Category: Cool

Update On NCAA Tournament Pick ’em: Now With Prizes!

Yesterday I mentioned that I was starting a Yahoo! tournament pick ’em for the readers of this site. So far, it’s only Shannon and I who have signed up and joined the group, but here’s something to entice you: Winner of the tournament pick ’em I mentioned before will get a free t-shirt from Bend’s Best T-Shirt Shop — you pick the design and size. The problem is that it won’t be any fun if it’s just Shannon and I, as Shannon’s married to the guy who runs the site.

So follow the directions here to sign up, and only folks who join that group will be able to compete for the shirt — so if you don’t sign up, you can’t win.

Disclaimers: Some restrictions may apply, this is a totally informal contest so if something blows up, doesn’t work, totally breaks, or screws you in any way, shape, or form, you cannot and will not hold anybody responsible — including this site, Bend Tees, or anything else on the web — other than yourself. Do not taunt happy fun ball. Not for off road use.

Addicting Little Game For The Day

I got to level three, but got shot to pieces on this simple little Java game.

Lego Creations

There are some very cool creations here with this Volvo and this Air Conditioner being my favorite.

License Free Fonts

This is mostly for my reference as I’m sicking of paying a pile of money for nice font collections when I can get great collections and use the however I want for free. Link via mezzoblue.

A Love Letter to Hamburgers

After reading this, I really have the urge for a good burger. If they were only open past 3

Legend Of Zelda is 20 Years Old

Man, I loved that game as a kid, and was stupidly excited when I finished the game, onlly to then find out that there was a horribly complicated second quest. Here’s a look back at the last 20 years.

Real Life Simpsons Intro

Somebody went through the trouble to recreate the entire into to The Simpsons using real people, and it is very well done.

If I Only Had An Extra $33,000

Now this is assuming I had paid off all my other bills, obviously, but I would so buy one of these. Be sure to check out the video of it in use here and here, and thanks Greg for the links.

Neat Photoshop Trick

Want your picture to look like one of those little model train set photographs? Just follow this simple tutorial. And then you can submit the photo to this Flickr group (where there are over 600 posted) or you can see a Virtual Earth engineer’s transformation of photos of real places.

Wish I Thought Of This

Shannon‘s Husband’s killer collection of local shirt designs makes my feeble attempt seem pretty lame. Oh that’s right, because it is.

My personal favorites have to be this one, this one, this one, and this one, though I think the last one would be better with a cartoon-type drawing of Bob Shaw right on it.