Are you, or do you know a sleepyhead that constantly misses school, meetings or doctors appointments? Then a Clocky is all you need. An awesome little wheeled robotic nuisance, Clocky is an alarm clock for your bedside table, only, it’s on wheels. Clocky gives you one chance to wake up when it’s alarm goes off, if you snooze, it takes off, wheeling around your bedroom bumping into things and causing havoc while still blaring the latest horrible single from Fergie. That is, until you wake up and stop it, either by catching it and turning off the alarm, or hitting it with a golf club.

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Located in Norther California, the Monticello Dam’s spillways are the largest in the world. Shaped as a funnel, the spillways allow water to bypass the dam when capacity is reached, preventing flooding and possibly saving a life or three. The Monticello spillways can swallow up to 48,400 cubic feet of water PER SECOND, creating some killer rips, dude.

See more: Photos of the Monticello Dam spillways and more | Monticello Dam entry @ Wikipedia

Hunter S. Thompson was a man before his time, or, from another time, or maybe just a bit insane, in that gifted sort of way. This documentary, filmed by BBC in 1978, followed around Thompson, featuring several interviews on his image, his books and his wacky experiences traveling the country leaving large amounts of unanswered questions and destruction in his wake.

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When I was a kid, I always loved going to airport cafes, many of which allowed you to plug your headphones into small boxes where you could listen to the air traffic communications as they occurred. Though I never learned to fly (and in all honesty, HATE flying), I was always curious as to what exactly was going on between the pilots and ground control. So years have passed and never did I imagine I’d be able to listen to pilot to ground communication over the internets, but hey, it *is* the future. LiveATC is a great little community site for aviation enthusiasts, aviation students and flight-sim enthusiasts to monitor live communication from various airports around the world, letting you know exactly how French pilots communicate with Korean air traffic controllers and what exactly angry pilots sound like when their takeoff spot gets scooped up by millionaires in private jets.

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We all know that the US is strange, but, this takes it to a new level. Just a few minutes looking at StrangeUSA.com, a database of strange places in the United States, one would think the whole country is one giant haunted, zombie-infested ghost town. StrangeUSA consolidates all the information it can find on haunted buildings, spooky cemetaries, unidentified monsters, ghost towns and all the scariest places they can find, collected by users and urban explorers to give you the best darn database of haunted stuff your side of the Mississippi. Oh look, that church whose bells I used to hear down the street, haunted. Super.

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The fellow TV Addicts at thetvaddict.com reported yesterday that Battlestar Galactica will be seeing a fourth season on the Sci-Fi Network, surprising quite a few naysayers who were expecting the show to be axed after viewership declined heavily for the early parts of this 3rd season. Battlestar is one of the most amazing shows that noone seems to watch, so it would have been a huge pity if such a dynamic and intelligent drama would see the way of the trash bin.

Read more: Battlestar renewed for fourth season

With the Oscars approaching fast, Al Gore and Laurie David’s movie, “An Inconvenient Truth” is all but locked in for winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary, meaning we’ll get a nice rousing acceptance speech from Al Gore. With that knowledge, a rumor appears to be burning through the political elite that Al Gore is going to announce his candidacy for president while accepting his Oscar. Such an announcement would not only be a first, but an amazing surprise, eclipsing schnitzel-buddy Arnie’s announcement on Jay Leno’s show.

My opinion on both rumors? For the Best Documentary Oscar, I think his movie is a shoe-in, for Best Presidential run announcement, I’ll remain a little skeptical. Gore, while just right for what is ailing the country, is able to accomplish much more in the private sector than most could in the public, so I think he’s comfortable where he’s at. Now, a Gore/Obama or Gore/Edwards ticket would set this country alight and would win my vote instantly.

Read more: Gore to announce run for presidency at the Oscars?

With Valentine’s Day approaching this week what better way to let someone know that you’re against everything that Valentine’s Day has become than with an, er, anti-Valentine? If you think Valentine’s Day has been overly commercialized by chocolate manufacturers and greeting card companies then take part me(ish)’s organized virtual protest, by sending your loved (or hated ones) a mini virtual protest card declaring you want them to be your anti-valentine.

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The Iranian Fars News Agency has reported that a group of Iranian scientists have introduced an herbal medicine reported to cure AIDS. This would be a great announcement if there was any actual independent confirmation and the Fars News Agency wasn’t prone to shoveling out government-backed propaganda hand over fist. The drug is named IMOD and reportedly strengthens the patient’s immune system, with little to no reported side effects. To clarify, there is little doubt that this is a government-backed propaganda piece, which shouldn’t be reflected on the Iranian people as a whole.

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The desktops are alive with the sound of widgets and now more than ever thanks to Wigipedia, a wiki community collecting everything there is to know about desktop and web widgets for Windows, OS X and Linux computers. Wigipedia is attempting to catalog the development of all widgets and gadgets, across all platforms, allowing developers to upload their creations in order to collaborate with other developers and offer their small apps directly to end users. There’s also a comprehensive section with tutorials and code samples so you can learn to create your own desktop widget!

Widget more: Widgipedia.com