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The Restaurant at the end of the Universe(-al Medical Coverage)
Thanks to BobbiDigital on Twitter for this video. This restaurant is crazy. I would like to eat there, just once though. Watch CBS Videos Online Some of my Favorites from the video: “The American Medical Association doesn’t recognize me” ...
Rocking at Red Rocks
(Clicking on the picture opens full sized version in a new window) Of all the poorly planned pranks. We went to see 3 Doors Down, and I had the right blankets, but I forgot my camera. The next week, we went to see The Foo Fighters, and I had the came...
Play Team Fortress 2 for Free this weekend - Updates for the Heavy
There’s another free weekend for Team Fortress starting tomorrow. I posted about it over on Two Guys Tech. Lots of neat stuff being added. If you’re interested in Team Fortress 2, you should check it out....
One Legged men, domain names, and Mobile Phone Tracking - A Year Ago on Port 16
Just to take a little walk down memory lane. A Year Ago I had just registered the domain, and had to immediately go out of state on vacation. I did return on August 1st. Darn it, I wish I could have gone on vacation this year too! Oh well. I do have ...
A Rubik’s Cube Solving Robot
This is just sweet! The robot was built from Lego MindStorms, and can solve a rubiks cube in about 6 minutes. That’s better than my current record of 12 years. You can read more about it on the website....
and in My Dream
That’s right, it’s Wallpaper Tuesday! Today’s choice is titled and in my Dream, and I found it on DevianArt.com. Lots of great photos and artwork there. If you have a favorite site for Wallpapers, post it in the comments and let me ...
That’s One Way to Slow Down Traffic on Your Street…
I wonder if you can order these. With my luck, I would probably get arrested. These came in a random email, so I don’t know where they originated from....
Rockets!
Growing up, I always wanted to shoot rockets, and I just never did. I can’t complain, there were a lot of things I was able to do that most kids don’t get to. Rockets would have been great though. Then again, I did have that tendency to s...
5 Interesting Links for 2008-05-30
I’ve pretty much always planned on doing a weekly post with some interesting sites that I’ve run across. With that intent, I have been marking sites that I bookmark with a "@ThisWeek" tag, so that I could come back at the end of t...
Fun ways to use your GI-Joe Figures
Sorry, I had to share this one, I thought it was hilarious! A friend Forwarded this to me, so I don’t know where it came from....
Advice for a 10 Year Old
My friend Mat sent me a link to a very interesting Radar Magazine article recently. Bill Geerhart started a letter writing campaign, posing as a 10 year old boy. Not too far fetched so far. He started writing to people that you may recognize the name...
Get Some Demographic Information About Your Area with Zip Skinny
One of the really neat things about the Internet is how much data is available right at your fingertips. Zip Skinny takes some of this data, and shows you some demographic information for your neck of the woods. You enter your zip code (hence the nam...
Move over Nigerian email scams, make way for something meatier
I was pretty impressed when I checked my email, and found this email scam from Kuwait. Unlike some of the other scams that I have received, instead of helping some corrupt official embezzle money out of the country, the premise here is that I wi...
Download Free Audio Books at PodioBooks
I spend about an hour a day driving back and forth to work, and I’ve been using my iPod to keep the drive interesting. Not too long ago I ran across PodioBooks, which offers free Books in podcast format. Although you do have to create an accou...
