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Buenos lunes,

Hope you had a good weekend. I don't know whether you found yourself at an amusement park as is prone to happening this time of year, but hopefully it wasn't anything like this experience, described as "Not unlike if you were playing with your dog and threw the stick over a cliff."

Rollercoaster Tycoon Abuse
http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Abuse-Rollercoaster-Tycoon-3-Massacre-7017249


The laughing banana
Not much to this, but it has a certain something. Maybe it's the eponymous hysterical fruit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HPcIiLjL70


The 10 Most Undeserving Celebrities Who Got Action Figures
Being immortalized in plastic is one of the true benchmarks of being a celebrity; you might be a singer or actor or whatever, but being able to see your likeness in Toys "R" Us means you've reached an elite level of fame that sets you apart from your peers. Still, like any exclusive club, occasionally a bit of riffraff gets in—and toymakers find odd or low-tier celebrities who no sane, loved child would want an action figure or doll of, and then make action figures and dolls of them anyways. Here are then ten most inexplicable celebrity toys of all time.
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2008/07/the_10_most_underserving_celebrities_who_got_actio.php


QuOteD
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." -- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled


Tilted Twister
Nerd's dream: a robot made out of legos that solves Rubik's cube fully automatically. And don't forget the Cube Lube.
http://tiltedtwister.com/index.html


Putting the A in DNA
Creepy service to help you find that genetically-compatible person who just might be able to put up with you.
http://www.genepartner.com/


What's your sign?
The Periodic Table of Videos features enthusiastic science profs from the University of Nottingham showing off the periodic table of elements with a video of experiments for each. If the awesome hair doesn't do it for you, maybe the Periodic Coffee Table will.


Game: Fantastic contraption
Fun with physics.
http://fantasticcontraption.com/


The truth is up there
And finally, it's hard enough to believe this frightening futuristic structure that looms over the Prague skyline. But wait... what are those figures crawling all over it? They seem to be... giant nekkid babies? And a closer look? More than a little chilling.
http://deputy-dog.com/2008/07/17/ever-seen-a-creepier-tower/


Famous last words
"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found." -- Calvin Trillin


Mahalo,

vW