1.) A little while back I heard this story on NPR about a new book about Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley. While I've yet to read the book, it's on my list. Take a listen to the interview.

2.) This story from the Digital Journal is about a woman who can see 99 million more colors than others. I was attracted to this story because my mother claims to see many more shades than the average person. How amazing is it that there are people who are experiencing a completely different reality that we can't comprehend.

3.) My parents fit the hippy bill, at least they were when they were younger. This list of 29 Signs You Were Raised By Hippies confirms this belief. The closest ones to my childhood: #16. "God= Jerry Garcia", and #22 "When your friends came over, they asked, “What’s that smell?”".
I know the words to too many Grateful Dead songs because they were my lullabies.
My house always smells like Nag Champa. I caught myself buying Nag Champa the other day. I guess #28 is true too: "But ultimately you’ve realized you are too much like them".
Yeah I'm just like them.

4.) "10 Easy Ways to De-Stress" from the UF Counseling and Wellness Center. This came out around finals time last semester, and I find it pretty helpful. That's saying something, because I'm usually an anxious mess.

5.) My brother was in a band called "3rd Stone" for six years, and over those years I travelled to my fair share of music festivals. This list is a fantastic representation of worst people at music festivals. I love #5 "The old guy who looks kind of lost", that guy is at every jam band festival just wandering aimlessly. I swear, I feel like i've even seen that specific old guy in the photo in the article.

6.) This American Life did a two part episode (part one and part two) on Harper High School in Chicago. One of the students from the episode, Deonte, stood out because he essentially had to barricade himself in his house for all of high school to avoid gang activity. Well, he and one other student from Harper earned Gates Millenium Scholarships.

7.) Simply 10 Ridiculously Cute Pet Costumes! I absolutely love the slow moving UFO; tortoises rock.

8.) I love NPR. No really, I think I have a crush on a public news entity. This chart is a guide to all the running gags from Arrested Development, including all the new ones from Season 4. I seem to be part of the majority with my love of the new season, which became available on Netflix on May 26. While I was a late-comer to the series (I've been working through it over the last few months) and didn't finish until a few days after the new season came out, I'm absolutely thrilled. On that topic; what a season finale!

9.) Sometimes when I can't sleep I think I should probably get up and work on something, because if James Franco can forgo sleep to be his supervillan self, then I should be able to. This article from HelloGiggles explains why I'm terrified of James Franco to a T. The man has way more passions than me, and he's successful at ALL OF THEM. I struggle with 13 credit hours a semester, he can manage 62 and graduate with a 3.5 GPA.
I wish I was James Franco.

10.) I was turned on to Gizoogle when I saw it on the blog Cupcakes and Cashmere. It's basically ghetto Google, and I had way too much fun with it.

Here's my Twitter Gizoogle style


What do you think of the links this time? Comment, shoot me some suggestions, tell me your favorites.

Chao!