Texas has introduced the world to fried Twinkies, fried pickles, fried Oreos, and the ultimate in fried cuisine, fried butter—to name a few—but they may have finally broken the “fry barrier” and are about to introduce to the world fried beer.

Mark Zable’s creation is a ravioli-shaped dough pocket that’s filled with beer and plunged into a deep fryer. It’s a little messy — the beer pours out on the first bite — but you can always sop it up with the dough.

Imagine what the world would be like if the crafty people at the Texas State Fair pointed all that ingenuity to something more helpful to humanity—like why beer tastes crappy when drunk out of aluminum cans.

Jim Rankin of The Toronto Star wanted to find out what panhandlers would do with a credit card, so he handed out pre-paid cards of $50 and $75.

What would happen if, instead of spare change, you handed a person in need the means to shop for whatever they needed? What would they buy? Can you spare your credit card, sir?

In New York City, an advertising executive recently handed over her American Express Platinum Card to a homeless Manhattan man after he had asked her for change. The man, who had been without home after losing a job, used the card to buy $25 worth of deodorant, water and cigarettes. And then he returned the card.

Most used it buy food and liquor.

A study has found that seven hours of sleep a night is the right amount.  Any more or less increases your chance of cardiovascular disease.

Study participants who said they slept nine hours or longer a day were one-and-a-half times more likely than seven-hour sleepers to develop cardiovascular disease, the study found.

I’m screwed.

A team of researchers have proven that no initial Rubik’s Cube scramble needs more than 20 moves to solve. This is known as “God’s Number”. How did they solve all 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible positions? They used about 35-years worth of CPU time donated by Google from their server’s idle time:

Finally, we were able to distribute the 55,882,296 cosets of H among a large number of computers at Google and complete the computation in just a few weeks. Google does not release information on their computer systems, but it would take a good desktop PC (Intel Nehalem, four-core, 2.8GHz) 1.1 billion seconds, or about 35 CPU years, to perform this calculation.

They don’t mention anything about the Josh Madison method of taking the damn thing apart and putting it back together correctly (getting the last piece in is a pain-in-the-ass).

Morrie Yohai, the inventor of Cheez Doodles, has died.

Although Mr. Yohai insisted on the “we” credit for the recipe, he did say that he came up with the product name. First marketed in the late 1950s, Cheez Doodles soon became so popular that by 1965, Old London Foods was bought by Borden, and Mr. Yohai became vice president of Borden’s snack food division, which among other products made Drake’s Cakes and Cracker Jack.

One of his duties, he said, was sitting around a table with other executives and choosing which tiny toys would be stuffed into Cracker Jack boxes.