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Friday
10Oct
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Friday, 10.10.08 @ 04:00PM 
How to get into an exclusive restaurant without reservations. All it takes is cash and balls. Now all I need is to find someone with cash and balls. (via Metafilter)The Dark Knight meets Toy Story 2. Why so serious, Buzz Lightyear?
The 15 Nuttiest Celebrity Stalkers Of All Time. If this is what it's like to be famous, I'll take a pass. (via Gorilla Mask)
Offbeat Animal Competitions. You and your pet can share some quality time winning prizes together.
The Violent Book Trailer.
The Bush administration this month is quietly cutting off birth control supplies to some of the world’s poorest women in Africa. Thus the paradox of a “pro-life” administration adopting a policy whose result will be tens of thousands of additional abortions each year — along with more women dying in childbirth.
Tuesday
07Oct
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Tuesday, 10.07.08 @ 04:00PM 
Sarah Palin, Guardian of the Northern Frontier.Kung Fu Election. Choose your fighter, and pray you don't die as fast as I did! (via Metafilter)
A guide to understanding engineers.
A landslide caught on video. Fastest trees I've ever seen.
The 26 Hottest Star Trek Babes.
Nothing but the truth: Internet hoaxes. I honestly can't believe anyone fell for these. (via Metafilter)
Sunday
05Oct
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Sunday, 10.05.08 @ 07:00PM 
The 2008 Ig Nobel Prizes for hilarity in science.General McClellan Responds to Sarah Palin. (via Everlasting Blort)
Sand Castle. Sixteen days to build, one minute to wreck.
Are you plagued by Stuck Tune Syndrome? Maim That Tune will help you get that song out of your head by finding an alternate tune to replace it with.
Whack-A-Bone will test your memory of the skeletal system. If you're good enough, you get to hit those bones with a mallet! (via Everlasting Blort)
The $1.25 Remote-Controlled Ghost. A very nearly universal experience you may relate to.
Wednesday
01Oct
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Wednesday, 10.01.08 @ 04:00PM 
Desktop Blues. I like to keep this handy. Hint: keep the radio on. How does Sarah Palin's experience compare to those who served as vice-president? This video goes through all of them. You can skip ahead three minutes to get into the VPs. (via a comment at J-Walk Blog)
Getting your priorities in line.
Headline of the week: Hookers lining up for their BJs.
Bargain basement reading, or collector's item? (via J-Walk Blog)
Why men ask you out.
What happens if a presidential candidate passes away at the last second? Or between the election and inauguration? We could end up with a surprise president.
Monday
29Sep
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Monday, 09.29.08 @ 04:00PM 
78 Stupid People Who Tattooed Celebrities Onto Their Bodies. (via Grow-A-Brain)Down Home Political Talk.
American Circus and Carnival Slang. If you've ever wondered what these guys were saying, now you can look it up.
What Campaign Ads Would Look Like if the Voting Age was 6.
Sea Shanties were work songs sung on ships during the age of sail. Some have survived for you to listen to today.
Awaiting Your Correspondence -Important Business Matter. (via Everlasting Blort)
Friday
26Sep
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Friday, 09.26.08 @ 11:09PM 
It's a sin to kill a mockingbird.Sticky. This game will drive you nuts!
What it takes to legally immigrate to America. In easy-to-follow flow chart form. (via Boing Boing)
The fact that you're on TV doesn't necessarily mean you dress well. Take a look at dork couture.
Google map marker causes accident.
This hits way too close to home.
Thursday
25Sep
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Thursday, 09.25.08 @ 10:28PM 
Election 2008: Star Wars Version.CEO Pay. Those involved in the investment banking meltdown made quite a bit of money getting into it.
A kitten and a remote control mouse. Tink is both funny and adorable.
The Global Electoral College. (via J-Walk Blog)
Wario Land. Now THIS is an advertising! You'll enjoy it even if you never play video games.
Obama drawing a crowd.
The customer is not always right. Tales of stupidity from the retail business. I hope you don’t recognize yourself in these stories. (va Metafilter)
Wednesday
24Sep
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Wednesday, 09.24.08 @ 04:00PM 
Ten Unforgettable Evil Twins. We've all had the fantasy of blaming our faults on the "other one that looks like me."The object is to click on the ball. If you do, it will change color. Honest. (via Phil's Phun)
Are You Man Enough?
A Flickr set of vintage paperbacks. They signaled "trashy novel" back then (and I remember it well) but they are vintage art now!
Obama: The Price of Being Black. A book review that looks at the obstacles Obama must overcome to be elected.
The 6 Most Horrifying Ways Anyone Ever Got Rich. Murder, extortion, fraud: these folks took them all to the extreme.
LOLfed is the image macro version of the current economic crisis. (via Metafilter)
Tuesday
23Sep
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Tuesday, 09.23.08 @ 04:00PM 
World's Longest Personal Ad (Excerpted). You're not gonna believe how specific this guy is in what he's looking for!The History of Aerial Photography, from cameras lifted on kites to the moon missions. We once even had birds take pictures for us!
Speed Dating.
The Corpus Clock and Chronophage. Extremely weird and wonderful.
10 Extraordinary Tales of Extraordinary Twins. The overarching theme is the amazing and lasting bonds between wombmates. (via Euba)
Government bailing out business is OK, but socialized health care is bad? What's wrong with this picture?
10 Overused Words in Writing. I plead guilty! Forgive me!
Saturday
20Sep
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Saturday, 09.20.08 @ 04:00PM 
The Eight Worst Bosses to Work For. (via Unique Daily)TIME on John McCain and the Lying Game.
What the hell is going on here?
10 Overused Words in Writing. I plead guilty! Forgive me!
Try as they might (wink wink), BBC News could not find a better picture to use.
The 10 Best Celebrity Pratfalls. The bigger they are, the more views they get coming down.
Friday
19Sep
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Friday, 09.19.08 @ 08:31PM 
The ABC News Match-o-Matic Quiz will test how your political views line up with the two major party presidential candidates. My results are 100% for Obama, even though there were a couple of items where I couldn't identify which candidate the quote was from.Voter registration information for all 50 states. Get registered now!
5 Shots That Will Instantly Revoke Your Man Card.
Virtual Pubic Hairstyling. Submit yours and vote for others. (via Gorilla Mask)
In Search of the Mongolian Death Worm. Reported to be between two and five feet long, the deep-red coloured worm is said to resemble the intestines of a cow and sprays a yellow acidic saliva substance at its victims. Yeah, right.
5 People You've Never Heard Of Who Saved the World. Most never got any profit from their actions, either.
The weirdest news stories of the week.
Wednesday
17Sep
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Wednesday, 09.17.08 @ 03:59PM 
Little Red Monkey. (via Everlasting Blort) Music by Rosemary Clooney with Tony Mottola and his Orchestra. by the English Take it From Here radio show team - Jimmy Edwards, Dick Bentley, and June Edwards. (Thanks, Chris!) This is Your Nation on White Privilege. (via Metafilter)
If you avoid black and white movies, you're missing out on some serious art. And entertainment. (via Metafilter)
Have you ever seen a giraffe sleeping? It's a strange site, as you'll see in this article about animals' sleeping habits.
Impossible Fractals. Really, they're only impossible in a three-dimensional world. They look great on the internet! (via Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories)
8 Classic Movies That Got Away With Gaping Plot Holes. I had a couple in mind before I read the list, and apparently others wondered about those, too.
Monday
15Sep
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Monday, 09.15.08 @ 05:00PM 
The Net's Gone Down. Don't you hate when that happens? NSFW.I'm sort of starring in a Chinese movie. At least they are talking about me. You can write one yourself! (via the Generator Blog)
The Paralympics are going on now in Beijing. Watch out for the blind javelin event!
Paralympic athletes in the nude. NSFW, but startlingly beautiful.
Is Barack Obama muslin? Some people think he is. (via Metafilter, where the many puns are in this comment thread)
A man "picks up a souvenir" from a destroyed business place after Ike ravages Galveston. Guess what his race is.
Saturday
13Sep
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Saturday, 09.13.08 @ 08:42PM 
The 11 Coolest Wheelchairs In The World.
I don't know what kind of mind came up with the flame-throwing
wheelchair, but the result is tough to beat. (via Gorilla Mask)A collection of videos of people playing with snakes. Not what you'd call the some sensible pastime ever.
The Pensioner's Playlist: The 25 greatest songs about aging and mortality.
Freestyle Rap Battle Translated. However you want to say it, those are fightin' words!
The Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness. You know how they produce manuals and instruction sheets: They assign the most useless worker to write them, because they can't spare anyone who knows what they are doing. (via Metafilter)
The Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator. It said if Sarah Palin were my mother, my name would be Copper Catfish Palin! (via Everlasting Blort)
Dali Clocks exist in real life (although they didn't before The Persistence of Memory). You can have one in your home, too!
Friday
12Sep
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Friday, 09.12.08 @ 05:00PM 
Get your Sarah Palin Action Figure before they're all gone!5 Real World Criminals Who Were Certified Super-Villains.
Ten Women Who Would Have Made Better Veep Picks for McCain. (via Grow-A-Brain)
How to Cook an Alien. Hey, it's either them or us! (via Dark Roasted Blend)
Why this lifelong Republican may vote for Obama.
6 Things Inspired by Einstein. He was always an inspiring kind of guy!
The weirdest news stories of the week.
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