First up, before we take care of the Freaky Links, let me just mention that Peter enjoyed my article on “How to Make $1,000,000 Blogging.” He said that “It’s an awesome read and pretty funny through out the entire piece.” Well, that gets him a mention and a linkback. Thanks Peter!

Okay, now onto the Freaky Links!

1. This past week, Rolando did a short series on the “Dangers of Blogging.” Today, I find a site that asks what you would like as your last meal. Your final meal. The last meal you would eat before you die. Freaky. If you do choose to answer on the site, beware of anyone offering you that meal at any point in the future. If your spouse offers you that meal, run. If your waiter suggests it, especially if it’s something not offered at the restaurant you’re in, run. Me, I think I’ll just abstain from answering the question.
2. Teach your brain to stretch time. You too can achieve time travel within your own lifetime…
3. How to cook a baby. From the same site that wants to know your request for your final meal. Soylent green is people!
4. Hold onto something. Chris Bloczynski linked to me, and I’m linking back to his post linking to me, which I think could cause the Internet to implode. That, naturally, reminds me of this, which I feel compelled to link to at every opportunity.

   Oh, and Robert Henru–the guy who robbed me of victory in Chris Bloczynski’s linking contest–linked back to me too. I guess he’s feeling guilty or something. Anyway, he enjoyed a quote that I have on my About page. So, at the risk of breaking the Internet, I’ll give him a linkback too.

5. Did you know that Playboy magazine is available in Braille? Guess who pays for that? That’s right. Your tax dollars at work. (In the U.S., anyway.)
6. If you like pulling pranks on your friends, and have a lot of time on your hands, you might want to try this light bulb prank. Better hurry before these bulbs are no longer available. They were banned, you know. And you wouldn’t want to do this with one of those dangerous CFLs!
7. Nasty parasites. Pete, you probably don’t want to look at these.
8. Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. I mentioned this the other day, but it deserves another link. Make a Cylon jack o’lantern. You’ve only got 275 days left!
9. You can always tell it’s a slow news day when you can see something like this. I think I learned that in high school Physics, but that was many moons ago.
10. Brilliant 3D Illusion! It’s easy to figure it out, but you might have to watch it a second time to see what he’s really doing.
11. Of course, no one does it better than Penn & Teller.
12. Finally, not everyone is good with computers.

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I don’t buy a lot of video or computer games. In fact, I cannot remember the last time I bought one. I don’t think I’ve bought one in this century! (Unless you count the little joystick game system that has some of the old arcade games on it. I guess that means I haven’t bought a new game in this century!)

But, “Spore” is a game that may change that, especially since, reportedly, it will also be released for the Mac.

I first learned about “Spore” courtesy of Doug, who has been looking forward to it for a long time. It’s number 13 on his list, and you’ll see two video links where you can learn more.

It looks like fun, and something more challenging and interesting than the typical “shoot everything that moves” game. Hopefully, it will finally be released this year, and not be too expensive.

You can view the official site here.

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