These are the cool things I found around the web for May 13th through May 17th:

• Space Shuttle Endeavor as seen from a plane – Awesome!

- And now in video!.

This song is the most awesomest thing in the world.

• YouTube – 取精機(男士專用)..笑爆咀 – OMG Japan has sperm collectors!
• BARNSTORMERS.COM eFLYER – Under the Net – First I’ve ever heard of or see this.
• ESPN’s Web Gem Scoreboard – Points leaders for ESPN Baseball Tonight.
• Review: Barnes & Nobles’ Nook Color goes Android Tablet | ZDNet – Wow, this is big. Now you don’t have to root it to do it, it’s official!
• SETI Institute to shut down alien-seeking radio dishes – San Jose Mercury News – This is unfortunate.
• Big Ben (big_ben_clock) on Twitter – Haha, Big Ben has a Twitter, and all it does it Bong!

• The Four High End Steaks You Should Know | Serious Eats -
• Internet Sensation Rebecca Black Sings ‘Friday’ on ‘The Tonight Show’ (VIDEO) – Rebecca Black has already made it all the way to Leno, might as well call it a career.
• YouTube – The Brother IntelliFax 2800 App Store – I’ve bought three Brother Intellifax 2800s for my house today!
• Radiation Dose Chart – From my friend Ned.
• Green Roof Growers: How to Make a Two Bucket Sub-Irrigated Planter (SIP) – Great information and video on making a sub-irrigated planter DIY style with some buckets. Really worth the watch for those that want to grow, especially helpful for those with limited space.

During the last couple weeks we’ve been doing a bunch of yard work, getting the yards in as good a shape as we can this year.  Other than that, we haven’t really done much.  So I guess I will just post the links…

Cool Music
I can’t remember if I shared this band yet on here, but Rock Sugar is an awesome band.  The lead singer was the guy that did the voice of Wacko on Animaniacs.

Food Stuff
Four articles from Serious Eats that I thought were great to share.  How to Salt Food, 6 Things Every Griller Needs, Top 10 Tips For Making Better Burgers, and  Mastering the Art of Burger Blending.  I’m very interested in getting a grinder for our KitchenAid Mixer and blending my own meat!  If you are interested in finding a local fruit and veggie or even meat CSA you will want to check out both Local Harvest and Eat Wild.  Too bad there aren’t really any close by meat CSAs in SoCal.  I did recently discover that we have a local grass fed beef rancher 5 Bar Beef, we are going to try some of their ground beef tonight for burgers.  If you want to know more about beef cuts, this poster is great.

Beer Stuff
Make had this cool weekend project for a portable homebrew cooler dispenser, that I might give a try when we have a party.  Talking about beer, Floating Sheep has some maps about bars and areas where there are more bars than grocery stores.

Funny Stuff
When you are buying a home, the most overlooked requirement is Zombie Protection!  Well OC Reader has you covered if you are looking for a home in Orange County.

Cool Sports
If you are looking to buy some tickets for a game or even a concert, Seat Geek has you covered in helping you find things for the best price available.  They forecast if it’s a smart time to buy of if the price will be going down and suggest you to wait if you are buying the tickets on sites like StubHub, Tickets Now, or Ticket Network.  Plus they will graph out the ticket locations for you.

Cool Sites
CNN Money’s 20 best Money Sites.  Mensa’s 50 top websites.  Groundspeak, the team behind Geocaching.org are slowly making their way into the geolocation game with Whibbit, looking forward to see how it compares to Foursquare and GoWalla.

More Cool Stuff
Probably should have been in the food section but I love that this site will locate Where is My Milk From.  Science has discovered that as the use of porn goes up the amount of sex crimes goes down!  Take that feminists!  After you are done watching some porn, check out these awesome airports, I’m not sure if I want to land at any of those…

And last but not least, videos.
I think I will show this one during my Defensive Driving training classes I do.

Photoshop CS5 Content Aware Fill, it’s amazing what photoshop can do nowadays.

Sir Mix a Lot like But-terfingers

Awesome TV Theme duet

For those of you seeing this on Facebook, click here for the Youtube video of this curry loving cat.

Food Stuff
For Super Bowl we had a small party with our parents coming over to watch the game with us, I wanted to try and cook buffalo wings, but wasn’t at all in the mood for frying them up, I found this awesome recipe two days before the game for cooking up crunchy buffalo like wings in the oven from Serious Eats, you owe it to yourself to cook them this way!  I also found this cool site that reviews all the interesting snack foods out there called Taquitos.net, they have everything from national brands to regional favorites.  Lastly if you are the type of person that is interested in trying your hand at brewing your own beer check out this quick blurb on Lifehacker about two free open source programs that will help you with your goal.

Music Stuff
I haven’t had much music stuff lately, but I had to share this awesome project that Michael Deal is working on that is a graphical exploration into the Beatles and the creation of their music.  This is a project and any true Beatles fan will want to check out.

Sad Stuff
For those that don’t know the Mars rover Spirit is stuck and can no longer move, so they have pretty much pulled the plug on the project, xkcd has a sad comic to show us that rovers have feelings too.

Funny Stuff
If you are a friend of mine on Facebook you might have already seen this, but if not, check out this graphic on How to Suck at Facebook.   I’m proud to say I don’t do any of those things listed, so I must not suck.  If you saw the Google commercial during the Super Bowl (which was my favorite ad) you saw a clever use of their auto complete feature, the site Autocomplete Me turns the auto complete feature into a interesting look at what people search for on Google.

The Lego Millennium Falcon!

Cool Stuff
I just found this today but I wanted to pass it on, someone has taken the initiative to educate today’s men on what they need in their wardrobe, with Newbie Fashion Tips for Grown Men.  It really is a good group of tips and suggestions on how to look your best.  Wardrobe Oxygen takes it a step further, but I have to disagree with some their what to remove from your wardrobe section.  I’ve been wanting to get some Lego sets recently to put together for fun and I was checking out the online Lego store, they have a $499 Star Wars Millennium Falcon, a little more than I want to spend (it is 5000+ pieces though)…  I’ve seen a couple places recently selling recycled bottles that have had their tops cut off so you can use them as glasses, here is someone that decided they could just make them instead.  Check out this great article on the 19 Most Complex and Dangerous road in the world, I’ve seen some of these on Top Gear, the Road of Death in Bolivia looks like a bitch.  If you know me you know that Kelly and I met online, so I find the research that OkCupid is doing on their dating site is extraordinary, they recently wrote an article about profile pictures, and I highly suggest anyone that is doing any sort of online dating read their articles, they will help you make a better personal ad.  Example, Men: don’t make eye contact and don’t smile, Women: make eye contact and a flirty face.  And the last of the cool stuff, this blog post regarding the changes to the Crayola color spectrum throughout the years.

Not Cool Sports Stuff
The Chicago Cubs have thought up an complete asshole plan, they are going to charge a 20% premium on those that purchase tickets the 1st week they are on sale, and then after that they will be the normal face value.  Talk about scalping your customers.  I hope we don’t see this become a trend.  (edit, this is nothing new they have been doing it for 8 years.)

Cool Videos
Some geeks have figured out an awesome use for Microsoft’s surface, Dungeons and Dragons!

D&D on the Microsoft Surface from CrunchGear on Vimeo.

Hot Tub Time Machine will be the movie event of the year!

Someone has edited all the violence from the 2010 Super Bowl commercials into one epic Youtube video.

And last but not least does this sound familiar?

I recently took advice, and was able to learn from the advice, and this is excellent advice. I gave over 50 other advices using similar methods over the course of the last four months, and have continued to do it for the next two months. The keys:

1. Ensure your first sentence is bolded. There is nothing more annoying than having to read a whole paragraph, we could simply read the first sentence. Making it bold makes it stickier in your brain, and will increase the adviceiness of your advice. When in doubt, also use italics.
2. Be sure to use a numbered list. If you give a list in paragraph form, it carries far less authority. People like numbers when they are receiving advice. Numbers mean accuracy. Numbers mean conciseness. Be sure to give things in numbers.
3. Make one short. At least one of your pieces of advice should be one sentence.
4. MAKE ONE IN CAPITALS. Make at least one piece of your advice in capital letters. However, do not fall into the trap of making this piece of advice your one sentence piece of advice, because no one likes a piece of advice, which is both short and capitalized. There should be more than one sentence.
5. Adding a colon: is an invitation to have the reader jumping to your list further. Though it is nice to have things in bold, coupled with the trailing colon makes you wonder just what exactly might be after that colon.
6. End on a feel-good. The ideal feel-good is elusive: you want something that is attainable, but is also a bit of a reprimand. Try things like “you can do this: but you will need to try very hard.” Or, “this will work for you-though at first I didn’t think it would work, it ended up working for me. Believe in yourself.”