3 Things To Know This Thursday

1. Stranger issues warning, slaps crying child at Wal-Mart.

2. Bank of America won't cash armless man's check, no fingerprints.

3. What 20 popular websites looked like when they launched.

Hungry Shapes

I've got another game for you. Good luck in advance with level 30. enjoy!

Click here to give it a try!

Chicago's Original Amusement Park

Riverview park operated from 1904 to 1967 on Chicago's north side. Of the nearly 50 rides that Riverview boasted at it's peak only one is still is operation. It is the Riverview Carousel located in Six Flags Over Georgia.

Below you will find 40 historic photos from the Tribune Company of historic Riverview Park.

Click here to see the photos and read more about Riverview.

3 Things To Know This Wednesday

1. Now supporting gay marriage means eating more ice cream! (and it's even Ben & Jerry's)

2. SNL's new hires.

3. The tennis match of the century : Ferrell V. Arnett

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.

3 Things To Know This Friday

1. The Daily Times Herald declared worst newspaper in America.

2. William Shatner "sings" Sarah Palin's tweets.

3. Seinfeld cast to reunite for 5 episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm's final season.

3 Things To Know This Tuesday

1. Bank Of America to close 10% of it's branches.

2. Hawaii declares President Obama's birth certificate still real.

3. Blue M&M's mend spinal cord injuries...and turn you blue.

3 Things To Know This Monday

1. Wasps feeding on birds in Hawaii.

2. 19 arrests in canary fighting ring.

3. Amelia Earhart mystery solved?

3 Things To Know This Saturday

1. President Obama initiates a mediation session at the White House.

2. 77-year-old sex change.

3. Hubble put back to work.

3 Things To Know This Thursday

1. Taco Bell dog dies at 15.

2. Arnold Schwarzenegger talks budget cuts, wields huge knife.

3. Jon Stewart - The Most Trusted Newsman In America.

21 Greatest Space Photos

I don't want to get too "space-y" on everyone as of late but I found this on Life.com and couldn't pass up posting it.

Click here and enjoy.

3 Things To Know This Tuesday

1. The germiest tourist attractions.

2. The world's most crowded swimming pool.

3. The secrets of jockeying.

Buzz Aldrin Is Not Happy

This video is of Jaime and Adam from Mythbusters discussing their debunking of the "faking the moon landing" myth on CNN.

The best part comes toward the end though when a conspiracy theorist comes up to Buzz Aldrin at a party and tells him that he never walked on the moon.

Needless to say he didn't take it very well.

3 Things To Know This Thursday

1. The Willis Tower officially the tallest in the United States.

2. Legal pot would bring $1,400,000,000 to California.

3. Michael Jackson's head is on fire.

Apollo 11's 40th Anniversary

Apollo 11 was an 8 day journey that included 2 1/2 of the most world-changing, historic hours that have ever taken place.

Click here to see Apollo 11 in photos.

"In this one moment, the world came together in peace for all mankind".
-Buzz Aldrin

3 Things To Know This Wednesday

1. Health care to become a right.

2. President Obama charms baseball itself.

3. NASA is go for sixth launch attempt.

3 Things To Know This Tuesday

1. President Obama to throw out first pitch and join the broadcast booth at the All-Star Game.

2. Bankrupt brands update.

3. Southwest jet lands with football sized hole in roof.

3 Things To Know This Monday

1. Space Station is coming down in 2016.

2. Indiana prisoners escape via tunnels.

3. Dozens of giant squid washed up after earthquake.

3 Things To Know This Thursday

1. Frenemy and sock puppet, we've got new words!

2. Activists take to Mt. Rushmore.

3. The Jackson kids.

Taco Bell's New Green Menu

Taco Bell is set to debut their new "green menu". What makes it green you ask?

Nothing is taken from nature. So that is zero impact food.

Click here to see the video.

via The Onion

3 Things To Know This Wednesday

1. T. Boone Pickens gives up.

2. 7 of 10 in the GOP will vote Sarah Palin in 2012.

3. Kim Jong Il looking...ill.

The Art Of The Prison Escape

Marc Steinmetz created a photo exposition of some of the greatest DIY technology. It was all created by the most unlikely of people.

Prisoners.

These are all very inventive escape tools created by the most desperate of prisoners throughout the years.

Click here to view the photos and read about their intended use.

3 Things To Know This Monday

1. Disney monorail crash.

2. Discount airline to make people stand.

3. Michael Jackson to be buried without his brain.

3 Things To Know This Thursday

1. David Beckham and the MLS.

2. Ants rival humans for global domination.

3. Gay sex no longer illegal in India.

3 Things To Know This Wednesday

1. Michael Jackson is topping all the charts.

2. Al Franken is the Senator from MN.

3. Al Sharpton is creeping everybody out.