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The company behind the game Cards Against Humanity is known for doing funny things. It sent coal to everyone who signed up for its 2013 promotion 12 Days of Holiday Bulls**t. It made a bigger box to hold all the cards from the base game and its expansions, and marketed the box with blatant innuendos. If you signed up for 2014's CAH holiday promotion, you received a list of your senators' campaign contributors.

But the new Cards Against Humanity phone line is one of the most ridiculous things the company has ever done.

If you dial 312-756-0834, you'll be greeted with a recording of a voice who assists you with CAH support. What follows is a long, convoluted phone tree full of silly requests, a long list of candy from the Harry Potter universe, and several insults. I'm currently listening to a "good ol' wartime boogie."

If you actually want information about Cards Against Humanity, the company handles customer service via its website.

Cards Against Humanity is a card game in a similar form to Apples to Apples, except its cards are full of explicit themes. If you don't want to buy the game, you can print out the cards for free from the CAH website.

Lemon, Dijon and Bacon Potato Salad

Here at Bacon Today, there’s not many foods we can think of that can’t be improved by adding bacon. However, the one food that we have difficulty combining with bacon is lemon. Lemon bars with bacon just doesn’t sound that great. Lemon meringue pie with bacon? Nuh-uh. So we’ve been wracking our brains trying to come up with a recipe that will meld our favorite food—bacon—with one of our other favorite foods—anything made with lemons.

This Lemon Dijon Bacon Potato Salad is the perfect recipe for fans of lemon and bacon! The lemon flavor is subtle and is enhanced by Bacon Freak’s “Pucker up Porky Lemon Garlic Bacon.” The lemon juice and the Dijon give this potato salad its tangy flavor, and it’s balanced by the addition of honey. You can add more honey if you like a sweeter potato salad.

Ingredients:

4 strips Lemon Bacon, cooked and crumbled
3 lbs. baby red potatoes
1 cup mayonnaise
Juice from 1 small lemon
2 Tbsp. Dijon mustard
1 Tbsp. honey
Chives, chopped
Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions:

1. Scrub potatoes and place in a large pot of water. Cut large potatoes in half if needed so they are uniform in size. Bring to a boil. Simmer for 20-30 minutes or until tender.

2. Drain potatoes and then place in a large bowl or dish to cool. When cool enough to handle, remove the potato skins with a knife. You may leave the skins on if desired. Cut into small 1” chunks and place half the potatoes in another bowl.

3. Mix the mayo, lemon juice, Dijon, honey and chopped chives. Add salt and pepper and adjust seasoning to taste. May add more lemon juice or honey if you want it more tangy vs. more sweet.

4. Pour half the liquid mixture over half the potatoes. Mix until combined. Continue to peel and chop the cooked potatoes and add to the bowl. When all the potatoes are peeled, pour the rest of the mayo mix over the potatoes and stir again.

5. Allow to chill for 4 hours or overnight. Just before serving, add the chopped bacon and additional chives as garnish (if desired). Serve and enjoy!

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IDW has released an app for iOS that sells and stores all of your pony comics. Their description notes that Comixology purchases should also be available within, so you need not worry if you've been buying them through their store for the past few years, though we were told this isn't working at the moment. They also included those Madefire motion versions of the comics that appeared a while back.

The first issues of the main series, Friends Forever, and the micro series are all included for free.

Get it over here.

Thanks to Matt for the heads up!

(Update: We have a full look at the app coming soon.)

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It's been several years in the making, but the New Horizons satellite has finally made its way to Pluto, giving us the best-ever glimpse of the lovable dwarf planet. This is seriously huge news, guys. New York Times columnist Dennis Overbye phrased it well: "None of us alive today will ever see a new planet up close again."

As you can imagine, the internet went nuts with GIFS and memes. Enjoy this moment in the Sun, Pluto, because you're still the thing it's farthest from.

 

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James Rhodes is a British concert pianist. Largely self-taught, Rhodes has released five best-selling albums and is known for his refreshing performances that ignore the usual formality and tradition of classical music. Rhodes never performs in a suit, holds his concerts in non-traditional venues and entertains the crowd with stories about famous composers and how they affected his own life in between pieces. You can watch his insane talent on display in a number of videos on his YouTube channel.

The passage used in the comic was taken from a column Rhodes wrote for The Guardian in 2013. It’s one of the most fantastically motivating articles I’ve ever read and I highly recommend you read the entire piece.

Classical music quite literally saved Rhodes’ life. As a child, he was sexually abused for a number of years, which left Rhodes both mentally and physically damaged. Mental health issues stopped Rhodes from taking up a scholarship at the Guildhall School of Music and he stopped playing piano entirely for 10 years. Throughout all of Rhodes’ pain, music was his one saving grace. Writing about one of his favourite pieces by Bach: “That piece became my safe place. Any time I felt anxious (any time I was awake) it was going round in my head. Its rhythms were being tapped out, its voices played again and again, altered, explored – experimented with. I dove inside it as if it were some kind of musical maze and wandered around happily lost. It set me up for life; without it I would have died years ago, I’ve no doubt.”

During his years away from the piano, Rhodes worked a corporate job which he was miserable in. On his decision to finally start playing piano again: “Only when the pain of not doing it got greater than the imagined pain of doing it did I somehow find the balls to pursue what I really wanted and had been obsessed by since the age of seven – to be a concert pianist.”

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– Rhodes’ memoir Instrumental was released recently, but only after he was made to suffer more anguish over his childhood abuse. The British Supreme Court removed an injunction that was preventing the book from being released. You can read more about the case here.
– Rhodes is also on a personal crusade to save music education in schools. After his successful TV series Don’t Stop The Music aired in Britain last year, which followed Rhodes’ quest to collect old musical instruments and refurbish them for use in schools, there’s now an American version looking to get help funded on Kickstarter at the moment. Hello, is anyone in Australia reading this?
– I’ve never really been exposed to classical music, besides from Looney Tunes cartoons, but I have been listening to Rhodes’ Soundcloud page a lot while working on this comic. I’ve especially been playing this Beethoven piece over and over again.
– Thanks to Lara for sending me the article.

Researchers at Oregon State University have made the mother of all discoveries – they’ve recently patented a strain of seaweed that’s not only rich in protein, but tastes remarkably like delicious bacon when cooked.

Dulse (Palmaria sp.) is a red marine algae that grows along the Pacific and Atlantic coastlines and is sold for up to $90 a pound in dried form as a cooking ingredient or dietary supplement. However, Chris Langdon and his colleagues at Oregon State University have patented a new strain of dulse that’s bound to revolutionize the health food industry. Not only is it an excellent source of minerals, vitamins and antioxidants and contains up to 16 percent protein in dry weight, but it actually tastes amazing. How amazing? Bacon amazing, according to Langdon.

More cat adventures.

When I do comics like this I wonder how old Gamercat is.

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Similiar to that Best Friends box set that appeared a while back, an Equestria Girls clone has appeared with the following books: 

• Equestria Girls: Through The Mirror
• Rainbow Rocks
• Rainbow Rocks: The Mane Event
• Rainbow Rocks: Sunset Shimmer’s Time To Shine

Apparently it arrives in September. You can pre-order it over on Amazon if you want it!

And in other news, the Friendship Games book now has a cover. You can pre-order that one here, with an October release date.

Thanks to Twilight Sparkle and TheSonicChaotix for the heads up!

Constantly having to look at your cat’s butt comes with the territory when you’e a pet owner. Luckily, however, now you don’t have to, thanks to a little accessory called Twinkle Tush.

Some people are apparently put off by the sight of a cat’s bare derriere, but now you can just cover that sucker up with some fake bling. Introducing the Twinkle Tush, a plastic jewel that hangs around the base of the feline’s tail and covers its butt. It was introduced to the world on July 8th, when the makers of Cat Crib, a cat hammock that attaches to chair legs, released a video of felines wearing the Twinkle Tush.Cats are usually don’t like it when you mess with their tales and will do anything to remove whatever you attach to them, but they seemed oddly comfortable wearing this concealing piece of plastic.

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