378 - with Links

1. The Google Bandits Some people were making fun of these crooks for trying to disable security cameras by spraying them with WD-40. Admittedly, that is pretty stupid, but when faced with a different safe than the one they had planned on cracking, these guys had the smarts to use the power of google to get into the safe and make off with $12000.

2. Go Vespa Go After seeing these vintage Vespa commercials, I'm surprised than anyone ever bought one.

3. Pick Axe The main reason I got such a low score on this guitar/player matching quiz is because I confused the name "Rick Nielson" with "Ricky Nelson."

4. Muffler Man The Muffler Man section of Roadside America has become super comprehensive. It now includes a list of movies and TV shows which feature these giants, a nice interview with the one-time owner of the fiberglass company which produced them, and a map to track locations. Apparently, Illinois is a prime Muffler Man viewing state.

5. Coupon No one knows where this coupon originated, but a lot of people have used printouts of it to save money on dvds at Best Buy. Many have reported multiple copies at one time even though it says "do not double" and "one offer per customer" right on it. Others have used it to buy the X-Files sets that are on sale for $19.99 regardless of the standard "not valid with other offers" fine print. I'm going to try using it on the 3rd season of Arrested Development tomorrow.

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.

326 - with Links!

1. Scantron Choosing "C" as the standard answer on a scantron test really isn't always the best idea, especially when the test you are attempting to pass is made exclusively of true or false questions.

2. Controversy Adult Swim gives you six pilots for new shows to preview. They expect you to vote for your favorite and, presumably, the winner will make it to air. Mysteriously, there are only five choices on the poll. Who is so biased against Lowe Country?

3. Pushies Don't let anybody push you around.

4. Call Me Does anyone know the legality of posting someone's personal information on the internet? It can't be legal to publicize someone's phone number, can it? Regardless of the legal question, this guy really, really wants his camera back.

5. Reapers Revived Rumor has it that MGM has green-lit a new movie based on the long canceled Showtime series Dead Like Me. I think most fans of the show would agree that it was less successful after creator, Bryan Fuller, was removed from the project so unless he is involved in the movie, I have reservations. On top of that, reportedly, Stephen Herek is on board to direct. Unfortunately, his directorial track record (with the notable exception of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure) is pretty dismal.

261 - with Links!

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.

173 - with Links!

1. Girl Skateboarders I only knew one girl that claimed to be a skateboarder and she got hit by a car so I think this video hits pretty close to the mark.

2. Geography If you are as smart as I am, you probably don't know where any of the countries in Africa are actually located.

3. Parallel Gizmodo takes the Lexus on a test drive and shows how that self parking feature that everyone is wondering about actually works.

4. Guacamole The most recent example of the proliferation of unwarranted lawsuits in the U.S. legal system. Please stop crying and make your own.

5. Zogg The invasion has begun. Be prepared.

137 - with Links!

1. End of an Era Union Products Inc, the originator of the plastic pink flamingo lawn ornament, is closing its doors after producing the kitch classic for almost 50 years. They blame the shutdown on terrorism and rising gas prices. For real.

2. Japanudity Use this Japanese method for removing your clothes just before using the Japanese method of folding them.

3. Fifth Leg A cow growing a leg out of its back is not one of the signs of the apocalypse.

4. Drive Probably based on the popularity of Lost and other mysterious puzzle shows, Fox has ordered up a new series from Tim Minear. In case you don't know, Tim Minear was one of the guys behind Firefly, Wonderfalls and The Inside.

5. Colloquial Answer thirteen questions about the way you pronounce some words, and find out where in the United States you were raised.

119 - with Links!

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.

106 - with Links!

1. Armstrong Personally, I never had a problem with the missing "A." I always understood the meaning of the Neil Armstrong moon landing statement and thought the lack of an "A" made it seem a little more poetic.

2. Murderer If this really is one of only two original John Wilkes Booth wanted posters, it seems like it would be worth way more than $4000.

3. Waste of a Protest In protest against Jackass 2, the owner of Lorraine Theatre in Hoopeston, Illinois shut down for two weeks. I wonder why he didn't just show classic movies for a while, thus keeping his employees employed, and bringing a little culture to Hoopeston.

4. Multi-Lifts Although I know the concept behind double and triple card lifts, this guy is pretty slick and the trick goes basically flawlessly with no evidence of what is really happening. He's a real champion.

5. Porn or Pony Take a look at this list of names and decide which ones belong to porn stars and which ones belong to little ponies. I managed to get every single one wrong.

096 - with Links!

1. Little Superstar This one video alone justifies every second of programming or coding it took to get Youtube out to the world. No number of pathetic teenage girls dancing "provocatively" to hip-hop music could ever possibly outweigh the awesomeness of this single video. It has helped me to regain my faith in humanity and made me reconsider my belief in god.

2. Halftone The Rasterbator is a nice way to create giant wallsized poster art for your college dorm room.

3. Laser The previously reported DIY Lasik Kit, is just a joke, but this home tattoo removal system seems to be legitimate. Or go with the Ira Glass soap and water removal method.

4. T/F Blufr gives you a dose of trivia wrapped in the guise of a series of true or false quizzes. Unlike Factropolis, Blufr gives a little extra background information about the trivia.

5. Fan Club The Dead Silence blog is filled with interesting news and facts about serial killers and the women who love them.

057 - with Links!

1. Pug Bowling It doesn't look like any animals were harmed during the making of this video, but if you feel like it, you could call these guys.

2. Dirty Cops Proof. Speeding tickets are bogus.

3. Guess the Google Twenty pictures show up and you are supposed to be able to guess what google search turned up those pictures. Unless there are words in the pictures you'll be lucky to get one in ten correct..

4. Nixie Tubes When my birthday comes around (January Eleventh) please buy me one of these nixie clock kits.

5. Whale Vomit Girl finds puke on beach. Girl gets totally rich.