072 - Religion - with Links!

1. The 21st Century After 54 years teaching Sunday school in New York, Mary Lambert was fired by the Rev. Timothy LaBouf based on his interpretation of a Bible quote. "I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent."

2. PraiseMoves™ When doing stretching exercises, you are actually worshipping false gods and need to buy a book and/or DVD about how to correctly exercise in a proper Christian manner. If you do not, you are breaking the first commandment.

3. 300 x 50 x 30 Cubits Just a couple of neat quotes from this website: "The bible is reliable in all areas" and "dinosaurs lived within the past few thousand years" and "those dinosaurs on the Ark were probably teenagers."

4. God's Water "I got a mystery tree," says Lucille Pope. After finding a trickle of liquid coming out of her oak tree, Ms. Pope came to the logical conclusion that the tree was producing "god's water," and that it might have special properties like, healing spider bites, or tasting great on pancakes.

5. Deuteronomy 22:28-29 "If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her."

071 - with Links!

1. Burt Sienna I don't love the western subject matter, but Don Marco does some incredibly detailed artwork using only crayons. I hope Crayola sponsors this guy.

2. Crossing Over. My Ass For those of you left that still believe John Edward can really speak to the dead. Conmen and carnies have been doing cold reading for decades. Edward isn't even as good as those guys were. He relies on pre-interviews and eavesdropping for his "readings." Not to mention the huge amount of editing that goes into producing one of his shows.

3. Prankster Alan Abel made a career out of screwing around with the media. Unlike Ashton Kutcher, Abel's pranks always seem to have an underlying social commentary. Little is known about the actual man. His daughter filmed a documentary about her father, but it seems to be getting little attention. Please show it near me.

4. Nerd Alert I'm a big enough nerd to actually want to try making a model of the Starship Enterprise using only a floppy disc. I'm not a big enough nerd to actually own a floppy disc, however.

5. Horse Breaks Leg of Ringo Starr's Wife Nothing here but a funny headline.

070 - with Links!

1. World's Oldest Person: Dead Maria Esther de Capovilla died yesterday at age 116 in Ecuador, less than one month short of her 117th birthday. She was born the same year as Charlie Chaplin and Adolph Hitler. Both of those guys died ages ago.

2. #1 Chinese Dinosaur Chinese stories are not as interesting as Japanese ones. The Chinese are just like regular humans, but a bit shorter. The Japanese are like magical, perverted, mythical creatures. Like pixies or leprechauns. If the Japanese found a new dinosaur, they'd probably put a pair of pink panties on it and put it on a crazy game show.

3. Degobah In case you aren't a big enough dork already, you could wear this backpack when school starts up again. Let the teasing and taunting deter you don't.

4. At Least Crack the Window Just when I had you convinced that the Chinese were like regular humans, this Chinese lady screws it up by trying to teach her dog how to drive a car.

5. Stunt Show Except for that one where a cowboy shoots into the camera, and the one where an elephant get electrocuted, I haven't watched any Thomas Edison films. That is why I don't know if this is real or not. It looks pretty good, but I thought they would have still been riding those giant front wheel bikes in 1899.

069 - with Links!

1. Doomed 10,000 user submitted reason why civilization is doomed. Even though I could probably fill in all 10,000 slots, I decided to only submit one. See if you can find it.

2. Alternate Power Source Yo-yo powered MP3 players are currently just a beautiful dream, but if it comes to fruition, maybe someday we'll be running everything off yo-yo power.

3. Sim City If you have the proper operating system, you can play the old-school classic Sim City online right now! The site requires registration, but if you want to skip it try using bugmenot.com, which is totally awesome in its own right.

4. Templeton Even his mother doesn't have a collection of Paul Lynde video clips this big.

5. Pluto < Planet I'm sure you're as tired of hearing about Pluto as I am. However, here's a funny story about it. With pictures.

068 - Cosby - with Links!

1. Episode One From January to April 2005, Justin Roiland created four animated episodes of The House of Cosby's for "the unavoidable future of entertainment," Channel 101.

2. Episode Two In June 2005, all parties involved (including Justin Roiland and Channel 101 administrator Dan Harmon) received cease and desist letters from Bill Cosby's lawyers.

3. Episode Three In case you don't know who Dan Harmon is: together with Rob Schrab, Dan Harmon has worked on such popular projects as Scud the Disposable Assassin, Heat Vision and Jack, and more recently Monster House.

4. Episode Four Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon decided to honor Mr. Cosby's wishes and ceased production of the House of Cosbys after only four episodes.

5. Episode Five However, in June 2005 an "unofficial" fifth episode appeared. I'm sure Bill Cosby is still upset about this and will likely threaten Google into removing these videos. If that isn't enough for you then check out this "hilarious" blooper reel and find more from Justin Roiland at Comic Sacrifice.

067 - with Links!

1. DIY Metal Detector Instructions on building your own BYO metal detector from scratch. Maybe you'll be one of the lucky success stories. Use your imagination to figure out what BYO stands for.

2. Flickrtips Photoset of tiny animals on the tips of fingers.

3. Factropolis One incredibly random fact every single day with little or no background information.

4. Dream Capture 2000 Rana Kane keeps a dream journal. That isn't really all that interesting. What is interesting is the number of dreams concerning video game characters and Knight Rider.

5. Freakout Henri Faberge and the Adorables is a super, freakout, goodtime band from Canada with at least thirteen members. Sorry again about the myspace.

066 - with Links!

1. Urban Dictionary Of course Urban Dictionary has been well know for a long time, but I used it for the first time today in order to clarify my own personal definitions of Nerd, Dork, Geek and Dweeb. If that stuff is too old-school, you can always find something like Ghost Ride The Whip.

2. $32.99!?!?!? Here's a disproportionately well designed website showing you ways to make your own dry erase boards on a budget.

3. Ghost Monsters Researchers waste grant money by making crickets play Pac-Man. On a side note, if you search google images for pacman cricket the first result is a picture of Osama Bin Laden.

4. The Human Camera Stephen Wiltshire takes a single helicopter flight around Rome and then draws a huge panorama of the city to exacting detail. I like the way the British say Helicopter. It isn't in the video, but I also like the way they say binoculars.

5. 1973 Nothing here other than a great picture of a gremlin.

065 - Cats - with Links!

1. Cyber-kitty More wacky hi-jinks from the CIA. It sounds fake, but apparently they implanted microphones into cats and let them loose near the Soviet Embassy. The best part is the cryptic codename: Operation Acoustic Kitty.

2. Holy Sh*t! A Habitrail! This dude built a giant hamster wheel for his cat. In order to get the cat to use it, he added an automatic food dispenser. Genius.

3. Sleepy Kitty One more from the "cute baby animals falling asleep" files.

4. Flusher Of course it is funny to watch a cat flush a toilet, but my favorite part is when the director tells his wife to shut up because he wants to put this video on the internet.

5. Funniest Felines Just in case that isn't enough for you, here's a whole website dedicated to funny cat videos.

064 - with Links!

1. Get Human The Get Human Project is a collection of virtually every company that might offer phone support and the secret codes they use to skip over their phone menus and speak to an actual person. Personally, I'd rather speak to a computer, but I know a lot of normal people might like this information.

2. Solar Battery I was reading these instructions on how to build your own solar cell and I thought, "Why doesn't everyone make these?" Then I read "To run a 1,000 watt stove, you would need 800 square meters of cuprous oxide, and another 800 square meters of plain copper." Oh.

3. Sock Wars If you know how to knit, this looks like a pretty cool way to spend your time. I couldn't even figure out how to freaking crochet.

4. Huge Slut Contest "Melissa Midwest" is offering $100,000 to the hottest girl that will come live with her for a year and have a bunch of naked pictures posted on the internet. If these internet girls make $100,000, how much do their pimps/boyfriends make?

5. Corrector, Correct Thyself Creators of spellchecking software, TextTrust, had to re-issue a recent press release due to spelling errors.

063 - Monkey Tuesday - with Links!

1. Sleepy Monkey The cutest baby monkey, Mercutio, takes the cutest nap.

2. Security Risk "Both the handler and the monkey must undergo additional screening." I'm wondering if your monkey will be able to bring his toothpaste and ipod with him on the plane.

3. M for Monkey Monkey themed t-shirt designed by Heiko for Threadless.

4. Gorilla Suspense I spent a minute watching this video chewing my nails just waiting for the inevitable burst of violence. Sorry to ruin the suspense, but it never comes.

5. Swinging Monkey Tote This is a sweet, embroidered bag from the Little Odd Forest over at Etsy.