Sunday afternoon. Driving down Route 10 West. A car driving east up that very road nearly slams me. Head on. He was fleeing the police, who followed a not-very-safe distance behind.

I didn't know what almost hit me. But in the seconds after the near miss, I realized how lucky I was.

Calling this a near-death experience would be overdramatic. An exaggeration. A desperate grab for sympathy. OK, a flat out lie. The Camry's safety record is widely documented. And the fugitive wasn't driving with reckless abandon. More like scared shitless abandon, which equates to approximately a 20mph difference. In that difference, even a subpar hand-eye coordinator like myself could swerve into the shoulder and live to tell about it.

So, more accurately, it was a near-airbag deployment. What I avoided was a big pain-in-the-ass.

Regardless of how close to death I really wandered, it was one of those live-life-to-the-fullest moments. Things were going to be different.

We've featured trailer mashups here before, including the great Shining one, but believe me, nothing could prepare you for this baby.

Hold tight for the re-edit of all redits - Titanic II: Jack's Back

Download.com is offering American Music Club's brilliant 1991 album Everclear in it's entirety for FREE! The first song, "Another Morning," is from AMC's last album, Love Songs for Patriots, and the next 11 tracks make up the entire Everclear album.

This is the album that earned Mark Eitzel "Songwriter of the Year" award from Rolling Stone. It's a fantastic album and you can't beat the price. Download Everclear here.

In our ever-increasing digital world, the analog nature of this thing is just beautiful - a USB drive that gets fatter the more data you put on it. Just beautiful, although unfortunately only a concept, or I'd be getting out my credit card right now. (via BoingBoing)

Ever wondered how Ronaldinho managed all those tricks in the Joga TV spots? Well, wonder no more.

(Whoops, thanks to Fabio for catching my spelling error - which I corrected - and for the info below. What do I know - I'm surrounded by people who think “Football” means a completely different sport)

Another thing I've learnt from the experience of parenting boys: You spend a couple of years potty training them with a regular sit-down potty, but then when you take them out to a movie or a mall or whatever, they find it very uncomfortable to actually stand at a urinal to pee, because they're so used to sitting down to do it. And frankly, I don't WANT my kids sitting on public lavatory seats, apart from in a #2 emergency.

Which is why i love Peter Potty, the “world's only flushable toddler urinal”.

Plus, when you push the button, it plays “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” (Think about it).

Once again proving that one man's porn is another man's daily married life, here's Ballbusters, a collection of videos promising “real kicks, real knees, real punches - straight to the groin”. Not so much NSFW as merely eyewatering.

More Lost news - they're going to be launching an online scavenger hunt/alternate reality game, called The Lost Experience. Devilishly, clues to solve the mystery will be embedded in TV ads run on ABC during sweeps.

The article about it on on EW points to the cleverness of this, as viewers will have to start taking much more notice of all those annoying commercials. I think they are missing the bigger story here though - this is clearly an online campaign designed to get people to watch TV ads, which is a complete 180˚ turn from usual ad agency practices (“Let's create TV spots to drive people to our web site”). Does that qualify as a Tipping Point?

Here's the story and some pics of what might be a performance art piece recently in Union Square. Now all we need is an over-sized gin and tonic.

...or how to raise the country's collective IQ, simply by getting rid of a few very specific individuals.

Section 1) The elevator speeder-uppers

These are the people that need to go down, but think they can get the elevator there faster by pressing both buttons. Then, when the elevator going up opens in front of them, they

a) stare at the people inside until the doors close again
b) get on, pretend they're going up, and when everyone's off, press 1.
c) get on, wait 'til it starts going up, press 1 and say "oh well, I'll take a ride"

Coming soon, the "I need to get on the train before you get off" lady. And yes, I'm cranky this morning. Wanna make something of it?

Via One Good Move.

A fascinating character study.
Of course it only gets really weird when you realize she has about 100 other videos to view.