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September 26, 2007
Another Facebook App
I'm getting into this facebook app development. While I might not be the biggest fan of "social networking", I'm still a nerd and I like playing with new toys.
So I'm introducing the latest Facebook Application creation, WhereImDrinking.
The basic idea is, everybody marks down where they're planning on drinking. Then that info is populated into your profile.
The hope is that once enough people start using it, you'll start to be able to see where everyone's gonna be on a certain night. You'll be able to look up which neighborhood more people are going to and which bars more people are going to that night.
I've loaded in New York, Boston, DC, and Beloit as lists of bars. More are coming.
Let me know if you haev any questions or comments.
--Bryant
Posted by Bryant at 09:49 AM | Comments (2)
January 17, 2007
Get a Wii this Wiikend
The Nintendo Wii is possible the best gaming console EVER.
Unfortunately, it makes it really hard to get a hold of. Analysts are speculating it will be tough until March to walk in a store and just get a Wii.
According to my sources, (internets, interweb, the google) Retailers have been saving their inventory for sunday morning.
Each store should have a minimum of 15 with some up to 50.
Retailers:
Best Buy
Target
I wouldn't recommend getting there right before opening, I would say 5AM at the latest
Posted by Bryant at 09:28 PM | Comments (1)
October 31, 2006
Take YouTube to go!
So in the past you haven't been able to take Youtube videos with you or save youtube videos to your hard disk very easily. Now you can.
I'm guessing someone has decompiled their flash application and now makes it really easy to save the videos.
Step 1:
Go to http://www.youtube.com - Find the video clips you want to save.
Step 2:
Go to http://www.youtubex.com - Paste in the URL to the video clips you want to download
Step 3:
Use a FLV player to play your videos on your computer, or get an FLV converter to convert files to a format that you can play on your computer or on your favorite portable media device
Posted by Bryant at 01:04 AM | Comments (4)
October 25, 2006
Straight out of Lynnwood
Good Ol' weird Al Yankovic is back. His latest release "straight out of lynwood" has a few amusing parody tracks including "White and Nerdy", Canadian Idiot, Trapped in the Drive-Thru, Confessions Part III and a good polka remix of a bunch of recent hits.
Here is the video to White and Nerdy:
Posted by Bryant at 10:44 AM | Comments (23)
September 28, 2006
Found an old cassette
Found an old cassette of mine from my old singing days. Actually, while me singing the classics might have been a great idea for a tape, unfortunately it's just an image generated from this website.
As long as you're making useless photos, you might as well make some for work as well. Motivational Poster Generator.
Posted by Bryant at 03:53 PM | Comments (0)
LOST season 3 preview video
this video is a small clip from season 3 enjoy...
Posted by Jesse at 03:00 PM | Comments (0)
September 01, 2006
Dancing on Some Treamills...
This video is certianly worth a look...
btw... im back :)
Posted by Jesse at 02:09 PM | Comments (0)
July 21, 2006
HuntOnly.com - A new site for Hunters
Here's a new site from about Hunting that a friend has started up. It's called HuntOnly.com and its supposed to be a site and forum dedicated to all sorts of hunting.
I know that there aren't many hunters on the internet, and probably not on this site, but on the other hand, there aren't many good hunting sites out there either. So if you like hunting, take a gander at the site and mebbe stop by the forums
Posted by Bryant at 12:40 AM | Comments (0)
February 26, 2006
Announcing Snubster
Just finished coding the first release of Snubster. I guess you could describe it as anti-social networking.
Basically, I got tired of all of those social networking sites out there like friendster, facebook, myspace and decided to make a site that is decidedly more useful. Instead of faking that people are your friends, put them either "On Notice" or declare them "dead to you" for real. Read more about it at the about page.
As usual, any comments or suggestions to make the site better will always be appreciated and I hope to make a new release every week or so.
Posted by Bryant at 11:32 PM | Comments (2)
February 07, 2006
VIDEO: LOST Preview
this post only has a lifespan of 30 hours but what the hey... this link provides you with clips from this weeks epi of LOST... enjoy...
Posted by Jesse at 02:48 PM | Comments (1)
February 06, 2006
Video: I Cheat...
this video won the CellFlix Film Festival 5,000 dollar first prize award. entries into this contest had to only use their cell phones to make 30 second movies. i find this one rather cute....
link to the rest of the finalist...
Posted by Jesse at 02:47 PM | Comments (3)
January 18, 2006
Try not to Flood Kraft's site
Looks Like Kraft is getting a little Krazy.
They're offering DDR pads for free. Free as in no purchase required, but 9.99 to cover shipping and handling. RUN don't walk.
And here are the requisite DDR related videos:
Fat Kid doing DDR
DDR at a wedding
Posted by Bryant at 09:08 AM | Comments (0)
December 08, 2005
Bird's eye view from Microsoft
Looks like we have another round of fight from Microsoft vs. Google.
I came across local.live.com today. At first glance it seemed like just another map site with aerial photography. In many instances the aerial photography is much newer on their site.
However the "cool factor" comes with their "bird's eye view". This allows you to not only see a house from top down, but also from the side.
While their address lookup system seems a bit hokey at the moment, you can zip to your favorite city and then peruse from there.
And for once, Beloit is in the mix!
Posted by Bryant at 04:30 PM | Comments (0)
December 02, 2005
75 Bands in one poster
Here's a poster that claims to have 75 bands represented in it. It looks like the poster was made by Virgin Records. I'd like to get a list of all the answers. So I'll start leaving the ones i've found so far in comments.
You can click on the thumbnail above for a full size version.
UPDATE: Found a better picture and updated it.
Posted by Bryant at 06:38 PM | Comments (55)
Random Facts about Chuck Norris
Thanks to Brent for this one:
Remember those lame hot or not sites? Well somebody finally took that basic idea and made it into something useful / funny. It's the Chuck Norris Random Fact Generator.
Admittedly, if you decide to flip through all of them at random, a lot of them do suck, I do believe that the top 30 is a good read.
Posted by Bryant at 12:14 AM | Comments (5)
December 01, 2005
Funny Beer Commercial
Well I've never tried Troegs Beer before, but here's one of their commercials.
If their commercials are any indication of their beer ... Well I'd like to try it sometime anyways. It's natural.
Posted by Bryant at 10:51 AM | Comments (0)
November 22, 2005
Just about the best christmas light show ever
Well Carson Williams has officially raised the bar this year. Carson Williams from Mason Ohio used 88 Light-O-Rama channels to control his 16,000 christmas lights
Link to Christmas lights video (WMV)
Posted by Bryant at 10:52 AM | Comments (6)
November 21, 2005
Black Friday 2005
For those of you who won't stuff yourselves silly and who decide to be up at the butt crack of dawn on friday instead of in some turkey and gravy induced coma, you will be able to get your fair pick of off brand TV's, dvd players, and celeron based computing products.
And the website that has controversially listed a lot of the deals and the scans of the newspapers is available here
Posted by Bryant at 02:55 PM | Comments (1)
November 17, 2005
How to make Colored Bubbles
This is an interesting Popular science article on how Tim Kehoe had the idea of Colored Bubbles and brought them to life.
Posted by Bryant at 01:59 PM | Comments (2)
November 04, 2005
New AIM smilelys
this program is an add on for 1000 custom smileys. which is nice cus i always wanted a hippie smilely set....
Posted by Jesse at 03:44 PM | Comments (3)
November 03, 2005
Christmas is coming again
Christmas is right around the corner, so y'all better start saving up for your favorite blogger.
Here is the first item on my 2005 Christmas wishlist:
No its not something lame that detects how far away something is or how fast something is going. This bad boy burns holes through whatever you point it at. Best of all, it's commercially available, so you can buy one and send one to me.
Posted by Bryant at 01:01 PM | Comments (0)
November 01, 2005
Radio Controlled Navigator with MP3s and Rims
At first glance this may be just another radio control vehicle, however a look at the specs will let you see this is so much more.
The Radio Controlled Lincoln Navigator
Posted by Bryant at 09:56 AM | Comments (1)
October 05, 2005
Stewie Live
tell stewie what to do...
Posted by Jesse at 04:30 PM | Comments (0)
September 18, 2005
Video: NINJA
Posted by Lisa at 01:36 AM | Comments (0)
August 31, 2005
So you think a trilogy is a Box Set?
So for those of you who think mebbe 1-5 discs makes a decent box set, here's one for you.
The new Buffy the Vampire Slayer Box set will include all 7 seasons of the show plus a bonus DVD. This complete collection weighs in at 40 discs. 40 discs of viewing pleasure.
This means you could watch a disc per day for over a month.
In future related news, After receiving a box set from Amazon, Bernie has been reported missing.
Posted by Bryant at 12:44 PM | Comments (1)
August 19, 2005
One More Reason to Buy a Powerball Ticket...
here is an article i found on forbes.com about the most expensive homes for sale in the world....
if you click this link you can cycle through them all. enjoy.
Posted by Jesse at 05:29 PM | Comments (3)
August 13, 2005
Lost on DVD
soon (sept 15) Season One of LOST will be released. amazon has a great pre-order deal to save yall a bundle. a good buy if you are a fan or if you wanna see what all the fuss is about.
Posted by Jesse at 01:40 AM | Comments (0)
July 27, 2005
Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story
Just finished watching the upcoming Family guy Movie: Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story
If you'd like a copy, something tells me that you'll be able to find it on a site like mininova.org.
Posted by Bryant at 12:26 AM | Comments (0)
July 26, 2005
Lumines!
So if you're like me and think the PSP is just not worth the cost, check out this site. It's got a remake of Lumines, which is supposed to be the best thing on PSP right now. Think Tetris meets Puzzle Fighter meets the Insane Game (aka JT's Blocks). Of course I've never played the real Lumines, so I don't know how it compares. But this is pretty fun and its free!
The one weird thing is the controls, which are really unintuitive. ADSW move the blocks around, and JK rotate. You want to try to build up 2x2 squares (after which you can add on blocks of 2) before the line sweeps by and destroys all of them. You can also use the blocks with dots in them to destroy chains of adjacent same-colored blocks.
Posted by Bernie at 12:34 AM | Comments (0)
July 06, 2005
Free PS2
Went to McDonalds in honor of our nations birthday on the fourth and got a code on the side of a Big Mac. Looks like instead of those instant win tickets, McDonalds is opting for an online code entry game. This means instead of the tickets having any value, whether you win or not is dependent on when you enter in your valid code. I guess I entered my code in at the right time because I scored a free PS2. The cool thing is that they tell you right away that you won, the part that sucks is filling out a bunch of forms and waiting 6-8 weeks.
The prizes are as follows:
1 of 5,000 PSP Units
1 of 6,750 PS2 Units
1 0f 5,000 PSP Games (Ape Escape: On the Loose, ATV Offroad Fury: Blazin' Trails, Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee, Twisted Metal: Head On, or Wipeout Pure)
1 of 15,000 PS2 Games (Gran Turismo 4, World Tour Soccer 2006, or Rachet And Clank: Up Your Arsenal)
1 of 20,000 PS2 Greatest Hits Games (ATV Offroad Fury 2, Jak 2, or Rachet And Clank: Going Commando)
Total prizes: 51,750
Total VALUE of prizes: $3,450,350
ODDS of Winning: The products are seeded by TIMES, not numbers. So about 51% of the "winning Times" are from 12:00PM EST to 7:59:59PM EST at random. Basically put, your code doesn't matter. What time you put the code in matters. If you put your code in first at any of the random "winning times", you could win. The odds of winning are 1:95,404. Hey, that's what the promotional posters say. Anyhow, you must be over the age of 13, and you will be issued an IRS 1099 Tax Form in January for the ARV (Approximate Retail Value) of the prize. So, yes, you do have to claim it on your taxes.
If you hate McDonald's food, send a Self Addressed Stamped Envelope to:
MCDONALD'S SONY PSP PROMOTION GAME CODE REQUEST
P.O. Box 49468
Strongsville, Ohio 44149-0468
Return Postage not needed for residents in Vermont. Requests must be post-dated between July 25, 2005 and August 1, 2005. Only one code is sent per request. Apparently, multiple requests per day may be granted.That's about it. The promotion is running along with a Neopets Happy Meal promotion. A Neopets PSP game will be coming out this Fall for the PSP owners who won't be spending their time loading up Liberty City.
Posted by Bryant at 09:55 AM | Comments (65)
June 27, 2005
Guess the Google
Here's an amusing game that takes google ikmage search and makes it into a game. Random tiles of images pop up and you have to guess what word was used to find the images. Guess the Google
Enjoy
Posted by Bryant at 02:22 AM | Comments (1)
June 16, 2005
Links of the Week
Teddy's back
Police Arrest Killer Cow
Keyboard without a shift key
How Much Wood Could a Woodchuck Chuck...
Ice Cream Truck Drunk driving sex offender in Wisconsin
Neverland Ranch on Google Maps
Gay Statue
History of the Jackson Face
Lemmings in DHTML
A Hard Interview
Posted by Bryant at 08:00 PM | Comments (0)
June 10, 2005
Cell phone helped you out? Carry a Torch.
Write an essay about how a cell phone has helped you or someone you know in a time of need and Samsung may pick you to be one of 15 people to carry the olympic torch.
The tough part is that the essay is limited to 50 words. Time to break out the sob stories people.
Posted by Bryant at 10:47 AM | Comments (0)
May 17, 2005
Wheres my money
So I got my nice little check back from Virginia, but I'm still impatiently waiting for my tax return check from the IRS.
If you're impatient like me, you can check the status of your refund here.
Posted by Bryant at 02:42 AM | Comments (0)
May 08, 2005
15 pounder
I don't know about you but many times I am hungry for a burger, but this is amazing!!
If you are interested and have $30 to burn you can order a 15 pound burger from Denny's Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, Pa. They say it takes 2-1/2 hours to cook so they recommend that you call ahead. In addition to the burger, it is a mighty bun and they put on 25 slices of cheese.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/chi-gleaner,0,596047.story
Posted by Scott at 06:25 PM | Comments (0)
May 05, 2005
Viva Cinco de Mayo
05-05-05
Posted by Bryant at 12:29 AM | Comments (0)
May 04, 2005
New Meaning to "Home Theater"
There simply does not exist words for this masterful creation.
Posted by Joe at 06:18 PM | Comments (3)
May 03, 2005
The Ultimate Taser Cannon
I was contemplating using the headline: The only way to fight the lines for Star Wars.
Well this bad boy is a 30 barrel taser cannon. This is not one of those wimpy units that they used to sell at the Sharper Image that ran on a 9 volt.
No this bad boy puts out 110,000 volts of electicity with laser guided precision.
There's so much power in this sucker that the lead wire for the electricity vaporizes and the power travels on a beam of plasma.
Anything within 35 feet is a target for this pneumatically controlled beast.
Posted by Bryant at 02:13 PM | Comments (1)
LOST: ABC 7cst/8est Wenesday
ok i watch LOST and if you watch LOST you will enjoy this... its a forum hosted by the actors, writers, and producers of the show.. they will even feild your questions. enjoy the fuselage.
why dont all shows do this.... what a great idea and a neat way to interact with the fans...
Posted by Jesse at 02:28 AM | Comments (0)
April 27, 2005
33 Free Itunes Songs
I have been a longtime fan of Audis. They make great cars with fast turbo engines and their legendary quattro all-wheel drive provides great handling.
Now if you fill out this form and go to the dealership for a test drive of the new A3, they will send you a certificate that will give you 33 free itunes.
Tell them that Bryant sent you.
Posted by Bryant at 12:40 AM | Comments (0)
April 19, 2005
Don't Press the Red Button
Posted by Bryant at 09:25 PM | Comments (0)
Play Rock Paper Scissors with yourself
While you must be truly bored to play this, I'm assuming that some of you might actually use this to train for the World Rock Paper Scissors Championships.
Here is an online trainer you can use from the World RPS Society.
Posted by Bryant at 12:03 AM | Comments (0)
April 01, 2005
Say Cheese
Heard about this through work.
This is on the NASA forums:
Google (www.google.com) has been gracious enough to provide us with 24 hour access to their global imaging satellite, gSat.
We invite the World Wind community to participate in this great event; the gSat will be imaging the entire Earth this Friday, the first of April.
If you want to be photographed in this new dataset, the gSat's special orbit should mean that it passes over your respective time zone between 10:00am and 11:00am.
Simply go outside that hour and wave, feel free to make signs supporting World Wind or other message, but please keep things appropriate. This new set of images should be in the next major version of World Wind due in a few months. Thanks again for the community's support and interest in World Wind!
Posted by Bryant at 10:06 AM | Comments (0)
March 30, 2005
Old Hotness Knowing Your BMI; New Hotness Knowing Your Weight When You Hit 40
we've posted links to BMI calculators before but this new-fan-dangled-mabob predicts your weights at 40... i think bryant was right the internet is deteriorating....
Posted by Jesse at 12:52 PM | Comments (0)
March 29, 2005
This is what they should teach you in College
Internet games are great for procrastinating. For some serious time committment, this game will drive you nuts for hours. It's unlike any game I've ever witnessed. If you think you are a computer geek, the master of games, or the next Mensa candidate, give it shot. Be ready to think outside the box (or at least outside the middle of the screen). There are 100 levels. Maybe this is what they should use for Grad School requirements....
Posted by Lisa at 09:51 AM | Comments (0)
The Enormous Omelet Sandwich
Sure we all love bigger and better. And so we watch as Burger King and McDonalds target the egos and the stomachs of the 20 something crowd. No longer are they worried about crimping calories, now they want to make sure that the sandwich has a hemi.
Enter the Burger King Enormous Omelet Sandwich. Not bothering to assign a weight in the name, they just call it Enormous. It carries about 700 calories and about 47 grams of fat, or about the same as 7 subway sandwiches. And this is all before lunch.
The only problem is that if they're targeting the 20 something college type age group, they're going to make sure that they serve breakfast later than that crack-o-dawn 10:30 am crap.
Posted by Bryant at 12:25 AM | Comments (4)
March 22, 2005
For Our More Artsy Readers
in case you are bored and missing St. Patrick's Day i found a fun craft activity to try, The Leprechaun Pin.
i love seeing my brycon on the side of the page...
Posted by Jesse at 02:24 AM | Comments (0)
Video: Star Wars Episode III Trailer
waste a few minutes watching this, then crab in the comment about how horrible you think it will be....
Posted by Jesse at 02:08 AM | Comments (0)
March 04, 2005
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
I can't guarantee how long this will be up, but here is Calvin and Hobbes from 1985-1995.
Posted by Bryant at 07:53 PM | Comments (1)
March 02, 2005
Simpsons Quotes
I found a great page of simpsons quotes.... my favorite
once again lil rusty on posting quality...
Posted by Jesse at 02:06 AM | Comments (0)
February 04, 2005
Another Geography Test
Thanks to Taemin for the heads up on this.
Probably thought you were done with these in Middle School, but we like to keep you on your toes.
Here's another US State Geography test.
Leave your scores in Comments
Posted by Bryant at 05:01 PM | Comments (2)
January 29, 2005
Ali G and Andy Rooney Videos...
its an old video but... Andy Rooney
happy Saturday!
Posted by Jesse at 03:13 PM | Comments (0)
January 18, 2005
Fantastic Four!
So that Fantastic Four trailer that was attached to the Elektra movie (horrible movie) is finally out. While Jessica Alba is hot, and that doctor from Nip/Tuck is cool, I dont know about this movie. The Thing looks horrible, and I heard they had to reshoot the ending because it just couldn't compare to the ending of the Incredibles. Now if only this F4 movie were as cool as the real F4 .
Posted by Bernie at 08:11 PM | Comments (0)
December 14, 2004
Alphabet Mob
This letter game is a lot of fun. You've got a canvas of letters that you can move around to form your own words. The kicker is that you're sharing the same canvas with hundreds of people online...
Posted by Edwin at 01:20 AM | Comments (0)
A Good Pun
Sometimes you dont need geek humor or nerd humor. Somtimes a good old-fashioned pun will do.
Posted by Bernie at 01:05 AM | Comments (0)