200 things you should see/watch/experience online (aka youshouldhaveseenthis.com). And once you have, for the love of it all, logoff and go do something useful with your life.

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I’ve been on a ‘clean off my desktop’ kick the last week or two, as the icons and documents have crept up, threatening to cover over half of the desktop. That’s no good.

So here are two more I kept without managing to post:

1. Japanese Fluorescent Light Fighting. It’s gross, but I think the pictures tell you all you need to know.
2. And the origins of the Moonwalk (via Rex, weeks later). This was cooler to watch around the time of MJ’s death, but it’s really an amazing montage, a great reminder that nothing happens in a void…
   

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1. MST3K episodes are showing up on Hulu. There are only 5 right now, but maybe that’s enough. (Also, there are quite a number already on Netflix if you do the whole Netflix streaming thing.)
2. 6 of the weirdest, scariest processed foods. Um. Yes.
3. Finally, the scariest thing I have seen in a while: a guy in NYC had a homeless woman living in his crawl space for weeks without knowing it. She came out while he slept. Do watch, this is nutty.

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Mike Sterling has a scan of the most questionable alien in a comic book ever.

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my favorite, the history and evolution of the evony ads online.

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• How much land do we need to power the world through solar energy? Answer: not so much. Why are we so stubborn about making change?
• 50 Cent has written a business book on how to succeed. I want to read it, actually. I’m not sure what that says for me, but the dude clearly has done a few things right.
• Sex or money? A poll found the following: 57% Would Rather Save $50 Week Than have More Sex or Lose Weight. All I can say to that is “fools.” Of those 3 items, only 1 actually involves other people. Of those 3, there is only 1 item I don’t have complete control over. The sex. You want to save more? You want to lose weight? Do it. You’re in control. Sex isn’t always quite so easy to make happen. Or maybe it’s just that people have no self-control. Fools.
• And kottke linked to it a while ago, but the deadline is fast approaching for Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School. You’ve got to the 15th to apply, my friends.
• And finally, what would any of this be without the obligatory breast milk link: how to make breast milk soap. Obviously not quite as fun since it isn’t edible, but it’s something.

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Les Lye dying at the end of last week. This guy was a staple of my childhood, back in the days when Nickolodeon didn’t have enough programming, when they went off the air at 8p.m., when they showed Danger Mouse and Bananaman, when Pinwheel was the same damn special every week (starring, actually, Les Lye. And some kids who got abducted by aliens.) “Daaaaa-Iiiiiiii heard that!” RIP Barth – er, Les.

From a month ago, Pizza Hut is now attempting to go by The Hut. I’m not kidding. Not only does this hurt me, but…no, really, it’s too painful to consider.

Speaking of painful, this qualifies. Wow. Can you really be this ignorant? I wan to believe this isn’t real, but something is telling me that isn’t the case.

Need extra battery life for your Mac? Yeah, this should cover you. The largest HyperMac battery looks like it gets you around 24 hours or so, depending on your Mac (and usuage). I needed this years ago; I’m already debating how I could use it today.

Comic Con happened over the weekend. It hurts me; I spent the time this year not lamenting I wasn’t there, but lamenting the Con in general. Back in the mythical days of high school, it was this mystery thing: I knew it happened, I read about it, but I never had the chance to go — I was on the east coast, young and simply didn’t travel. Plus it existed to sell comics. Comics I couldn’t afford and didn’t know enough about. This is no longer the case — now it’s a pop culture showcase and the 2 years I went were about as close to a death knell as I expect to see…well, they were more like last gasps. All the coverage I’ve read this year (which, incidentally, is another issue — the Internet has made actually attending the Con a silly endevour, unless you want to buy art or rare back issues), is less than impressive. I haven’t year read one interesting bit of news from the comcis world — plots, teasers, creative teams…nada. And then to hear how actual comic dealers are being squeezed out of the floor for games, toys and media companies…well, that’s just depressing. Comics have moved on, my friends. And if they don’t make the move to digital super quickly, they are going to cease to exist at all.

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The site hasn’t been a priority for me recently and for that I apologize. The next few weeks for me are packed full, but I’ll see what I can do in the meantime. I’m going to dump links in a foul, ugly way. I missed posting about Bea Arthur dying — and as Mike and Rachael pointed out, the ‘Which Golden Girl would you sleep with’ game just got a lot more/less interesting. Then there is the Stranger’s sex survey, which was almost amusing. But it loses in that category to the site texts from last night, which is like crack to my tastes — terrible, awful, wonderful texts of people inferring horrible mistakes. While I get to read them. Creative people probably are insane. Mike Sterling talks Star Trek and, though I am less anti-Trek than I used to be, he nails some of my thoughts. Or maybe I am looking forward to the Spock slash-fic. Also, why didn’t the credits have lens flare in them? Oh and io9 revisits Battlefield Earth, which inspired me to buy the RiffTrax and re-watch the movie with Mike. Also, yes, I own the Battlefield Earth DVD. Oh and mightygodking rips the GI Joe movie a new one. Which is fair.

Actually, when I saw Star Trek, there were a number of trailers: 9 (which Josh worked on and I got to see its premiere are a short at UCLA when I lived in LA), Year 1 (which looks funny this time around), GI Joe (which looks beyond terrible and misses the entire point of Joe — says the dude who read the comic book for like 8 years) and Transformers 2 (which looks even worse than the first. Maybe due to the line: “Megatron wants inside my mind.” Said by Siloh whatshisname. A human being making this statement disqualifies Transformers from being good. For the record.)

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