3 Things To Know This Monday

1. Macaulay Culkin is Blanket's father!

2. Cell phones give you brain tumors.

3. Disney buys Marvel for $4,000,000,000.00

Dark Stores

This is a photoproject by Brian Ulrich called Dark Stores. Very sad.

Click here to check it out.

Hot Dog Of The Week

Do you like hot dogs? Who doesn't?!

Then click here and read about the best ones from around the country. The entries also include a drawing similar to the one to the left.

They are by the fantastic artist Hawk Krall. Click on his name and buy a print for yourself or for me because I'd appreciate it.

3 Things To Know This Friday

1. The "big three" banks have 1/3 of deposits, 1/2 of the mortgages, and 2/3 of credit cards in the US.

2. New Orleans - 4 Years Later.

3. Richard Nixon hated Ted Kennedy.

Intensities In Ten Suburbs

I have listed Andrew Unterberger's, of Twisted Misters (World Series of Pop Culture) fame, blog Intensities in Ten Suburbs on my blogroll for some time but have never given it full on blog entry respect.

He blogs frequently on all things popular culture and has been working on a definitive list of the top 100 songs of the 00's. He blogs in way too much detail about songs that just don't matter that much but I guarantee you will like it.

Click here to be thoroughly entertained.

3 Things To Know This Thursday

1. Gay rights advocates mourn the loss of Ted Kennedy.

2. Is that a tornado or a wind farm?.

3. Curing incurable diseases once again called "controversial"?!?

Mass Attack

I have another fun game for you. Try and balance out the scale by creating balls of equal mass.

I have tried and tried but cannot get all the way through this one, let me know how it goes.

Click here to play Mass Attack!

3 Things To Know This Wednesday

1. Sen. Edward Kennedy
1932 – 2009

2. How Beanie Babies can help explain the housing market bubble.

3. Rhode Island to shut down government for 12 days.

3 Things To Know This Monday

1. Latest stimulus: "Cash for Refrigerators".

2. President Obama's vacation reading list.

3. It only took 48 years for Julia Childs to have a best seller.

3 Things To Know This Friday

1. Artificial life to be created within months.

2. Starbucks - Cheap drinks get cheaper, expensive ones get more pricey.

3. 110,000 fireworks go off in under 60 second...oops.

3 Things To Know This Wednesday

1. Barney Frank says what every other sane person is thinking!

2. Wipeout plans human pinball machine.

3. The grade lower than F.

Splitter 2

Saving the best for last! Here is Splitter 2. It is pretty self-explanatory, once you start playing. enjoy.

Click here to play!

3 Things To Know This Tuesday

1. Field guide to fake grassroot screamers.

2. Guns at presidential townhalls...explanation?!?

3. Nanobees target tumors.

Roly-Poly Cannon

Really fun game where you have to use a cannon to eliminate the bad smiley faces.

Addictive!

Click here to play!

3 Things To Know This Monday

1. GM plans $4,000 compact car.

2. The City of Chicago is closed today.

3. Woman pregnant with 12 babies.

Red Remover

Remove the red and save the green. Sounds simple...gets hard. enjoy!

Click here to play.

3 Things To Know This Saturday

1. No for NASAs moon plan.

2. Mother tasered twiced for speeding.

3. UK thoughts on US health care.

Illinois State Fair Food

It's inching towards the end of Summer and that can mean only one thing...it's state fair time. In one week from today I'll be heading down to Springfield to take in the usual sights as well as some new ones.


I found a list of some of the food options this year (and some pictures).

* Cryo-Creamery ice cream frozen with liquid nitrogen

* “Rueben dogs”

* deep-fried turkey sandwich

* fried key lime pie

* Red Bull energy slushes

* fried plantains

* deep-fried s’mores

* burger on a stick

* meatballs on a stick

* deep-fried hot dogs

* Cajun-style sweet iced tea

* cherry key limeade

* deep-fried brats

* chocolate-covered strawberries on a stick

* Alaskan king crab cakes

* 8-inch-high waffle bowl sundae

via The State Journal - Register

I should probably stop eating now in preparation for a whole lot of deep-fried fun.

3 Things To Know This Thursday

1. Can Muppet diplomacy bring world peace?

2. JetBlue to offer all-you-can-fly ticket for $599.

3. Best Buy sells 52 inch TV for $9.99.

Totem Destroyer

Over the next week or so I am going to start posting some of the more fun and creative online games that I have found.

The first is Totem Destroyer.

Click the blockes to remove them but dont let the golden idol fall. enjoy!

3 Things To Know This Wednesday

1. Second warmest July...ever.

2. Golf and rugby could become Olympic sports in 2016.

3. The aftermath of the California prison riots is devastating.

3 Things To Know This Tuesday

1. Chevy Volt to get 230 miles to the gallon.

2. McDonald's continues to grow in the coffee market.

3. Glaciers melting even faster than expected.

Must Pop Words

Super addictive word game. Starts slow but gets very interesting.

Click here to give it a try.

3 Things To Know This Friday

1. Get all the ex-presidents back to work!

2. Crazy people compare President Obama to Hitler over healthcare.

3. What's your favorite John Hughes movie?

3 Things To Know This Thursday

1. Judge Sonia Sotomayor likely confirmed this afternoon.

2. Half of U.S. mortgages underwater by 2011.

3. Survivor's Ethan Zahn says scariest part about cancer...the bills.

3 Things To Know This Tuesday

1. Kooky "birther" gone wild.

2. Bill Clinton tries to save journalists in North Korea.

3. The Nissan Leaf.