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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.

This Week in Internet: Velcro, Cake Mail, and Being Born on a Shrimp Boat

"If You Printed the Internet . . ."  Apparently, it would take you 57,000 years to read it.  Well, I'm a fast reader.  I bet I could do it in 56,000.

The 10 Weirdest Places to Be Born include McDonald's, an elevator, and a shrimp boat.

Inventions/discoveries of the week: extreme Velcro, airless tires, mouse levitation

Cake mail!  Not real cake, but still awesome.

Apparently Facebook makes you smarter and Twitter makes you dumber.  Good to know.

10 Unusual Flavors of Familiar Candies. Wine-flavored Kit Kats, anyone? No? OK.

This Week in Internet: Llamas, Flo, and That Puppy

12 Extremely Disappointed Animals. They are so disappointed!

In my opinion, this was People.com's biggest scoop of the week: 5 Things to Know About the Progressive Insurance Lady

If you have somehow not already seen this video of a puppy not being able to get up, please report immediately to this video of a puppy not being able to get up. I repeat: puppy video.

I do always love a good list of hilariously bad business names.

Whatever, Connecticut pretty much runs itself anyway.

Wondering how many people are in space RIGHT NOW?  Wonder no more.

Therapy llama = awesome.

I have traveled here from the year 1983 to give you this link.

This Week In Internet: Marky Mark, IKEA, and the Babysitter's Club

Some of these links may be a little more than a week old because I was gone last week, but ehhh, whatever--I think they still taste just fine.

Vintage Marky Mark. Not as good as vintage Keanu Reeves, but it'll do in a pinch.

Sorry, forgot the attachment.

An IKEA catalog from 1965.  Looks very Mad Men.

Legos + stop motion = awesome

Think you had a bad week?  Try traveling 130 miles across Germany in your wheelchair to propose to your girlfriend, getting shot down, then hitting a rut and bouncing out of your wheelchair on the way home and needing police assistance to get back on it.  That is a bad week.

100 Totally Fun and Weird College Courses You Can Take for Free

Hilarious.

Why do flamingos stand on one leg?

Babysitter's Club, the College Years.

Balloon animals of a very boring clown. 

Have a good weekend!