in Russian.

If that’s not enough for you, there’s a whole blog devoted to car accident videos mostly shot from dashboard cameras. I had no idea that many people were making videos of their driving.

Today’s edition of Jon Rosenberg’s webcomic, Scenes from a Multiverse, does a pretty good job of summarizing all those arguments taking place over Chick-Fil-A, especially the ones where the line “it’s not about hate” gets bandied about.

This Sunday, the Toronto neighbourhood of Leslieville will hold Bacon Fest 2012, a bacon cooking competition showcasing the skills of area restaurant chefs and butchers. The competitors will be:

• Le Papillon on the Park cooking Green Gate Farms’ bacon
• Waffle Bar and Mr. Spinners cooking Highmark Farms’ traditional-style bacon
• Glas Restaurant cooking Highmark Farms’ wild boar bacon
• Wheelbarrow Farm cooking their own traditional-style bacon
• Ying Ying Soy Food cooking with their own tofu bacon

In addition to competing, they’ll also be selling their bacon-based dishes for you to try.

The bacon-based fun happens this Sunday, August 12th at Jonathan Ashbridge Park (Queen Street East, a few blocks west of Coxwell) and runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.. I think I’ll be there.

Long before Angry Birds on smartphones, we had Tetris on the Nintendo Game Boy and its monochrome screen that could display four levels of “grey” (actually a dark olive green).

I was a regular at Sasloves Meat Market when I lived in Ottawa last summer. They’re a great butcher shop that carries a treat that I haven’t been able to find anywhere else too easily: maple bacon sausages. They’re bacon artistes, so I’m not surprised that they have the sign above.