Rolling Stone’s 25 most outrageous music videos. Outrageous apparently includes the sacrilegious, the dirty, the disturbing, and, um, Christopher Walken. Some videos may be not safe for work and one contains David Hasselhoff.

Bill MacEwen’s laptop got stolen last week, but all might not be lost. Someone in possession of the laptop — possibly the thief — just posted a self-portrait to Flickr using the account stored in the laptop. If you know anything about the gentleman in the photo, please contact Bill through his blog. If you …

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In 1964, Mel Brooks won both the Oscar & BAFTA Best Short Film awards for The Critic. His first film, it revolves around an old man heckling abstract animation that he doesn’t understand. Youtube (lower quality) | brettratner.com (higher quality)

A federal judge was driven to rhyme after receiving a hard-boiled egg in the mail from a prison inmate protesting his diet. U.S. District Court Judge James Muirhead reached for Dr. Seuss’ “Green Eggs and Ham” for inspiration after getting the egg from inmate Charles Jay Wolff.

Wow, there’s some creepy ass stuff going on with Gordie Howe He’s spent much of his life in the public eye, this icon. But at nearly 80, Mr. Hockey is just Citizen Howe these days, surely entitled to a little peace and privacy. His life now is mostly about tending to an ailing wife, Colleen, who …

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72 scenes from various episodes of The Simpsons, each one beside the movie scene to which they refer.

This tutorial sets out the multi-step process by which you can stencil your clothes with bleach, working in inverse to create ever-lighter fabric sections by spraying on diluted bleach

It’s a little early to be getting ready for Hallowe’en, but I really enjoyed this tutorial on making “witches’ jars” for your Hallowe’en decor. They’d work just as well on the back shelf of your rec-room bar, after all.  Very Martha.

Featured last night on 20/20, Channing Moss was hit with an rocket propelled grenade while on patrol in Afghanistan. He was impaled through the abdomen by the RPG and an aluminum rod with one tail fin protruded from the left side of his torso. His fellow soldiers worried: Could he blow up and take them …

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Once upon a time, there was a very bad Sean Connery movie (directed by “the Good Will Hunting guy“). In it, Sean Connery looks at an inner-city African-American teen and says, “Punch the keys, for God’s sake! Yes … yesssss … you’re the man now, dog!” A NYC resident, Max Goldberg, saw this and said, …

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