It’s been around the web a few million times, but we’ve gotten a handful of tips regarding Discovery HD’s beautifully done 3D simulation showing Earth’s destruction by a massive asteroid impact. With soundtrack provided by Pink Floyd, you watch as the impact creates massive destruction, followed by a flowing wall of superheated air and gases which circumvents the globe, roasting most, if not all living things to a crisp. This video should make quite a few 12.21.2012 believers salivate with apocalyptic fervor!

Found over at Flickr, police in Mountain View, California were called in on a report of an abandoned baby in a trash-can behind a Wal-Mart. Apparently upon arrival, it was determined to be a burrito. What!?!!?

I’m a vegan who can appreciate a fine grilled piece of bacon, as you can see from the bacon coffee I posted on below. The messy, greasy, crispy slab of pork…probably one of the most unhealthy looking pieces of fat-covered heaven one can find as a breakfast-side (don’t get me started on country ham). Started by the mischievous and ultra-delicious cnp_studio dudes, you can now deface any website you want with a giant-sized piece of crispy, greasy bacon.

PETA has already been done, now Bunch of Nerds and the Japanese are rumored to be sending over 2.5GB of bacon an hour!

Rest In Piece Mrs. Roddenberry from all of the saddened nerds at Bunch of Nerds.

Majel Barret-Roddenberry passed away Friday, December 18th of leukemia, which she was diagnosed with 6 months ago. Majel was a major part of the Star Trek universe, created by husband Gene Roddenberry, since it’s premier in 1966. Playing acting and voice parts in every major Star Trek series, including the upcoming JJ Abrams film remake in 2009, Mrs. Roddenberry kept the Star Trek world grounded in the original vision of her husband. She will be missed.

The love of coffee runs deep at Bunch of Nerds HQ, as does the love of a good heavy Saturday morning breakfast. Bacon, pancakes, eggs, country ham and toast does a body good, at least for the first few days. Now you can have all of that and more in your morning cup of joe, with Boca Java’s Maple Bacon Breakfast Roast. A light, sweet, savory coffee with a full and complex body….oh, and it tastes like Saturday mornings used to feel!

A genius experiment by Idée Inc., who develops visual search and image recognition technology! By extracting over 10 million Creative Commons images from Flickr and then applying their visual similarity technology, Idée developed an amazing visual image search-engine, allowing you to go through millions of the most interesting photos on Flickr, simply by stating a color.

Awesome! I’ve always had a warm spot in my heart for the number pad, something I’ve had to give up since working on iBook, Power Books and MacBooks for so long. But thanks to Balmuda Software’s brilliant NumberKey app I’ve turned my iPhone into an external number pad on my desk.

Available on the iTunes store, NumberKey creates a wifi connection to your mac via the NumberKey Connect app, which detects your iPhone running and converts it into a number pad. After first-time setup, you don’t even need the wifi network anymore!

No surprise to anyone, but Africa is a huge huge piece of land! A bit old but really awesome nonetheless. Coming from the Times Atlas we have an amazing graphical comparison of the African continent in comparison to other landmasses we all are much more familiar with.

The graphic shows how Africa (30.3 million km²!) is larger than the combination of China, The USA, Western Europe, India, Argentina and the British Isles. Very cool!

Brilliant! Internet wonder-man Dustin McLean has put together a series of literal music videos, including the brilliant debut video, a literal take on A-ha’s “Take On Me”, which is one of the most popular videos on YouTube and was featured as a top hit on Funny or Die. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a contract coming McLean’s way from Funny or Die in the future, as these are just too good to keep as mere YouTube releases.

McLean as since followed up with Red Hot Chili Peppers “Under the Bridge” and Tears for Fears’ “Head Over Heels”.

For the past few days word has been flying around the internet that a German physician, treating a 42 year old American in Berlin for leukemia, ‘accidentally’ cured him of HIV, of which the patient was also suffering. Come to find out that Dr. Gero Hütter didn’t necessarily cure him accidentally, it was more a theory he was putting to the test.

In need of a bone marrow transplant, Dr. Hütter chose specific marrow from a donor who carries the naturally occuring genetic mutation that renders cells immune to almost all strains of HIV, the virus that causes Aids. After a successful transplant, the patient appear to be recovering well and more importantly, appears to be free of HIV as well, even after over 600 days without antiretroviral medication.

More tests using this method will be conducted on HIV+ patients, but if they prove to be successful, this type of gene therapy will become much more accepted as a treatment for the HIV virus.