316 - with Links!

1. Heil Shrimp The classic Sea Monkey was created by Harold von Braunhut, a comic book-novelty inventor in the 1950s who also developed X-Ray Spex and The Invisible Goldfish (if you think that is a bowl of water with nothing else in it, you're right.) Von Braunhut also invented a crazy spring loaded weapon. He also was a member of, and major funder of, the Aryan Nation.

2. Samaritan Canoers desperately racing to save the life of a woman they saw jump off a bride were fined $85 dollars by the police for failing to wear life jackets. The suicide attempt was successful.

3. Evil Twins Cracked Magazine examines the phenomenon of similarly themed movies and tells you which one is better, even is they both suck.

4. Acrobots Physics emulators are pretty cool even though playing with them gets boring pretty fast.

5. Instant Ice Super-cooled liquid, or weird chemicals, or hoax?

247 - with Links!

1. The Best Name They Could Come Up With Morning Whitey, care for a peanut?

2. And the Plague Spreads Rachel Ray is taking over the world. Some people would like you to be carefuller about which shows you watch.

3. Sweet Sweet Fuhrer If there are two things that Croatians love best, they are pure cane sugar, and genocide.

4. Good Forgiving People or Ignorant Saps? Ted Haggard charged a bunch of people a lot of money to tell them that homosexuality was wrong. Meanwhile, he was patronizing a male prostitute. Now those same people are giving him even more "financial support" to help him get back on his rich, rich feet.

Bus Ball Like most of the coolest things in the world, the coolest Volkswagen Bus is owned by Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top.

145 - with Links!

1. Jack Palance: Dead There's been a rash of dead people lately. Of course the idea of a death trifecta (Ed Bradley, Jack Palance and Gerald Levert) is ridiculous but a lot of people still really believe in it. Look how hard this guy tries to make it work.

2. Walmart Nazi Shirts Get over to your local wal-mart and make sure these shirts have been taken off the shelves. If they are still there, buy them all. They are sure to become high ticket collector's items for the next few months.

3. Play the Phonophone How to play dozens of popular folk songs using the numbers on your touch-tone telephone.

4. Got It Bad What's the deal with a bunch of hot lady teachers getting it on with their students?

5. Mike Just in case you haven't seen it.

142 - Art + Hitler

1. Art-O-Mat Art-o-mat machines are retired cigarette vending machines that have been converted to vend art. There are 82 active machines in various locations throughout the country. Find one near you.

2. What About a Mustang? Just get another Beetle.

3. Free Art Keep your eyes peeled. You just might find an art drop.

4. Birth of a Dictator I'm not sure if it is the author's intension to draw a parallel between Hitler and GW Bush, but it is there if you look for it. I personally don't think there is any legitimate comparison, but you might. Nonetheless it is an interesting story about how easily a population can be manipulated by fear.

5. The Best of Both World's The announcement of an auction of 21 original Adolph Hitler watercolors appeared a few months ago, but I never heard what the final outcome was.

029 - with Links!

1. Top Notch Police Work A five hour standoff ends abruptly when the swat team (or whatever police group has it's own freaking robot) realizes that the object of their concern wasn't even home.

2. Save a Snowflake I'm choosing one of the hottest days so far this year to let you know that you can pour Super Glue over the top of a snowflake and save it forever. Please remember this in six to seven months.

3. Kitlers I wonder what it says about the world when the worst hate-mail this site gets comes from Alison, who says "I feel for the first time in my life that I have no sense of humour: no cat deserves any connection with Hitler."

4. Bordering on Hippie I'm not even a vegetarian, I just like the idea of this hand made, letter pressed cookbook. I also like the block printed illustrations.

5. Play Pumps It seems like a good idea to build playgrounds with water pumping capabilities in drought plagued areas in Africa. But how long will it be before kids get forced to spend their lives just like little Conan when he was strapped to the Wheel of Pain?