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RUB Restaurant’s Mobile Barbecue Pit

When Andrew Fishel, the owner of New York restaurant RUB, wanted “the sickest, baddest thing in the world,” he commissioned Orange County Chopper (of the American Chopper TV show fame) to create a mobile BBQ pit. We have to agree: that mother is bad! Link – via Make

This would be great for tailgating

In the fall of 2010, University of Texas football fans witnessed a horrific 5-7 season and one of the most extraordinary collapses of the second-winningest college program in history, triggering an intensive review by head coach Mack Brown and a nearly total makeover of his staff.

One season before, the Longhorns were four points away late in the fourth quarter from beating Alabama and winning the national championship for the second time in five years. Last September, they suited up for the fall season ranked fifth in the nation. Expectations among the players, coaches and fans were for a great year. Brown acknowledged at his state-of-the-Longhorns press conference on Jan. 31 that the sting of the Alabama loss impacted him more than he could have imagined. “I felt like I had a hangover after the national championship game, and I don’t know if I’ve ever taken a loss as hard,” Brown said. “I don’t think I did a good job of coming back out of it and getting a spark and getting the energy back to where I needed it to be, and I didn’t realize it. I just pouted for a while, and when you’re pouting at 13-1 that’s pretty stupid.”

8 Sites listing 2011 top recruiting classes, averaged to get consensus #1

SoundCloud, the audio platform originally targeted at music makers but now a wider consumer play, has announced that its reached three million registered users.

And considering that the Berlin-based startup was at a million users as recently as last May – pre-pivot, if you will – the change of direction would appear to be paying off or at least hasn’t affected the company’s growth trajectory negatively. That said, these are registered users-only not active users as it were but nonetheless growth does look steady.

Ah, the chocolate box, conveyor of mysterious flavors not found in nature and a surprise in every bite (unless you poke holes in the bottom first). Sarah Schneider at College Humor tells the truth behind the luscious-sounding names on the box.