23 Most Interesting Things On The Internet This Week :: Ventipop #236

"If you're not ready to find exceptional things, you won't discover them. - Avi Loeb"

- Avi Loeb

In this week's edition, learn all about The Sex Button, Smart Beds, Deadheading, Drinkable Chips, Magnet Fishing, The Period Game, My New Theme Song and the Best New Songs Out This Week

"Getting people to put the word 'orgasm' on a billboard in New York City was nearly impossible. We got turned down by tons and tons and tons of out-of-home vendors."

- Tara Lynch of creative agency Vitro, talking about a campaign for Astroglide personal lubricant

Snaps & Buckles & Things

Don't Deadhead. - All the bad things about Uber & Lyft in one simple list.
Only in Florida - A couple was "magnet fishing" in the Ocklawaha River near Ocala, Fla. - using a magnet to try to locate "precious metal." After their venture, they put their finds into a five-gallon bucket, put the bucket in the trunk, drove to a nearby Taco Bell ...and only then called police to report that their haul included a World War II-era hand grenade. The restaurant was evacuated while the Marion County Sheriff's Office Bomb Squad responded. Bomb techs "determined that the firing pin mechanism on the grenade did not appear to be functional," but they removed the grenade for destruction at another location. The Taco Bell was closed for over an hour while the grenade was dealt with. Taco Bell...always explosive.
PopQuiz, Hotshot! - What do morticians do with all the blood they take out of dead bodies?
Go With The Flow - The Period Game is a new board game about menstruation.
Serving two addictions - A Drinkable Potato Chip so you can have the other hand free to use your phone.
Space Invaders - Making marriage counselors everywhere nervous; Ford has created a smart bed that rolls selfish sleepers back into place:

"Life is like a box of timelines. You feel me?"

- Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) invokes Forrest Gump in Netflix Russian Doll

22 New Songs We Love This Week

Spankin' new songs we love this week include tracks by Dale Watson, Ashe, Over The Rhine, The Regrettes, Nick Waterhouse, Rosie Flores, The Cactus Blossoms, Hayes Carll, Ider, Caroline Spence, Anna Tivel, Yann Tiersenn & More

Book - Stephen King had this to say about Don Winslow's The Force: "Think THE GODFATHER, only with cops. It's that good." Even though I have no idea who I'm rooting for as I read it, I'm enjoying the ride. And damn, can Don Winslow write.
Movie #1 - A Norwegian disaster movie makes the list of recommendations this week. The tension in this movie is relentless and sustained from beginning to end. Had my kids screaming, "RUN!" at the top of their lungs. It's overdubbed in English on Netflix; wish they would have just left it with subtitles. It's a thoroughly fun, heart-pounding movie that moves briskly by at a mere 105 minutes.

Movie #2 - Well, actually only the trailer is out for this one, but I have incredibly high hopes for this because it's from the writer of Love Actually and my favorite movie of all-time About Time. This one is called Yesterday:

It's A Small World After All...

New Zealand - In America, you get a fake plastic peach in your Happy Meal or some other worthless piece of crap. In New Zealand, kids are getting Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach or other Dahl classic at McDonald's.

Laugh or Cry, Man...Laugh or Cry

Encore :: Closing this one out with a joke...

Robert and Peter, are sitting at their favorite bar, drinking beer. Robert turns to Peter and says,"You know, I'm tired of going through life without an education.Tomorrow I think I'll go the community college, and sign up for some classes." Peter agrees that it's a good idea, and the two leave.

The next day, Robert goes down to the college and meets the Dean of Admissions, who signs him up for the four basic classes:Math, English, history, and Logic.

"Logic?" Robert says. "What's that?The dean says, "I'll show you. Do you own a lawn mower?" "Yeah." "Then logically speaking, because you own a lawn mower, I think that you would have a yard." "That's true, I do have a yard." "I'm not done," the dean says. "Because you have a yard, I think logically that you would have a house." "Yes, I do have a house" "And because you have a house, I think that you might logically have a family." "I have a family." "I'm not done yet. Because you have a family, then logically you must have a wife." "Yes, I do have a wife." "And because you have a wife, then logic tells me you must be a heterosexual."

"I am a heterosexual. That's amazing, you were able to find out all of that because I have a lawn mower."

Excited to take the class now, Robert shakes the Dean's hand and leaves to go meet Peter at the bar.He tells Peter about his classes, how he is signed up for Math, English History, and Logic. "Logic?" Peter says, "What's that?"