133 - Backpedalling

1. Scare Tactics I decided to do another Halloween day, which is weird because I don't even really like Halloween Here's a great story about a guy that was willing to go to great lengths to scare passengers on a haunted hay ride.

2. Cruelty to Animals Do people really think that their pets like to wear costumes? I guess my dog, Opal Stoltz, who died tragically at an early age, really did like wearing her argyle sweater, but only when it was very cold and she didn't look like an asshole.

3. Science of Scare I'm not sure if this is really science. I don't see any evidence of a control group, and there is definitely no falsifiable hypothesizing. Still, "Nothing evokes wild-eyed terror like a chain-saw" sounds pretty good.

4. Minifig If you read this early enough, you might have time to whip up one of these lego action figure costumes. Personally, I'll be spending the day sleeping and watching bootleg DVDs.

5. If Houdini Hasn't Come Back From the Grave, Then No One Has Another great episode of Skepticality focusing on the mysterious life and death of Harry Houdini with Houdini Museum curators, Dorothy Dietrich and Dick Brooks as well as renowned skeptic and historian, the Amazing James Randi.

132 - Enabling

1. How To Get together some old clothes, some eyeshadow, and some Karo Syrup. Mix it all together and presto.

2. Shuffle Once you've got your look just right, organize a zombie walk in your town.

3. Johnny They're coming to get you Barbara.

4. Body Bread Watcharaporn Taithongchai reports on the ghoulish baked goods concocted by Kittiwat Unarrom.

5. Concerned I think this will be the last Halloween theme day.

131 - Halloween

1. Historical Halloween A concise history of the Halloween holiday from the History Channel. You can trust the veracity of this article based on the History Channel's archives of impeccably researched programs on such topics as Amityville, and Roswell. (sarcasm)

2. Virtual Pumpkin Avoid the mess and stink of Jack-o-Lantern carving by visiting this online pumpkin cutter.

3. Witches Bread Fungus infected crops in Salem caused people to experience convulsions, hallucinations, and psychosis which were interpreted by the population as witchery. Maybe.

4. Favorite Haunts Enter your state and find a Haunted House near you.

5. Haunt Your House 101 ideas and projects to do for Halloween, like roasting pumpkin seeds and solving mazes.

130 - with Links!

1. The Best Stuff in the World Tell the world your favorite thing in any given category, or make up a new category just for yourself. If you want to vote for the Top 5, you can do it here, or use the button at the top of the sidebar. I also included a bunch of other social bookmarking buttons. I don't really understand them, but they are there for you if you do.

2. Robocop vs. Terminator There are enough Robocop and Terminator movies that a guy can edit together a relatively seamless fight scene between the two of them.

3. Time Capsule My kindergarten class buried a time capsule underneath a huge bell outside our grade school. The plan was to open it in the year 2000. I think I might be the only one that remembers it because it is almost 2007 and, to my knowledge, no one ever dug it up. Too bad I'm not motivated enough to petition a dig, it might be interesting to see what's in there.

4. Terra Incognito Pablo Wendel dressed up like a Chinese terracotta warrior and tried to see how long he could mingle with them before he got arrested.

5. The Resurrection A frog's revival after its winter hibernation is so much like a miracle, I wouldn't be surprised to hear about one making a physical ascension into heaven.

129 - with Links!

1. Auspicious Beginnings This kid is getting an early start on his career as whatever the opposite of "escape artist" is. Before you assume this is a rare occurrence, take a look at this and this.

2. Plain Brown Popper Since a movie theater food poisoning incident, I've been avoiding popcorn. Alton Brown's simple method for chemical free microwave popping makes me consider eating it again.

3. Six Words Wired magazine challenged a group of writers (from Darren Aronofsky to Howard Waldrop) to create epic stories using only a half dozen words.

4. Loose Wheel The British are so polite that even their race car tires are well behaved.

5. 1000 Words I think I'll just let this picture stand on its own. This is the one link to look at today.

128 - Religion

1. Left Behind I guess this is pretty old news by now. The popular, apocalyptic, evangelical, Left Behind series has been turned into a video game with a level of violent content equal or greater than that of the old testament. In addition, the demo version came with some bonus spyware.

2. Go Forth We all know the christian god wants us to overpopulate the earth. This guy wants us to have fun while we're doing it.

3. Ted=Jesus This guy's theory is really just about as legitimate as the rest of the western world's religions (not to mention most of that new-age eastern crap.)

4. Video Tape Your Hate Crimes If these guys had taken the time to actually read a few pages of the koran before shooting it up with automatic weapons and leaving it on the doorstep of a mosque, they might have discovered that it is virtually the same as the bible I'm sure they revere.

5. Walker: Texas Guru Expert in both theology and biology, Chuck Norris, finally puts the last nail in the evolutionary coffin with the definitive statement "It's not real. It is not the way we got here...There is a God, a Creator, who made you and me. We were made in His image, which separates us from all other creatures."

127 - with Links!

1. More on Those Bravia Ads Google Sightseeing found the estate in Glasgow where the exploding paint Bravia commercial was shot. I also came across a flawless fruit juice parody of the original super ball commercial.

2. Sleepy Kitty I really don't think I could ever get enough of these videos of cute animals falling asleep.

3. Drive-Thru Unplugged This should have been a welcome break from the daily monotony of working at a fast food restaurant, but the guy at the window just doesn't seem all that interested.

4. Battle of the Bands Every album cover of all time comes to life and then they fight with each other.

5. Draw Play Draw your way across each level of the game and WIN!

126 - with Links!

1. Clone Store Closes Doors The cleverly named, leading provider of reincarnated pets, Genetic Savings & Clone is shutting down because it is just too damn expensive to clone cats and dogs.

2. Ice Spikes If you want to, you could use the right water, and set your freezer to the proper temperature and make stalagmite-like spikes grow out of the tops of your ice cubes. They are not haunted.

3. Yawning Keywords Hot on the heels of eating celebrities, comes sleepy ones like Cameron Diaz, Gwen Stefani, Kirsten Dunst, Jamie Oliver, Drew Barrymore, Britney Spears and Geri Halliwell.

4. Arrested Development Prop Auction If you hurry you might be able to get in a last minute snipe bid on Gob's Segway.

5. Der Himmel Fallt A fire that destroyed a cottage in Germany and injured a 77-year-old man was probably caused by a meteor. I love meteors.

125 - Coming Attractions

1. Power of the Dark Crystal If you can get through the bullshit advertising and flash animation on MTV.com, there is an interesting article about Brian Froud's involvement in the possibly ill-advised sequel to Jim Henson's masterpiece, The Dark Crystal.

2. Zodiac Before the release of David Fincher's Zodiac killer movie, you would do well to read the source material, the only book I've ever read that caused me to wake up in the middle of the night with a baseball bat in my hands.

3. Hot Fuzz You know you loved Shaun of the Dead and you can't wait for the return of the Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost triumvirate.

4. 49 Up Roger Ebert's first published piece after his prolonged hospital stay is a sweet conversation with Michael Apted about the most recent entry in his fascinating Up Series, a study of the lives of one generation of English school children as they make their way in the world.

5. Pan's Labyrinth There is so much voice-over in this trailer because the the studio thinks you are stupid and won't realize this movie is in Spanish (not English) until you've already paid for your ticket. Go see this anyway. It looks awesome and if it does well, that will be good reason to green-light Hellboy 2.

124 - All Request

1. Pilky They say it all started with a Big Bang. But was it really a big bang? Or was it just because there was no other sound to drown it out at the time? This link, like all of today's links, was suggested by my brother.

2. Monkey Sunday Namita Das has two grown up children, but she continues to suckle her pet monkey.

3. Free Hugs Sometimes, a hug is all that we need.

4. Paper Dolls Some dudes are making a movie about bigfoot attacks

5. Big Ones Australian women's breasts are getting bigger, a new study has found.