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In a world overrun by obesity, how can the government make the people understand that cookies are a sometimes food? Mix the V for Vendetta trailer with some Sesame Street clips and you have the perfect combination for fun.

Are you ever late for something and you have to ride up an elevator? How2dostuff has a great tip on making the elevator go directly to your floor. I always tried some sort of variation of this trick which was to simply hold your floor button until you reach your floor. Unfortunately it did not always work, so here is the correct method.

How To Force an Elevator to Go Straight to Your Floor Without Picking Anyone Else Up:

1) Get in the elevator.
2) Decide which floor you want to go to.
3) Extend both index fingers.
4) Press the button for the floor that you want to go to, and the door close button at the same time, and hold them down for five seconds.
5) Laugh at all of the people that are waiting on an elevator while you go right past them.

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Be like Spidey and track the bad guys with this USB stick that uses GPS to track where someone has been. The more practical use would be to accurately map out biking or running routes. Carry this little thing in your pocket, then when you get home hook up the data to Google Earth, Yahoo Maps or Google Maps and you have an instant ride map. Nice, and super cool.

If you still want to be like Spidey and you think you better half is not being so faithful, have them carry this stick around, then when they get back, you will know exactly where they have been. That type of paranoia may be a signal that things just are not working out…

Some details about the GPS Tracker:
– Records time, date, location, speed, direction and altitude
– Works with Google Earth, Mapquest, maps.google.com, Virtual Earth
– Location points are downloaded into its software and then mapped
– Battery duration is 5 to 7 days of typical operation (low power mode)
– Requires 2 AAA batteries (not included)
– Dimensions: 4″ x 1 1/4″ x 3/4″
– Comes with TrackStick, lanyard, software CD

Coolest Gadgets: Really Cool Portable GPS Tracker

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The Japanese are way ahead of the US in cellphones, video games, robots and bullet trains. To come up with these great ideas they have to work late nights and cannot be bothered by crying babies. Luckily some wine tasters discovered that by slurping wine, a baby will suddenly stop crying. It seems as though each baby stops crying to say WTF was that sound? So enjoy a glass of wine and chill out, if the baby crys just go up to the crib, slurp some wine and resume partying.

Like many Astrochimp readers you probably spend lots of time at a computer, so having healthy eyes is much more important than overdeveloped biceps. There are no free weight exercises or nautalus machine for your eyes, but here are a few tips that can help you strengthen your eyes.

There are a few warning signs that you should obey before doing eye exercises especially this one:

When doing these exercises, make sure that you’re not facing anybody, or that they know you’re doing eye exercises. Otherwise they might think you have gone nuts.

Exercise your eyes

Also, here are some tips on how to see in the dark. See In the Dark

An almost hypnotic look at an intersection in India. There are no traffic lights, but the traffic flows effortlessly. There are a few backups, but they do not last long as the traffic just flows like river. It is amazing that there are no accidents during the clip.

Amazing “Rube Goldberg” machines.

Kermit as Neo, Miss Piggy as Trinity, Rowlf Dogg as Morpheus and Gonzo as Agent Smith.

No Steve Gutenburg in this movie for obvious reasons. Check out the Iranian women rapell down buildings and shoot while hanging out of a car in a police chase. The Iranian Women’s Police Academy will make you wonder no more why the crime rate in Iran is so low.

Joe Gannascioli the guy who lost a bunch of weight in Celebrity Fit Club and plays Vito Spatafore in the Sopranos takes you on a personal tour of the Sopranos sites. Check out Vesuvio and Bada Bing. Now if could only provide a map, then we can really get an idea of where things are located.