279 - with Links!

1. Vova Galchenko I've posted before about the Galchenkos. They are awe inspiring jugglers to be sure. On top of that they are super smart kids. Vova recently became a permanent legal resident of the United States. This can only be a good thing for our country. We need more rational thinkers. If they can also juggle five clubs behind their backs, well then, that's just a bonus.

2. Brick The making of a lego brick.

3. Jay Ryan I love Dianogah. Even more than that, I love Jay Ryan's awesome screen printed rock show posters.

4. Wavy I'm sure you've seen this already. It was all over the internet a while ago. Still it is pretty cool and I wanted to look at it again, so here it is: The Folding Chair.

5. Digital Bird Watching A very specific number of this site's visitors should know about this innovative use of the ipod for aid in the bird watching process. You probably know about it already, though.

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1. Possession of Stolen Goods A Norman Rockwell painting stolen from a gallery in 1973 and thought to be missing for the last 34 years turned out to be in Stephen Spielberg's art collection. As soon as he realized the painting was stolen, Spielberg informed the FBI's Art Crime Team.

2. So Easy A TV Executive Could Have Thought of It I know a lot of people think that those Geico commercials are pretty funny, but are they really funny enough to support their own half hour sitcom. Time will tell.

3. Time Flies Are you tired of wasting time in the long lines at your local post office? Well the USPS has taken steps toward making this wait feel shorter. They are removing the clocks from their offices, so that you won't be aware of how long you wait.

4. Ban Comic Sans I usually don't really love the pretension of graphic designers and the derision they always express towards the world's favorite typefaces, but seriously, they are totally right this time.

5. Slots Build your own slot car race track and then race against a computer.

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1. Weasel Terrier born without ears can hear anyway.

2. Black and White Etremely rare twins born: one black, the other white.

3. Thankfully, It Ain't Yellow Mysterious orange tinted snow falls in the Omsk region of Russia.

4. Zubbles After ten years of experiments and discoveries, the creative minds at Ascadia have done what scientists claimed was impossible.

5. Garbageman Trash pickup turns into lucrative art career.

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1. Famous Inventors Google's patent search is an awesome tool. You can use it to find our how magic tricks are done, or how to build crazy instuments, or just find famous people that invented some crazy shit.

2. Heavy Air A really cool physics demonstration using hexafluorid, a heavier than air gas.

3. Galchenko! I can't remember if I've posted this before or not. Sorry if it is a repeat. It is a pretty long video of Vova Galchenko, one of the world's top rated jugglers, doing some amazing stuff. Check out the five club transition to behind the back, about 1/2 way through the video, just after an appearance by the KGB.

4. TMI A "short" account of an incredibly specific area of Lego building block history, the Lego Castle.

5. Towers Keep a bunch of sheep and knights and scorpions and other stuff from making their way around your yard by shooting them with arrows, cannons, water ballons, fire bombs and whatever.

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1. From Russia With Love A 58 minute BBC documentary about the history of the invention of the timeless video game classic, Tetris, and it's creator, Alexey Pajitnov.

2. Honor Among Thieves Thief tips off police after finding child porn during break-in.

3. Decapitation Pony comes unassembled in box with head detached.

4. Fast Food Flow Another in a series of drive-thru musicians.

5. Tank Off-road, assault wheel chair.

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1. Am I Maze Obsessed? These guys figured that the regular sized wooden labyrinths weren't annoying enough, so they built a giant one to be played with a golf ball.

2. Pins Adding one more awesome item to my Christmas List.

3. Fat Girls Love the Cock of the Walk It is amazing that commercials like this ever existed, and that a marketing man could have ever thought that "Cock of the Walk" would be a good name for canned peaches

4. R. Mutt Not since Marcel Duchamp have bathroom fixtures been used to create such wonderful artwork.

5. Red Don't let the falling balls hit you while you are listening to Bjork-esqe music.

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1. Message in a Bottle Dennis Davis wrote a note, put it in a corked bottle and threw it in the ocean off the coast of Florida. Three years later it washed up on a beach in Spain. You can easily be the online equivalent of Dennis by throwing your messages out via Oceangram.

2. Up and Away A Canadian RC plane enthusiast hooked up a crazy head-movement controlled camera rig to his airplane. When he turns his head left, the camera turns left. When he turns his head right, the camera turns right. To top it off he runs the signal to a set of virtual reality goggles in order to get the full experience of flight.

3. Permakittens Tenderbutton has come up with a scheme for producing and marketing cats which never grow beyond kittenhood. If you think this is a far fetched concept, engineered pets that are completely hypo-allergenitic are already a reality.

4. Zwok Zwok is a simple multiplayer online game in which the player lobs projectiles at his opponents. The more you play the better your character gets and the larger he grows.

5. Dominool Playing a game of trick shot billiards across four tables via the domino effect.

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1. Starling War Continues TV presenter claims that crows are learning to use traffic patterns to help supply food. This proves once again how smart they are.

2. 2600 Thinkgeek has a tiny keychain Atari 2600, a great idea for the early Christmas shopper.

3. Police Gnome A Hatfields vs. McCoys style neighborhood feud culminates in one man being fined by the police for decorating his front lawn.

4. Skeptic 25 common sense reasons why people believe in things that do not exist; ghosts, UFOs, bigfoot, Nessie, Yahweh, etc

5. House Jump These kids have too much time and money.

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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.

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1. Time Fountain I don't really know what this is or how it works, but it involves water drops and strobe lights, and it is totally awesome.

2. Nerdcore Rapper MC Plus+ rhymes about algorithms and computer programming. Buy his CDs or just download all the tracks he has generously offered.

3. Apollo 11 Astronaut, Buzz Aldrin describes the experience of observing a UFO during the Apollo 11 moon mission. Remember that UFO just means unidentified flying object. There is no implicit alien connection.

4. Litigious After falling off a cliff, a camper sued the government for not post a sign warning of the danger. Last time I went camping I fell out of my bunk-bed and broke may arm. There were no warning signs about that either.

5. Lego Guitar Some guy with even more time on his hands than me built a working, playable guitar out of lego block.