041 - Blue Etsy - with Links!

1. Hot Dog Robot screen print by Cricket Press.

2. Bird on a Branch Vinyl messenger bag by Sugar Lust.

3. Set for Takeoff Charm necklace by t8designs.

4. A Garden Blue Two birds print by Alana Hennessey.

5. Five Days In my case this phrase should say "22-40 days in a row." Dweeb.

040 - with Links!

1. Blind Steven Seagal Did anyone know that Steven Seagal was a bluesman? I sure didn't. This website seems to be devoted to his recordings. His singing is surprisingly above mediocre. And if he is playing guitar, then he is above mediocre at that too.

2. Cinemorgue I assume there is a sexual kink involved in seeing your favorite film actors playing dead bodies. If this seems hot to you, check out this guy's overly thorough index of actors and the movies in which they were dead. I prefer to see my least favorite actors.

3. How to Grow a Chair Arborsculptor, Richard Reames, tells about his methods of shaping and grafting trees into living sculptures. The title is misleading as there is very little talk of chairs.

4. The Real Thing Three Coca-Cola employees charged with stealing Coke's secret recipe and trying to sell it to Pepsi. In related news: Coke's secret recipe is available to anyone with an internet connection.

5. It Is Official God hates ipod users.

039 - with Links!

1. The Bicycle Thief A pair of pranksters demonstrate the proper way to steal a bike using only an angle iron and tomato catsup. Live on Fox News.

2. Moom The Museum of Online Museums collects links to online exhibits of all types. From The Smithsonian all the way to The Museum of Early LCD Watches, it is all covered here.

3. Cameramail Another site that proves that the U.S. Post Office will deliver your mail promptly even if they aren't very good photographers.

4. Apak Remember: Greeting cards can be framed and made into very nice pieces of wall art. Aaron and Ayumi Piland make awesome hand printed greeting cards using Japan's best selling, tiny, professional quality, home screenprinting kit, Print Gocco.

5. Dangerously Fun Even though there aren't a lot of projects here, there are a lot of cool simple illustrations.

038 - with Links!

1. Stinkbird The hoatzin is a crazy bird from Guyana. It has claws on its wings ala Archaeopteryx and a pre-stomach digestive system similar to that of a cow.

2. Mistaken Identity The BBC asked, PC Magazine publisher, Guy Kewney to do an on-air interview. Guy Goma was just waiting for a job interview. Someone mixed up the names and put the wrong Guy on the air live.

3. Just a Little Guy Photo after photo of unbearably cute animals.

4. Brain Surgery Comedic journalism from a guy just about to go in for an operation on his brain.

5. Toothfish Texas fisherman gets off by killing fish and checking to see what kind of teeth they have.

037 - with Links!

1. United States Quiz They claim this is a third grade test, but I don't remember ever having to know all of the contiguous state names and locations. It took me about six or seven tries to get them all right before the clock ran down. Then I tried it a few more times to try and remember the weird states no one thinks about, like Idaho.

2. DIY Lasik Kit I've been wearing glasses since around the 6th grade, and I have to say, they never really bothered me. Certainly not in a fashion awareness way. Occasionally they can be annoying when I'm sweating and they keep sliding down my face, but I can deal with it.

3. Lebowski Two minutes and fourteen seconds of F-words courtesy of Jeff Bridges and the Coen Brothers.

4. BFF I've never made a friendship bracelet in my life (nor a friend.) But now that I'm in my early thirties, I'm finally thinking of making some.

5. Pedophile Party David Byrne look-a-like founds a Dutch political party calling for a lowering of the age of consent from sixteen to twelve. Take a look at this guy and see if he passes the pedophile test.

036 - Japan TV - with Links!

1. Yuki If popular music video channel, MTV, were to air this in the U.S. it would almost surely become a weird overnight sensation.

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2. Japandid Camera I'm assuming there are very few laws in Japan related to suing people who throw you naked into the snow when a camera is pointing at you.

3. Bubble Rings Just like blowing smoke rings but done underwater, and in Japan.

4. Cruelty to Animals Spray a common house fly with carbon monoxide and it will do virtually anything you ask it to do.

5. Spider-man I confess. I didn't actually watch this. It was just too damn long. Maybe one day I get through the whole thing. It looks like the subtitles might be funny.

035 - with Links!

1. The Uncola Giant can of 7up spotted in Jacksonville, Florida.

2. Headlights Sorry to post a myspace link again, but some of these songs are not available on the official site. This is a newish band from Champaign Illinois and may represent the beginning of a return to quality music in the midwest.

3. Warwick Davis A long time ago, my roommates and I were obsessed with the movie Leprechaun 2. One day we were going out the backdoor and our landlord (a very short ancient old man) was standing outside wearing an emerald green suit. We freaked out and slammed the door in his face and hid in the closet until he was gone.

4. Concrete Soccer Balls Unknown pranksters cause broken toes.

5. Calico Lobster I wouldn't eat any damn lobster. I sure wouldn't eat this mix-and-match monstrosity.

034 - Etsy Art - with Links!

1. Space Bunny's Fantastic Voyage A digital print on canvas by Top Five favorite, Magic Jelly.

2. Zombie Animals Specially commissioned painting of any animal as a zombie by Joe Havasy.

3. Dear Abby A brightly colored print from SammyDog Productions.

4. Silver Age Girls Silhouettes assembled from actual comic book pages by Esta Sketch.

5. White Buddha Is Wack A relatively big budget oil painting on wood by jpock.

033 - with Links!

1. Shoe Lace Configuration Ian has collected hundreds of different methods of tying his shoes and decided to share them with the hordes of undearr 18 skateboarders who have to be different than everyone else even when it comes to tying their laces

2. Oktomat Take eight pictures with just one click of the shutter release. This may seem like a waste of time to you. . .

3. Inlay You might suspect that I am not a big fan of wearing jewelry. That doesn't stop me from admiring this wood and silver ring designed and handmade by James Roadman.

4. Disgust Survey No one like to take surveys, but this one is different. You will be disgusted by taking it. Don't be fooled by the first few questions. It gets bad fast.

5. Toynbee Tiles Revisited I found instructions on making the Toynbee Tiles I spoke about once. Now if I can just get my hands on a bunch of free linoleum.

032 - Magic - with Links!

1. Cyril Takayama The Amazing Randi has been singing the praises of this magician from Japan. I think I know how these trick are done, but I really don't see any evidence of it.

2. Ricky Jay Magician, entertainer and scholar Ricky Jay maintains a small audio archive of his short radio presentations on the history of the arcane and the bizarre.

3. Levitation Think David Blaine can levitate? He just has magnetic shoes and a pair of jogging pants with a split down the front of them. King of Skeeve, Criss Angel demonstrates.

4. Penn Radio Penn Jillette's daily radio show does occasionally touch on magic, but he's usually talking about libertarianism, freedom of speech, atheism, the free market, patriotism, and monkeys. I blatantly stole my Monkey Tuesday segment from his show.

5. Out of Context A fake magician created an act about how simple it can be to fool the audience.