314 - with Links!

1. Drive-In Another invitation to those that know me or live near me or want to travel. The double feature on Friday May 4th will be The Day The Earth Stood Still followed by Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey. Hopefully it won't rain out.

2. Love Intended as an learning aid for prospective heart patients, this interactive 3-D model of the human heart is pretty fun to play around with.

3. Four Inches Tall Although I can't find any evidence of Garth Brooks recording Tiny Dancer, I did uncover a Tim McGraw album which features a cover of the Elton John classic. Anyway, the point is this: Stop reporting on "the worlds smallest dogs" until they are at least a year old and thereby eligible to be considered fro the title.

4. Fake Cancer/Real Donations I've always wondered about those donation buckets you sometimes see on the counters of fast food restaurants.

5. Mosquitotone The world leader in innovative television commercials, KFC, is using weird high pitched subliminal noises supposedly only noticed by teenagers in their new ads. I heard it fine, and I'm no teenager.

313 - Sunday

1. Purgatory No Longer in Limbo Through years of careful scientific study, researchers at the vatican have finally determined that Limbo is not real. So much for everyone's favorite theory about what is happening on Lost.

2. Satan Hates Utah What is a district chairman? And why do crazy people in Utah keep running for public office? At least John Jacob had the decency to blame his problems on the devil prior to being elected.

3. Illustrated Stories From The Bible Unfortunately, you can't just pick and choose, you have to take the bad with the good. And there's a lot of bad.

4. $525,000 Half a million dollars. That's how much it will cost you to buy a stolen church from a rogue pastor. Start saving now.

5. Pentacle Debacle Ends I was going to tell you about how the Office of Veteran's Affairs has recently added Wicca to its list of militarily approved religions, then I thought, "Why does the American military need a list of approved religions?" Does anyone remember the first amendment? Anyway, if you die in military service, you can have a pentacle put on your gravestone now.

312 - Drive-in

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5. Welcome I'm using today's post to invite invite you to come by tonight for an outdoor drive-in theater experience. I'm hoping to have a double feature each weekend at various locations throughout the summer. If you have a big outdoor area where a white sheet could be hung and want to host the project one Friday or Saturday. Let me know.

311 - with Links!

1. Drive: Apparently Dead Although not officially confirmed, it looks like Fox has once again canceled a promising new series from Tim Minear. They aired three episodes in two days. Is it really surprising that the ratings weren't great?

2. Balloon Bass How to make a bass guitar using nothing but inflatable balloons.

3. Oral Mechanic The headlines are saying he performed dentistry on "patients" in his garage, but it sounds to me like Roger Bean was just fashioning home-made dentures. If he didn't cut or drill into anybody, was he really practicing dentistry without a license?

4. Jack Valenti: Dead After a long time term as president of the Motion Picture Association of America, Jack Valenti, the man probably most responsible for the "self censorship" of Hollywood since Joseph Breen, died at the age of 85 due to stroke complications.

5. Face Eater And lastly, a set of photos chronicling one man's attempt to eat his own face.

310 - with Links!

1. Flying Lessons Ever want to be a pilot? Yeah so did this guy.

2. Gelatinous Mass When trying to find out if this guy was really, really peeling a hardboiled egg, I came across this information about how to peel a raw egg and I really want to do it.

3. Awesomely Puke Inducing Similarly, I'd really like to try this technique of slicing a banana without first peeling it, but there's no way I want to go near one of those disgusting yellow bastards. The smell alone is enough to make me gag.

4. Q-Bert I always thought the Escher-esque quality of the Q-Bert playing field made it difficult to figure out which way to push your joystick. Switch the joystick to you keyboard's arrow keys and the game becomes virtually impossible.

5. Ping Pong Pixel Thomas F. Wilson, most famous for playing the roll of Biff Tannen in the Back to the Future Series sings a song about the trial and tribulations of being Biff.

309 - Art

1. Pixels Twenty pixels square isn't a lot of space in which to be drawing your masterpiece. Do your best anyway. Add a link to your image in the comments section.

2. Condimentally Ketchupart.com, without a lot explanation, features a bunch of pictures of plates decorated with intricate (and not so intricate) drawings done with... ketchup, natch.

3. Thievery Please think twice before buying from Todd Goldman's David and Goliath t-shirt company. While some of these allegations of stolen designs are questionable, other are pretty blatant and, therefore, shine a harsh light on the questionable examples.

4. Modern Montra It is hard to describe this series of drawings made by Thomas Broomeusing the letters that form the words describing the items being drawn. Just take a look.

5. Ping Pong Pixel Computer aided, automatic, over-sized photo replication in multi-colored ping pong balls.

308 - Monkey Tuesday

1. Loose Chimp This creepy looking chimpanzee led zookeepers on a mad chase after he turned the doorknob of his unlocked cage and started hooting and hollering. The second paragraph is kind of confusing when it mentions a polar bear that was also let out. Where the hell is the polar bear?

2. It's a Boy... or a Girl? The Cheyanne Mountain Zoo celebrates the birth of a baby western lowland gorilla with a photo slide show.

3. 24 Hour Mountain Dew Binges A computer disguised as a tree teaches orangutans how to program C++

4. Movie Monkeys A list of the top ten monkeys in the movies is sorely missing two of history's greatest film apes, Link and A.P.E.

5. Exact Change Only Another daring zoo escape ends badly when a loose kinkajou, hitching a ride on a Mexico City bus, attacks one of his fellow passengers.

307 - with Links!

1. Boris Yeltsin: Dead The man considered most responsible for bringing capitalism to Russia, former president, Boris Yeltsin dead at the age of 76.

2. Oll Korrect This detailed history of how the term "OK" came to be a legitimate part of the English language boils down to basically one thing: people in the 1830s and 1840s has some really weird ideas of comedy. Next, the author is working out the history of the term "my bad."

3. Where There's Smoke How to make smoke appear magically from your fingertips using only a bathtub and a box of matches.

4. Import/Export I finally moved over to Firefox. It took me a while to do so because I didn't want to lose all of my bookmarks. Luckily importing them from your old browser is pretty easy.

5. Visuwords An online graphical dictionary which creates diagrams consisting of related words and color codes them based on parts of speech..

306 - All Request

1. Drink and Smoke Up I imagine this is pretty common knowledge by now (I think I might have even posted something similar in the past,) but here it is anyway; alcohol and cigarettes are worse for you than many illegal drugs, including LSD and Ecstasy.

2. Tattoos 4 Toddlers The best idea ever, and apparently not some kind of spoof.

3. Squirrel Fishing "A smarter squirrel will discover after a while that it is better to bite through the string than simply pull on the peanut."

4. Urban Myths Futuristic, stackable, grocery-cart-esque vehicles of the future will almost certainly never be actually used in the real world.

5. Pisser Futuristic, robotic, and novelty toilets of the future will almost certainly never be actually used in the real world either.

305 - All Request

1. Chill Out I know winter is pretty much over now, but this has been sitting in my "to-list" box for quite a while now. It a pretty interesting report about the birth of the wind-chill factor, hw it is totally bogus, and why we should stop talking about it.

2. Dirty Dancing TV fisherman, Bill Dance has a lot of bad luck, as well as a laugh track. More and more.

3. The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy One thing I hate is when people look at old photos and laugh about the hairstyles and clothes they used to wear. Another is when people argue about what to call a sugary, carbonated, soft drink. If you want to avoid this type of discussion it looks like you should move to North Dakota, Montana or the southwest, where there seems to be the smallest amount of cross-over.

4. Charles Has A Licking Problem One word: euthanasia.

5. Fashion Before Function A new kind of crocodile skin belt which doesn't require the crocodile to be killed.

304 - Advertising

1. Reality I'm sure everyone knows that restaurant advertisements don't do a very ethical job of depicting the reality of what is being advertised. A self proclaimed "Pulitzer-caliber project" puts the advertisers to the test with side by side comparisons. Surprisingly, the actual products from McDonald's look pretty similar to the ad photos, the KFC one is terrible. Anyone associated with it should be ashamed..

2. Speaking of Ads This collection of ads for novelty products from the back of vintage comic books could probably go on forever. They used to sell some really awesome stuff. One correction: Those Kryptonite Rocks weren't just painted green, they also glowed in the dark. I know, I had them.

3. Design If you are interested in graphic design; take a look at this series of short documentaries about some of the most promising independent designers working today. I'm especially partial to the work of Andy Mueller at Ohio Girl.

4. Serve and Protect Advising drivers to slow down via a roadside letterboard, and cheating the municipality out of revenue at the same time.

5. Classifieds Real ads from the classified section of the newspaper. It’s like a Jay Leno segment, only funny.