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New EADJ Segment: Creators Explain

As a public service, EADJ would like to share our spotlight with those who don't have quite the massive audience we do. All summer, we will be featuring the creator of a beach toy and ask them to explain it and the inspiration behind it.

This week: Hurley Turwell, the inventor of Spyderball.

HT: Spyderball, man. It's like volleyball meets handball meets "Top Gun", man! Instead of a volleyball net, you got this crazy beach trampoline, and you gotta bounce it off the trampoline to score over the other team. The ball is smaller than a kickball, so you can grip it and really whale on the other team, man!

EADJ: Why do you call it Spyderball?

HT: Because the trampoline is sort of like a web, and you gotta really keep your eye on the ball, so you gotta SPY it, get it? 

EADJ: Are you on drugs right now?

HT: No way, man! I'm natural! You wanna play a few rounds of Spyderball?

EADJ: No, we're good.

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Adriana Lima Is Unimpressed, As Always.

Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima has traveled the globe, gracing many a catwalk from Milan to Morocco. So it takes a lot to get her to raise an eyebrow.


Serious Backhoe Stunt Driving at the 2008 MotoLive Show:



Adriana Lima does not know what that large machine is or what it is designed to do, so she doesn't feel like that is really that amazing a feat. Sorry.


Lars and Jens Rasmussen, the original creators of Google Maps, will soon be launching Google Wave, an all-new way to collaborate online via text, photos, videos, maps and more, all live, harnessing the power of HTML 5.


Adriana Lima heard the word "wave" and automatically starting thinking about body surfing on Ipanema beach in Rio De Janeiro. So she wasn't really listening to whatever you were talking about after that.



Wildlife officials in Portland, Oregon have installed a robotic elk to catch poachers. The decoy is the first robotic elk in the Wildlife Enforcement Decoy program, which began in 1991. Officials said the program targets nighttime or closed-season poachers.


Adriana Lima once attended a perfume premier at a robot wine bar in St. Petersburg. The wine was not poured by robots, however. Kind of a disappointment, really. She also has never heard of an "elk." Do they make fur from that? Whatever. Where's her phone?


The Telegraph reports that a man impersonating KFC founder Colonel Sanders managed to dupe his way into the UN headquarters in New York and shake hands with a senior official.


Okay, okay. You got Adriana there. That is pretty fucking impressive.

A Nocturnal Wedding Tip For Jessica

A figure in the shadows gives Jessica a Wedding Tip.