July 30, 2014

Website Wednesday
a subsidiary of Skip's House of Chaos

"From the Large Intestine of the Internets,
through the Sphincter of Electronic Mail..."

                    If I ever became a cosmetic surgeon,

                    I'd charge a flat rate for breast implants.

Top of the Heap:  Happy birthday, Alex Trebeck! His 6 Funniest Moments of Jeopardy!

Get kyour childhood jam on with The Nostalgia Machine

The race to stop Las Vegas from running dry

Vladimir Putin's Fun Fan Page

10 Foods You Should Never Keep in the Refrigerator

25 Socially Awkward Things We All Do, But Will Never Admit

Five Legitimate Scientific Controversies

How Playing a Musical Instrument Benefits Your Brain

The World's Weirdest Plants

15 Facts You Might Not Know About Revenge of the Nerds

Britain has basically decriminalized internet piracy. The U.S. should, too

The 11 Worst Fast Food Restaurants in America

5 Hobbies You (probably) Never Considered

25 Incredibly Brave and Important First World Rebels

20 Misconceptions About Sex

The World's Largest Aquatic Insect May Have Been Found, And It Will Haunt Your Dreams

15 of the Best Drinking Games, Ever

6 Celebrities Who Went Undercover at this year's ComicCon

Our Neighbor, Mr. Rogers

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July 23, 2014

Website Wednesday
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"From the Large Intestine of the Internets,
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        My newest “Million-Dollar Idea”: A tongue condom for people
        who, for one reason or another, have to eat food they don't like.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             


Top of the Heap:  Here's Why You Should Be Excited About the James Webb Space Telescope

Microsoft Just Laid Off Thousands of Employees With a Hilariously Bad Memo

Incredible drone video of the wildfire destruction in Washington State (Thanks, Melody!)

In Sink: The World's 7 Most Amazing Artificial Reefs

9 Common Words You Never Knew Were Actually Acronyms

How Not to Die on the World's Tallest Waterslide

13 Uncommon Punctuation Marks You Should Start Using Right Now

26 Amazing (and Strange) Google Earth Secrets

Listen to this Comcast customer's call from Hell

12 Letters That Didn't Make the Alphabet

A few things you might not know about Saturday Night Live

25 Facts You Always Believed That Aren't True

How to Be German in 25 Easy Steps (Thanks, Susan!)

6 Famous Documentaries That Were Shockingly Full of Crap

When the US almost nuked the Moon

Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Discovered 16 Light Years Away

31 Signs You've Been a Teacher Too Long (Thanks again, Susan!)

How Domino's Pizza Lost Its Mascot

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July 16, 2014

Website Wednesday
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"From the Large Intestine of the Internets,
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                English if *I* ran it:
                    A group of crows is called a "group."
                    A group of buffaloes is called a "group."
                    A group of catfish is called a "group."

Top of the Heap:  15 Real Names for Groups of Animals  (see above)

17 Things Nobody Tells You About Being Depressed

Rejected Princesses - Princesses too awesome, awful, or offbeat for the movies

I was promised flying cars

Why I'm sending back Google Glass

If you dug a tunnel through to the other side of the Earth...

17 Hacks Every Bra-Wearer Should Know

Turn a watermelon into one giant Jell-O shot

In-flight science: How the world works when you're sitting on a plane

The Best Worst President Ever (you surprised me with this one, Billy!)

Insanely clever products every booze-lover should own

100 of the Best Restaurant Copycat Recipes

Creative Uses for Common Household Items

Meet Progressive's Flo: Actress Stephanie Courtney

10 Things Children Will Always Remember

Flash! Smelling Farts Might Prevent Cancer! Film at 11!

The so-called "Immigration Crisis" is neither

The 10 Unsolved Mysteries of Science

Remember the Polar Vortex? It's coming back. This summer.

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July 9, 2014

Website Wednesday
a subsidiary of Skip's House of Chaos

"From the Large Intestine of the Internets,
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                Apparently, Bruce Willis has decided he’s only

                going to be doing action films from now on.

                Well, you know what they say about old habits…

Top of the Heap:  16 Cool Things You Can Do On the Internet For Free

This Amazing Seattle Time Lapse Video (my hometown) Looks Like It's Something Out of a Dream (Thanks, Melody!)

8 Fun, Unofficial Disney Days

The 50 Greatest Summer Blockbusters

The surprising ages of the Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776

Prisons are terrible, and there's finally a way to get rid of them

The Best GIFs and Memes From the World Cup (So Far)

A Dictionary of Navy Slang

Leaked photos from Star Wars: Episode VII

Five Back to the Future II Predictions On the Verge of Coming True

33 Jokes That Went WAY Over Your Head When You Were a Kid

12 Fascinating Things You Probably Don't Know About Forrest Gump

Earth - an animated map of global wind and weather

Beach Hacks

How self-driving cars will change the world

7 Unique Things Your Microwave Can Do

The Unwritten Rules of Being Homeless

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July 2, 2014

Website Wednesday
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"From the Large Intestine of the Internets,
through the Sphincter of Electronic Mail..."

   You know that kid who’s at the arcade

   and is just watching the demo for a game, 

   but they’re pressing the buttons like they’re

   playing? That’s how I’m handling adulthood.

Top of the Heap:  18 Things You're Probably Doing Wrong

7 Facts You Probably Didn't Know About The Dark Knight

30 Facts About The Karate Kid

The Struggle is Real

Yard Sale Signs That Are Advertising Gold

Apparently, it's true. People DO look more attractive when you're drinking

You're getting old!

Shane, Please Stop

In this week's "I-want-me-one-of-these" category... (Thanks, Melody!)

Watch paint dry (if you want to)

You ever look up and wonder how many people are in space right now?

Related: here are the four coolest science experiments happening on the ISS right now

31 Essential Science Fiction Terms (And Where They Came From)

A 16-year-old made a plugin that reveals where politicians get their cash

If Game of Thrones characters were on reality shows

Here's your chance to be in the upcoming Whitney Houston movie

This app is called "the apotheosis of Western civilization"

Weird Facts

Vote for the best food when you're drunk

I think I'm being followed....

50 Things You Should Stop Buying and Start Making

Oh, lovely.  Google is becoming Skynet

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