Our weekly glimpse into what's been coming across our desks here at "News To Me." This week we're going to give you a sneak peek into what is coming up on future shows. Without giving too much away of course. Let's just say that these three sites and the people behind them are all scheduled to appear on "News To Me" soon! Some sooner than others!

The Scary City:
This experience was created by the woman behind the Executive Producer of "LonelyGirl15." That viral hit was a low budget flash in the pan compared to "The Scary City." It's a $5.2 million dollar multimedia thrill ride designed to engage, involve and scare the crap out of you!

SixDegrees.org:
This holiday season you can give a gift card... or you can give a GOOD card! SixDegrees.org is a foundation created by a guy you know really well. It's a site that links you to over a million charities worldwide. Through the "Good Card" program sixdegrees.org is enabling you to give the gift of giving. Explore the site today and then meet its founder on "News To Me," Saturday December 20th.

Ideas by Chuck:
Hungry after kicking around the footbag with your friends? Crack open your Hacky Snack! – Tired of brushing? Chew some toothpaste gum! – Hate everything on prime time TV? Maybe an episode of "Chuck Dickens, Illiterate Trucker" will turn you around. Those are all ideas thought up by Chuck. Chuck doesn't have the time, the funds or the energy to turn his ideas into reality... so he's giving them away on his blog! Chuck is going to join us on "News To Me" early next year... that is, if someone hasn't already taken one of his ideas and made him a millionaire!

...so there are three little teases to let you know what were working on for future "News To Me" episodes. See you this weekend!

When it comes to medical news that involves brain surgery, YouTube and a banjo there is only one medical expert to turn to... Dr. Eric Lanford. Actually, he's not a doctor, nor has he played one on TV, but when it comes to diagnosing viral videos there is no one more capable. This weekend Doc L. (as we like to call him) talks to the star of a clip that is getting thousands of hits. His name is Eddie Adcock and the first time we saw him he was playing the banjo while laying on an operating table with a doctor elbow deep in his brain! Scrub in and join Dr. Lanford in the "News To Me" operating room tonight to meet Eddie and his surgeon. Find out how he ended up pickin' and grinnin' and having brain surgery at the same time!

The links to the full video of Eddie's operation and everything else you saw in this weekend's "News To Me" are right here:

Banjo Brain Surgery:
Watch the full clip on YouTube.
Visit Eddie Adcock's official website: eddieandmarthaadcock.com.
Learn more about Eddie's surgeon, Joseph Samir Neimat.
Find out what else they are working on at Vanderbilt Medical Center.

iReporters speak out on Obama's election:
Have you uploaded your reaction to the election yet? Click to iReport.com and speak up!

Star Trek Deep Space 9 voter:
iReporter Jeremiah Long got dressed up in his Starfleet uniform to cast his vote. Check out his early voting experience and his "demands" for President-elect Obama on his iReport profile page.

Burglars kick in the front door, security cams catch them in the act:
Almost 30 thousand people have watched this clip on YouTube... and it paid off!

Visit Sgt. John Hames and the Johnson City, TN Police Dept. on YouTube.

CNN.com Most Popular:
- Bridge Jumpers – bumped, airdate TBA
- Car that could break the land speed record
- Chiuahuah whose ears make "radio" sounds – bumped, airdate TBA
- Cop caught "gettin' busy" on security camera

Webhits:
The Singing Road:
Lancaster, California's Musical Road.
Here's a map from roadsideamerica.com to get there if you'd like to drive it yourself.
There are also "musical roads" in Japan and Korea.

"Simon's Cat" in real life:
First watch the animated short "Cat Man Do" by filmmaker Simon Tofield (you can see the whole "Simon's Cat" series here). Then, all the way from Vienna, Austria check out a typical night for Robert Buehringer and his cat on YouTube.

Shrimp on a treadmill... – bumped, airdate TBA
...with the Benny Hill music.
...with the Chariots of Fire music.
...OK Go mashup.
...with the song from the musical road.

Whatnot:
Firemen actually lift a car off the ground using only the pressure from fire hoses in this YouTube hit!

That's the list! Hope you found what you were looking for. Thanks for watching "News To Me!" Thanks for visiting the blog (we'd love it if you'd leave us a little note to let us know you were here)! See you next weekend!

iReporters play a huge part in this weekend's show! Thanks for cranking up those cams and letting us hear what you thought of the Vice Presidential debate, and for taking us along for the ride as you went searching for gas in the Southeast United States! The links to those full iReports and the rest of the stories you saw on "News To Me" this weekend are below.

Clearly you have opinions, clearly you have cameras, and clearly you want your voice heard! So your challenge this weekend: speak up and let us hear what you thought of "News To Me!" You are already sitting in front of your webcam... why not fire it up and review the show? There's a special "News To Me" iReport link below. Click it and let your inner critic come out!

Meanwhile, the raw footage from and direct links to everything on this weekend's show are right here :

The great veep debate:
Who do you think won the Vice Presidential debate? iReporters sound off.

Southeast gas crisis:
We may be short on fuel, but we're overflowing with video from iReporters searching for gas!

Women Against Fantasy Sports:
Are you a fantasy sports widow? Learn how to fight back at womenagainstfantasysports.com.

"The Resident" on Wall Street:
Get to the heart of the financial crisis with The Resident.

Best of CNN.com:
- Bull stampede
- Man punches shark
- Woman held hostage by a pig

Send us your videos:
"News To Me" has it's own special page at iReport.com! Got something we should see? Upload it there!

Journey finds new lead singer on YouTube:
Visit Journey at their official website journeymusic.com.

Interpret your dreams:
Find out what your night time thoughts mean at dreamcrowd.com

Personal astrology:
astrodienst.com

What would you look like as a different race?
Find out in the perceptionlab.com

Thanks for watching!!! Now use your cellphone, video camera, web camera, anything with a lens and a connection to the interweb and upload a video review of "News To Me." We got a ton of awesome reviews of the Palin/Biden debate, so we know you have video cameras! Use yours to let us know what you like or didn't like about "News To Me" this weekend. Who knows? You could end up on the show! Do your best TV critic imitation and upload it on our special iReport page.

We're always on the lookout for people making a difference or even just people just making something unique online. Here's a few we have had up on our monitors for the past few days... they MAY end up on a future episode of "News To Me:"

Merry-go-wrong:
News To Me cameraman/editor/writer/producer Teague stumbled on this clip during his daily YouTube rounds. What do you get when you combine a playground merry-go-round, bored teenagers, and a motorcycle? Certain pain.

Hurricane Harmony:
No one is happy that Ike hit, but one man tried to take inspiration from the storm... check out Herbert Midgley and his musical iReport: Ike in East Texas. Our favorite line: "The wind is blowin, the rain is raining, and I'm out here rocking and rollin!"

Adorable puppy head tilt:
Don't you love it when dogs tilt their heads when they hear something they're not familiar with? So darn cute! We'll here's a guy who wrote a whole song for a puppy named Willy that inspires some extreme head tilts. Stay with it till the end, Willy's got skills.

Angry kangaroo:
Honestly, this man in marsupial's clothing is more than just angry, he's kind of a jerk! Blame "News To Me" producer Charles for putting this one on your radar.

Black Cab Sessions:
Our new "News To Me" sucker... I mean intern Corey, found a site called black cab sessions where you can watch acoustic tunes performed by the original artists in the back of a black taxi. Why a taxi? Not sure, but it's cool.

If you have a site we should be surfing let us know!!! Don't forget that we're looking for you to be our location scout AND to give us your 4 word review of last weekend's show!

"Poop in space." "Peeping Tom E.T." "North Pole ice bath." Yes, you could plug those terms into your favorite search engine to find the things you saw on "News To Me" this weekend, but why risk being hyperlinked to something that isn't what you were looking for... or worse... to something that no amount of virtual antiseptic soap will clean from your brain?

Don't risk it! We've got the links to everything you saw on the show right here!

What's more awesome than a lightning strike?
Catching one on video... AND managing NOT to flinch! Here's the full iReport »

Fire on film (but it's no special effect):
Citizen journalists all over L.A. caught video and images of the fire that destroyed historic "New York" street on the Universal Studios back lot. See all their iReports »

Space alien peeping Tom:
So we still haven't seen the whole video... but the mystery of what was outside that window continues to grow! Do your own investigating and see what you come up with... then come back and let us know!
Watch our full report again »
Look for intelligent signs of extraterrestrial life yourself at S.E.T.I. »

North Pole plunge:
See the unedited version of Lars Noring's "Lars Around the World" beach ball video iReport.com »

The shark whisperer:
Visit Save Our Seas for more on why sharks aren't all that bad! Still not convinced? Watch our full report again »

Space Poo!
When ya gotta go, ya gotta go! Watch this and the next time you are aboard the international space station you'll know what to do when it's time to go. YouTube »

NSFA (Not Safe For Acrophobics):
You know the rock climbing is going to be good when the path to get there is more dangerous than the actual climb itself! Don't believe us? See the full video »

Obama Girl may be celebrating, but Mike Gravel is not:
Yes, she had a crush on Obama, but Mike Gravel tried to steal her away... lotta good it did him. See the full (very funny) video on Barely Political's YouTube channel »

Human Tetris:
So many great clips to see of the Japanese "Human Tetris" game show... here are a few including some that you saw on "News To Me," and one from the Italian version that's very... um... Italian.
Original Japanese game show clip
Other Japanese game show clip (w/ the big guy)
Italian (bikini) version
Human Tetris in a Church

Thanks for watching... let us know what you thought of "News To Me." It's your show, so you might as well let us know how we're doing! We're big on feedback!

Last week Eric was almost ticketed for jaywalking while shooting "News To Me." This week, we actually let him behind the wheel of a moving car while we shot the show. Thankfully, we managed to make it though this shoot with no police intervention, (though we did take out extra insurance just in case).

Now that we're home from our little North Georgia road trip, we've got to unpack our duffel bags which we FILLED with links to all the places we visited in this weekend's show. Pretend like you work for the TSA, put on some rubber gloves and dig through our link filled luggage :

Running with the bulls:
Think you'd like to give it a try? We've got three great iReports to check out here, here and here before you book that trip to Pamplona.

Truck and trailer smash into bank:
Check out the video here, and then check out the photos of the aftermath here.

The whale hunt:
Surf over to the Webby Award winning site thewhalehunt.org to experience this innovative approach to new media storytelling.

Baboon rampage:
You may be used to seeing a critter or two in your neighborhood, a possum, raccoon, deer. Maybe even something a little more exotic in certain areas of the country, like an alligator or coyote. But baboons?

Pedal powered phone:
If you would like to make a call, please deposit 200 calories for the first 3 minutes. Get the full iReport here.

Caption this!
Congratulations to Dan who submitted the winning caption for our "Giant Soccer Players" Caption This contest, "It seems that steroid use just isn’t a problem in baseball anymore." Good one dude!

Now's your chance to give it a shot... our NEW Caption This contest is up and running... let the pun's begin!

Henri the cat:
Visit filmmaker William Braden's website willbraden.com to see the full short film that LA Weekly said is “A Hilarious parody of European existentialism, on a budget probably no pricier than a week’s supply of cat food.”

Take a look at a special blog-only bonus video featuring Will reciting some of his favorite cat haiku.

Little girl stuck in vending machine:
It sounds pretty terrible, but it sure does look like she's a having fun to me. YouTube.com

Texting while driving... on a MOTORCYCLE:
We love this video! Props to Mandy the "News To Me" summer intern for turning us on to it! Check it out on YouTube.

Bodega tour
Take a very funny tour of your friendly neighborhood bodega, and find out what 'quarter water' is on InternetsCelebrities.com.

The emergency party button:
Oh sure... Office Depot thinks they're so cool with their "Easy Button." Dude, that ain't nuthin' compared to what happens when you hit "The Emergency Party Button!"

That's all for this weekend! Let us know what you thought of the show, or let us know about a person, blog, site, video or gadget you'd like to see featured next week!

If you want more info on anything you see in this weekend's "News To Me," congrats! You are on the right blog!

We must be getting pretty big time because this weekend's show was so loaded with "the goodness" (as opposed to "The Wackness") that we had to bump a couple pieces. In the the news biz when we have to reschedule a previously planned interview or segment for a later date, we say its been "bumped." The two most blatant bumps in this weekend show were our "Caption This" winner from last week, and Henri the Cat.

We emailed Henri's "people" to let them know his segment had been bumped and got this reply, apparently from the cat himself in his native French, "Toujours, la meme chose – souffrir, c'est mon destin." Which according to his translator Will Braden means "It's always the same... suffering is my fate." Our reply, "Traiter avec elle chat!" Which according to Google Translate means, "Deal with it cat!"

As for our giant soccer player "Caption This" winner... you're 3 milliseconds of fame is still coming! As is your t-shirt! In the meantime though we have a NEW "Caption This" up. Get in on that one before the massive throngs of viewers get their first look at it next weekend.

Henri and the winning "Caption This" caption are now scheduled to air starting Saturday 7/19.

For the links to the stories that did NOT get bumped this weekend show :

Santa Barbara fire:
iReport.com

Pedal Powered Call Shop:
ALSO BUMPED!!! It's a great story about a great idea and we're gonna get it on the air next week. In the meantime watch the iReport and we'll get you the whole story next weekend.

Most Popular on CNN.com

Sprinters in the Tate Britain Museum. It's good exercise, but is it art? You decide at CNN.com.

We're all adults here, but this video of a high tech toilet still makes us giggle. Take a look for yourself at CNN.com

FIRE! Texas style
There's a little bit of bad language in this video... but after seeing this explosion... I can honestly say I would have said something much worse! Watch the whole clip on YouTube.

Mortified
Real adults reading really embarrassing letters and journal entries written when they were teens. Find out if there is a show coming to your town and how you can participate at Mortified.com.

If you missed it on the show, you can watch our report on Mortified at on CNN.com/video.

The Vice Guide to North Korea
VBS.tv correspondent Shane Smith crosses the border into a country you've heard of, but you definitely don't know... watch all 12 episodes of his report at VBS.tv.

Fat Rant
She's a heavy hitter when it comes to positive body image at any size... get Joy Nash's very honest and VERY funny take on life and see her latest "fat rant" called "Staircase Wit" on her eponymous blog.

You can also catch our story about Joy and her rants on CNN.com/video.

Black Sun bird flock
Amazing sights from Denmark as thousands and thousands of starlings fly in a flock that becomes an undulating nebulae of beaks and wings... LiveLeak.com.

Sign up for our weekly newsletter at CNN.com/email.

Finally, if you'd like, we'd really love to hear from you... hit "add a comment" below and let us know what you thought of the show.

Happy 4th of July weekend! Hope you survive with all your fingers intact!

While you are "ooohhhing and aaahhhing" over your hometown fireworks display tonight, we are locked in a dark room lit only by the glow of computer monitors and a red white and blue lava lamp obsessing over every frame of video in this weekend's edition of "News To Me." Well... one of us is anyway. Thanks Teague! We'll save you a sparkler and a beer! Unless Charles drinks that one too.

OK... keeping this one kind of short... we know you have a lot of "long weekending" to do and I'm certain reading this blog isn't anywhere near as high on your list as doin' up some steaks and veggies on the grill by the pool. In fact, it's probably not even as high on your list as CLEANING the grill OR the pool...

The links for MORE of what you'll see on this weekend's show :

Storm hits Huntsville, AL airshow:
As always iReporters were there: iReport.com

Naked dude arrested after high speed persuit:
Superstar iReporter Ray Richard got a real eyeful. See his video on iReport.com. Don't worry. It's safe for work.

China quake
Hard to believe that they are STILL digging out... take a look at the aftermath through they camera lens of someone who was there for the worst of it: A Survivor's Story.

The Big River Show:
We couldn't even come close to showing you all the great video from these travelers. Get to know Bill and Max and the Mighty Mississippi on their vlog: BigRiverShow.com.

Keep in mind that while Bill and Max are having a relatively light hearted time on the Ol' Miss, lots of people along the river are being affected by some of the worst flooding in years. Find out how you can help those being impacted by the rising water at CNN's Impact Your World site.

Italy's garbage problem goes on:
Superstar iReporter Brian Waite is an American living in Italy. He sent us this video: iReport.com.

For more on Italy's growing garbage problem check out this iReport sent in by another American living in Italy. It's pretty amazing what has to do just to take out the trash.

Most Popular on CNN.com:

Cat held for ransom

BIG WAVE specialist Garrett Mcnamara
Head over to garrettmcnamara.com to see more of Garrett and his surfing partner Kealii Mamala on the BIG waves. Plus you can find out, "Where In The World is G-Mac?"

Purple 53
If you missed it on the show you can watch very OVER-caffienated Eric freak out a very UNDER-caffienated Angel Hess here... OR if you just want to meet Angel and find out why he's living in a bread truck check out his site: purple53.com

Webhits

Creepy bodiless shopping cart robot: maniacworld.com

Did you see the moonwalking bear? See if you can spot him in this Transport for London bicycle safety PSA.

The Spinning Escalator girl:
"News To Me" WEB ONLY – BONUS VIDEO It's a clip we didn't have room for in the show... check out the stunt when it DOESN'T go so well.

Check out the full clip and see some of our favorite comments on Gizmodo.com.

And finally, meet the spinning escalator girl, Rebekah Schecter, and see the video that started it all on her myspace page.

Two of us on the "News To Me" team took this last week off. The world of 24/7 news makes it tough to take vacations. As Apu the owner of the Kwik-e-Mart on "The Simpsons" once remarked, "This store is open 24 hours a day. It puts great demands on my time!"

The Headline News "store" also never locks it's doors... so when some of us are M.I.A. the rest of us on "News To Me" have to work a little harder and in some unusual capacities in order to get a show on the air. For example: writers become producers, producers become editors, Eric becomes the coffee boy (cream and two sugars please).

Lucky for us we also have YOU on staff to help pick up the slack... we are overloaded with YOUR videos this weekend. Check out how much stuff came from iReporters in this weekend's show !

(Not so) Strange Lights over Phoenix:
Brad's iReport

Iceberg Breakup:
Bob's iReport

The (uncensored) Pollett River Run & Mud Bog:
Ray's iReport

Gas tank urinater:
Eric's iReport

Poop to paper:
Get the full report on Elephant dung getting turned into paper. The full story includes Panda poop too! Here's Lisa's iReport.

Hunting the Megalodon
Check out Diver Dan's MySpace page.

Online dating for farmers:
City folks just don't get it. FarmersOnly.com

Meet SuperBoo:
Here's her blog: The Adventures of Superboo.

Inspiring armless swimmer:
Igor Plotnikov's record breaking swim.

Improv Everywhere Grand Central freeze:
Find out how and why they did it, plus check out their other projects, like the Food Court Musical, Pants off Subway Ride and (my favorite) The Moebius at their site ImprovEverywhere.com.

Giant marionette girl:
Check out the whole 5 minute video on YouTube.

Indian Superman: The Movie:
Parts one AND two.

Right now those of us who didn't take the week off are working on a ton of new stuff for next weekend's show (the July 5th and 6th show). Including, a look at how technology is changing the face of surfing and a naked high speed pursuit... true story.

In the meantime, why not tell us what YOU did or are planning to do on your summer vacation (or staycation) this year. Did you take any amazing photos or videos? We'd like to see em! Click "add a comment" below to tell us about your trip and upload those vacation pics and vids over at iReport.com.

Thanks for watching! Have a great weekend!

Ian's life is officially for sale. Kyle is trading the Red Paperclip house. How iReport.com made one man's cubicle famous. "The Redneck Mommy" has an ear ache. PLUS...

Those are News To Me's resident EMMY® Award winners in the pic above! Combined, Eric and Teague took home 4 statuettes from the 2008 Southeast Regional EMMY® Awards for their work on "TBS STORY/line" on Saturday Night here in Atlanta. Eric was so thrilled about winning (again!) that he just could not hold back his affection for the camera!

Actually that shot was taken a few hours before the awards were handed out. We were way down yonder on the Chattahoochee River being devoured by invisible biting insects and shooting Eric's parts of the show that will air in two weeks. Our vision for this scene was a black and white, kind of artsy, Fellini-style thing... but it turned into more of a really twisted version of Christopher Walkin's Saturday Night Live character "The Continental." Complete with Eric's creepy and bad French accent. You'll get to see how it all comes together on July 5th and 6th.

But what about Ian and the Red Paperclip house and the cubicle?

"News To Me" brought you Ian's story a few months ago, and even did a quick update here in the blog last week... he is selling his life on eBay and the auction is finally LIVE. Check out his site: alife4sale.com to follow the auction, or even make a bid. Last time I checked the high bid was $300,100 Australian dollars (just over $285,559 U.S.).

We introduced (or re-introduced) you to Kyle McDonald a couple weeks ago. He's the guy who is trying to find these guys. He's also the guy who started with "one red paperclip" and traded it up over the course of a year until he turned it into a house! He's got the trading bug again, and this time he's going to trade the house! You can make him an offer at oneredpaperclip.com.

Who would have thought that remodeling your cubicle could garner you so much attention!? We only showed his picture for a second or two on this past weekend's show, but Jared Nielsen's photo of him in his Mahogany office cubicle went viral after he posted it on iReport.com. So viral that he's getting sponsorship offers, and he was featured in his local newspaper!

Finally we want to send out our best wishes for a speedy recovery to Tanis, the Redneck Mommy, who found out that even though it's hosted and edited by EMMY® Award winners, just being on "News To Me" doesn't get you in to see the doctor any faster! If you missed her on the show here's the clip: Tanis on "News To Me."