High quality Thanksgiving-based web games are rather few and far between. So we've just gone straight for the weird. Turkey Berserkey was apparently programmed by the U.K.'s Food Standards Agency. I gather the purpose of the game is to teach you the importance of safe food handling techniques. Apparently, this is demonstrated by you whacking a dude in a plucked turkey costume with various household implements as he runs around wrecking the joint. Honestly, this one is strange enough to have originated in Japan.

Cameron Cassan / CC BY-SA 2.0

Another kind of fair food.

UNM’s Fair Trade Initiative will hoist signs and banners offering thanks to farmworkers and calling for a fair wage. Today at 3 p.m., demonstrators will post up outside the Uptown Trader Joe’s as part of the national Supermarket Week of Action.

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• "See you at Trader Joes!" (pencil) [ Wed Nov 24 2010 1:38 PM ]
  
• "the Uptown Trader Joe's" (marisa) [ Wed Nov 24 2010 2:12 PM ]
  

Another gas explosion snuffs out hope for the 29 trapped New Zealand miners. All are presumed dead.

Deep sea robots discover a new species in a new genus: the “squid worm.”

Animal Planet discovers world’s ugliest cat. Kinda looks like Sonny Bono.

International pissing contest: U.S. says it’s sending an aircraft carrier for “joint military exercises” off Korea.

“100-proof turkey” takes three days to prepare and is served with 100-proof vodka gravy.

Tough times for Ireland.

Ohio State president mouths off about college football contenders.

Sarah Palin’s new book insults Betty Friedan and devotes several pages to complaining about Murphy Brown.

American workers are out in the cold, but the companies they work for just had their best quarter ever.

... Not surprisingly, Wall Street execs are already back to buying $40,000 cell phones and renting dwarves for their parties.

John Travolta, 56, and Kelly Preston, 48, salve the grief of losing their oldest son last year by having another baby. This one doesn’t have a stupid name.

Music nerd makes homemade Blue Man Group instrument thingy for a talent show.

• Red Lobster (Nick Brown) [ Wed Nov 24 2010 11:49 AM ]
  
• Flaming Murphy Brown? Are you serious?! (sloppy) [ Wed Nov 24 2010 2:34 PM ]
  

North Korea launches a strike against a South Korean island, killing two. Ruh-roh.

Get ready for National Opt-Out Day during Thanksgiving travel in protest of airline full-body scans.

There’s a new pill that greatly reduces the chance of men contracting HIV.

This actor of “Ugly Betty” fame killed his mother with a samurai sword.

Staten Island is overrun with wild turkeys, just in time for Thanksgiving!

Half of Americans are projected to have diabetes (or be prediabetic) by the year 2020.

Charlie Sheen sues porn star Capri Anderson for extortion.

The FCC may soon allow texting to 911.

A Santa Fe woman wins a $1 million Powerball prize.

Thieves hold up a pizza shop and get away with ... pizza dough.

An NYU arts professor gets a camera implanted on the back of his head.

I now have NOTHING to be thankful for.

7-11 is going to be closed.

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• Man, (johnbee) [ Mon Nov 22 2010 3:40 PM ]
  
• Oh noes! (maz) [ Mon Nov 22 2010 8:59 PM ]
  
• ROFLMFAO (fonduefork) [ Tue Nov 23 2010 10:52 AM ]
  

Water main break in the Heights last night.

For 18 minutes this April, China hijacked the internet.

Germany warns of terrorist attack.

Better stock up on your 4Loco before it's banned in New Mexico.

Amazing collection of animated gifs you won't find on 4chan.

Gizmodo obtains 100 leaked body scans.

I'm not sure what to think of this weird ring ufo.

Artifacts from King Richard II's tomb rediscovered.

The best moments from Sarah Palin's Alaska.

Only eight days until Thanksgiving.

Worlds biggest dork loser psycho Harry Potter fan.

Los Cuates is going to open a restaurant at the Sunport.

Paleontologists in Pittsburgh reveal the worlds largest lungfish.

What's the best cooking oil to use?

Hey nerds! Here's the trailer for the Green Lantern movie.

Two weeks after I buy this personal pie maker I will be dead.

Modern canning was invented 261 years ago today.

Bill Nye The Science Guy collapses during speech.

Bookmark this page for when McDonald's stops making the McRib.

Happy birthday Rock Hudson!

• Caffeine?! (sloppy) [ Wed Nov 17 2010 1:47 PM ]
  

 

It's 24 hours until the turkeys start hitting Thanksgiving tables across Albuquerque. So in the spirit of the Butterball hotline, the Alibi's crack team of food experts--Food Editor Laura Marrich, Food Columnist Maren Tarro and Wine Guru Joseph Baca--will be assembled around their computers, fielding any Thanksgiving questions you might have. Ask a questions, or join the Alibi in sharing your favorite holiday tips and suggestions.

Let the gobbling begin!

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