A visually delicious website popped up on the interwebs last month. This is Why You’re Fat is food porn at it’s finest… a photo stream of the world’s frankenfoods submitted by you, the fat bastard that created the marvelous monstrosity.

Just when I was getting over the recent excitement of the Bacon Explosion, this month’s Wired magazine introduced me to Baconnaise, a spreadable hammy condiment that I had to get my hands on immediately to test and review.

Party-goers woke up early this morning to begin Fat Tuesday celebrations in New Orleans. Hundreds of floats hit the French Quarter streets as the Bacchanalian blowout continued just hours after the end of Monday night’s Mardi Gras parade on Bourbon Street.

Americans may be cutting back their expenses to weather the turbulent economy, but they’re still drinking craft beer. As sales of many products are tanking, craft beer makers are seeing slow, but still-strong sales increases as they outperform the rest of beer industry.

Not that we don’t already celebrate St. Paddy’s day like the ordained father of all holiday’s, but this time of the year Guinness hauls out it’s campaign to promote Proposition 3-17, a mission to get one million signatures on their petition to make St. Patrick’s Day an official holiday.

If you’re a beer drinker, an investor, or a breathing human with an email account, you have likely received this note that you should have invested in beer instead of banks and return the cans for cash.

Anheuser-Busch pulled the plug on it’s $15 million broadband humor site Bud.tv. Visitors to the site now see only a snowy TV screen saying Bud.tv is no longer available.

Here’s a fun video by way of Denmark, which according to Google translate “Involving a hulens mass beer bottles, a handful of mathematicians, Uls sleeping bags, all our undlingsfrebar café and absolute ingen, I repeat ingen offensive symbols!”

According to STLToday.com, Anheuser-Busch is changing the way they view a beer’s shelf life. The brewer says it has realized that the 110-day limit might not be necessary. Why? I dunno, they’re wasting too much beer?

Fairly green brewery Sierra Nevada just worked out a deal to turn beer by-products into fuel for their fleet of bio-friendly trucks using a fridge-sized refinery made by a company called E-fuel.

Are you a straight-from-the-bottle beer bottle drinker or do you like unique beer glasses? Or like me, are you a little of both? The Hopside Down glass gives you the look of drinking from a bottle that is upside- er, Hopside™ down.

U.S. troops in Iraq will be allowed to drink two beers apiece for the Super Bowl, after the U.S. commander in Iraq, Army Gen. Ray Odierno, issued a waiver of the U.S. military’s strict prohibition on alcohol imbibing in the war zone.

A recipe has recently surfaced on the web that is garnering more attention and web traffic than any White Castle stuffing recipe or Absolutely Ridiculous Burger ever could. That recipe is for the Bacon Explosion from BBQ Addicts.

MillerCoors is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the recyclable aluminum can. After many prototypes and several years in development, the first aluminum cans rolled off the line at the Coors Golden brewery on Jan. 22, 1959.

Is star power enough to sell beer in hard times? For this year’s Super Bowl, Anheuser-Busch InBev and Heineken will be targeting beer drinkers with spots that feature Conan O’Brien and John Turturro.