Nasty news: If you’re the type of person who, rather than checking the sports scores or stock market, considers brutal beatings, deformed fetuses and executions the important news of the day, Ogrish.com (meaning resembling an ogre, not something geared toward social acceptance) might be your New York Times. On a typical day, this blog features news, photos and videos of skull fractures, child murders, castrations and people getting violently pricked by sewing needles. It’s perfect lunchtime reading for sociopaths at www.ogrish.com.

Hot diggity: Stephen Worth is a fat guy with a big dream: to find, consume and catalogue the best hot dog in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. He’s been blogging his gastronomic (and gastrointestinal) crusade since 2004, and in that time has eaten and rated dozens of tube steaks, some great, some mediocre and some just plain bizarre. His site will make you very hungry and bemoan-some of Montreal’s underdeveloped hot dog culture at http://hotdogspot.com.

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