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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.

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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.

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1. Solarbabies A holdover from yesterday in the form of a hot ass mannequin wearing a solar bikini you can use to power your ipod while sunbathing on the beach.

2. Delivery Service "Honey, we're all out of fish." he says. "Just send LaLa down to the 'fish store' for some."

3. Owen Four rarish songs from Mike Kinsella, 2 unreleased, and 2 alternate versions of album tracks. Also check out the rest of Daytrotter for a huge archive of exclusive songs from all your favorite independent musicians as well as sweet illustrations.

4. MOBA "The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) is the world's only museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms."

5. Zoomquilt How does it work? No one knows.

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1. Solar Satellites Looks like I'm on a hippie run. Marijuana one day, solar power the next. Maybe tomorrow I'll show you how to make those hippie aprons the fat ones love to wear. Anyway, I want to make it clear that I don't smoke weed, I just think I should be free to do so if I choose. I'm also not that sure about the truth of manmade global warming, even though I'm leaning pretty hard in that direction. I just think solar power is cool. Gathering solar power in space is really cool.

2. Land Area Requirements I've heard a lot about how alternative sources of energy could never produce enough power to compete with fossil fuels. These people have done the math though, and it looks entirely possible using only solar power. Add in wind and tide power and we got a thing going on.

3. Organic Of course, building these giant solar arrays would be pretty expensive. But, researchers in New Zealand have developed a solar cell they say can be produced for one tenth of the cost of the current technology. It doesn't seem to be available to the public yet, but hopes are high for the near future.

4. DIY Solar If you can't wait for the organic solution, you can build a simple solar setup to run your TV of whatever for around $300 bucks using materials mostly available at your local auto parts store.

5. Infinity Miles Per Gallon Or, if you are totally awesome, you can convince a high school to give you a small staff of free labor that can build a really cool solar car for you.

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1. The Varieties of Scientific Experience If you had to pick a list of books you'd expect to see Kirsten Dunst reading while sitting on the beach wearing a bikini and smoking a cigarette, would anything by Carl Sagan be on that list?

2. Meteorite Another big rock fell from the sky and smashed through a house. I recently saw a television program about searching for meteorites. It seems they are quite valuable. A meteorite that was actually witnessed as it hit, is worth even more. I hope it is worth enough to fix the damage and buy a new desk.

3. Red Tape in a Green World David Wetzel, a proponent of alternate energies, is being fined for using used vegetable oil to run his 1985 Volkswagen Golf. Some believe the fine is intended to make up for the loss of revenue from gasoline taxes. I think it is a basic bureaucratic error, caused because someone along the line doesn't understand the biodiesel concept.

4. Stoopid Test Here's a short test supposedly designed to tell you how stupid you are. It is a series of trick and basic logic questions. It turns out I'm only 4% stupid. I suspect I'm a little less stupid than that because I doubt they've updated the test since Pluto was deemed to be less than a planet.

5. Recipe for Box Office Disaster Making a movie about Charles Darwin, the developer of the concept of Natural Selection, will automatically cut from your audience all of those that think creationism is a sound theory. The lack of car chases, explosions, gun fights, naked women, and super heroes probably isn't going to help much either. I hope I'm wrong though, I'd love to see this movie.

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1. The Fake Till Scam The Real Hustle really is my new favorite television show. By supposedly teaching viewers how to avoid being scammed, they are giving me a lot of good advice on how to scam people. There are tons of short clips on Youtube or you can scam BBC Three and download the entire first two seasons.

2. Financial Independence In 1989 a dude bought a painting at a flea market and found a copy of the original Declaration of Independence stashed in the back of the frame. Just a few months ago, another dude found another copy at a thrift store for $4. I can't even find pants in my size.

3. Hard Core Sitting Aaron Fotheringham rides his wheelchair skatepark-style, and eventually pulls off the world's first recorded wheelchair backflip.

4. Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers John Page was bit on the pinkie by a rattlesnake in the garden center of a Florida Wal-Mart and wants to warn shoppers, "this will happen again."

5. One Quarter John Shaeffer wants to show you how much energy you could conserve by switching from incandecent light bulbs to compact flourescent

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1. Deep Cycle Although I'd prefer a how-to, this is a pretty interesting video and short article about the conversion of a small gas powered motorcycle into a battery powered electric one.

2. Conjunction Junction A history of the Schoolhouse Rock Singers. Even though the linked videos in the article have been removed, you can still find a lot of them on You Tube.

3. Celebrity Scat The perfect gift for your hard-to-buy-for loved ones; Skin cells, bacteria, or fecal matter from their favorite celebrities like Robert Downey Jr, Sarah Jessica Parker, Don Rickles, Sammy Hagar, John Cougar Mellencamp, Mike Tyson, Norman Mailer, Sarah Vowell, Mick Foley, Gary Busey, Chris Matthews or Ke Huy-Quan (Data from the Goonies.)

4. Get Lost Before autumn is completely over and winter descends, get outside, have some hot apple cider, and find a Corn Maze near you to get lost in.

5. BJÃRKEN Match the Ikea product name with a description of the actual item. No fair if you already speak Swedish or whatever viking language those Ikean bastards speak.

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1. Lasik Again Studies show that having lasik surgery is actually safer than wearing contact lenses. So, if you are too vain to wear glasses, maybe you should consider taking the plunge.

2. Weird Scott I love mid-eighties homemade lip-synch videos, especially when they were made by people that I know.

3.Thorium Norwegian nuclear physicists have come up with a way to run reactors using the element thorium. The science is over my head, but it is reported to be a cleaner, safer, more efficient method than traditional nuclear energy production.

4. Lost City The remains of a recently discovered city underwater off the coast of India have been carbon dated to around 9000 BC, about 5000 years older than any know civilization. Of course much more research need to be done, but this discovery could totally screw up our ideas about human history.

5. The Nietzsche Family Circus "The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

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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. Get Human The Get Human Project is a collection of virtually every company that might offer phone support and the secret codes they use to skip over their phone menus and speak to an actual person. Personally, I'd rather speak to a computer, but I know a lot of normal people might like this information.

2. Solar Battery I was reading these instructions on how to build your own solar cell and I thought, "Why doesn't everyone make these?" Then I read "To run a 1,000 watt stove, you would need 800 square meters of cuprous oxide, and another 800 square meters of plain copper." Oh.

3. Sock Wars If you know how to knit, this looks like a pretty cool way to spend your time. I couldn't even figure out how to freaking crochet.

4. Huge Slut Contest "Melissa Midwest" is offering $100,000 to the hottest girl that will come live with her for a year and have a bunch of naked pictures posted on the internet. If these internet girls make $100,000, how much do their pimps/boyfriends make?

5. Corrector, Correct Thyself Creators of spellchecking software, TextTrust, had to re-issue a recent press release due to spelling errors.