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Item 214: VIDEO. ITEM WRITTEN BY MOBY. (5 seconds max). Let's see you with an animal you generally like more than people.

PS: Because everything from down under is awesome, and these wallabies will hop right up to you. 

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item 212: Help Misha and Gishwhes get an Erdös number for real this time. Go to http://ubee.enseeiht.fr:8080/Shapes/home.html and complete the tasks, per the directions you find there. Submit a screenshot of your certificate of completion.

PS: Last year, I did get his Erdos number to below 10 because I know scientists who know mathematicians. ; )

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Item 211: All Random Acts staffers volunteer long hours. They get no pay and often get too little praise. Do something nice for a Random Acts volunteer (or for the staff of another all-volunteer organization).

PS: For some reason, you can’t take pictures of the volunteers or librarians in my local public library. I hope they still got to enjoy the cookies.

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Item 201: Show us something you find beautiful that most others would deem ugly.

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Item 165: WILLIAM SHATNER ITEM - Carrie Fisher is known for her portrayal of Princess Leia in Star Wars. Her memorable hairstyle was often called the Princess Leia Bun. Bake a portrait of Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia in bread.

PS: I did it funko pop style using pizza crust and egg yolks with food coloring. 

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Item 154: Let's see a conquistador riding a giant tortoise or a man throwing a frisbee to an iguana which catches it in its mouth. Only because I think you deserve an easy item or two here and there, this should be done as a zoetrope versus doing it with actual tortoises and iguanas. You're welcome.

PS: This took me 3 days to do, and it about killed me. I persevered for the sole reason that I have too many degrees to fail at making a children’s toy invented in the late 19th century. 

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Item 154: Let's see the Leaning Tower of Gishwhes.

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Item 148: Make a highway rest stop more restful - make it a paradise.

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Item 140: Paint or draw a celebrated historical figure on a glass slide; but paint them really small. Submit two images side-by-side: one with the glass slide in your hand, and the other showing what your portrait looks like magnified 20X under a microscope.

PS: I just realized that I didn’t follow the directions, but I used an actual microscope with a scientific camera attached. The scale bar doesn’t lie. So I totally missed those 65 points.

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item 135: When Alexander made the first phone call on 10 March, 1876 he could not have foreseen the birth of the 'smart phone' generation... Or could he? Using late 19th century technology and parts, build the smart phone Alexander Graham Bell would have built if only he'd had the time. - Monica Duff

PS: My favorite item that I did. 

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Item 120: Stand in front of your garden holding up a sign with your best unorthodox or hard to believe gardening tip for the First Lady of the United States. Tweet it to @MichelleObama and include "@gishwhes" and "#gardeninghack"

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Item 119: Create the Impala or any iconic object from "Supernatural" out of compost scraps.

PS: That’s the holy water flask.

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Item 106: The water crisis is a leading global risk to society. Let's see a "Toilet to Tap" media flyer: make it glamorous and convincing so it stands out from all the other one's out there.

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Item 102: Many school music and art programs are underfunded. Find a local school art program that needs instruments, art supplies, etc. and donate a needed item to it (as well as try to find others to donate to it). The image should be of you presenting the item(s) to the teacher/administrator at the school.

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Item 95: Show Kim Kardashian how to break the Internet.

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Item 94: VIDEO or IMAGE. @GISHBOT ITEM. (If you choose video, it may be up to 20 seconds but you can do an image as well.) A robot (Hitchbot) successfully hitchhiked across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands but then fell into the wrong hands in the US and was vandalized: http://www.cnet.com/news/hitchbot-is-dead-long-live-hitchbot/. We’ve discovered he was a distant relative of Gishbot’s (currently in mourning). In honor of Gishbot, let’s help his robot relative get back on his feet: reconstruct Hitchbot and treat him to a fun day or night on the town (roller-blading, boating, picnic in the park, dinner at a fine restaurant, opera, movie, nightclub dancing, etc.) and then send him off with a stranger (unless your friend is cosplaying as Hitchbot in which case take your friend home when you’re finished). Tweet your video to @hitchBOT with @gishwhes and #hitchBOTreturns in the tweet BUT SUBMIT US THE IMAGE OR VIDEO, NOT AN IMAGE OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA POST.