Review for Bic Crystal Ballpoint Pen – the review isn’t even the best part….read the pages of comments following after. Hilarious!

I’m adding this to my bucket list. Or maybe not. Kind of scary since I don’t know how to swim!

Located in Haiti.

This is a lot cooler than I thought it would be!

How to get rid of a variety of stains
Baseball pitches illustrated – if you ever wondered what a screwball, splitter, etc meant
Food network’s top 100 recipes of 2007
Speaking of food, tastespotting – pictures of yummy looking food
CES 2008 Top Picks – for the gadget crazy, check out what’s hot at CES this year
Japanese bug fights – pretty much every guy I know would find this interesting :P
Real life hannibal! – Police say they found an ear boiling in a pot on a stovetop at the crime scene, and a hunk of flesh on a plate and impaled on a fork at the kitchen table. ewww gross!

Random friday picture/comic:

If you didn’t catch this episode of Wife Swap, you must watch this clip!

The parents have a xmas tree up year round and give her a present every day because for their daughter it’s Christmas everyday! They also do her school projects for her, has no chores, and gets whatever she wants.

I must admit, reality tv has really opened my eyes to the amount of weird/wacky people out there in this world.

Also, check out the rest of the Huffington Post’s must see videos of the week.

One of my ongoing goals is to eat healthier in the new year. Yeah, I always say that. But it’s always nice to remind myself of the bad vs good foods. I’m not disciplined enough to completely cut out bad foods, but I can at least reduce my intake of them! Here’s a list of foods to eat or avoid for a healthier heart!

Avoid:
bacon – wahhh, my fave! :(
carbonated beverages – i’ve been drinking more water yay!
processed carbs (white bread, pasta, rice) – i’ve been trying to replace these with their brown/wheat alternatives

Eat More Of:
walnuts – 14 a day is recommended
olive oil – i see eating no knead bread dipped with olive oil in my foreseeable future!
red wine – one glass once or twice a week. i’m not a big wine drinker but I did find one I really like that’s also cheap! (thanks cheryl)

Oh, I totally forgot to blog about this. I tried this surefire way to win at Monopoly strategy and came in a very disappointing last place in a 3 person game. I think the only surefire strategy to Monopoly is to buy EVERYTHING you land on.

This list from the BBC is pretty cool. It’s 100 things that we didn’t know until this year and the related article. Some interesting ones:

11. Astronauts wear nappies during launch and re-entry because they can’t stop what they’re doing should they need to urinate.

31. There is mobile phone reception from the summit of Mount Everest.

48. You can be arrested for using someone’s wi-fi network without permission.

55. Books used to be bound in human skin.

57. Sleeping on the job is tolerated in Japanese work culture, as long as you remain upright and obey certain other rules. It’s called inemuri.

70. IP addresses will run out in 2010.

76. George Clooney and Pierce Brosnan have had Bell’s Palsy – a nerve condition that can result in paralysis on one side of the face.

85. A 23.8lb baby was born in the US in 1879, but it only survived 11 hours.

Yeah, I need a vacation from my vacation. No posting today! I can barely get through the day at work hehe.

I had my usual Friday Links scheduled to post yesterday but somehow it disappeared along with my links. :(

I don’t really know/remember the links I had but here is an interesting video to tide you over. This crazy kid does a backflip in his WHEELCHAIR!