From Uncrate: "Everyone over does it every once in a while, and when you do, Hangover Cures ($10) will be there to help. Weighing in at a short but sweet 62 pages..."

Can't miss cure from yours truly: 2 eggs over easy, bacon, grilled english muffin and a Sprite.

From Uncrate: "Nothing like an argument over beer pong rules to drag down a party atmosphere, so settle your disputes with authority using The Book of Beer Pong: The Official Guide to the Sport of Champions ($12)..."

Hmmm... a rule book for a drinking game seems a bit too "official."

From Uncrate: "Keep your beer colder, longer with the Polar Pitcher ($20). Made from polycarbonate with a steel center ice chamber, you simply fill the bottom-opening chamber up with ice, pour in..."

A beer pitcher that holds ice!? Only a drunk could love this... a drunk like me!

From Uncrate: "A Man, a Can, a Plan: 50 Great Guy Meals Even You Can Make ($11) is a real cookbook for real guys."

Superpowers are a dime a dozen these days. Flying, x-ray vision, laser beam eyes… all commonplace superhero gimmicks. However, there’s one superhero, less super, more hero, that forgoes all that shit: Batman–the self trained, excessively equipped, bad ass crime fighter.

But how feasible is it that someone could truly become a ninja-trained, gadget spewing vigilante? In a new book called Becoming Batman author E. Paul Zehr, associate professor of kinesiology (”the science of human movement”) and neuroscience (”scientific study of the nervous system”) at the University of Victoria in British Columbia (”Canada”), aims to answer just that.

Scientific American recently sat down with the author to chat about the book and all things Batman. From the discussion:

“How many of us do you think could become a Batman?
If you found the percentage of billionaires and multiply that by the percentage of people who become Olympic decathletes, you could probably get a close estimate. The really important thing is just how much a human being really can do. There’s such a huge range of performance and ability you can tap into.”

I don’t know about you, but I’ll be first in line for this book when it comes out in October.

The ads on my site have been paying off big lately, not monetarily, but in a “alerting me to cool shit” kind of way. First, I discovered that NBC was airing full episodes of the A-Team online. Then I learned the definition of BBW (aka Big Beautiful Women and no, I’m not linking to that site). And now, I discover an entirely new TV channel geared towards things I love like drinking, start ups and more drinking.

Take “Three Sheets” for example. Zane Lamprey, the incredibly lucky host, travels the world in search of the perfect buzz… er cocktail.

(Disclaimer: While these ads appear on my site, I don’t actually get paid for highlighting them in the blog. Hell, I barely get paid for them appearing on the site at all. In other words, I’m genuinely interested in the content of this post and not just getting paid off to persuade you to like something)

So there’s been a lot of cool stuff building up in my Bloglines account that didn’t quite deserve its own post so here’s a mash-up of a bunch of randomly awesome stuff:

Winerack – From the makers of Beerbelly, now the ladies can hide beer in their lady parts.

College Run Porn Magazines – Not going away and we’re damn happy about it.

Duke’s Beer Launching Fridge – With rape charges behind them, students can now focus on more important things… like robotic beer hurling. (Thanks Rebuy)

Bikini Calculus – (maybe not safe for work)Women in bikinis (and schoolgirl outfits, etc) teach you calculus. It still doesn’t help you understand what an antiderivative is.

Hunting Cougar – The art of picking up old chicks.

Virtual Distance Football – A football with a meter thingy that tells you how far you threw the ball.

Bacon Popcorn – ‘Nough said.

School for Elite Athletes – This is the first step towards mutant super-athletes!

How to Cheat at Everything – I wish it taught you how to steal this book.

Trick Billiard Rack – Impress your friends… as long as they don’t see you with this gadget

Michael Lewis’ ability to tell a story is incredible. And the story of Michael Oher in his latest book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game is by far his best work to date. In the 1990’s Oher was the child of a single-mother drug addict and was lucky to find a warm meal. The Blind Side follows Oher’s improbable life from the streets of Memphis to the other side of the tracks–adopted by a rich white family and suddenly the #1 recruited high school football player in the country.

While Lewis is slightly biased by his relationship to the characters in this book, his retelling of the life of “Big Mike” has twists and turns and you can’t help but feeling that something bad is going to happen. The Blind Side is a great read for anyone and not just for sports fans.

For those of us with short attention spans, Lewis published an abridged version of the Ballad of Big Mike in the New York Times.

Have you ever wished you could bunny-hop on one wheel, juggle 5 beer bottles or break dance like MC Wren? Then The Book of Cool is right for you.

For $40 you get 3 DVDs (9 hours) and a 320-page book of tips and how-to’s for everything from soccer and golf skillz to lasso and gun tricks.

And if this isn’t enough for you, the makers of the “book” are currently working on a 2nd volume.

Everyone has seen the Survival Guide series of books, but The Zombie Survival Guide is the only one you need to read. From the publisher:

“The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain.”

You never know when a Zombie uprising will occur… make sure you’re prepared with this book.