Yeah, wow...beginner's luck

• 2008 ESPYs Justin Timberlake "I Love Sports" - He's a showman.
• Chastened Amy - scroll down to the Ant-Man review (spoiler: better than you think it will be)
• Why do you keep hearing "Shut Up and Dance" everywhere you go? Here's the scientific answer - It's a catchy song.
• Stephen Colbert pleads with Neil DeGrasse Tyson over Pluto's status as a planet - Amazing facts at 5:35 and 11:25

I love it when people make me cocktails.

• Should this lake exist? - I learned about the Salton Sea when I was out at the Hoover Dam. Amazing...
• Why Oreos might as well exist in their own cookie stratosphere - I need to stop buying them.
• Suicide Squad trailer - I am far less excited about the DC movies than I am about the Marvel.
• Batman loves to backhand bad guys - I like the Pac Man backhand at 1:45. 

Out of nowhere comes this wonderful, energetic performance

• The hidden genius of Monopoly's rules - I might actually play that game.
• Compound Interest store - Anybody wanna buy me a gift? ...you know, for the classroom?
• Let's watch Senator John McCain botch this foul ball - We do remember that he has limited use of his arms because of his time as a POW, right?

You know all that. You know the whole story.

• Featherbowling explained - A sport that I would happily play...like curling...
• The best state for business? High-tax Minnesota - taxes are an investment...a worthwhile one
• I spent 12 years in the Blue Man Group - fascinating interview with a former BMG member
• Do not go swimming in this beautiful looking lagoon - I like the dye idea, but it's still not Berkley Pit.

Please don't take my man...

• One in a million beer catch - I find myself sadly suspicious of any internet video.
• Awesome pop-culture nesting dolls from Andy Stattmiller - probably expensive but certainly cute...where's DC, though?
• This is what 200 calories of different foods looks like - Clearly, I should be eating more celery.
• A surprise summer jam from Beck - not bad stuff, certainly different from the last, mopey album

• First Listen: Still by Richard Thompson - sadly meh - especially considering it's produced by Jeff Tweedy
• I renamed some of the paint colors at the hardware store -  Calm down, man...
• The Lego Movie's hidden meaning - Here there be spoilers - and humor...

It was a spell. We were helpless. We're not responsible for anything we did morally or...you know...legally.

• 11,000 marbles - That's even more than we got in Animal House.
• Opening a shaken Coke can underwater - technically, under 2.5atm of pressure
• The Forbidden Zone: 65 square miles of France still uninhabitable after World War II - we scar our world, often very badly
• Babies compete in Tiny Bake-Off - I'll take the baby over the baby.

It is no great thing to stop and sing.

• Watch these famous landmarks change over time using 'mined' tourists' photos - fascinating gifs & video...bad narration
• Children should read 1000 books before kindergarten - I don't know if that number, specifically has any magic, but the idea is certainly sound.
• Cheer Up Emo Kid - I do believe I have found my superheroic identity.
• One of these World Cup hosts is not like the other - No, there is clearly no evidence of vote fixing in the Qatar World Cup bid...none at all... 
• Las Vegas isn't Las Vegas -  I did notice this weirdness on my phone when we were out there.

The effort to suggest the poor are sponges, leeches...don't wanna work...are lazy...if you watch Fox News on a regular basis

• In this crazy, Chinese festival men literally shower themselves with molten iron - Looks like it should be a movie.
• The impossible bridge repair - nice point of view
• The King, but for how much longer? Rafael Nadal on the eve of the French Open - Nadal is in a different position this year, but at least he got an awesome column out of it.
• Top sketches from SNL: season 40 - all great, especially #10 & 6

• Ask Chris #241: The Suicide Squad, then and now - He might be a turd, but he a great, thoughtful writer about comics.
• 17/05/15 - How cool is that? I know the blogger.
• Stop playing "Wagon Wheel" - Yes to artists, no to DJs.
• Exit - Public art is sometimes entertaining art.
• What is hiding in the Museum Center's basement? - an absolute treasure, that's what
• Max Wittert: X-Men - chucklesome
• Movies secretly told from the perspective of one character - After Hours is always minutia-filled, but at least here it's interesting minutia.
• Retail trouble -  That's subtle.
• 37 insanely smart school teacher hacks - Really - #10? Nice - #24. #36!
• Canvassers study in Episode #555 had been retracted - Science will eventually get everything right, but sometimes it takes a while.
• A man was given one wish... - That's a long way for a joke.
• Happier camper - That's intriguing.
• Well played - certainly well played

You don't have any friends...nobody likes you

• Poor Lego Legolas - Gimli, you weiner...
• You either die a hero... - I need to get around to seeing Avengers: Age of Ultron.
• Critics eating the hearts out for Tale of Tales at Cannes film festival - Looks weird but very intriguing

I'm leaving tomorrow for California...for the rocket fair.

• Two guys climbed the world's second-tallest building and took a selfie - two guys wanted to die...holy crap, my palms are sweating...
• The top ten Kids in the Hall sketches, as rated by The Kids - #7 is my favorite, but the rest are pretty outstanding, too.
• Sesame Street parodies Avengers 2 with Aveggies - Cookie Monster seems a liability.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

• Mitsubishi spiral escalators - The Girl and I rode these on Spring Break.
• Carbon dioxide hits a new peak this spring: 404 ppm - That's a heck of a graph that figure 4 down at the bottom.
• Magic is real, sometimes - I remember a story Penn and Teller told about a magician buying a truly new pack of cards and asking a person to think of a card. He then shuffles the cards and picks one at random and asks them if that is their card. He figures he'll be wrong a lot of times, but when he finally does hit, it will be glorious.

• Hoopmixtape - That is a showy alley oop

Agility, clarity, stamina, and strength

• Wabash College from the sky - Drone tech is pretty cool.
• Thanks, Obama - Possibly my favorite conspiracy theory graphic ever
• Formal picture - great baby pic
• 5 In Living Color sketches everyone should know - Lemme show ya something... 

• When dad jokes go too far -  Nice gag
• Every Beastie Boys album ranked - I'd slip License a little lower, but they're all strong
• Anna Kendrick singing, a timeline - I'll watch Anna in anything.

Adolescent Radioactive Blackbelt Hamsters was really a thing once.

• A supercut of every snobby literary reference by Sterling Archer - Doesn't anybody read?
• Seriously, it was...
• TARSplay - outstanding costuming 

So, you're saying I should spend the whole night locked in a cage...with you?

• Confessions of an idiom - too many idioms, but at least they're chucklesome
• Easter care package - Yup, that'd be about right.
• The definitive oral history of 1980s digital icon Max Headroom - great story of the name's origin - and of a bunch more. No explanation of the creepy piracy, though.
• Gonzo is doing "The Humpty Dance" - clearly unauthorized on both parts, but it's funny, so whatever.

• A whim away - great meme
• 40 hilarious office pranks - The horn would be awesome but terrifying.
• Let's meet at the corner of 60th and 60th -  Nine choices
• Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about the destination - The photo is missing one color.

• JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound - catchy
• The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum put Wonder Woman's invisible jet on display - for April Fools Day
• Adam Hughes looks back on his famous Real Power of the DC Universe poster - Beautiful poster and interesting to hear that Selina wasn't supposed to be there.
• California's deepening drought: ten things to know - The important one is that "agriculture may have a year of reckoning."
• Daylight savings time at Avebury - chucklesome
• Scott Pilgrim vs The World - another awesome poster from Kevin Ton

Simply the best for less

• Spectre teaser trailer - yes, please
• Ho ho ha ha - chucklesome list
• Greatest chew toy of all time - chucklesome photo 

I'm hoping the Hoosiers are still in the tourney when this posts...

...because they are as I write this on Thursday night.

• Joss Whedon says even more characters will show up in Avengers: Age of Ultron - Wait? He's talking about Spider-Man, isn't he?
• Lighten Up - editorial questions in regards to race in comic books
• This is what happens when sparklers get too close to birthday balloons - Those have to be filled with hydrogen, right?

The only cure is to drain the blood of a slayer.

• We SUCK in colder weather - Hello, North Carolina.
• Avengers: Age of Ultron: our favorite memes and gifs from the third trailer - Lots of Black Widow action.
• History of famous duets with Jimmy Fallon and Kelly Clarkson -I'm kind of impressed with KClark here. She's post-baby puffy, but she's entertaining.

You know what? Working there might be fun.

• Dual-wielding basketball human throwing machine - Brian Sullivan, you ain't got nothing on this guy.
• Valetine's Day signs - at Target...
• Flirting - how shy people do it
• The craters of Siberia - We got pics of these last summer. Now we get more.

• Candy Crush players spent $1.3 billion on in-app purchases in 2(0)14 - billion? Billion? BILLION?

Cody Weinberg, the one with the 350SL?

• Over 16000 people were offended by NASCAR's Nick Offerman Super Bowl ad poking fun at gluten-free diets - I'm not one of those.
• My own phonetic alphabet - been there...
• Maine Secret Island Backpacking - It's no secret any longer. It's Hawaii 2, and I'm a part owner.
• 'Every 90s Commercial Ever' is a perfect parody with a psychotic twist - a very dark twist...like The Fly meets Capri Sun... 

• Top ten reasons why Secretary beats 50 Shades of Grey - I can't promise that it's better, but I fully assume it is because Secretary is excellent.
• This book won't open if it doesn't like the look of your face - Entertaining tech
• How to make a reverse boiled egg - novel but not particularly useful
• You can micro-volunteer your time to help a blind person - This sounds excellent. 

• Super-flare: How does Superman's new power compare to all of Superman's other new powers? - Best one, clearly Superman's NEW Power of mini-Superman
• Neil deGrasse Tyson at the Taft - in October...might go, tickets a little high, though
• TOKIO - more entertainingly weird Japanese gameshows
• Roland Smith's Public Education - Thanks, Rich
• Brazil, California face specter of worsening drought - no snow now is going to make for a long, dry summer
• The vaccine lunacy - so much misinformation...so many morons...
• Your guide to Deflate-gate-related statistical analysis - Not as obvious as you might've thought...
• DreamingWithJeff - Crazy Heart was good enough that I'll listen through once, at least.
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18 inches of concrete in the way? Man, we can't drill through that.

• Trailer: Fantastic 4 - I'm down with this.
• 13 secrets of Amazon Warehouse workers - I know a guy who worked at one of these places in Louisville. I should ask if these things are f'real.
• Anthony Davis is 'The Special Man' in this ridiculous New Orleans Pelicans ticket deal commercial - Really only funny if you see the original.