A litany of links

The latest harvest from the web's vast store of stuff:

• Sadly now off limits to me: The Bacon Show. "One bacon recipe per day, every day, forever."

• The Jelly Belly Wine Bar attempts to demystify wine flavour components through jelly beans. Readers are encouraged to

  ...taste the individual Jelly Belly beans first, to understand the different flavors associated with certain wine varietals. Then you put all of the flavors in your mouth at the same time, chew them together, and voila... you experience the wine varietal itself.

  They make use of a couple of flavours from the "Bertie Botts" line from Jelly Belly, including "buttered toast" for oak, "dirt" for terroir, and "pepper" for, presumably, pepper. [Also, here's an interesting article from the New York Times Magazine about the chemistry of well-rated wine.]

• The largest compendium of collective nouns — ie. a murder of crows, a pod of dolphins, etc. — I've ever seen. They include a few orginals, including the excellent "a stack of librarians."