Bacon fat keyboard makes Twitter for the birds

[Bearcat]

By Helen A.S. Popkin
For as long as a lot of people who use the Internet can remember, nerds strived to combine beloved bacon and technology into something beyond the pedestrian clogging of our arteries. From the butch — but basically useless — BA-KA-47 to the dubious support of the bacon bra, all efforts are spectacular, but in the end, really pretty dumb.

Until now.

Voldemars Dudum, bird lover and writer at Latvian weekly magazine Ir, screwed unsalted bacon fat cubes (aka "suet") to a keyboard hooked up to Twitter and set it up on a windowsill with a webcam, inviting the local Tomtits of Sarnate village to a winter-long tweet n' eat.

Tomtit. What? Stop giggling. That's an actual kind of a bird — in the family of the Australian Robin. The Tomtit is small, with a short bill but a big head — all the better to tweet with, my dear. They're also illiterate, as these examples from the @hungry_birds Twitter stream reveal...

Read more here:

http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2...for-the-birds-

What do you think? Has Twitter really gone to the birds?

[JayCub]

looks like a bird brained idea Bear, can't see the vegans swallowing this story i suppose as long as Tomtit doesn't make a pig of it'self it might get a few followers.

[Bearcat]

Who knows Jay, maybe someday, someone will figure out how to decode the messages and we will be able to communicate with the Tomtits!

[Ceyfer √]

Haha, oh our seniors here! That's peculiar to me