Sorry the Scanner is running late, it was a busy day on the NXT Desk yesterday - as you can see by my story on a the city contracting a designer for a new skate park.

But rest easy, the Scanner is always up and ready, even when I am not!

This Week In Bacon (should I just be doing a weekly blog on this?): Eating Well Anywhere solves the age old question - How to store that bacon for quick and easy access? (Thanks to ac)

Attention Sox fans: A Colorado pizzeria is offering free pizzas to world if the Rays win the World Series.

Well done NYC. Now you have a card to to ID who's STD Free. For when you're, you know, on the go.

Strangely funny and creepy: "Garfield minus Garfield. Poor, poor Jon.

How much do I wish I was on the west coast - Mythbusters is looking for volunteers in a massive Greek death ray myth.

Check this out: Ryz - the Threadless of sneakers?

Welcome to JobVent - where you can rate/gripe on your job and read the reviews of others.

Writers, take notice - Kill The Cliche tracks the use of, you guessed it, cliches.

A margarita in Brunswick - one of the best cocktails in the country? GQ says yes, yes indeed.

For the (German) lady cop always in the line of danger: A bullet-proof bra.

If you're into photography I'd suggest checking out the Boston Globe's - Big Picture Blog, which uses a sweet oversized display to show photo collections.

Geeks make cheap computer system for the third world using a old, old school Nintendo console.

Looking for more uses for that old Nintendo? grab a few tools and whip that bad boy into a lunchbox!

Not only are Buckcherry a "where are they now answer," but also the answer to "the band that leaked its own album on Bittorrent and blamed pirates."

New study finds out which restaurants don't give a crap about how many calories they're pumping into kids.

This is a little old, but still hilarious. Fans of Flight of the Concord may be may be interested in the work of Dr. Ronald Chevalier. What does it say about me that I giggle every time he uses the word "seed?"

Poor Scotty. The former chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise's ashes were supposed to go up in a rocket, but the launch last weekend went awry and now the ashes are missing.

This is advertising I can get used to: Exploding billboards.

Behold - a visualization of the Internet, Circa Summer 2008.

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