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1. Free Mooninites Peter Berdovsky, & Sean Steven, the two "artists" hired to promote the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie by hanging up those LED night-lights that caused so much trouble in Boston a few months ago, have finally had all charges against them dropped. Each man spent 80 hours of community service painting a mural in children's hospital and apologized for the panic they supposedly caused. I'm sure the two million bucks that Turner ponied up didn't hurt either.

2. Second Hand The eCigarette is a new nicotine delivery device which allows "smokers" to get the wanted buzz from smoking without the need for the dangerous tar and smoke accosiated with traditional cigarettes. What is this going to do to all the unconstitutional anti-smoking laws that have been popping up lately?

3. Optimism Are these glasses half full or are they half empty?

4. Oh Yeah! Kool-Aid flavored pickles: All the rage in Greenville, Mississippi where it is apparently legal for old women to sell weird food to children out of their kitchens or on their front porches.

5. Be Prepared The top ten most useful knots with pictures and diagrams on how to tie them.

303 - Birthday

1. Happy Birthday Fortran I don't really know much about computer languages, but I know that FORTRAN has the coolest name and it is 50 years old today.

2. Happy Birthday Kid I'm assuming The Giant Napkin is some kind of fake version of The Onion. Is satire good if you can't be sure whether or not it is true? I don't know.

3. Happy Birthday Hollywood Here's a list of all the "celebrities that were born today. I just scanned over it, but the celebritiest people I see on there are Kate Hudson, Tim Curry and some guy named Jedi.

4. Happy Birthday Cheetah Earlier this week Tarzan's monkey buddy, Cheetah, celebrated her 75th birthday. Cheetah attributes her longevity to a strict regimen of watching movies, painting and playing the piano.

5. Happy Birthday LSD Cheetah shares her birthday with history's first acid trip.

296 - Weed

1. Why is Marijuana Illegal? A longish history of how Harry J. Anslinger, the director of the Bureau of Narcotics and newspaper magnate, William Randolf Hearst, through a campaign of greed and racism, deceived lawmakers into prohibiting marijuana usage during the 1930s NORML, the National Organization for the Reformation of Marijuana Laws, tells you some of the same information in an easier to digest, animiated clip narrated by Woody Harrelson.

2. Memory Loss? Researchers, working under the direction of Igor Grant, MD, find that marijuana usage does not seem to any real long-term memory loss or brain damage suggesting that marijuana should be considered a treatment option for many diseases. Here's a true story that sounds like a joke: A world class pot smoker asked me, "Is it true that smoking weed causes memory loss?" I answered, "Yes. I think that's true." In all seriousness, he replied, "I must have forgotten about that."

3. Legalize in Order to Regulate John Morgan, co-author of Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts, speaks on the positive benefits of legalizing marijuana.

4. Kirsten Dunst's Friend's Dad was a Pothead Then here's Carl Sagan espousing philosophical on the benefits of smoking weed. At then end of the article, he looks forward to the time when marijuana prohibition will be repealed, thinking decriminalization is eminent. the article was written in 1969.

5. Starship Enterprise I'll leave you today with a mashup of Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit and Star Trek. See Kirk and Spock and the gang get totally wasted.

295 - with Links!

1. Kurt Vonnegut: Dead "The crucified planet earth. Should it find a voice? And the sense of irony might now well say of our abuse of it. Forgive them father, they know not what they do. The irony would be that we know what we're doing. And when the last living thing has died on account of us, how shapely it would be, how poetical if the Earth could say in a voice floating up, perhaps from the floor of the Grand Canyon; It is done."

2. Family Friends Remember when Kirsten Dunst was reading Carl Sagan. It turns out she is friends with his daughter so she probably either, got it as a gift, or needed to make Sagan's family think she is smart. It also turns out that she is a pothead, just like Carl Sagan (More on that tomorrow.)

3. Bonus Banjo Upset with her husband's decision to turn over the family business to her stepson, Sarah Paterson hired someone to "murder her stepson and his wife, and dispose of the bodies." The man she hired? Banjo the Clown.

4. Indestructotank! They cannot kill you. They can only help you to kill them. Don't run out of gas though.

5. Who Ya Gonna #*!%#? Ron Jeremy was in Ghostbusters.

291 - Easter

1. The Rites of Spring Like most Christian holidays, Easter is really just a much older pagan holiday with the word Jesus thrown in there. Even the word "Easter" refers to Eostre, the ancient goddess of birth and new beginnings. What was the first of the ten commandments again?

2. Pseudo-Peeps Use this recipe to make your own marshmallow peeps. For a simpler option, you can make some flat, cookie cutter peep-esque things. or go hog-wild and make these fancy pants saffron flavored meringue chicks.

3. Geek Orthodox Easter "As Easter weekend falls upon us and you're sitting in front of a computer, you should probably come to grips with the fact that you may be something of a geek. In honor of the celebration you should be having, productdose has put together a list of products that will help you get through all of the working, gaming, or research you're doing instead of enjoying your holiday weekend."

4. Intent to Sell It turns out that the Easter Bunny has been delivering a lot more than dyed eggs.

5. Solid Chocolate What did one chocolate bunny say to the other?

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1. Damn It Feels Good to Be A Gangster Police said they caught an 8-year-old trying to sell marijuana to other children at a counseling center. He was turned over to his parents who apparently have never heard of child labor laws.

2. Sam Raimi Instructional Videos I know this seems like a pretty boring fork lift training video, but just muscle through it and see what it evolves into.

3. Pain Pong A deceptively simple twist on a classic game turns out to be incredibly maddening. So bad the creator named it "Jeu Chiant" meaning "Shitty Game."

4. Clothes Jacked A group of thugs not only kidnapped a young couple, they also stole their cars, they also forced them to clean out their ATMs, they also gropes the young woman, and then, in order to add insult to injury, they forced the victims to strip naked and left them stranded on the side of the highway. Cue sexy hitchhiking fantasy.

5. Essay Extentender A good trick to increase the page count of your article, composition, discourse, discussion, disquisition, explication, exposition, manuscript, paper, piece, study, theme, thesis, tract, or treatise in a way that will be unnoticeable to the reader.