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This (Short) Week in Internet: Pre-Thanksgiving Edition

Tote bag with serif handles, for font nerds who have lots of stuff to carry around.  Like their contempt for Comic Sans.

'The Office' Ends As Documentary Crew Gets All The Footage It Needs

How he H1N1 vaccine is made.

Man visits every country; has awkward, stiff photos of himself in front of things to prove it.

How would Earth look if it had a ring system like Saturn?

Hat I want: this.

This panda looks so sad!!!

Cool slow shutter photography.

I dare you to watch this just once.

Some accidental geography.

This Week in Internet: Otters, Rat Tails, and John Stamos

This is a pretty cool thing to do with your deck.

Plants are people, too!

OCLOTW (Obligatory Cat Links of the Week): Cats for Gold, Cats Chillin'

Crap.  Now I need a pet otter.

This is the best reaction anyone has ever had to anything. (Good share, Gorg-o)

Would you rather have EXCITING PEAS?  Yes.

OHTHANKGOD: John Stamos finally got a star of the Walk of Fame.

This beard is a must-see!  (thx, Buddy Love)

Wow.  As if regular rat tails weren't ugly enough.

This is great.  Probably my favorite thing in the world is watching dogs go through the process of getting comfy.

Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2009

The History of the Internet in a Nutshell

This Week in Internet: Woo Hoo, Yeeeeeeee Hoo

Apparently dogs really respond to Gwen Stefani's "Sweet Escape."  I will have to try this with Pancake.

Water on the mooooooooooon: check.

Requisite cat links of the week: cats sitting like people, awesome science project

"Michelle Khine's lab at UC Irvine couldn't afford the $100K equipment to make microfluidic chips, a sheet of material with tiny channels used for certain diagnostic tests, so she made her own with Shrinky Dinks."

Hehhhh, I like this squirrel.

This is cuuuuute.  So is this.

It probably sucks when you steal a van and then realize there is a live lion in it.

Speaking of lions: INVISIBLE LION CAGE

Good advice.

10 weird facts from the 1768 encyclopedia.

Some physics to help you with your free throws.

This Week in Internet: Big Ben, Babies, Cartozoology

Just a couple of links this week, I have really been too busy searching online for full-body bear wigs to do much of anything else.

South Korean woman passes driving test . . . on her 950th try.

Yet another sad, bald animal.

Big Ben is on Twitter.  Yes, I'm talking about the clock.

I think if I had a baby, I would do this to all its clothes.

Cartozoology: the discipline dedicated to the discovery and study of animals outlined paradigmatically by street layouts as they appear on maps.

Fun with Google Suggest (thx, Em)

This Week in Internet: The Links My Immune System Didn't Want You to See

Despite my shoddy immune system's best efforts at keeping me out all week, I did manage to catch up on a little Internet today.  But just a little.  Here we go.

Quick!  Think of a name for the upcoming Jodie Sweetin memoir.  Is this what you picked?

Incredible dissolving plastic packaging.  The future is now o' clock!

Best job in America?

I might need to make one of these ASAP.  After all, it's almost crocheting season.  And who doesn't love tentacles?

What cats do all day.  I should have been a cat.

Behold, the hundred oldest domain names.  We should totally time travel to March 14, 1985 and buy ALL OF THEM. 

Nickelodeon buys the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  I was totally just thinking about Krang last week for some reason.  Spent some time on his Wikipedia page, catching up ("Every plan Krang conceives is either aimed at that goal, or towards the short-term objective of powering-up the Technodrome.").  "Krang" would be a great cat name.

This Week in Internet: Cornflakes, Kites, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar misses Jeopardy! question about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

A kite-powered generator.  KiteGen Research might be the best business name ever.

This site ranks world leaders by hotness.  There is not a lot of hotness to work with.

Here's a bunch of Germans trying to pronounce "Massachusetts." 

An enjoyable list of ridiculous patents--well, some of them (looking at you, gerbil vest) actually seem extremely useful, if you ask me. (thx, Em)

Dragon made out of plastic utensils!

A brief history of gummy bears.

Laser-etched cornflakes were bound to exist at some point, right?

This Week in Internet: Dead Flies, Saturn, Gummy Bears

Yes, I have been a bad and neglectful blog owner this week, but what I think you all need to understand is that there are some very, very important things going on in my life right now--and by "my life," I of course mean "the lives of the people on the TV shows I watch."  However, despite my intense and time-consuming fall TV schedule, I have managed to find some links to share this week.  So:

This week in miniaturized animals: pygmy hedgehogs and pocket pigs.

These downloadable owl masks will surely come in handy for whatever weekend activities you have planned. 

Things that will be in my future dream home: 1.) Gummy bear chandelier and gummy bearskin rug; 2.) cupcake car.

Here's something to do with dead flies, in case you were looking.

Domo anatomy.

This is one of those YouTube videos where, upon pressing play, you're thinking, "There is no way I will watch all four minutes and 11 seconds of this," but then, four minutes and 11 seconds later, you're like, "Welp, I definitely watched the whole thing.  And it was time well spent."

Literal Rick Roll.

Superb.

Puppies playing with shoelaces will always get my attention.  (Ahh, memories.)

Pitchfork's top 200 albums of the 2000s.

Sometimes, you read about a crime, and you just get the feeling that it could happen to you too.

Saturn has been hiding an additional, ginormous extra ring from us.  How rude.

This baby is making the most hilarious face ever.

This Week in Internet: Logos, Dogs, and Baby-Shaped Fruit

I need this plate, because I somehow always end up being the person who gets stuck between two tables.

Dinosaurs: still secretly birds.

World's longest bridge will be 25 miles long.  And the picture that accompanies the article will make my bridge-fearing sister break into a cold sweat just looking at it.

Quote of the week: "People called me crazy. They said I was whimsical and it was impossible to grow baby-shaped fruits."  From this article about a man who succeeded in growing--you guessed it--baby-shaped fruit.

Apparently the process for becoming a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader includes a ~100-question test wherein they must "name everything from the governor of Texas to a country that borders Iraq." Rick Reilly got some of the players to take the test too.  (thx, Stephanie!)

Troop Beverly Hills is turning 20.  So this is happening.

Popular logos with hidden symbolism.  You probably already knew a couple of these, but still.

Seven dogs that accomplished more than we ever will.

This Week in Internet: Mrs. Butterworth, Dustin Diamond, and One Craaaazy Apple

This made me extremely happy.

A functional cello made from LEGO bricks.  Because.

Police break up a dog-fighting ring being run out of a day-care center.  Again: because.

This is decidedly hypnotic to watch.

Matthew McConaughey has balance problems.

Apparently we are going to find out Mrs. Butterworth's first name.  I just hope it isn't John. (thx, Em)

So, I have zero interest in Dustin Diamond's tell-all book, and I am the biggest SBTB fan in history.  Who could possibly be buying it?

This apple is crazy!

Are you ready to see the best hairstyle in the history of the world?  OK--here.

Shocking ideas that could change the world.

This Week in Internet: Space Pics, Bus Stops, and Reasons Not to Swallow Plastic Shards

Dude playing the Inspector Gadget theme song on beer bottles = champ.

Hot-stronomy of the week: awesome new Hubble pics; Venus, Jupiter, and the Moon. (Yes, "hot-stronomy" is my new made up word for "hot astronomy."  Don't think I will be using it again, though.  Sounds too much like a sandwich ingredient.)

Maryland comes in at #7 on this list of weird state nicknames.  Apparently we were once called the Cockade State??

I continue to be interested in things that look like hamburgers.

This looks about right.

From Emily: "Doctors say a North Carolina man who was plagued with coughing fits should be OK now that they have removed a 1-inch piece of plastic from his lung, where it had rested since he apparently inhaled it nearly two years ago while sucking down a soft drink at a Wendy's restaurant."  Best quote ever: "'I like to take big gulps of drink,' the former home remodeler said. 'I don't know of any other ways of it getting in there.'"

How to use math to choose a spouse.

102-year-old woman who has been smoking for 95 years decides to quit.  With badass pic.

The 50 best foods in the world, and where to eat them.

Aaaand . . . the world's coolest bus stops.