September 28, 2009
Priority Tracker (iPhone App)
New app by a friend from work. Set your priorities, rate yourself, and set goals to help improve in those areas.
What’s the Deal DC
A site created by one of my classmates in college. Looks like some great deals for the DC area. I’m not in the DC area, but maybe you are.
Fringe in Lansdale
I don’t watch Fringe, couldn’t take it after the first episode. Last week’s show took place in Lansdale. Except not exactly Lansdale, they ruraled things up a bit.
Collection of awesomely entertaining protest signs.
This Clemson fan was really upset about losing to GT. They announcers made fun of him during commercial, and then on TV.
Basic Instructions: How to Listen to a Coworkers Complaints
Preserving the Bay Bridge. Look at the pictures, how crazy would this be?
March 15, 2009
Laettner & Pitino in a Vitamen Water Ad
The Onion breaking the news that the NCAA tourney is expanding to 4,096 teams.
Half Court Shot Prank at Maryland.
August 17, 2008
I decided with my tons of links to split off the sports ones in their own separate post.
Amazing Tailgating Trailer – Only 3 TVs included?
J-Roll’s Sportscenter commercial
Looking back at the Mariners’ futuristic night – You might forget about the original Turn Ahead the Clock game. All sorts of fun facts I wasn’t aware of.
Let’s Play The Feud: The WNBA Edition – The fight in the WNBA game. In case you are the one person that hasn’t seen it.
Please, I Beg You, Make It Stop – A post about the green sticker on the back of QB’s helmets in the NFL. This year they added a graphic.
Agent Aloha – Some great Philly shirts. The best of the bunch.
There is nothing worse than getting mocked by the Nationals – I hate the kiss cam, but this is funny.
Game of the century The story behind the 1912 Carlisle vs. Army battle
Rare cancer took Ruth, dentist says
Baseball star John Kruk one of many fooled by bank robber
Ticket Stumbler – Pulls together listings from the various ticket sites.
Passing the Torch: An Evolution of Form – The Olympic Torch over the years.
Skip Caray Tributes …
Baseball mourns loss of Skip Caray
Ernie Johnson And Turner Sports’ Tribute To Skip Caray
I’ve been getting sick of worthless baseball lists. Here are some decent ones …
Top 20 Baseball Quotes of All Time
The Worst Seats in the House
THN.com’s NHL Logo Rankings
August 12, 2008
Last week’s posting didn’t go as planned, so here is a whole load of links.
Odd News Items …
God accused of selling cocaine near Tampa church
Couple Launched 18-Month Egging Spree – This happened in my area, not exactly sure where it all took place.
British teen finds it pays to swear on exam
Little old ladies or criminal masterminds? Both!
More pop culture type news items …
The Muppets take the Smithsonian
Ken Burns new doc series for PBS – This time, its National Parks.
MR. T’S SNICKERS AD PULLED IN UK
Living stars who you may think are dead – MSNBC must have been really bored. This is a really terrible thing to publish. I either didn’t know the person or knew that they were still alive.
The 10 oddest travel guides ever published.
Funny …
The O’Brien vs. Stewart vs. Colbert three-show throwdown – I realize these are very old. The link slipped through the cracks.
If Your Last Girlfriend Had an IMDb Page
The A-Team Van Rides to Montreal!
First, Circuit City Demands All Copies of Mad Magazine with Ad Parody Destroyed. Then, Circuit City Apologizes for Pulling Mad Magazine, Promises to Get a Sense of Humor.
Chinese restaurant called TRANSLATE SERVER ERROR
Colbert: Canton, KS Not Such a Shithole After All
Interesting/informative things that didn’t fit elsewhere …
Should you recycle an ex? After all, he’s already on the curb
Can’t sleep? Blame all those glowing gadgets
Wake n’ Bacon is most delicious alarm clock ever
Are Revolving Doors More Energy Efficient?
Governor’s Information for each state – Randomly came across this. All sorts of facts about the requirements and rules for the Governors of each state.
Free Coinstar – Apparently I was the only person who wasn’t aware of this. I always thought Coinstar was expenseive. However, there is no charge if you turn it into a gift card. They have places like Amazon and Circuit City. My bank is closer and has a coin machine in the lobby, but still good to know about this.
This week from NPR …
This American Life 361: Fear of Sleep – The first story this week was by Mike Birbiglia about his problems with sleep walking.
August 3, 2008
The last time I posted links was June 23rd. I’ve been online since them, except for my almost two week break of visiting baseball stadiums on the East Coast and California. In order to avoid being over whelmed I’m going to split these into a few posts over the next few days.
Helpful tips …
Making security easier
Google has added a setting to that you always access your GMail over a secure connection. I’ve been access GMail via the secure site for a long time now and while I would hope everyone else does too, I highly doubt it. This security isn’t automatic so be sure to go in and change your settings.
Reducing Junk Mail
Yes, actual paper mail that comes in that box out front of your house. I still get tons of credit card offers. Oddly, most of the credit card offers are from companies I already have cards from. They have my email, why not just send me an email I can delete?
The usual LEGO links thanks to Gizmodo …
Lego Secret Vault Contains All Sets In History
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lego
Lego Beijing Olympics
More fun from Gizmodo …
BuzzBall Brings the Rollercoaster Experience to Your Backyard
Jet Skiing in a Jacuzzi Is Half Crazy Half Sad
Things you likely already heard but just in case …
Court: Girl can’t be called Talula Does The Hula
Borgata Gambler Asked To Leave Because Of Body Odor
World’s fastest man: Tyson Homosexual
Things I heard on NPR …
Cooking Up Characters From Old Grocery Lists
This person takes old grocery lists and concocts characters based on the items on their lists. She started doing them on stage and has now released a book.
June 23, 2008
Promo for The Cleveland Show – At first I thought this was a dumb idea but after the promo and getting back into American Dad I am now on board.
Be a star in our reasonably priced car – Try out the Top Gear track.
Wii Fit damage. I knew this was coming as soon as I set mine up. You need a bit of room to be moving about. I especially see issues at first for the unbalanced gamers.
WGN did a turn back the clock game. They covered the game as if it were 1948.
Uni Watch took over uniform duties for the Camden River Sharks. I wish I would have remembered, I would have gone.
Jim Caple on Page 2 ranks the best single sports years for a city. The winner? Philly in 1980-81. That’s right, I just missed the best sports year for any city ever.
Bob Uecker’s Yacht Wrecked By Freighter – A rule I have is anything I find mildly interesting that involves Bob Uecker, I share.
Fahrenheit – The new coaster at Hershey Park drops at 97 degrees. I haven’t been to Hershey in a few years, I think its time to go back.
If you’re dog and Roomba don’t get along, yell at your robot.
Top Five Roadkill Sites in North America – Actually the list is for top sites where turtles are run over. I was surprised that roadkill was tracked. I’m even more surprised they keep track by animal. The #1 site wins with a score of 2070 turtles killed per mile. That seems like a lot.
Gizmodo loves their LEGO posts. Apparently there was some sort of convention.
LEGO Death Star video
Pictures of the LEGO Death Star
LEGO Business ‘Card’
LEGO Airbus A380
June 10, 2008
Carolla did Made Up Movies again yesterday, Part 1 and Part 2. This continues to be my favorite segment on the show, which is really saying something.
David Sedaris on The Daily Show – Enjoyable interview. One of the few people who’s books I will go out and get, then actually read.
Bo Burnham – New Math – New YouTube Song from Bo. I saw him open for Joel McHale.
Chris Bosh on Leno – He reports from the NBA Finals for Leno. The second thing I’ve found funny on Leno in a month, doubling my lifetime total.
Pool Pogo Stick – At first I thought it was funny and worthless. Now, I kind of want one.
Water Slide with Loop – You get started by dropping through a trap door. Something seems dangerous about this.
Pillow Rings – Someone must have gotten tired of having knuckles imprinted on their cheek.
Disney World in 3D – Travel to Disney World inside of Google Earth.
You’ve Been Left Behind – Worried that you won’t get to say good-bye to your loved ones after you’ve been raptured. This site will email what you have stored on the site to who you select within 6 days of the rapture. How do they know the rapture has occured? Here is what they say: “This occurs when 3 of our 5 team members scattered around the U.S fail to log in over a 3 day period. Another 3 days are given to fail safe any false triggering of the system.” Oh, and its not free. $40 for the first year but they expect a lot of signups so future years should be cheaper.
June 4, 2008
Obama Apologizes for messing up a reporter’s game – This is from 06. Obama called on a reporter and said he had a baby face. The reporter said this caused him to lose his shot with another reporter. Obama called him and appologized. The audio is in the link.
Dippin’ Dots lost its patent – This makes me feel better. I was worried there would be an ice cream monopoly in the future.
Trump Marina to become Margaritaville – When I think Margaritaville, I think tropical. When I think tropical, I think Atlantic City.
Storm Chasing Tours – I got the idea in my head that I wanted to go on a tornado chase. This is what I found. They are pricey and appear to fill up quick. Better hurry.
Drunk driver runs into bike race. The picture is unbelieveable.
Wale – The Mixtape About Nothing – I thought this was a joke and just listened to see how bad it would be. I wound up listening to the whole thing and it was good. Apparently I just wasn’t aware and Wale is very good and very popular.
Electronics Energy Costs – See how much some common electronics cost to use or just be plugged in.
How Guitar Hero DS Works – I thought it looked ridiculous. With these instructions they are purposely making it appear even more ridiculous.
Wii Fit Parody – Technically this isn’t far from the truth. I still like the Wii Fit.
1989 Upper Deck Griffey Card – I don’t have this one in my collection. Reading this made me look around eBay but I’m out of the loop on baseball card grading.
Top 10 Announcers in Sports Movies
Worst First Pitches of All Time
10 Worst Broadcasters in Sports – Hits all the important ones. Dick Vitale and Chip Carey are way too high on the list.
May 27, 2008
Anatomy Of A Failure: Lessons Learned – An interesting post from the founder of Meetro, which was a location based IM client. I tried it out when it was first released. There were not many people in my area. I also thought it was a little strange talking to strangers nearby. I’d rather my strangers be far away. It was an interesting idea and worth a shot. Very interesting read about why it failed and the thoughts of someone behind the scenes.
The Simpsons Ride – Was there not a Simpsons ride before? Its the perfect recipe for a ride.
Mario Kart Wii Training Wheel – Having issues with the Wii Wheel for Mario Kart Wii? I’m not but some of my family had trouble with it as first. You can create your own training wheel and look ridiculous at the same time.
Super Mario World levels set to music – Someone spent a lot of time to create these levels to match up to music. I only got three minutes into it. Those three minutes were cool but I think I got the point.
Turn your soda can into a bottle. There must be some sort of resealable can that could be designed instead of this.
50 Ways to Help the Planet – Easy ways to do your part.
Lovers, Not Fighters by Doug Glanville – As far as I know Glanville is the best writer in baseball. Here he discusses brawls he’s been involved in.
Beckham’s 60-yard Goal – I happened to catch this live. I don’t watch soccer all that much but I was flipping through and saw the game on HDNet. Nothing else was on so I watched a few minutes. I like soccer but there aren’t enough hours in the day to be a fan.
The bracket for the NCAA Baseball Tournament. Possibly the most complicated playoff format outside of Baseketball. The 8 teams that emerge from this 64-team field head to Omaha for the College World Series.
May 20, 2008
I collected these over the past few weeks. I’ve been busy and traveling. I hope these are still relevant.
From the Dilbert Blog, a man was forced to give up his seat and sit in the bathroom.
Horse tramples car. I have no idea how the horse got onto this car and then how did it get out?
GUTS is sort of coming back. It will be a family version on during Nick at Nite. I wonder if Moe is available?
My current favorite Carolla segment is Made Up Movies where callers give the title and the hosts develop the plot of a movie.
Police Log: Someone set a port-a-potty on fire.
NCAA Football 09 is coming. I’m excited.
10 Worst Entry-Level Tech Jobs
Awful Announcing is quickly becoming one of my favorite sites. Here are a few posts I enjoyed in the past weeks …
Apparently you just have to fill out a form to be eligible for the NBA Draft. Then you even get added to the watch lists.
May 6, 2008
All your favorite contestants from Rock of Love, Flavor of Love, and I Love New York in one reality show called I Love Money. I hope you don’t actually have any favorites. The title of this should have just been, ‘Let’s stop kidding ourselves, this is why you’re here.’ I think this show puts VH1 over the top and finally makes them the king of reality shows.
This is so funny that it has to be made up. If its actually true then it may be the saddest, scariest thing I’ve ever heard. Here is the first paragraph from the story: “US First Lady Laura Bush accused Myanmar’s military rulers Monday of failing to warn their citizens in time about a killer cyclone and pressed the junta to accept US aid in the disaster’s wake.” That should be all you need.
More sad political related news that really only applies to people in PA. The story is specific to the Philly suburbs. Because so many bridges need repair a lot of road projects are being delayed. Yes the bridges need to be repaired, it should have been done long ago and not ignored until they are about to fall down. Now the existing roads will sit how they are as traffic gets worse and more gas is wasted sitting idly.
I think this may come up a lot over the next few months. Arianna Huffington says that McCain told her he didn’t vote for Bushoffice furniture in Bulgaria. Not shocking that he didn’t, since back then he seemed to care about the country. Not shocking that he’s denying it since he’s been trying so hard to be like Bush for a while now.
Now for happier items …
The Office employees talk about the Kentucky Derby. This was the best part of the pre-show that I saw. I’ll admit I didn’t see much of it, I lost respect for NBC Sports when I saw Billy Bush interviewing Heidi and Spencer.
Foosball for 22 players. Not sure where you would put this gigantic table. Just put turf in a room and build a mini soccer field.