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• Tablecloth Hour – A Japanese arcade game (or is it a sim?) currently in public testing that challenges you to upset a virtual placesetting by yanking a square of physical cloth.


• The Rosa Parks Of Blogs – “Absurd Comparisons By Real People Using Famous People.”


• A Brain Paper For The Mysterious Dr. Khoo – A case of mistaken identities stretched into an extended back-and-forth between Dr. Zachary and an emailer who thinks he’s a *different* Dr. Zachary. (NSFW: Salty, limit-testing language)


• Worst Business Idea Ever – He really thought he had something there.
  [via Gregg]


• Sincerity At The Point Of Contact – Love the bowing banktellers on this Japanese ATM “card declined” screen.


• How To Be Awesome:
  
  I knew I was missing something. It was the mushroom grips and the Tubes tee.
  

• On The Trampoline With The Dogs:
  
  [via Sassyassy]


• DJ Party Dad Makes Your Scene
  
  [via Gavinpurcell]


• I Dunno If You’ve Heard Of This Thing Called Japan… – On some days, there’s nothing better than a really bitter book review. “Is there anything Ashcraft writes about that doesn’t boil down to HEY GUYS I’M IN JAPAN, HEY, HEY GUESS WHERE I AM—GUESS—(IT’S JAPAN)”


• Cageflix – “Automatically add every Nicholas Cage movie to your Netflix queue.”


• Best Use Of Panty Liners On London’s Tube (Headrest)
  


• Giant Icelandic Puppet
  
  [via Clusterflock]


• You Were Dial-up When I Met You- Dave Pell calls the internet angrily, in the style of Mel Gibson (NSFW – Mel Gibson language.)

• Bike Helmets That Stink When Damaged – In addition to being a heh, it’s just a brilliant idea. Although I would imagine it’s a little tough to separate helmet stink from all of the other olfactory noise of a bike commuter. How about deodorant as the scent?


• The Recurring Prop Newspaper – The Wilhelm Scream of prop newspapers. It has really gotten around. [via Leah Jones]


• Was Barack Obama In The 1993 Video ‘Whoomp There It Is?
  
  In short, no. And heh. I think a similar investigation should be conducted for competing vintage Florida hip-hop meme Whoot There It Is.


• Spike In Google Searches For ‘Ghost Chair’ – If this is a ‘haunted Google Insights’ stunt, it’s a brilliant and subtle one.


• Clip Art Gone Wild – Sometimes there’s a fine line between irony and laziness.


• The Party Freak – This guy really needs no introduction. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a more compelling sell of a party line. This might still work today:
  

Dangerously attempted prior to coffee this morning.

• Scientists Create Laser That Could Make It Rain – Raise your hand if you could have come up with a better visual for this story.


• Uh Oh, Pisghettios! – Merlin’s new auto-reply to PR pitch spam.


• Dear Kid, We Can’t Accept Unsolicited Ideas…Oh And Plus, Your Drawing Sucks – John Winsor chronicles the predictable and un-human legal form letter he gets back when he sends his 8-year-old’s drawing of a “new plane design” to Boeing.


• A Doubleshot Of Will Laren
  Bad Dad The Microphone Hoarder:
  

  Career Day Investments:
  
  

• Minimum Wage Machine – “The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds, for $7.15 an hour (NY state minimum wage). If the participant stops turning the crank, they stop receiving money.”


• Sandwich Dinosaur – A dinosaur made out of sandwich. Or is that a sandwich made out of dinosaur?


• I’m Not Really Sure Why, But Sure:
  


• The Evolution Of The Fax Machine – Heh.