2. The Guardian featured a series of portraits of people while alive and then while dead, shortly thereafter. It isn’t quite as gruesome as it sounds.

3. Have you seen Creature Comforts? Basically, they took audio clips of things people said and animated them…Wallace and Grommet style. In this one, they asked people about their self image.

The first 25 seconds of this one (below) makes me grin.

4. I am going out to dinner on Tuesday night to a particular restaurant, specifically to try sweetbreads.

5. There’s a company that makes hidden passageways in your home. Gallery here.

2. Perhaps I should take Plush to Plush.

3. I’m not sure what I’d think if I walked into a woman’s bedroom and this was on the bed. This review from someone in Virginia weirds me out: “For those of us committed to staying sexually pure and who still want to feel loved at night, this is a Godsend…!! And my compliments to the designers for not making it too “anatomically correct.” I can sleep without temptation! Praise the Lord!!!”

Then there’s this review by Robert: “I had never spooned before until i recieved my new fluffy companion.”

4. Yanked from the Mental Floss Blog entry: What’s the oldest thing you own?

5. What makes a great photo?

I started to wonder what they use in movies for vomit so I did some poking around and found this page which gives instructions on whipping up a fresh batch.   It looks like it was written by a middle school kid because the author suggests adding green food dye…and he then suggests spreading it all over the bed so that you can enjoy a day off from school.  I love the warning that comes with it:  “Make sure you don’t get the food colouring on your clothes, it stains!”  But go ahead and spread that all over the bed, kids.

Frighteningly enough, there is a link on how to make fake diarrhea, as well.   Ingredients include coffee and maple syrup.  The author notes that it won’t smell like diarrhea, so “your acting will also need to be convincing.”  I’m not sure I’d believe that my kid had to stay home from school if it smelled like he made me breakfast in the bathroom.  Maybe it’s one of those fine line smells.  Again, the best part about this entry is the warning:

“Don’t put too much coffee in the mix. Too much coffee will look like blood and earn you a trip to the doctor rather than a day off of school.”

If I had a kid, he wouldn’t be allowed on the internet.

1. men like whores in the bedroom

2. “reverse sneezing” dog lips sores

3. boobs at nascar

4. female noodlers

5. how do I make cinna stix

6. medical incredible skin sloughing -and- toxic epidermal necrolysis “medical incredible”

7. she walked home wearing her soaked leather clothes and leather shoes (?!)

8. bees trap Home Depot

9. flavorice cough

10. what happens to earthworms cut in half

I like that enthusiasm when he cuts his tomato.  I’m pretty sure the noises he makes while putting ranch dressing on his salad are rated NC-17.

2. I’ve noticed that on some blogs, there is a button that says something like, “Like my blog? Buy me a Starbucks!” and the reader can click and donate via paypal. Interesting. If I had one like that, it would say, “Like my blog? You must not be autistic.” I know that is rather offensive but I find that I often refer to autism in less than flattering terms. It’s a problem, I know.

3. Have you ever heard someone say this? That something “needs washed” or “cleaned” or something like that? Instead of “needs to be washed” or “needs to be cleaned”? Is this a midwest thing?

4. Do you love steak like Little Filthy and I do? Try this method – coat your steak heavily with kosher salt…very heavily. Like mascara on a whore heavily. Here, even better, look at this website that describes how to do this and why it makes your steak taste like heaven.

5. Bacon Brittle. Wow.

Things I’m surprised I did not see more often: Purel, cigarettes and lighters.

Here’s a rough list of what I bring to work with me each day:

Laptop, Levenger Leather Circa Notebook in black (which has proven to be worth the investment for me), iPod with audio books from Audible, pack of travel kleenex, Leatherman Micra, Nalgene water bottle, small bottle of Purel as well as some pre-packaged anti-bacterial wipes (I use the Purel as I exit the train), wallet, keys, business cards, and a Timbuk2 ID wallet where I keep my train pass and some extra cash so I don’t have to dig around for it, small bottle with Advil and Claritin in it, portable wireless mouse, and finally, a piece of fruit a lot of times. That’s the bulk of it.

And today, I considered this thing – the LiteRide – …I’m just not sure I can picture myself on it.

“My puranha are pussies!!! helps!!!” I suppose if you buy a piranha, you might like to see it tear open some flesh. This guy is clearly disappointed that his fish are the lesser known sub-species, pussy puranha.

This stingray is out of the movie Alien. This catfish must be hundreds of pounds. You’d have to noodle with your head to get that thing.

Since you can clearly read, it is quite possible you may not have heard of “Noodling.” Noodling is when some guy goes into the water and sticks his hand in all manner of dark places where he thinks a catfish might be lurking. The catfish basically bites or swallows the dude’s hand and he yanks out the fish. I am assuming it is a guy for the same reason that women do not find it a worthwhile activity to roll down the window, hollar and peel out.

Here are two great Noodling videos:

Noodling video: complete with guys screaming in pain.

Noodling Porn. I stand corrected on the female noodlers. This is like…backwoods porn. It includes female noodlers, *cartoon* noodling, and an original song out how the law doesn’t understand catfish-grabbin’. I couldn’t make this stuff up.

What I like about finding this forum is that it is a completely different world to me. Someone posts a picture of some ridiculously huge fish and the first thing someone responds is, “Yo, how much?” I love it.

Mental Floss had a great entry on some fish tanks. Check out the pictures on this site – called the Fish Highway. It’s like hamster tubes all over your home…made for fish. This guy’s tank is straight out of Shedd.

Okay, I found this website forum in which a fish keeper posted pictures about his 50,000 gallon tank! These people keep BIG FISH. I’ve never so much as considered keeping a fish that, if it bumped me in the wild, might make me jump out of my skin a little.

I know this shouldn’t crack me up but there is a question posted about a fish having an eating disorder because it gets intimidated by the other fish at dinner time. Some icing on the cake in the form of a very sincere response which suggests lettuce, bits of orange, or some shelled peas …coupled with an icon of a fake fish preparing to swallow a bottle of Jack Daniels. Awesome.

Holy Crap. This post has the subject “One of my piranhas died. WHY?” and it comes with the warning: “*graphic*” The thing is, as soon as you see the picture, it will be obvious how it died. I’ll be damned, it’s like Fish CSI over there. Be sure to scroll down for the decapitated head. I love that one of the responses suggests it was a hate crime. People crack me up.

Pictures of odd sea dwelling creatures. Hmm. I think my second grade teacher looked a little like this lumpfish.

This artist, Phil Hansen, is pretty interesting. The video is worth the watch. Fascinating to see all the layers of paint he peeled off his stomach.

Some interesting ice cream flavors. Can anyone debunk some of these? Is anyone actually eating Fried Pork Rind Ice Cream? (number 74) Err, okay, just checked it out…apparently they are.

Refer businesses to Google and make $$.

The Sneeze is asking which breakfast cereal mascot you’d take on a road trip.

Nerd fight at Comic Con.

People eat lampreys?? If one of those sucked its mouth to me, I’d lose it.

I am a little ashamed to say that I have never read The Woman in White but this article has me convinced I should.