Friday Roundup

Surplus items for you ranch hands out there. Thanks to link tipsters Creamy Stevens, whiskeypriest, and D.L.

• Surely most Americans have seen plenty of TV that has made them want to leap from the chair, run smack into a doorjamb, and start heaving. This guy hopes to use it to net a cool $2.5M.

• Click the watchful Baby Jesus!

• Notice to our Palestinian friends: Many Americans are perplexed by Richard Gere too.

• The quasi-lifelike videogame 'Sims 2' has been the subject of eerie, metaphysical hacks, where dishwashers are named Candance, and espresso balms the soul. Via Slashdot.

• More mesmerizingly awful record covers.

• Music-loving math nerds, try the Pi.

• Local Item: If you're short on entertainment, check out the Know Affair on Saturday, the big annual fundraiser for the best alterna-pendant theatre in Cincinnati.

Also, this blog has acquired quite a few readers from Bahrain, if I am reading my whizbang web reporting correctly. Welcome! I'm not sure how you got here -- but make yourself at home. One of my network savvy friends did suggest this might be the explanation, a software tool for making connections more anonymous. Ah well.