361 - All Request

1. The X-Coaster A power outage left 12 people hanging upside down on a roller coaster in Arkansas. Thanks to the power of satellites, the internet, Google, and some bloggers from Scotland, you can almost see the exact spot where this occurred.

2. Double Duty A reader that noticed my obsession with the outbreak of young, hot female teachers accused of inappropriate relationships with their students sent this in. Though these two aren't that hot, there were two of them arrested at the same time. On the same day I received this link, I saw a report on CNN (or whatever) about another unrelated incident. Is there something in the water? I think someone could start a daily blog (if one doesn't exist already) on this subject, these arrests are happening so frequently now.

3. Barrel Meet Scraper Here's a list of "star" available for "partying" Chingy, Vanilla Ice, Cindy Margolis ie "the internet's most downloaded woman,"Steve-O, Traci Bingham and Ant?

4. Where's Saint George When You Need Him? The vicious Komodo Dragon really hasn't lived up to its reputation at a killer until earlier this month when it attacked and killed a young Indonesian boy. It is assumed it would have eaten the boy, but a fisherman, "who just happened to be the boy’s uncle." threw rocks at the dragon until it ran away.

5. Toof Decay After killing countless American dogs and cats, the Chinese are boldly denying rumors that their next target is America's teeth.

358 - Mr. Wizard

1. Don Herbert: Dead You probably know him as Mr. Wizard. After a distinguished stint as a bomber pilot during WW2, Mr. Herbert returned to the states where he worked on educational radio programs for children in the late 1940's. During this time he was working on a concept for a show that would promote the wonder of science on the newish television medium. In 1951, this show idea became Watch Mr. Wizard, a program which was eventually broadcast on over 90 stations across the country and spawned a 50,000 member strong childrens' science club.

2. Mr. Wizard's World Watch Mr. Wizard's success lasted until its eventual cancellation in the mid 1960's After this Don Herbert began writing science books and making educational films for schools. In 1984 the burgeoning children's cable channel, Nickelodeon, approached Mr. Herbert to produce a new show based on his previous work. This resulted in Mr. Wizard's World, the incarnation probably most familiar to this site's visitors. The Nickelodeon show continued until 1990 and was still shown in reruns as recently a 2000.

3. Sit Down In 2005, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences conducted an in-depth interview with Don Herbert. It seems his hearing is pretty much shot at this point, which might explain why his show ended when it did.

4. Sit Down Still it is pretty interesting to hear about his early days and the multiple shows and other science programs he worked on.

5. Legacy I'm just going to hope that you have 2 hours to spare so you can watch the whole interview even though, by the end of the interview he seems a bit fed up with the whole thing and even a little bitter about his career. I hope he knew how important he was to generations of young people.

353 - with Links!

1. Pamela Low: Dead After working as a flavorologist on such products as Almond Joy and Mounds, Pamela Low made her mark on the American food industry and on pop culture when, remembering a rice, butter and brown sugar mixture her grandmother made as a child, she invented the flavor the world would come to know as Cap'n Crunch. I don't think she invented vastly more delicious Crunch Berry, though.

2. MIT for Free Want to get some college smarts without paying for them? Want to have nothing to show for it? The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is offering courses in 35 areas of study, from Aeronautics and Astronautics to Writing and Humanistic Studies, all free for the taking for the benefit of "educators, students, and self-learners around the world."

3. What If I Said "Douchebags?" Two cool-guys play a song...on one single guitar...at the same time. I know it sounds lame, and it sounds even lamer when you hear that the song that they play is the theme to Beverly Hills 90210, and that the cool-guys are likely frat guys (one of them with his hat on backwards,) and that they are overly cocky about their accomplishment, but it is actually kind of cool.

4. Blueprint How much time can you waste moving around little ramp, pipes and conveyor belts to get a ball to hit a target. If you play the levels in order, I'm going to predict that you get bored and quit before reaching the second row. That's what I did.

5. WWKIP Tomorrow, Saturday, June 9th, is World Wide Knit in Public Day. It looks like gatherings of knitters have been organized in pretty much all 50 states as well as many countries across the world. Of course, if you want to , you could just knit while waiting for the bus or whatever. You don't have to attend one of these celebrations. As for me, I haven't even been able to figure out how to crochet properly.

343 - with Links!

1. Charles Nelson Reilly: Dead It is so awesome that an actor, by sheer power of personality, could become a household name by only appearing in guest starring roles. Charles Nelson Reilly never really had a starring role, in fact, for all his appearances, he was never really a regular cast member on any television show. But his appearances on TV throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s, especially as a celebrity guest on The Match Game have cemented him in pop culture history.

2. Script Frenzy I'm not sure is two days is enough time to prepare for writing a screenplay, but if you've had an idea for a movie or play that you've been meaning to get down on paper, June 1st is the beginning of a month long writing event that encourages prospective writers to get a 20,000 word script done in only 30 days. They also provide tips on formatting and other writing resources.

3. Air-Car Reaching 68 mph and a range of 125 miles per fill-up of a compressed air tank, the Air-Car is set to end pollution in India from internal combustion engines.

4. Lemmings You could easily waste most of your day playing the classic Lemmings game with this Javascript based emulation.

5. Airtistique Speaking of javascript, these guys mixed up traditional stage magic techniques with some fancy-pants web coding to create an interactive short film that totally screws with your browser windows.

331 - Googles

1. Weasel Lawn Ornaments Another edition of favorite google searches that have brought websurfers to this site. Are there any weasel lawn ornaments? If there are, why would anyone want to put one in his yard.

2. I Want To Buy A Son of Svengoolie Shirt Send $20 in cashier's check or money order made out to WCIU-TV along with your name, size preference (L, XL, 2XL) address, and a daytime phone number to: Svengoolie T-SHIRT c/o WCIU 26 N. Halsted Chicago, IL 60661

3. Masterbating Ponies Since I started this site, I've been trying to slip in subtle porn references with the hope to bring in people searching for some decent self-gratification aids. Unfortunately it hasn't really worked except in this one instance, and this guy is some kind of perverted freak.

4. Wind Blows Up Women's Skirts This guy's probably a bit of a pervert too. I'm afraid he was disappointed, however. I don't remember ever linking to any upskirt photos or videos.

5. Recipe for Making Undetectable Poison If you have ever done this particular google search, I just want to recommend destroying your hard-drive before murdering your significant other. Actually, to be safe, only do this search from the library or some other public place where the internet traffic cannot be traced back to you.

329 - with Links!

1. Jerry Falwell: Dead So no more quotes like these, "Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions" "If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being" "Textbooks are Soviet propaganda" and "Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them."

2. Drive-In Last weeks drive in was a bit of a bust due to the cold weather and the cold virus. Stop by this coming Friday for Bringing Up Baby and The Philadelphia Story.

3. Ahoy Bruce Campbell proving his awesome-ness once again in this second installment of his Old Spice commercial series.

4. Op-Ed We've all seen a lot of optical illusions on the internet. This site collects a huge number of them, makes them interactive, and gives detailed explanations of how and why they work.

5. Tool-Maker What's the difference, really, between a crow, a raven, a jackdaw, a starling, and any of those other black feathered birds that regular people hate for no apparent reason?

323 - with Links!

1. Elephant Legs Mandy Sellars, suffers from Proteus Syndrome, the malady assumed to have affected Joseph Merrick, more popularly known as the Elephant Man. However, Ms. Sellers' affliction seems to be contained only in her legs, which have grown to enormous proportions. She isn't planning to have her legs amputated anytime soon, but seems optimistic about the things she'll be able do when that eventually occurs. Snowboarding, para-gliding , and white water rafting.

2. Do You Really Have to Be in It To Win It? Chris Ong, the smartest guy that ever worked at a newsstand, put his name on the claim form, and collected approximately $574,000 from a winning lottery ticket that actually belonged to a pair of his customers. To avoid prosecution, he fled Australia and returned to his native Indonesia, where presumably half a million dollars will go a long way.

3. Who Is Going To Clean Up This Mess? Possibly the world's greatest Rube Goldberg device built from hundreds of items found around the house.

4. 120MPH I've never really understood how driving a car powered by electricity which is most likely produced in coal or oils burning power plants could be more environmentally friendly than just driving a traditional vehicle. Anyway, if I had a spare $108,000, I'd buy this car in a second.

5. Drastic Actions If you are planning a murder/suicide, then that is dramatic enough, you really don't need to cut your own head off with a chainsaw.

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.

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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..

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.