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Beyond Apu — Why are there suddenly so many Indians on television?
Want to save the Gulf of Mexico? Learn how to boom properly.
The leading web property for yuletide holiday determination is now on your mobile phone. Never be at a loss again. Get the Is It Christmas? iPhone app!
I got 99 problems but breathing ain’t one.
It is a little-known fact that you can perform (almost) every pop song ever recorded using just four chords.
A real-life Batman: This blind man “sees” using echolocation.
It would be pretty rad to ride an elephant to work where your pet orangutan plays with his dog.
New Scientist details the eight most amazing commutes in the animal kingdom. (Did you know that the Pacific leatherback turtle swims from Indonesia to Oregon and back every year?)

You would think that a prosthetic leg with a Willie Nelson sticker would be hard to miss, or at the very least hard to forget about and leave behind.
The shortest possible game of Monopoly requires only four turns, nine rolls of the dice, and twenty-one seconds.
Fuck Yeah Cats! is cute. But FUCK YEAH SHARKS is cool.
“The economic slave never realizes he is kept in a cage going round and round basically nowhere with millions of others,” said the totalitarian Buddhist who beat SimCity3000.
I have got to agree that putting an awesome costume on your observatory is the greatest astronomy-related college prank ever.
Web developers should always be mindful of the commander’s intent.
It looks like the AT&T tethering plan for the new iPhone is going to suck and be absurdly expensive. I’m shocked. Shocked.
And, finally, I love this quote from an article about the murder of porn actor Tom Dong: “That’s why I have a gun in my office. Weird things happen all the time. We’re in the Valley.”

2024-07-12: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

#FridayFive: Toys

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