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Wednesday Roundup for 04/14/10

LADIES AND GENTLEMAN!  I GIVE TO YOU, THE AMAZING FETTUCINI BROTHERS, ALFREDO AND BILL!  what?  alfredo and bill are off tonight?  WELL, LADIES AND GENTLEMAN, INSTEAD, I GIVE TO YOU, THE WEDNESDAY ROUNDUP!

This week's featured blog is Graph Jam, a part of the Cheezburger network.  It takes pop culture (such as song lyrics or movie plots) and translates them into graphical representations.  To get a good feel for them, I recommend Queen, DMX, and Simon and Garfunkel for music, and Freaky Friday, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Star Wars for movies.  But they're not just all music and movies.  You also get a sampling of daily life occurrences such as depression from too much turkey.  On to this week's highlights.

• I don't have cable, but I love the History Channel.
• Let the gays do what they want, it really won't affect you.

From LifeHacker:

• This one's for you, Chris.  iPhone OS 4.0 updates that weren't hyped, including new calculator button!
• It really is time to clean your comp, here's a guide on how to do it right.

From Boing Boing:

• The original manuscript for Alice in Wonderland.
• Really simple bookends that look great.
• First there was lolcat, then ceiling cat, then long cat.  Now, standing cat.
• Craigslist ad looking for a long term bromance.

From Make Online:

• Using a mechanical method to dim a florescent bulb.
• Crazy science photos, I especially love the candle in the fishbowl.
• Mythbusters made from legos!
• Frank Lloyd Wright in legos!
• I love living in the future where robuts can carve motorcycle helmets from a single piece of aluminum.
• Crazy alarm clock: put the legs back into the exploded piano, but match the colors, and if you take too long the colors change.
• This guy has way to much time on his hands, but I love this misbehaving shadow prank.
• Robuts made from spare parts, be sure to check out the whole set for this one.
• Glasses made from beer bottles, reblown to make a tumbler shape.  I'd love to pour the original beer back into one of these bottles... (my birthday is coming up soon, hint hint)

From Skepchick:

• VERY NSFW!  This is a hilarious explanation for the latest ICP song (be sure to read the real lyrics, they'll blow your mind!)

From The Onion:

• "U.S. Flag Recalled After Causing 143 Million Deaths."
• "Meat Industry Introduces New Easy-Tear Perforated Beef."
• This article is subtly not racist, I think...
• After years of research, studies find that pushing and yelling does make things go faster.
• As airline fees go up, everyone, even non-fliers, feel the pinch.

From DudeCraft:

• That weird thing where people were painted to look like paintings, I said I'd find more out about it, here's the artist's site.

From How Stuff Works:

• The Treadmill Bike, putting two more steps between you and walking.

From Insanewiches:

• The new KFC Double Down is insane!  But it still doesn't go as far as the quadruple down!
• A scale made from bacon.

From Cake Wrecks:

• Not everything on Cake Wrecks is terrible.  This post is actually some great looking cakes and some sad stories, so watch out.

From Comics I Don't Understand:

• Nothing to do with comics, but it's terrible and funny, and I totally think that little boy is a single lady if he wants to think that.

From Square Root of Minus Garfield:

• If you've read House of Leaves (READ IT) then Garfield of Leaves makes sense and is awesomely funny.

From BizzaroBlog:

• Check out this comic, this guy is really funny and I love when characters interact with the panel, like in this comic.

From ChannelAte:

• I only hope that I can do this when I have kids someday.

From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal:

• You just need to subscribe to this guy, all his comics are funny, always a gem a week, don't forget to mouse over the red dot for the extra panel.  This week's topic, LOBSTERS!

From Real Life Comics:

• I know this guy just does cliches, but it hurts so much when they're true.  I am this pathetic as well.

Well kids, it's been a swell roundup, hopefully next week we'll actually get this out on Wednesday.  Until then, keep checking back here for your weekly doses of something or other!

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