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Do What Now?

Do What Now? is basically an entire website
“In which retro-obsessed nerd Jim Dunn indulges his taste for musty old magazines, horrid cookbooks and truly frightening design books”
and its hilarious, as the cookbook above pretty much summarizes

Devices exist to keep kids from dying in cars, but few are sold - CNN.com
But so far, there’s no standard equipment to tell you that you’ve left a child in the back seat of a hot car.
because thats just friggin stupid! how can you forget that you left a little person in the back of [...]

The Pirate Hunters
A crewman on the bridge spied two speedboats zooming straight at the port side of his vessel. Moments later, bullets tore into the bridge, and vapor trails from rocket-propelled grenades streaked across the bow: pirates.
Totally not as cool as swords, but probably more effective

22pop_inspiration
Awesome idea, extremely lame name, implementation and website design.
Its a typewriter that e-mails what you type.
 22 Pop (‘22’ because of the Olivetti typewriter classic, Lettera 22 it is modeled on; ‘pop’ as a reference to the email protocol used)
POP is for receiving mail, not sending it; I guess “22 SMTP” doesn’t sound as nice though.
The [...]

We ate so well this weekend.
Friday morning we cooked up some bacon; Brian had blueberry pancakes and I made a mushroom, pepper, and tomato omelet.  For dinner I made a pizza that had fresh basil from the garden in the dough, and as a topping.  It also had fresh peppers from the garden.  It was [...]

Scooby Doo: Ripped from the Headlines?
Below are ten stories, some true and some taken from episodes in the Scooby Doo canon.
I got 9 out of 10 right.

Apple’s New iPhone | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
Most Anticipated Features
Comes with an iPhone hat, so people know you own an iPhone during the brief periods you’re not using it
When moved from hand to ear, makes Lightsaber sound effects
Nanotechnology enables it to reassemble itself when thrown against wall
The last one would be pretty [...]

dooce: Because they needed something else in common
“Daddy!” Her tone changes instantly from CURRENTLY DYING to polite conversation over tea at the tennis club. “I’m going to the Apple Store with you! I love the Apple Store.”
They sure do start em young.

The Daily Redundancy - National Archives - Sectarian Church To Invest In Gaydar

ATLANTA, GA - The Daily Redundancy has learned that the United Sectarian Church plans to make a $500,000 research grant to Howyflyl University for studies in ‘gaydar’ technology.
Oh my The Daily Redundancy is hilarious.  See Six Cars In Lake After Mishap and The [...]

How to pour Ketchup (Catsup). Full technical explanation.
Ketchup can be regarded as a highly viscous liquid, or a thixotropic (flows under pressure) solid. Neither term is exactly correct, but the problem is not what to call it. The problem is how to get the ketchup out of the bottle, in measured quantities, without making a [...]

Copper thieves die trying - Yahoo! News
Phelps, a father of nine and a former long-haul trucker who family members say was trying to scavenge scrap metal to help support his family, was found alone in the empty building, next to a set of bolt cutters, a police scanner and the store’s lone remaining electrical panel. [...]

Savenetradio.org
Congress and SoundExchange have heard loud and clear the amazing outpouring of support for Internet radio from webcasters, listeners and the thousands of artists they support. A commitment has been made to negotiate reasonable royalties, recognizing the industry’s long-term value and its still-developing revenue potential.
During negotiations SoundExchange committed temporarily not to enforce the new royalty [...]

Wooster Collective: Fucking With Perception - Hirst’s “For The Love of God” Diamond Skull
The “For the Love of God” prank was created using 6522 Swarovski crystals and took Laura, the artist, a month to create.
Hilarious imo because, lets face it, the $100 million diamod covered skull is pretty friggin stupid.

Friday the 13th - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Friday the 13th isn’t exactly “scary” when its in July though

YouTube - Old Glory Insurance
“be protected when the metal ones decide to come for you”
Oh Sam Waterston, if you say it, it must be true.