Category: Cool

But stupid in a good way. YouGuysAreStupid.com chronicles the efforts and trials of three guys as they trekked from Chicago to San Francisco — on foot. That’s over 2000 miles. They raised some money for charity, too, along the way. Good guys, good site, and there are some good photos from along the way, too.

If somebody’s looking to get me something for Christmas, you can add this to my list. This is Gary Larson’s complete Far Side collection, spanning from 1980 to 1994 (including bonus comics and commentary), weighing in at 19-pounds and 1,250 pages. The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes were probably my two favorite comic strips growing up, and I’d love to have the collection of both.

You order, but never pay for, pop-under ads on damn-near every site on the planet. Then you file for Chapter 11. X10, the self-proclaimed worlds largest advertiser, sold those home-automation and security toys and cameras. Really, I’ll be glad to never see their pop-unders again.

Otherwise, you won’t be able to quit this stupidly addicting, simple, flash game of paper-wad basketball. My consecutive record? A paltry six. Man, I suck.

I got back late yesterday from watching the Ducks beat up Stanford 35-0. What a fun game to watch. The best series? When the Ducks stopped seven (there was a personal-foul penalty that gave them the first down) Stanford attempts at a touchdown, all within the two yard line. The place was going wild.

The other most entertaining thing at the game? This was a tie: One goes to the woman I saw outside the stadium wearing a very tight shirt. What did the shirt say? “Objects under shirt are larger than they appear.” My Dad and I got a good kick out of that.

Secondly, anybody who’s been to a Duck game knows about Autzen Stadium’s “DuckVision” (basically, a big ol’ frickin’ big-screen TV at one end of the stadium). Quite often, they will show individual fans on the screen, thanks to some camera folks who wander around the stadium shooting video. Well, this one camera man was showing this one lady up on the screen, and she started to pull up her shirt. Needless to say, the camera turned away in a hurry.

Speaking of college football, I’m sure Ken was happy. Not only did they broadcast College Game Day from his campus, but his school went on to clobber undefeated N. Illinois. Nice job, Bowling Green!

The 5K is a coding contest that requires you to program a web page in entirely 5-kilobytes. One of the entries was linked on BBspot, and, along with EasyRGB, this is my new favorite color toy. Look at the code for the thing. That’s the tightest code I’ve seen in a long time.

If you’re good enough, you can do it professionally. Lego is looking for another master builder to work at their Legoland California theme park.

I posted a while back about the Pixel Art Tower. Basically, the premise is that you work with a bunch of strangers to build a high-rise building, with everybody designing their own floor, and you end up with some interesting results. Well, another site has taken the idea, and made it into a horizontal town. Very cool!

I have to give props to Ken for getting a review he wrote a while back copied and posted in the latest Lockergnome Apple Core Newsletter. Congrats, man!

Verisign has pulled their controversial SiteFinder catch-all domain service. Full Story.