Courtesy of cracked.com, here's twenty items that will traumatize your baby.

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An engineer's guide to cats.

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I like a sharp pencil as much as the next guy. Except for the next guy that programed this computer-controlled lathe.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the great Tom Lehrer, in a clip from the American version of "That Was the Week That Was."

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How do you tell your kids about Passover? This way!

Via Megan McArdle, who isn't normally a Peepblogger.

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The art of the scathing review is far from dead. P.J. O'Rourke takes on Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s collected diaries here. Just because a guy's dead is no reason to not get in a few solid kicks, eh?

I got some added amusement out of this because Rachel and I read several of Schlesinger's books during our AP History course. If memory serves, I wrote a paper agreeing with one of O'Rourke's points, that Schlesinger was rather charitable to President Jackson.

Found via Newmark's Door.

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I picked up a Doors CD for myself a few days ago. Then I happened upon the following video at the economics blog Newmark's Door. It's a holiday song medley, as if sung by the Doors.

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This one's a keeper- it's a comic called The Superest. There are two cartoonists. Cartoonist 1 draws a character with a power. Cartoonist 2 draws someone that can defeat 1's entry. They keep going, each new character defeating the first one.

For the full effect, start with the first entry.

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Here's a great audio recording of a new tall tale- "Paul Bunyan and the Photocopier". Found via Boing-Boing.

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This clever bit is credited to a Livejournal user called Rysmiel:

There was an old man
From Peru, whose lim'ricks all
Look'd like haiku. He

Said with a laugh "I
Cut them in half, the pay is
Much better for two."

Damn, that's clever. I was pointed to it by the Steven Brust's site; he's one of my favorite authors. If you want to read something scary and clever, look for a book called Agyar, but for heaven's sake don't read the reviews and the back cover, because they betray the book's secret.

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