From the brilliantly demented minds behind The Eric Andre Show and Bad Trip, an insane illustrated compendium about the art of pranking. Eric André is a master of the art of pranking—“an Andy Kaufman for the Four Loko generation,� as Spin magazine once hailed him. For over a decade, he and longtime collaborator Dan Curry have dreamed up and performed a cornucopia of outrageous, often illegal, and always death-defying hijinks for the Adult Swim series The Eric Andre Show, as well as in the hit movie Bad Trip. Now, in their very first book, Eric and Dan reveal the secret fuel behind their surrealistic prank machine. Get ready to gorge your thirsty peepers on epic stories of shame, redemption, and glory behind pranks so dumb they’re brilliant…and beyond the realm of criticism. But wait, there’s more! This pranktastic potpourri includes: -Tips for prankers of any skill level, from the importance of a “safe word� to why you should always keep the camera rolling, even after the prank is over. -All new pranks to try at home such as “Jell-O Surprise,� “Benadryl Steaks,� “Amateur Graverobber� and “The Jim Morrison.� -Wild behind-the-scenes stories about the most classic pranks from The Eric Andre Show and Bad Trip. -Learn about the dark existential dread behind everyone’s favorite mac-and-cheese-spurting DJ, Kraft Punk. -Discover how Eric avoided getting stabbed when a penis-in-a-finger-trap prank went horribly wrong. -Exclusive never-before-filmed pranks deemed too hot for TV. -Inspirational quotes from philosophers so obscure that they might not even exist. Artfully designed, loaded with funny photos, and a gracious foreblurb by Jack Black, Dumb Ideas is an essential manual for getting a laugh out of friends, family, and complete strangers—and staying out of jail while doing it.

In 2005, the twelfth edition of the conference Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery was held in Poitiers, France, April 13 15, 2005. The conference was organized by the laboratory SIC ( Signal, Image, Communications ) of the University of Poitiers, Centre National de la Recherche Scienti?que and the Technical Committee 18 of the International Association for Pattern Recog- tion. DGCI 2005 was sponsored by the Faculty of Science, the University of Poitiers, the Conseil G en eral de la Vienne and the Region of Poitou-Charentes. The aim of the conference was to present recent advances in both theoretical aspects and applications in discrete geometry. This year s conference was organized in combination with the 5th Workshop B on Graph- ased Representations in Pattern Recognition, April 11 13, 2005 also organizedinPoitiers.TheworkshopGbRaimsatusinggraph-basedstructuresin image analysis. There is a strong connection between the community interested in the GbR workshop and the discrete geometry community. For this reason, for the?rsttime, boththeworkshopandtheDGCIconferencewereorganizedin the same place, with a common session of four papers, two submitted to GbR and two to DGCI. The DGCI conference attracted again for this edition many excellent papers, with 53 submitted papers from 21 countries. After careful reviewing by two and sometimesthreereviewers,36paperswereaccepted, fromwhich22wereselected for oral presentation and 14 as posters. These contributions were regrouped into topics: applications, discrete topology, discrete hierarchical geometry, discrete tomography, object properties, recognition, and reconstruction, uncertain ge- etry, and visualization."

Devil's Lake State Park in Wisconsin is the most popular rock-climbing area in the Midwest. It features spectacular cliffs and other rock formations where the Ice Age glacier's terminal moraine meets an ancient landscape of rock.This third edition of the popular ""Climber's Guide to Devil's Lake"" has been thoroughly updated for twenty-first-century climbers and hikers and includes information for use with GPS receivers. It provides information for climbers of all abilities and preferences, offering precise directions to help them navigate and climb within the park.The features include: an updated introduction by George J. Pokorny and new photographs by Eric Andre; a summary of the geologic and natural history of the Baraboo hills by Patricia K. Armstrong; locations and updated descriptions of nearly 1,800 climbs; landmark photographs from most major climbing areas; GPS waypoints, map coordinates, altimeter readings, and approach information; detailed diagrams locating climbing routes at most major climbing areas; and, 6 new diagrams, 5 new climbing areas, and 120 new routes.