Category: Cool

Another simple but addictive little toy: You draw a line, hit go, and watch the little guy on the sled ride the hill you just drew. Every little bump will send him teetering to the point where he will crash and burn. Stupidly fun.

Between this game and the one I just mentioned, you should be able to kill off your entire Monday.

Simple premise: Find a bunch of interlinked words to fill in all relationships. But it’s a pain in the butt. If you want to cheat a bit, there are some folks here that have gotten most of the words filled in.

Feel free to comment/discuss here to figure links out.

Calvin And Hobbes is probably my favorite comic strip of all time, and I know I share that feeling with many around the world. Bill Watterson, the strip’s author, did a lot for the industry and for the medium, and I was intrigued to see this collection of rare Watterson photos, illustrations and history..

If you’re not familiar with the strip at all, read the above Wikipedia entry, and be sure to check out these 25 great Calvin and Hobbes strips, as you can really see what made the strip so good.

While we’ll probably never see a strip like it again, I still do like to read what’s out there. If anybody’s curious what strips I still read regularly, here’s my personalized Houston Chronicle Comics Page (build your own here). I always try to read the strips there (which I really haven’t customized the list in a while), along with Red Meat, Opus, Frazz and User Friendly.

What comics do you like?

A couple more fun thing for you (in case the earlier ones didn’t kill off your day already).

One is a game where, based on the results displayed, you have to guess the Google search terms. It’s pretty tough if you’re not familiar with some of Google’s advanced search methods.

Another game where you see a land mass from Google Maps and you have to guess where in the world it is. Tough game, but made easier (slightly) if you drag the map around a bit to look for a noticable geographic element.

And speaking of Google, if you’re sick of doing searches where affiliate and price comparison links (like shopping.com, bizrate.com, ebay, etc…) clog up the first several pages of results (especially the case when you’re searching for a specific item number or part), Give Me Back My Google will eliminate some of that mess for you.

This one is really for movie fans out there: Can you find the 50 dark movies in this M&M’s Dark Chocolate game? It’s pretty dang tough, especially for somebody like me who doesn’t watch a ton of movies. So far, I’ve found 10 12 15 17 20 and need to stop before I waste the rest of my day trying to find the other 40 38 35 33 30. I’m done now. Really.

Thanks Jo-anne for killing off my work day.

I’ve always wanted to be able to watch Penn & Teller’s Bulls**t, as I heard it was a great show, but I didn’t have ShowTime. It looks like, however, several of the show’s episodes are available online, and they are great.

The other thing I love is how they’ll riff on other magicians sometimes. Like the first video below how they total riff on Criss Angel.

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PC World rated the 25 worst popular sites of all time, and MySpace rightfully tops the list. Anybody have any sites (and we’re talking big ones, folks) that deserve to be on the list?

Oregon 34, Oklahoma 33. Holy crap, what a game it was.

Yes, the officiating gave the Ducks some chances, but it was the Ducks who actually took advantage of them, and the Sooners who folded when they should’ve been working their butts off. To quote this Oregonlive blogger:

Anyone who whines about the officiating from Oklahoma needs to go back and see all the calls Oregon got jobbed on as well. The officiating was horrendous, you’re right. On both sides. At one point, I just kind of hoped they’d all leave the field and we could just review each play after the whistle was blown. Then, we’d save the time of having the officials on the field call it. Apparently, they weren’t watching anyway.

The officials didn’t leave Paysinger open by 10 yards on a 20 yard pattern, Oklahoma’s awful defense did. The officials didn’t let Dixon run free all the way to the end zone. The officials didn’t allow a blocked kick on the last play of the game. The officials didn’t play ‘safe’ and allow the Ducks two drives in less than 2 minutes. The officials didn’t fail to score a TD with first downs on the 2, 3, and 7 and settle for field goals. Peterson’s so dominant and they can’t punch it in? That’s great D by Oregon. Has nothing to do with the referees.

Exactly. Oregon played their butts off.

My dad and my boss went to the game (I could’ve gone, but after the last couple weekends, I was tired of driving over the pass. Like that blogger, they were chatting with some OU fans at a Eugene bar who were just really nice folks. My boss ended up trading with an OU fan his Oregon sweatshirt for a OU letterman’s jacket. My dad traded hats with an OU fan.

So as they’re driving back over the pass, they stopped to grab some food at the Finn Rock Grill, and ran into Dan Fouts, who called the game for ABC Sports. Dan was probably driving home, too, as he has a home in Sisters (at least he used to, though I can’t find it in DIAL — all I’m finding is this home). So there’s Dan Fouts, my dad in his Oregon shirt and OU hat, my boss and his OU letterman’s jacket and Oregon hat. Fouts kind of gave thema funny look, and my dad explained to him the story behind it, and apparently Fouts got a kick out of it.

Just the same, the Ducks are certainly going to need this week off to recover from this.

Finally somebody with some common sense in the fashion world:

MADRID, Spain – Spain’s top fashion show has turned away a slew of models on grounds they are too skinny — an unprecedented swipe at body images blamed for encouraging eating disorders among young people.

Organizers of the pageant, known as the Pasarela Cibeles, used a mathematical formula to calculate the models’ body mass index — a measure of their weight in relation to their height — and 30 percent of the women flunked, said the Association of Fashion Designers of Spain.

Runway models like that have never been attractive to me. My wife and I watch Project Runway, and the models are all way too twiggy for me. I prefer a bit more meat on the bones of my women, thank you.