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Specimen Custom Guitars has more than satisfied an unusual request with its Pac-Man Electric Guitar.

WhatDoesThatMean is “a free lexicon of English idioms, words, and catch phrases from around the world. [It] is also a ‘user built’ site – in addition to searching for a definition, you can add your own.” The site is pretty fun and has a wide variety of slang phrases from many countries and dialects. However, what really got me hooked was yesterday’s featured entry, “Santorum.” 😉 (some NSFW language)

Update: It looks like WhatDoesThatMean has removed the “Santorum” entry, so you’ll have to refer to the Urban Dictionary link, which is better anyway. 😉

According to salary.com, the salaries of TV dads have more than doubled since the early days of television:

Since the 1980s, when TV saw dads like Philip Drummond of “Diff’rent Strokes” and Cliff Huxtable of “The Cosby Show” start to earn higher incomes, TV dad salaries have been on the rise. Salary.com’s team of compensation experts studied a sampling of 60 TV fathers from the most popular television shows over the past six decades. Today’s TV dads have an average salary of $195,000 per year, which is more than twice the salary of their 1950’s counterparts, who were earning the equivalent of $75,000 (in 2005 dollars).
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We ranked a sampling of 60 TV dad salaries from popular shows since the 1950s. Ten dads were used in each decade in order to compute the TV dad salary average. Based on jobs and salaries, Hollywood’s depiction of popular fathers has been moving up the corporate ladder at a rate of about 21 percent per decade.

Pretty interesting…

Check out The Onion 2056, a hilarious futuristic edition of The Onion.

Science@NASA reports that “The lowest-hanging full moon in 18 years is going to play tricks on you this week” due to the Summer Moon Illusion. It’s definitely a good time to try for some nice pictures of the rising moon this week…

Conan O’Brien dispatched Triumph the Insult Comic Dog to interview Michael Jackson Supporters outside of the courthouse. Quite hilarious, as you’d expect… 🙂

I came upon Sudoku a couple of weeks ago, but I forgot to post about it back then. As the article explains, Sudoku is an addictive number placement game that seems to have regained popularitiy overseas recently, and it has started to reappear in the United States. The rules are fairly straightforward, but the puzzles can vary widely in difficulty. At the bottom of the article are several links to online or downloadable games; The Daily Sudoku and Sudoku-san are two that I’ve frequented. Don’t say I didn’t warn you…

“Like to put stuff on your cat while it snoozes?” I don’t particularly, but the folks at Stuff On My Cat do. Weird, but funny…

My latest MP3 Of The Moment is Iggy Pop’s Lust For Life . I figured I ought to let you listen to the lyrics for yourself to see how badly Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines chose their ad campaign song. Enjoy and wonder at the intelligence of those ad executives… 😉

MC Hawking’s Crib is a hilarious site with lots of multimedia to peruse. The video/short movie What We Need More Of Is Science is particularly funny…