226 - Mooninites

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

170 - PS3

1. Bugs As I predicted, there have already been a lot of reports about problems with the Playstation 3. New owners seem a bit concerned that the firmware updates aren't taking some of these issues into consideration, instead adding easier methods for spending money online. To be fair, this report is about update 1.11. Update 1.30 may have fixed some of the problems, but probably not.

2. Secondary Market It seems like resale prices on Ebay are holding steady at the low price of around $1000, far below the $5000-$6000 they were going for a few weeks ago. If you happen to stumble upon one for retail price, would it be worth it to purchase for resale? This guy doesn't think so, but I'd probably be tempted to try it.

3. Tacos If you didn't want to risk ebaying your new PS3, you could always trade it in for a lifetime supply of tacos. Of course, with the e. coli issue Taco Bell is experiencing, this might not be the best course of action.

4. Borderline Fraud You might be best off just selling something worthless, but using the words "PLAYSTATION 3 PS3 60GB" in the auction title. Then try thinking of some other things on which you could spend the money.

5. End of an Era? Even with all the hype, sales of Sony's behemoth haven't actually been that great. Some industry experts expect Sony to get out of the game console business soon anyway. Sony representatives say it isn't true, and we should be on the lookout for the PS4 in about four more years.

156 - with Links!

1. No Pilgrims The truth about Thanksgiving.

2. $1200 Shipping Genius mixes up the "Starting Bid" field with the "Buy It Now" field and ends up standing in line for a week to sell his PS3 for ninety-nine cents.

3. What About That Forest Ship from Silent Running? The Top 10 Movie Spaceships

4. No-Knead Bread I'm working on making this simple bread today. I'll let you know how it comes out. The recipe is here if you don't want to try getting it from the video.

5. A Bee in Her Bonnet And by "bonnet" I mean underwear.

126 - with Links!

1. Clone Store Closes Doors The cleverly named, leading provider of reincarnated pets, Genetic Savings & Clone is shutting down because it is just too damn expensive to clone cats and dogs.

2. Ice Spikes If you want to, you could use the right water, and set your freezer to the proper temperature and make stalagmite-like spikes grow out of the tops of your ice cubes. They are not haunted.

3. Yawning Keywords Hot on the heels of eating celebrities, comes sleepy ones like Cameron Diaz, Gwen Stefani, Kirsten Dunst, Jamie Oliver, Drew Barrymore, Britney Spears and Geri Halliwell.

4. Arrested Development Prop Auction If you hurry you might be able to get in a last minute snipe bid on Gob's Segway.

5. Der Himmel Fallt A fire that destroyed a cottage in Germany and injured a 77-year-old man was probably caused by a meteor. I love meteors.

106 - with Links!

1. Armstrong Personally, I never had a problem with the missing "A." I always understood the meaning of the Neil Armstrong moon landing statement and thought the lack of an "A" made it seem a little more poetic.

2. Murderer If this really is one of only two original John Wilkes Booth wanted posters, it seems like it would be worth way more than $4000.

3. Waste of a Protest In protest against Jackass 2, the owner of Lorraine Theatre in Hoopeston, Illinois shut down for two weeks. I wonder why he didn't just show classic movies for a while, thus keeping his employees employed, and bringing a little culture to Hoopeston.

4. Multi-Lifts Although I know the concept behind double and triple card lifts, this guy is pretty slick and the trick goes basically flawlessly with no evidence of what is really happening. He's a real champion.

5. Porn or Pony Take a look at this list of names and decide which ones belong to porn stars and which ones belong to little ponies. I managed to get every single one wrong.