Bacon Zen

Ernesto points me to Bacon Zen, a collection of savory bacon links. But really? Bacon chocolate chip cookies?

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I never did care too much for Bacon. I'm more of a Descartes man myself. :-) That is, when it comes to choosing between deduction and induction as the primary logic used in the search of reliable understanding; I choose deduction. I trust "I think; therefore I am" over "All polar bears thus found are white; therefore any polar bear must be white".