Best of the Web: Vol. 8
Want to race a winter beater on a frozen lake? Because it can be done. Oh, it can be done.
Image: Wiki Commons
Welcome to our monthly news roundup, Best of the Web, a curation of curious content you may have missed lately. There’s only one house rule: No religion, no politics.
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Men’s Grooming
Guinness World Records Awards Canadian Resident Longest Beard Title For Third Straight Time
Sarwan Singh can’t be beaten, people.
(Via Guinness World Records)
Nutricosmetics Are (Part of) the Future Of Men’s Grooming
You heard it here first.
(Via Global Newswire)
Science
Everyone’s Talking About the Multiverse
Based on this piece written by an astrophysics professor at the University of Cambridge, it’s unlikely our universe is “the only one to exist, unless it’s one of many.”
(Via The Conversation)
Technology
TikTok’s Officially Banned In Parliament, But Ottawa’s Still Running Ads On It
Because you’d never expect an entity like the government to contradict itself, would you?
(Via CBC.ca)
A Handful of Bills Are Making Their Way Through Parliament, One of Which Will Kill Canadian Content
Remember Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace? He and Canadian Senator, Colin Deacon, recently had a chat about Google’s warning to “de-index” all content made by Canadians (among other matters of Internet dystopia).
Food
Toblerone To Shift Part Of Production to Slovakia, Incites Swiss Government to Call Them Out For No Longer Being Swiss Enough
Toblerone violated Switzerland’s Swissness Act, which ensures no one falsely piggyback the country’s reputation and name in any way to make it rain.
Say goodbye to that mountain on the label, Toblerone.
(Via NPR)
Little Caesars Trolls Twitter, Earns Our Respect
Michigan-based pizza chain, Little Caesars, said fuck waiting and got to April fooling early. The family-owned company recently revealed a “new pizza” featuring a corncob crust, and they did it with that raffish tweet below.
2-litre bottle of melted butter included.
Why aren’t more companies like this?
(Via Twitter)
Business
Steer Clear of These 3 Commercial REITs Right Now
They’re saying commercial real estate's next to walk the plank, so you’d might want to stay away from these REITs for now.
(Via Investor’s Observer)
Image: Wikimedia Commons
Somehow, the Stock Market’s Rallying During A Banking Crisis
Stocks are hot during arguably the worst banking crisis since 2008, and apparently the details are in the interest.
(Via the Wall Street Journal)
Sports
Sportswear Brand, Fanatics, Inks Deal With NHL To Manufacture Official Team Jerseys, Pisses Off Everyone
Adidas is making way for everyone’s least favourite sportswear brand for the right to make licensed NHL jerseys, and it’s drawn the ire of hockey fans worldwide.
(Via ESPN)
There Is Such A Thing As Ice Drifting (Video Included)
There’s this company called Texas Drift Academy and they’ll teach you how to drift on frozen Minnesotan lakes.
We can’t decide what’s more badass, the aforementioned or these impetuous women who straight up race these things up in Minden, Ontario. Either way, Tarantino’s got content for a Death Proof sequel here.
(Via KARE11.com and the Toronto Star)