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Hello HPG readers old and new, and welcome to the inner reaches of my brain. Welcome to the hive mind!

I’m sure this isn’t news to any of you who read sites like HotPinkGeek regularly, but I spend a good portion of my time ‘researching’ the most ridiculous things on the internet and sharing them with those who will listen (and a few who really won’t).

Over the next few days I’ll be sharing with you my favourite lists of 2009 — websites, crazy people, whoa-worthy videos — everything you’ve come to expect from HotPinkGeek and more!

Without further ado, here’s today’s list: Websites where you can waste absurd amounts of time!

Now, I’ve not spent a lot of time organizing them into rank – in my head or otherwise – so I want you to look at this list as one solid, flowing piece of crap artwork wherein you could randomly choose a link and be whisked away to a magical land of ridiculous/funny/mind-blowing and lose the better portion of your productive work day. I am to distract and amuse!
And… go! (Click here for HPG’s Top 25 of 2009: Websites where you can waste absurd amounts of time)

It’s a wonderful thing when that which is complicated, like the complex world of sex and dating is broken down into something as simple as a two dimensional graph chart.

The first, The Physical vs Mental Attractive graph is care of geekology.com and may explain why people have been “friend zoned”. Blasted friend zone. *angry face*

The second is from “How I Met Your Mother” and it is Barney’s ‘Crazy/Hot Scale’ and it basically explains why it’s o.k. for ragingly hot chicks to have a blood stream that also doubles as a cross border pharmacy.

Thank you to these charts for proving once again that math and science can take some of the more complicated things and break them down into easier to understand visuals for even the simplest of layman.

Mattel — once known for Barbie and Hot Wheels and all of my favourite childhood toys — is now, sadly, synonymous with lead-filled choking hazards, to put it bluntly: Barbie’s packin’ lead.

The Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSIA) has recently granted Mattel’s request to use its own labs for testing. What? You read that right. Though I’d love to believe that Mattel could be accountable for itself, testing for lead and phthalates is very pricey. And with no one really watching…

Did you know that Mattel spent over $1 million dollars last year in lobbying costs? Hrmm.

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A conversation at Warner Bros. yesterday, just prior to this announcement:

“Hey boss, it’s been several minutes since we announced a new, unnecessary Hollywood remake of a relatively recent movie.” “Get out the Every-Movie-Ever dart board!”

[THROWS DART]

“City By The Sea.”
“That lame De Niro movie from 2002? Nahh, we’ll hold off on that remake for another year.”

[THROWS ANOTHER DART]

“Annie Hall.”
“Nahh, getting the rights would be too difficult, but the millisecond Woody Allen dies, we have a script with Megan Fox and Jaden Smith rarin’ to go.”

[THROWS ANOTHER DART]

“Brewster’s Millions”
“PERFECT! A totally ok movie from peoples’ childhoods that’s already been turned into movies ten times, starting with Cecil B. DeMille’s 1914 version? Make it happen, Charlie.” “While you were saying that, I already got the Wayanses on speakerphone.” “You are promoted to Vice President of Movies.”

Weeeeeeird.As seen on Video Fantastica, as usual.