339 - Days Today

1. Useful Today is Towel Day. Fans of Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are encouraged to carry a towel today in remembrance of his "the humor and insight." (Quotes used because this phrase is taken from the website, not because I'm being sarcastic, like later when I considered putting quotes around the word "actor" when used to describe Mike Myers.)

2. The Force Today also marks the 30th anniversary of Star Wars. Fans of the classic film franchise have suggested that May 25th become the Universal Day of the Jedi in remembrance of a time that existed after Jawas and the Millennium Falcon but prior to Jar Jar Binks and Midichlorians. And don't try to tell me that Revenge of the Sith was good. You know in your heart of heart that it sucks. Just admit it already.

3. Born May 25th also marks the birth date of musician Miles Davis, who would have been 81 years old. A lot of people will tell you to listen to Kind of Blue, but I'm recommending this Milt Jackson collaboration.

4. Celebs A bunch of other "famous" people were born today as well, including, actors, Mike Myers, Cillian Murphy and Ian McKellen; singer, Lauryn Hill; writers Raymond Carver, W.P. Kinsella, Ralph Waldo Emmerson, Robert Ludlum and Poppy Z. Brite; director, actor, puppeteer and voice of Yoda, Frank Oz:; and comics creators, Barry Windsor-Smith and Stan Sakai. I'm sure a lot of other great and nice people were born to day too, But I've probably never heard of most of them.

5. Missing Today is also National Missing Children's Day so if you've found any kids recently, this is your best opportunity to turn them in.

292 - Easter 2

1. Evil Bunny The Easter Bunny is nice only one day out of the year. How is he the other 364 days?

2. Dare-Dozen Daredevil eggs jumping up and down; Daredevil eggs jumping all around.

3. Dick Cheney The annual Easter egg roll on the white house lawn was disrupted when the vice president shows up. I'm guessing this is from last year.

4. Easter Pageant Audience members of at Glassport Assembly of God's Easter program were surprised and shocked when they were subjected to broken eggs, a drunken man, a self-mutilating woman, and a ritualized crucifixion of the Easter Bunny.

5. Egg Shrink B.J. Novak of the American Office presents evidence that Cadbury has reduced the size of its famous Creme Eggs. Cadbury seems to discount his claims (scroll to the bottom of the page.)

291 - Easter

1. The Rites of Spring Like most Christian holidays, Easter is really just a much older pagan holiday with the word Jesus thrown in there. Even the word "Easter" refers to Eostre, the ancient goddess of birth and new beginnings. What was the first of the ten commandments again?

2. Pseudo-Peeps Use this recipe to make your own marshmallow peeps. For a simpler option, you can make some flat, cookie cutter peep-esque things. or go hog-wild and make these fancy pants saffron flavored meringue chicks.

3. Geek Orthodox Easter "As Easter weekend falls upon us and you're sitting in front of a computer, you should probably come to grips with the fact that you may be something of a geek. In honor of the celebration you should be having, productdose has put together a list of products that will help you get through all of the working, gaming, or research you're doing instead of enjoying your holiday weekend."

4. Intent to Sell It turns out that the Easter Bunny has been delivering a lot more than dyed eggs.

5. Solid Chocolate What did one chocolate bunny say to the other?

186 - All Request Christmas

1. Weird Wonderland I wasn't plannimg to do another Christmas day, but I received a huge collection of holiday themed links from an anonymous visitor. So I guess you get to take a look at them. Don't blame me if they suck.

2. Appearance Seals the Deal How To Be a Shopping-Mall Santa

3. Altercations Santa has run-ins with the police, both fictional and real.

4. Let It Snow He just can't take the heat.

5. Mad Santa You are Santa. You know who's been naughty and it is time to make them pay.

185 - Merry Christmas

1. Scary Santa Dear parents, stop lying to your children. They hate Santa anyway, so do the world a favor and give it a rest.

2. Rebel Yule Rockin hard with Billy Idol.

3. Immaculate Conception Finally, the evidence we need to prove that the Virgin Mary was actually one of David Icke's Reptilian Overlords.

4. Bill Clinton Kills Santa Why are we fighting this unjust was in Iraq when Santa Claus is still on the loose.

5. The Force is Strong with This One The description says it best "Sky singing Happy Kwanzaa through Darth Vader Helmet in front of Xmas tree."

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.

133 - Backpedalling

1. Scare Tactics I decided to do another Halloween day, which is weird because I don't even really like Halloween Here's a great story about a guy that was willing to go to great lengths to scare passengers on a haunted hay ride.

2. Cruelty to Animals Do people really think that their pets like to wear costumes? I guess my dog, Opal Stoltz, who died tragically at an early age, really did like wearing her argyle sweater, but only when it was very cold and she didn't look like an asshole.

3. Science of Scare I'm not sure if this is really science. I don't see any evidence of a control group, and there is definitely no falsifiable hypothesizing. Still, "Nothing evokes wild-eyed terror like a chain-saw" sounds pretty good.

4. Minifig If you read this early enough, you might have time to whip up one of these lego action figure costumes. Personally, I'll be spending the day sleeping and watching bootleg DVDs.

5. If Houdini Hasn't Come Back From the Grave, Then No One Has Another great episode of Skepticality focusing on the mysterious life and death of Harry Houdini with Houdini Museum curators, Dorothy Dietrich and Dick Brooks as well as renowned skeptic and historian, the Amazing James Randi.

131 - Halloween

1. Historical Halloween A concise history of the Halloween holiday from the History Channel. You can trust the veracity of this article based on the History Channel's archives of impeccably researched programs on such topics as Amityville, and Roswell. (sarcasm)

2. Virtual Pumpkin Avoid the mess and stink of Jack-o-Lantern carving by visiting this online pumpkin cutter.

3. Witches Bread Fungus infected crops in Salem caused people to experience convulsions, hallucinations, and psychosis which were interpreted by the population as witchery. Maybe.

4. Favorite Haunts Enter your state and find a Haunted House near you.

5. Haunt Your House 101 ideas and projects to do for Halloween, like roasting pumpkin seeds and solving mazes.