375 - with Links

1. Tame Foxes John Lithgow explains how unnatural selection, the act of selectively breeding animals for desirable qualities, can produce unexpected results. The interesting thing is how quickly these changes occur. The research has led a lot of people to question the accepted evolutionary theory of the family dog beginning with the domestication of the wolf. The molecular evidence seems pretty clear that dogs evolved from wolves rather than jackals or coyotes, but I can't find any reference to a similar study done to look for a dog/fox biological connection.

2. Gator Eats Dog Pet costume designers now have a new standard to shoot for.

3. Phit Jamming these tetris-esque game pieces together isn't that hard at the beginning, but eventually the pieces get a smaller and smaller while growing in number making it much harder to piece them together properly.

4. Prison Break An opportunistic panda sees his chance and makes a break for it.

5. Air Car A little more info on the Aircar, the compresseD air powered vehicle that I reported on in the past. I was interested to hear that it is being marketed in several countries, not just India as I had previously thought.

364 - with Links!

1. Who Needs Law School? Remember about a month ago when I told you about a guy that had his camcorder stolen so he posted the suspected thief's phone number in a youtube video? Remember I suggested that what he did was probably illegal? Yeah. Well, I was right.

2. Speaking of Youtube Somebody leaked some footage from the new Micheal Bay Transformers movie onto the internet. There's no audio, but seeing the transformations from robots to cars is pretty freaking impressive.

3. Nodes Another way to waste time at work when you are supposed to be making money for the capitalist pigs.

4. Speaking of Capatalist Pigs These capitalists are about to be really, really pissed.

5. Google Street Fight Have you been following the Google Streetview privacy rights issue? In case you don't know, Streetview is a new feature of Google Maps which allows you to zoom in through Google's satellite imagery, to see actual street level photographs of certain metropolitan areas, including pedestrians doing things they might not want posted on the internet. Not only street fights, but also crimes in progress, streetside hanky panky, smoking up, getting a ticket, and other things.

362 - All Request

1. Creation I'm sure you already know about the big creationism-masked-as-science museum that opened recently in Kentucky. Did you know they were charging a $20 admission fee? To save you money, two atheists disguised themselves as believers to enter the museum and document a lot of the exhibits for the world to see. For free.

2. Mistress of the Dark And if that makes you think superstitious beliefs are out of control here in America, that's nothing. They are still killing vampires in Dubai.

3. Aloha Judging by the number of record albums I've seen at thrift stores and garage sales, there was once a very real interest in Hawaiian guitar in the United States. We don't hear it much anymore, so it might be a nice change of pace to sit back and listen to the dulcid sounds of the Steel Strings.

4. Blur Spray Before clicking this link, I want you to be aware that this technology does not exist. Someone wrote an article about inventions that they think would be cool and then a lot of other blogs and media outlets reported on it as if they were reality. Neither blurring sprays, nor electronic camera jamming id badges, are real. And, based on my admittedly limited knowledge of how cameras (both film and "electronic") work, I'm pretty sure neither one could ever actually be real.

5. Instant Ice On the other hand, here's some awesome technology that is real.

355 - Art Request

1. Wooden Mirror It's hard to say exactly what is happening here, but it has something to do with a tiny camera, a computer, a bunch of tilting wooden tiles, and a very bright light.

2. The Wrong Trousers Mandolin, harp, stand up bass, nerds, Buggles, busking. Check 'em out.

3. Gas Mask My failing eyesight, combined with small white text on a light grey background, forbids me from telling you what any of Chris Dimino's artwork is about but I know he made a cool shower head out of a gas mask.

4. Action Poetry Former Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, reads his poetry which is then set in motion by a collection of animators and film makers. My favorite: Forgetfulness.

5. Inkjet Proof of concept. Making projectable 8mm and 16mm films using a home computer and an inkjet printer. You must be able to get a square paper punch for easily making those socket holes.

354 - All Request

1. Sensory Overload 20 questions designed to test your senses and explainations of why most people have trouble answering them correctly.

2. White on White Is Erno Rubik Dead? If he is, I'll bet he's rolling over in his grave.

3. Lionhead Overdubbed music and sound turn your average youtube video into your average work of art.

4. Cheddar Vision Over the last 169 days, 18 hours, 51 minutes and eleven seconds, more than 1,409,500 people have watched a block of cheese develop at the West Country Cheesemakers in the South West of England at the time of writing.

5. iCarta iPod Toilet Paper Holder Listening to your favorite podcast while sitting on the toilet has never been easier.

343 - with Links!

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.

331 - Googles

1. Weasel Lawn Ornaments Another edition of favorite google searches that have brought websurfers to this site. Are there any weasel lawn ornaments? If there are, why would anyone want to put one in his yard.

2. I Want To Buy A Son of Svengoolie Shirt Send $20 in cashier's check or money order made out to WCIU-TV along with your name, size preference (L, XL, 2XL) address, and a daytime phone number to: Svengoolie T-SHIRT c/o WCIU 26 N. Halsted Chicago, IL 60661

3. Masterbating Ponies Since I started this site, I've been trying to slip in subtle porn references with the hope to bring in people searching for some decent self-gratification aids. Unfortunately it hasn't really worked except in this one instance, and this guy is some kind of perverted freak.

4. Wind Blows Up Women's Skirts This guy's probably a bit of a pervert too. I'm afraid he was disappointed, however. I don't remember ever linking to any upskirt photos or videos.

5. Recipe for Making Undetectable Poison If you have ever done this particular google search, I just want to recommend destroying your hard-drive before murdering your significant other. Actually, to be safe, only do this search from the library or some other public place where the internet traffic cannot be traced back to you.

318 - Colorized

1. Blindness See if you can follow what is going on in this card trick video. Don't worry, the secrets are revealed at the end.

2. Whatsits Upload a photograph and find out its average color as well as ten complimentary colors. This is a very useful tool for building a design based around any image, especially nice for website construction.

3. Color - Match Photoshop has so much awesome stuff going on that it must be impossible for anyone to know about all of it. I wish I knew about this color match tool a long time ago. It basically forces one photograph to use the color palette of another. James Delaney of Unfocused Brain uses it to make his digital photos look like classical paintings.

4. Red Team Use both hands to control two different characters. This game is difficult enough, but add in the violent red color scheme and it makes it hard to look at as well. I gave up after level four.

5. Separation The first commercially available color films, Kodachrome and Exakta, were developed in the 1930s. However, French and Russian photographers were experimenting with color as early as 1872 with startling results.

309 - Art

1. Pixels Twenty pixels square isn't a lot of space in which to be drawing your masterpiece. Do your best anyway. Add a link to your image in the comments section.

2. Condimentally Ketchupart.com, without a lot explanation, features a bunch of pictures of plates decorated with intricate (and not so intricate) drawings done with... ketchup, natch.

3. Thievery Please think twice before buying from Todd Goldman's David and Goliath t-shirt company. While some of these allegations of stolen designs are questionable, other are pretty blatant and, therefore, shine a harsh light on the questionable examples.

4. Modern Montra It is hard to describe this series of drawings made by Thomas Broomeusing the letters that form the words describing the items being drawn. Just take a look.

5. Ping Pong Pixel Computer aided, automatic, over-sized photo replication in multi-colored ping pong balls.

307 - with Links!

1. Boris Yeltsin: Dead The man considered most responsible for bringing capitalism to Russia, former president, Boris Yeltsin dead at the age of 76.

2. Oll Korrect This detailed history of how the term "OK" came to be a legitimate part of the English language boils down to basically one thing: people in the 1830s and 1840s has some really weird ideas of comedy. Next, the author is working out the history of the term "my bad."

3. Where There's Smoke How to make smoke appear magically from your fingertips using only a bathtub and a box of matches.

4. Import/Export I finally moved over to Firefox. It took me a while to do so because I didn't want to lose all of my bookmarks. Luckily importing them from your old browser is pretty easy.

5. Visuwords An online graphical dictionary which creates diagrams consisting of related words and color codes them based on parts of speech..