The perfect nerd storm: combine Legos, robots, and videogames. WiigoBot is a Lego NXT Wii Playing Robot that can bowl a perfect game! Building instructions are available.

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I loved the Muppets doing this song when I was a kid (a century or so ago). This updated version features WoW machinia characters trying to pronounce l33t terms. Yeah, I laughed.

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Following various gaffes – and the unimaginative advice of their publicists – celebrities have been apologizing in public for years. We're a forgiving people. Today we feature some of the more (and less) heartfelt ways people said they were sorry.

Today on the Veg: public apologies.

Worst Super Mario Brother's level ... ever.

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Wow, real prizes. We've got a set of five CDs to give away this week. Number Ones is a series of greatest hits collections, featuring classic Motown, Jazz, Country and dance tracks, and one YBNBY reader will win five of them:

• Diana Ross & The Supremes
• Marvin Gaye
• James Brown
• Classic Motown
• The Temptations

All you have to do is email us your name and address, with the subject header "YESBUTNOBUTYES IS #1", just to stroke our ego. Winner will be the picked at random next weekend.

In the meantime,we'll be featuring a YouTube clip each day from one of the artists. Today: Marvin Gaye.

Any other promotions companies out there want us to give free shit away? Preferably a Wii? Let us know.

Last week was a pretty good week for the Haterade - 2 out of 3 in the bottom, including calling the surprise of Blake in the bottom and the ouster of Sanjaya. What does he have in store this week?

China Central Television (CCTV) has some astoundingly beautiful women, but can’t bring itself to say too many nice things about them. In the slideshow Uniqueness of 10 hot female stars in China, movie star Gong Li on the left is described as average: “Shortcomings; her face is a little long and her lips are a little thick.” Xu XiYuan, at right, is “average except beautiful long hair. By the way, she has big ears.” Yeah, you can't have movie stars getting a big head.

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