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1. Turducken Wrapped in Bacon

I love turkey. I love bacon. Happy Thanksgiving!!!

2. Slate Getting Serious About LOL Cats (Thanks, Emma)

I thought they were just funny picture of cats with hilarious captions, but it turns out they are really an exploration of the tragedy of the human condition.

3. Stock Twits

Do you know what you are doing when it comes to the stock market (or like to pretend that you do)? Do you like Twitter? You will love Stock Twits (there are actually some really smart people worth following using this service). 

Introduction to StockTwits from Knut Jensen on Vimeo. 

4. Tree Tents

There is nothing like having a portable tree house. Sleeping on the ground is for chumps.

5. New Sketches by Banksy

According to Tech Crunch, they are looking for a partner. I was sorely disappointed by Facebook’s first and sole attempt at classifieds, which they named Marketplace, not only was it an underachieveing piece of junk, it also made me looks like an idiot (I am pretty sure when it was initially announced I declared it the Craigslist killer).

While some believe that there is something inherently flawed about social classifieds and cite Marketplace as proof, there was no real attempt to map it to the social graph in a meaningful way or even give it half decent search and browsing functionality. If Facebook could just knock off Craigslist and then layer on top its oft-rumoured but still vapour warish transactions platform, I think we would have a game changer on our hands and the opportunity for some serious revenue for Facebook.

The downside of that is that Facebook would be opening itself up (well it is already open, but inviting themselves) to all the types of slimeballs and scammers that hang out on Craigslist, but I doubt they would be too different than the folks who are buying their ad inventory currently (yes I want some green tea extract that will give me a chiseled 6 pack, yes I want to chat to hot girls in my area live on webcam).

So I missed November 2 – November 8 so my apologies to the one person who cares what I loved that week. Sorry mom. Anyways, I have changed the title of this feature to 5 Things I Loved Last Week because having this week in the title pretty much mandated that I would have to write these posts every Saturday night in order to ensure I included the best stuff I ran into that week, which would be very difficult as I spend Saturday night watching taped re-runs of Growing Pains.

So without further ado…

1. The Periodic Table of Awesoments (Thanks, Jackie)

“In the 300 B.C., years before the birth of black Jesus, Aristole postulated that all good things were made of ‘win.’ That was a pretty good guess, but he was drunk and probably also having an orgy. Modern day awesominers know  there are actually 118 fundamental “awesoments” that compose all good things. The Periodic table of Awesoments can be a very useful tool.  It’s designed to show the relationships between awesoments, and often one can even predict how awesoments interact simply by their positions on the table.”

It is amazing how little what is awesome has changed since I was 13.
  
2. Obama Doing Weekly Addresses on YouTube

Obama’s Internet savvy knows no bounds. I also love that he will be appointing a CTO for the country. Yet somehow 46% of Americans still managed to vote for a man who doesn’t use the Internet.

3. The Eyeballing Game

Test your ability to eyeball angles and such. I don’t know why I find that so fun, but I do.

4. More Good Stuff From IDEO Labs

IDEO brings us a nice idea on how to rapidly prototype mobile device interfaces using a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet and Flash. I love those guys.

5. Clip Art Fun

1. Twinfluence“TwInfluence is a simple tool using the Twitter API to to measure the combined influence of twitterers and their followers, with a few social network statistics thrown in as bonus.”  

   My stats were a little less than encouraging. Feel free to give me a boost @andrewlockhart.       

   andrewlockhart’s Rank: #2,012 (75%)
   Velocity: 1,465 second-order followers/day
   Social Capital: 4,465.4 +3.1 Very High
   Centralization: 31.95% / -0.1 Average – Fragile 
   

2. This Halloween Costume
   (Courtesy of Wired.com Readers’ Best Geeky Halloween Costumes).  
    
           

    

3. This Buddhust Monastery Built of Beer Bottles
   (Courtesy of Tree Hugger).         

   “Fifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be useful as a building block. It never happened, so Buddhist monks from Thailand’s Sisaket province took matters into their own hands and collected a million bottles to build the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple. 

    

4. Brendan Stevens Skimming Maybe if I hadn’t forgotten to bring my board with me to California, I would have been riding like Brendan Stevens in this upcoming film for Exile Skimboards.  

      

5. The Anatomy of a Lego Man
   (Courtesy of Gizmodo via Lucas)     

   Anybody who knows me, knows how I feel about Lego (I attribute any success I experience to a combination of my parents and playing with Lego as a child). Jason Freeny has done an incredible job laying out the anatomy of the classic Lego man (even explaining the detachable head).   

   

    

1. Surfing
   I tried it for the first time on Saturday and I am in love. It’s too bad Ontario’s surf scene involves going to the beach with 3 feet of snow on the ground.
2. These Shoes
    
3. Generation Kill
   David Simon of The Wire revives his brand of realism with a mini-series about the war in Iraq based on the account of a Rolling Stone journalist who spent the first year of the invasion with an elite Marine Corps unit.     

   
    

4. Long Bets
   “The purpose of Long Bets is to improve long–term thinking. Long Bets is a public arena for enjoyably competitive predictions, of interest to society, with philanthropic money at stake. The Long Now Foundation furnishes the continuity to see even the longest bets through to public resolution. This website provides a forum for discussion about what may be learned from the bets and their eventual outcomes.”
5. Rats Playing Basketball