Today’s 20: 7.11.08

Today’s Odd News Stories
- Police find $400,000 worth of cocaine in an undercover police car that they have been driving for 2 months. That’s some fine police work there. (AP.org)
- You can’t have a Waffle House Wedding without someone named “Bubba,” a reference to Nascar, and Hank Williams, Jr blaring from an SUV’s stereo. (Gwinnett Daily Post)
- “Quick! Arrest that pink elephant before our faces melt.” 18-Year old kid gives cops LSD Cookies. (Asylum)
- Them’s some big bloomers. (Telegraph)
- Not all professional video gamers are college drop outs who sleep on their mom’s couch and works part time at Boston Markets. This isn’t a good example of that however. (Sun Sentinel)

Today’s Blogs
- Nike Actually Made Marty McFly’s “BTTF II” Sneakers. (Cinematical)
- Fascinating Fart Facts (Asylum)
- Baseball’s All Ugly Team (Comedy.com)
- Steve-O talks about Steve-Oey stuff. (Myspace)
- Why England should be our 51st State (Asylum)

Today’s Cool Free Software
- Revo Uninstaller – beats the default windows uninstaller by a mile. (Revo Uninstaller)
- Auslogics Disk Defrag – Much safer, more effective disk defragmentation software. (Auslogics)
- MDAxel, new folder creation made easy. Kinda. (Life hacker)
- Readbag, store a bunch of links for later. (Online App) (Readbag)
- Tunecrypt (Download Squad)

Today’s Science News
- Planet Mercury is Shrinking. (All Headline News)
- According to the first paragraph of this story, being fat is a mutation. I’m 1/4 the way to finally becoming a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. (News.com.au)
- This article has something to do with curing Alzheimers. I didn’t read it, but it does say “oral” in the headline (giggity). (Science Daily)
- Octopuses given Rubik’s Cubes to find out if they have a favorite tentacle. I personally like all my tentacles equally. Warning: Full frontal pic of an octopus’ tentacles hanging out all over the place. (Daily Mail)
- Recycling cures cancer! (Science Daily)