360 - Squirrel Wars

1. One Seriously Pissed Off Squirrel If you live in Germany, and you are over 70 years old, watch out for rampaging squirrels. The only known defense against one of these vicious rodents is the common crutch.

2. Stars Align I've been waiting for a good day to tell you about Cute With Chris, a regular, video web series. It's kind of hard to explain what the show is about, but if you like it, there are currently over 125 episodes available for your enjoyment. A recent episode heavily features a squirrel wearing a speedo, so that is why today works out so well

3. Jedi I have a bad feeling about this.

4. Light Saber Repair Good concept. Short and sweet. Easy to read in one sitting. That's the way I like it.

5. PKD I was aiming for some kind of tenuous squirrel/light saber theme for today but it's fallen apart already so I'll just tell you to come by the house tonight and watch these two movies since I forgot to post about it earlier when it might have actually been helpful.

342 - Memories

1. How to Get Photographic Memory in 40 Days Here's a few ways that you can supposedly improve your memory. All of them should be taken with a grain of salt, but maybe its worth it to try a few of them out. For instance, I don't really see how looking at a moving watch hand could do anything, but it couldn't hurt to spend 2 minutes a day testing this theory.

2. How to Help Your Memory by Using Your Eyes Your eyes are attached directly to your brain, so there could be something to this memory improvement technique, but I'm still pretty skeptical.

3. Five Ways to Improve Your Memory This guy gives five techniques that all seem pretty much generally accepted methods for living healthier. I guess if your body is healthy, your mind might be too. In any event he does provide one specific piece of advice that seems pretty practical; If you have a hard time remembering things, write them down.

4. Magnets May Make the Brain Grow Stronger Anything associate with magnet therapy sets off my quackery warning bells. Yet research with mice suggests that magnetic stimulation might increase growth of memory centers of the brain. Of course I wouldn't run out and get a Miracle Magnet Helmet® just yet.

5. Memry After you've complete all these methods of memory improvement, you can test your new brain skills on the classic game of Concentration using images culled from Flickr. I've conveniently populated this game with images of geek girls dressed in Slave Leia costumes.

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.

294 - Banjo/Guitar

1. Player Band The Ragtime Automated Music Company makes full on, computer controlled, acoustic, multi-instrument jukeboxes. Everything from calliopes to full calypso style orchestras.

2. Feuding Banjos At 210 to 220 beats per minute, Todd Taylor sets the record for worlds fastest banjo playing.

3. The Bluegrass Force It's a little bit sloppy, but Safety Pants gets the point across by playing John Williams' Star Wars Theme southern style.

4. Primitive My Ass Beautiful, world class guitars and banjos made from tins, lunch boxes, kitchen ware, and cigar boxes.

5. The Spoon Combination slide and fretted guitar playing using a spoon in an unusual fashion.

254 - Space-ish

1. Kiss Your Ass Goodbye The recent rash of space objects hurtling at the earth inspired Keith Hogan, a teacher in England, to teach his 230 students about the value of life by telling them an asteroid was about to hit us and kill everyone. His plan went haywire when the kids took him at his word and started seriously freaking out.

2. Don't Pucker Up Just Yet Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy seems to think we shouldn't be so worried about that kind of asteroid, certainly not the one headed our way in 2029 at least.

3. The Hutt Like most people of my age, I have an interest in the Star Wars movies. These people, however, have taken that interest to the extreme. There is really way too much information on the Wookieepedia. Seriously, how much does the world need to know about The Hutt?

4. Lunar Real Estate NASA recently began testing of a prototype inflatable building which will eventually become the basic habitat for our first base on the moon, a mission planned to begin sometime around 2020.

5. Eclipse Finally today, a heads-up about the total lunar eclipse that will be happening this Saturday. If you are in the part of the world lucky enough to see it completely, get out there and take a look. Show it to some kids.

196 - with Links!

1. UFO Chicago Dozens of people, including airline employees and pilots, report seeing a large saucer shaped UFO hovering over Chicago's O'Hare Airport. It seems suspicious to me that, in this day and age, none of them had a cellphone with a camera feature.

2. The Top Ten Lamest Superheroes Actual heroes from the world of comic books including Vibe, the Spanish American, breakdancing, former gang leader who can create earthquakes with his awesome dance moves.

3. Don't Let Go The rules are simple: Hold the button! Whatever you do don't, stop holding the button.

4. Creationism: The Game You can guess by the name of the store, Living Waters, that this "Intelligent Design vs. Darwinism" board game is probably skewed toward the creationist player. What would the faithful do if the scientific player actually won the game?

5. The Slave Leia Appreciation Society An incredible flickr pool with nothing but pictures of nerd-girls wearing Princess Leia metal bikini outfits.

178 - with Links!

1. Futurama Here's a quick interview with David X. Cohen about the way things are looking for the new episodes of Futurama which we'll be seeing sooner or later, perhaps on Comedy Central, perhaps direct to DVD.

2. Star Maps The original Tatooine sets in the deserts of Tunisia are still standing and people are actually living in them. Other people just go there and take photos.

3. iBlend Tom Dickson from blendtec is still hard at work blending shit up. This time it is a three year old iPod.

4. Immortality Old turtles never die, they just keep getting older.

5. 923,000 Scoville Heat Units Nearly twice as hot as the previous title holder, the Dorset Naga chili pepper will put you in the hospital.

167 - with Links!

1. Nenki Wanta After a full week of Etsy finds, it is time for some giant, life size Jabba the Hutt replicas on ebay for the low, low price of $13,064.04. Slave Leia not included.

2. Fungus Amongus Hot video of the infamous Cordyceps fungus in action. Check out those awesome frame wipes.

3. Asteroid's Revenge The loss of your rock-fellows has hurt and scarred you deeply.

4. Bong Hits 4 Jesus Joseph Frederick is the coolest high school student Juneau, Alaska has ever seen

5. Psychrolutes Just one picture of a Fathead Fish pulled out of the ocean near New Zealand. I think he looks like Ziggy.

142 - with Links!

1. Big Bird: Dead A pair of amateur photographers in Russia near the Chinese border discovered the bloated rotting carcass of a giant bird like animal, still unidentified.

2. Television If you missed last weeks episode of Scrubs or Heroes and desperately need see it in a low quality streaming format then check out this site quickly before the man shuts it down. st

3. Huge Nerd Archive Not only do they have the original blueprints for the notorious tall Snaggletooth, they also have virtually, every rare piece of Star Wars paraphernalia you can imagine.

4. Scorpio Sinking Bill Nye gives just one reason (out of hundreds) why believing in astrology is stupid.

5. Gogonasus Another great fossil showing the link between fish and amphibians.

136 - with Links!

1. Stingo: Dead William Styron, author of the tragic post war novel, Sophie's Choice, died Wednesday at 81. This time it isn't an exaggeration.

2. Will It Blend? Blentec makes a blender that will puree just about anything, ice, Coke cans, glass marbles, etc. Also would probably make a great lamp.

3. Write a Novel Month I probably should have mentioned this a couple of days ago so you'd have time to prepare something. I also probably should have prepared myself to get working on the book I started a couple of years ago.

4. No Grunting This (and a complete lack of motivation) is the exact reason why I don't go to the gym.

5. Star Wars Shortened Part two, as promised, covering the original trilogy.