Wednesday 4.30

If you're backlogged on your household document shredding, Saturday is "Secure Your ID Day" - and there are free shredding events taking place in our region, including one from 9 'til 2 at the Rhinebeck Office Park on Route 308 (East Market St.). You can bring up to three boxes of paper for free shredding. Need more info? Try 845-876.6138 or joeb@recordstoragesolutionsinc.com. For other Saturday shredding sites (say that six times fast), search at www.naidonline.org/shredday/index.html.

Tuesday 4.29

Ugly baseball cards.

40 practical uses for an ordinary rubber band. Speaking of which, here's the Spinners:

Monday 4.28

Y'know what follows those federal rebate checks? Scams.

Well, at least the bees can afford new houses.

Phil Collins says he's retiring.

Happy 109th birthday, Gladys DeGroat.

Weekend 4.25-26-27

Kittens!

Thursday 4.24

Stock up on non-perishables: it's a good investment.

What it's like to host the Pope's birthday party.

Wednesday 4.23

Al Wilson, 1939-2008.

Hypermiling is supposed to jack up your car's fuel efficiency to unheard-of heights, but it takes a lot of attention.

Shoes? You don't need shoes.

You can drill square holes. Here's the science.

Tuesday 4.22

It's National Playground Safety Week. Yes, we know. Your childhood playground was way cooler. The one where you broke your arm, with the exposed bolts that gave your brother that hilarious scar on his chin.

Emily Benson's parents must be so proud.

Monday 4.21

The Pope is a cat person.

When life's rough, maybe you need to go looking for people who've got it rougher, especially if it was self-inflicted. Enter Mugshot du Jour.

Weekend 4.18-19-20

Lots of new stuff coming up this weekend on Miller and Jones's blogs. Go read, tell your friends, and so forth!

Thursday 4.17

Keith Russell Judd is the Morning Mix's Political Hero of 2008.

Does the NYPD really have a guy with a job title like this?

Wednesday 4.16

All that info from this morning from the PoJo's Irwin Goldberg is available by clicking here, by calling Irwin at 845.437-4808, or by emailing igoldberg@poughkeepsiejournal.com.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. We're not exactly tree-huggers here, but yeesh.

An oscillating string thingy. Mildly amusing for most of us, a total time-suck for physics geeks.

Tons of old magazine covers, yours for the perusing at Coverbrowser.

Reservations Of An Airline Agent - if you're in any kind of customer service, read it and nod in recognition.

Tuesday 4.15

Hi there. Here are some dancing cupcakes.

Monday 4.14

The most boring traffic camera ever.

Three gifts new dads DON'T want, not including a photo album depicting those sweet new golf clubs he won't have a chance to use.

Weekend 4.11-12-13

Disneyland, 1956:

Thursday 4.10

Just because...here's George Takei singing "On The Road Again".

Wednesday 4.9

Here's the winning Q's and A's from our most recent Five Question Quiz!

The worst team in the history of professional sports...is not the Cubs. And Miller breathes a sigh of relief.

Tuesday 4.8

This is quite simply the coolest prank ever.

Monday 4.7

Chuck E. Cheese is crack.

Chuck Jones was a genius.

What the beach was like when Miller was a lad.

A few thoughts from Consumerist on how to avoid an IRS audit.

You have kids. You have a home theatre. Here's how to keep one from trashing the other.

Weekend 4.4-5-6

Here's the link to that fish-oil supplement Miller and Mr. J were talking about.

Mr. J is way psyched - he just got his first hack posted at Parenthacks. It's about trying to read bedtime stories to your kids without lighting up the whole doggone room.

A 4500-year-long video history of Stonehenge.

Thursday 4.3

A detailed history of Major League baseball hairstyles, including the magnificence of Oscar Gamble.

A new species of fish has been discovered off Indonesia. It's freaky.

Wednesday 4.2

Thanks again to Vickie Russell for appearing on the show! And thanks to everybody who stopped by the Foam & Wash for yesterday's April Fuels Day - we'll get the pix up ASAP.

What's your datability factor?

Apropos of nothing, here's a velvet worm attacking a beetle with slime. Icky yucky gross, unless you're a nine-year-old boy in which case it's wicked cool:

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