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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.

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1. Chatroom User: Dead The death of his father, the dissolution of his marriage, and a recent debilitating car accident all conspired to send Kevin Whitrick into a deep depression. Mr Whitrick decided to take his own life. However, he wasn't content to keep his death anonymous. Whitrick logged onto a popular internet chat room, plugged in his webcam and proceeded to hang himself live via streaming video. This is the fist incidence of "cyber-suicide" in the UK, although a young American performed a similar act in 2003. I'm not going to look for the video of Kevin Whitrick's suicide, but I'd imagine it is out there if you really want to see it.

2. Chicken McButane I once read that the Chicken McNugget contains absolutely no food value. I think that was an exaggeration. Obviously, there is at least some chicken in them, so that's food, right? However, this guy claims that the nugget is 56% corn. I think he is playing with the fact a bit because he includes "ingredients...that can be derived from corn" such as corn-fed chickenas well as the chicken broth that comes from the afore mentioned corn-fed chicken. He also reports one very interesting ingredient that I doubt you'd really want to be eating; butylhydroquinone, supposedly a form of butane. That's right, lighter fluid. Considering his assertation that chicken is derived from corn, it seems the author has a pre-existing bias against McDonalds. Maybe the butane issue shouldn't go unchallenged.

3. 11 Spring The building at Eleven Spring Street has been a sort of Mecca for street artists for decades. Although their work wasn't really sanctioned, no one ever bothered to remove the layers of graffiti that continued to appear on the building's walls. When the building was purchased by a property developer, the story could have come to an end. However, the developer, Caroline Cummings, recognized the significance of the building and decided to allow a huge street art display in the building prior to remodeling.. Dozens of artists from around the world traveled to New York to be a part of the exhibition.

4. Stormy Kromer After retiring from baseball, Stormy Kromer became a railroad engineer. The high winds whipping through the locomotive engine were constantly flinging the hats off of Stormy's head and then freezing his ears. On one particularly cold day, Stormy asked his wife to modify one of his old baseball caps to protect his ears and stay firmly in place. The modification was a huge success. In fact, it was so successful that Stormy began manufacturing hats for other engineers and for anyone else that need to stay warm though the long, cold winter. Over 100 years later the Stormy Kromer hat is still made according to the original design.

5. Watchmen I've wondered for a while now if it really necessary to make a movie out of Alan Moore's classic comic Watchmen. The project has jumped around from one filmmaker to another for years. Terry Gilliam (once attached as director) notably claimed that the comic was totally unfilmable. Others have suggested it would be best suited for a 12 part miniseries on HBO. After all these starts and stops it looks like Zack Snyder is actually going to get the movie made. After seeing Dawn of the Dead, which I loved, I still was doubtful. 300, on the other hand, made me feel a little more hopeful. It really seems like Snyder understands what makes the original comic great. Keep your fingers crossed.

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1. Outed Just before falling asleep on stage, superstar, David Hasselhoff, revealed to a stunned Irish audience that his famous, vehicular co-star, KITT, was a homosexual. No word from Bo and Luke Duke on the sexuality if the General Lee.

2. George W. Hilton All of your favorite male political figures re-imagined as women by a group of master photochoppers.

3. Portland Street Pony Project In order to draw attention to the living history going unnoticed around the city, artist, Scott Wayne Indiana began tethering tiny plastic horses to the antique hitching rings scattered around the curbs of Portland. Soon others joined in with his project and started adding their own horses.

4. For Sale Anybody wanna buy a mammoth?

5. Pedal Powered The Japanese have done it again. They took the time and inginuity to build an awesome human powered, bicycling, roller coaster. The translation comes off a some kind of avant garde poetry. We fear the body, it is recognized that it comes, The wind blowing, when it reaches, already, it is highest now

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1. The Bomb The city of Boston came unhinged after the discovery of a handfull of mysterious electronic circuit boards covered with LEDs stuck to the sides of buildings and under bridges yesterday. Traffic was diverted and the bomb squad was called in to destroy these "suspicious" devices at a cost of upwards of half a million dollars.

2. Not a Hoax Anyone with even the tiniest amount of knowledge about circuitry (the Boston bomb squad, for instance) should have been able to see that these items were not bombs. In fact they were nothing more than glorified LED Throwies.

3. Guerilla Marketing No one ever intended a bomb hoax as Governor Deval Patrick has suggested. These lights were part of a marketing campaign for the upcoming Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie put together by marketing agency Interference Inc who co-opted the artistic, anti-advertising light display concept created by The Graffiti Research Lab.

4. Incriminating Evidence Peter Berdovsky and Sean Stevens, contracted employees of Interference Inc, were arrested for their part in the instalation of the devices. They were most likely implicated because Berdovsky posted video online of himself and Stevens sticking them up onto anything they could reach with a long pole.

5. Responsibility Turner Broadcasting, the parent company of Cartoon Network, is apparently accepting responsiblity for the ad campaign, going so far as to air a public apology during their popular Adult Swim programming., not during Aqua Teen, though. Buy your commemorative T-Shirts now. If a shirt isn't enough for you, and if you are stupid-rich, buy one of the actual devices

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1. Cave Man Style Although evolutionary biologists have discounted the idea that modern humans decended from Neanderthals, recent discoveries in Romania suggest that there might have been some interbreeding between them and us.

2. The Frog Brothers First it's Real Genius Two and now there are reports of a possible sequel to the 80's "classic" The Lost Boys. I'll believe it when I see it.

3. Nintendo This dude needs to post step by step instuction on how he crammed an entire NES video game console into one single game controller.

4. Amazing I really liked the democratic nature of the original James Randi Million Dollar Challenge, which allowed any crackpot to put his claims of paranormal abilities to the test. The new challenge puts a little bit more pressure on the claimants which should free the JREF from the hassle of dealing with a lot of mentally ill applicants so they can focus more on the real charlatans.

5. Totally Ripped You Though We Wouldn't Notice is a nice collection of major retailers and professional designers that have stolen their advertising and product ideas from independent designers and artists.

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1. Japanos The Japanese build a huge domino-effect chain using a house full of everyday items.

2. Film Experts Three blowhards and reverse psychology actually make me want to go see Saw 3.

3. Signs The only thing interesting that ever happened in Nicaragua.

4. Juggle Renowned asshole and juggler, Jason Garfield, is trying to teach me how to juggle.

5. Giggle Stupid dutch baby.

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1. Bob Barker: Dead No. Not really. I'm just exaggerating a little bit. He is retiring from The Price is Right though.

2. Post No Bills From the so-dumb-and-obvious-it-is-kind-of-funny school of comedy comes this street art.

3. One of the Subtle Rhythms of Life A surprisingly moving tale about the virtues of cutting your own hair. I've personally only been to the barber once since around 1990, and that was just to fix up some hair experiment that didn't come out so well.

4. Tanks Join a team and waste time by trying to blow the shit of the other teams. Combat it aint.

5. Star Wars Shortened Come back tomorrow when I'll link to part two even though you could easily find it yourself if you felt like it.

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1. Rock of Gibraltar A new paleontological find suggests that Neanderthal Man may have survived much longer than previously thought. Anyone thinking what I'm thinking?

2. Mr. Clean Graffiti artist and advertiser, Moose, creates nondestructive street art by selectively cleaning the dirt and grime off city walls and streets. He's still getting hassled by the cops.

3. Fry That Chicken Ms. Peaches raps about making chicken. She also raps about taking a bath. She also may be a man. You hear me?

4. Sad Clown Teardrop trailers are so awesome! I'm going to sell everything I own, build a trailer, buy a fat motorcycle with a hitch on the back, and travel around the country living like a modern-day hobo.

5. Blast Off While I'm on the road, I'm going to try to see every single muffler man left in America. I'll start with the Gemini Giant at The Launching Pad in beautiful Wilmington, Illinois.

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1. Super Glue If you've ever wanted to glue two things together, but were not sure if they would remain stuck, then This to That is the site for you. You might also learn that the military did not invent super glue. Chemists at Eastman-Kodak accidentally glued two prisms together when testing light refracting compounds, thus discovering super glue.

2. Killer Hippo I'm not sure how they did the research, but these guys claim that hippos have killed more human beings (including dwarfs) than any other animal.

3. Pink is the New Green Before you start crying photoshop, check out the facts from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

4. Octodog Exciting to cook and fun to eat, just like the real thing.

5. This is Not About Paris Hilton Internationally renowned graffiti artist Banksy recently replaced 500 of Paris Hilton's new album with his own bootleg CD. I guess people could buy them in the stores for around $17. You can buy one on ebay for much, much more.

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1. Times Square I watched cam #4 the other day for about ten minutes and this girl in a green dress was very aware of where the camera was pointing. She stood right in the middle of the frame occasionally glancing up to make sure she was still in the right spot. I checked back a little while later and she was gone.

2. Sprinkle Brigade The sweetest way to clean up our cities.

3. Matchstick Man Old guys make all kinds of shit out of old matchsticks.

4. What Time is It? Have you ever noticed how boring telling time is? It just got a whole lot more interesting.

5. Bigmouth Strikes Again In case you needed proof that the government is clueless. If there is any one single performer that is a threat to the "free world," it is almost certainly not Morrissey.