Found this neat page while surfing the Weather Channel. Top ten summer songs, popsicle recipes for the kids (who knew there were ten ways to make popsicles?), and some neat grilling recipes.

I got to play in the dirt!  I planted my flowers and pots!  My color theme is coral/salmon ish…Veggies are in, heirloom tomatoes like Black Krim and Longkeeper…Cayenne, Jalapeno, Hungarian and Thai peppers…albino, golden and Italian sugar beets, as well as Tomatillos, yellow and zucchini squash!  Mulch is laid and all herbs planted!  I’m flippin crippled today-but my garden is on its way.  Now its my basic upkeep and enjoying the fruits of my labor.  The long weekend wasn’t all work…We made lobsters Friday night-yes I can finally kill one without having to take a Xanax…Saturday was Strawberry Daquiris and Steaks…Sunday an afternoon cook out with wine, and Monday afternoon I made Chiavettas chicken and enjoyed an ice cold Landshark…livin’ large…HOpe you enjoyed your long weekend!  Bring on Summer!

The group that runs Wikipedia feels it’s “nothing less than the greatest collection of human knowledge”. With this in mind, they want Wikipedia to become the first digital World Cultural Heritage Site.

As crazy as it sounds, I have to agree with them. This would insure that Wikipedia stays the way it is now, which I think is pretty close to perfect.

I talked on-air about Penny Wolfgang’s Wikipedia page. If you’ve gone looking for it, sorry – I was just joking about that (I always have to mess with Penny a bit each week before I leave). Despite being mentioned on a few Wikipedia pages, Penny doesn’t have a page of her own.

She’s in good company – neither do I. And I’m more than okay with that. What I’m not okay with is the Flying Saucer Restaurant on Lundy’s Lane not having a page of its own! That’s just not right. And I hope something is done to change that.

The Lego Mini Figures: kids love them, but they’re a nightmare for parents or anyone who gives them to a kid as a gift.

Nothing’s worse than spending $4 or so on one of these only to have the kid open it and learn it’s one of the figures they already have.

I talked to someone today who had this problem. Her son wanted a very specific mini-figure for his birthday, but trying to figure out exactly what was in that package without buying it and opening it up was next to impossible.

Until now. Here’s a way to know what’s in the package before opening it! For series 1 & 2, it’s a barcode tracker. For series 3 & 4, it’s a dot decoder. Here’s the links you’ll need to insure you never end up shelling out $4 for a duplicate again…

Series 1 barcode tracker

Series 2 barcode tracker

Series 3 dot decoder

Series 4 dot decoder

Find out more about this nightmare here.

There’s a new survey online that lets you know how picky, arrogant, and irritating you are.

It’s a short 20-question survey, took me about a minute or so to do, and is completely free.

Give it a try here.

On a scale from 1 to 5, I’m a 2.83. That’s about average. I’m kind of picky, not very arrogant, but I guess I am a little irritating.

The survey was created by personality psychologist Robert Hogan for the book Annoying: The Science Of What Bugs Us by Joe Palca and Flora Lichtman.

At 6pm tonight (9pm Eastern time as this comes from California), the world will supposedly end. Although technically, what’s actually going to happen is the rapture.

This according to Harold Camping of the Family Radio Network in Oakland, California. The original date of his prediction was September 6, 1994. But that came and went and nothing happened other than Michael Jackson & Aerosmith winning awards at the 11th MTV Awards.

See a picture of this crazy person and read more about how he came up with his theory in an online article from The Independent.

I’ll put my take on this on my main blog page, safely off the Star website lol.

I was going to put up a video of Harold here, but I like this far better instead (because I know it will be appropriate at 9:01pm Eastern time tonight)…

So your husband or boyfriend has probably asked you to wear, or picked out clothes for you in a store, that are completely wrong for you. Or aren’t the type of clothing most normal people would want to be wearing. Check out this web piece about a woman who let her boyfriend dress her for an entire week. Some days were good, others didn’t work out so well.

Bills owner Ralph Wilson gets props from NY DAILY NEWS columnist Gary Myers  for knowing the owners were getting into a bad deal with the last contract with the players association.  A good read for Bills fans.

Katy Perry is selling her Los Angeles home for $3.4 million.  The four-bedroom 1922 Mediterranean-style mansion comes complete with swimming pool (pictured above) and a three-car garage, which Katy converted into a wardrobe closet.  A 25-foot-tall  “love teepee,” bought by hubby Russell Brand, is not included in the sale, nor is Perry’s vintage pink refrigerator, which still stands in the renovated kitchen.

I am dying to play in my garden.  Mother Nature however has other plans for me….I have a to do list thats a mile long for OUTSIDE…inside…done…So no garden updates for now…sorry.

What I’m listening to…Adele

What I’m drinking…Paradigm

What I’m eating…pickled champagne vinegar homegrown golden beets over mesclun greens

What I’m watching…Borgias-hot-hot-naughty!

What I’m thinking….hmmmm I’ll never tell….

It seems everyone is obsessed with that Angry Birds game.

I just haven’t been able to get into it though. My favorite right now is Frisbee Forever, easily the best game I’ve found on my iPhone. And amazingly, it’s completely free!

In Frisbee Forever, you throw a frisbee and then have to maneuver it through rings to get through the course. There’s tons of levels and I just can’t get myself to stop playing this.

Eventually, I’ll conquer all the levels and then maybe I’ll give Angry Birds another try. One thing I do love about Angry Birds is the theme music – especially when Pomplamoose does it!

They’re the group that did all the clever Christmas song remakes this past year for the Hyundai car commercials. The Angry Birds theme is done in their trademark style and the short video is pretty funny (and fits right in with the game)…

Steven Tyler is definitely making the most of his American Idol judging experience. It seems like he’s been in the news constantly since the announcement that he would be one of the American Idol judges.

And now the ultimate – a memoir titled “Does The Noise In My Head Bother You”. It’s been flying off the shelves at bookstores.

Here’s a quote he had about the book: “I’ve been mythicized, Mick-icized, eulogized and fooligized, I’ve been Cole-Porter’d and farmer’s-daughter’d, I’ve been Led Zepp’d and 12-stepped. I’m a rhyming fool and so cool that me, Fritz the Cat, and Mohair Sam are the baddest cats that am.”

Based on that, maybe the book won’t be the easiest read. I’m not the biggest fan of autobiographies, so I’ll probably pass on this one. But if you want to check it out, get it here.

Great article from Fortune magazine on how fewer people are “twitterpated.”  Where do you fall in the Twitter field?

Click on the link to see the videos after I talk about them on-air…

Miley Cyrus’ Smells Like Teen Spirit

A Florida alligator vs. a cop car