• Passive Aggressive Notes photoblog

• Some ecards is like if the Onion wrote greeting cards. Hilarious.

• 10 month old baby Bubba Ludwig gets a gun license in Illinois - "It makes an adorable addition to his baby book" says dad.

• Baby Versus Cobra (youtube) - The baby has the advantage of not having its mouth sewn shut.
  

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• Superjail is a work of pure genius - Not good for the kids, but SO good for me.
  

• Flickrvision and Twittervision are the coolest things I've seen all day.
  

• Incredible artwork that visualizes the statistics of American waste - I got sick looking at all those bottles. Our disposable culture.

• Forget the May 15th gas boycott, here's how to really lower gas prices: Stop driving like a jerk - I found this out for myself after reading about hypermiling and adjusting my driving habits. Makes a big difference.

• Pilot episode of Tony Millionaire's Drinky Crow Show on Adult Swim - With theme song by They Might Be Giants
  

• Pachelbel Rant (youtube)
  

• Plastic is collecting in the ocean and finding its way into your body

• BUSH RESIGNS: Freudian slip by wishful CNN chiron operator

• 14 out of 14 sushi places investigated by the Chicago Sun-Times were serving tilapia or sea bream and calling it (and charging for) red snapper - A lot of the restaurant owners claimed they just never noticed that the boxes they got from their fish suppliers said "tilapia" right on there...

• Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories presents their 3-D sugar object printer

• Instructables: Han Solo encased in carbonite... or chocolate bar?

• Photos of a 24 course meal at L'Enclume - Beautiful and mind-boggling. Is it really worth it?

• History of the ironic t-shirt - That's it, I have to phase out my t-shirts now.

• NO, U CANT HAVE THE PRESIDENCY (pic) - What on earth happened for John McCain to make that face?

• Verbotomy - Create a word to match the definition. I hope we get some excellent new additions to the language from this!

• Full Metal Jacket game for the Nintendo Wii (youtube)

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• Danger: Moving Propellers (photo)

• BlueSpill is a blog about stop-motion animation with awesome youtube clips in every post

• Whiffle Hurling and the design of new games/sports in the physical world

  "The video-game industry is bristling with innovation: You've got haptic controllers on the Wii, titles like Eye of Judgment merging card-games with computers, and the increasingly strange economic activity in online worlds. Our culture is clearly hungry for new forms of play.
  
  Yet how many new major physical sports have you played in recent years? Zero, I'll bet. The pantheon of major team-sports -- football, basketball, baseball, soccer, hockey -- hasn't significantly altered in decades."

• Lee Stoetzel's work includes a life-size chopper, VW bus, and Apple computer made from wood.

• New York's Mayor Bloomberg proposes congestion pricing to reduce traffic and save the Earth

  "The basic idea behind congestion pricing is simple: make motorists pay to use the busiest streets. Under the Mayor’s proposal, an invisible line would be drawn around Manhattan from Eighty-sixth Street south to the Battery. Vehicles crossing this line on weekdays between 6 A.M. and 6 P.M. would be charged a fee—eight dollars for cars, twenty-one dollars for trucks."

• The Onion: 79 Percent Of Americans Missing The Point Entirely

• These pictures have convinced me that more buildings need slides - And firepoles, too.

• Really bizarre music video for Closer (the song by Nine Inch Nails) using clips from Star Trek (youtube) - Not really safe for the kids. Very, very weird.
  

Buster Casey, destined to live fast, die young and murder as many people as he can, is the rotten seed at the core of Palahniuk's comically nasty eighth novel (after Haunted; Lullaby; Diary; etc.). Set in a future where urbanites are segregated by strict curfews into Daytimers and Nighttimers, the narrative unfolds as an oral history comprising contradictory accounts from people who knew Buster. These include childhood friends horrified by the boy's macabre behavior (getting snakes, scorpions and spiders to bite him and induce instant erections; repeatedly infecting himself with rabies), policemen and doctors who had dealings with the rabies "superspreader"; and Party Crashers, thrill-seeking Nighttimers who turn city streets into demolition derby arenas. After liberally infecting his hometown peers with rabies, Buster hits the big city and takes up with the Party Crashers. A series of deaths lead to a police investigation of Buster (long-since known as "Rant"—the sound children make while vomiting) that peaks just as Buster apparently commits suicide in a blaze of car-crash glory. This dark religious parable (there's even a resurrection) from the master of grotesque excess may not attract new readers, but it will delight old ones.

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• Magnetosphere - Kickass visualization for iTunes.
  

• You know those music visualizations on your computer? This is like that, only real. And made of fire. It's called a Rubens Tube. (youtube)
  

• Explosive Rube Goldberg type video - The DVD of this was playing at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and my sister and I sat and watched the whole thing wide-eyed. It's pretty incredible stuff, I just wish they could have figured out a way to do it without the cuts.

• The awesome power of spare cycles (AKA boredom) - It's the reason I'm back.

• Kinetic Sculptures by Tim Prentice

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• Lip Dub: Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger (video) - Starts off small, but quickly gets totally rockin'. This song has been stuck in my head for weeks because of this video.

• Slow-motion samurai sword slicing things (videos)

• I Believe in Science - and I want this shirt

• Animals in the depths of the sea - Gorgeous photos of deep sea creatures

• Check out this Metafilter post on the "Dear Sister" SNL digital short meme - I can't watch anybody get shot on TV without that song popping into my head now...

• Solar power sure makes for a pretty picture

• 2BR02B - A short story by the late Kurt Vonnegut (so it goes), published first in SF magazine 'What if,' reprinted in Bagombo Snuff Box, and now that the copyright has evidently run out, it's up on Project Gutenberg.

• Pulp Muppets (video)

• Snopes on why the May 15th "Don't Buy Gas" day is completely asinine.

  "The premise behind all these messages is inherently flawed, because consumers' not buying gasoline on one particular day doesn't affect oil companies at all. The 'gas out' scheme doesn't call upon people to use less gasoline, but simply to shift their date of purchase..."

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