I almost forgot the daily game!
Today's daily game marks a bit of a triumph here at S&C... the day I realized that this project is the longest running project that I have ever done here. Ahh, the joys of simple things.

In honor of these simple things, here are six simple games to keep you all busy over this blissfull holiday. Enjoy!

He he he he...
I don't believe in Karma, but this is enough to make me want to look up some info on it.

Ohhh... you think you know kung fu?
I did, until I saw these guys. I mean, that's some serious kung mixed in with some pretty good fu. The fu could definitely use some work, but again, the kung really pulls through for them both. Kind of like how Mary Kate totally carried Ashley.

Hey! Offical timeline for swap is here!
And it's about damn time! Due in large part to my utter laziness, it has taken until now for me to come up with a swap timeline. The complete works are up on
CD Swap-o-Mania, but the down and dirty is as follows:

- Let me know if you're in by December 15. Send me an email.
- Discs must be in the mail by January 15.

This gives everyone time to make it and burn it. I am hoping that there will be at least a few people involved again... don't make me call you bee-yatches out. I hate doing that.

I demand more action figures... stat!
And cool ones too. Especially since I can't get my hands on the set from Homestarrunner.com. Jerks... selling out of all their good crap. Good thing I got my hands on Homsar before "The Man" bought them all up. I guess I will have to settle for some other type of spectacular figure from the good folks over at Kidrobot. Them thar be some prime action type figures over there. And if that isn't enough selection for you, head on over to Sweatyfrog. Great name, great action.

CJ to Rando, RE: Midnight Run
Yeah, I got your voicemail on trying to find a used copy of Midnight Run, but I haven't had a chance to head down to look for it yet. I will keep you updated. To anyone else out there... do you have an old copy of the soundtrack to Midnight Run that you want to sell? Let me know.

It's not high Culture, but it's still looks cool hanging on your wall.
For all ya all interested in poster art check out Jay Ryan's stuff. It kicks some proverbial a. Plus if you really like something, it's not that expensive.

IPod's dirty little secret
Is this true? I don't own one, so I wouldn't know. Anybody? Anybody?

Warning: Embedded quicktime movie ahead

Flash-tac-ular counting movie
Yep, for those of you who don't know how to count to schfiftyfive... here's a helpful and delightful tutorial.

You remember Lemmings don't you?
The game, not the actual animal. I refuse to believe that those things ever really jumped en masse off cliffs in the wild. I think they were being secretly used as a test to see if EM radiation can affect brain waves and consequent actions. Yet one more thing that can easily be blamed on the man... whomever that is.

Digital IQ?
I try not to link to a ton of quizzes, but this one was pretty slick. MSNBC wants to know what your digital IQ is. Mine was 133. Not very smart. I blame it on the fact that I don't have wireless.

General update... to the extreme!
CD Swap... will still be ocurring, but will be pushed back to the month of January. Give people time to finish up finals, Christmas shennanigans etc.

Contest entries are still going strong. I just entered the Fine Living contest. Something about stayng at a ski resort for awhile.

I am leaving on Wednesday for Thanksgiving, where I will feast on pizza and turkey. Thus, no updates for awhile.

So, this inanimate object... you say it's male?
Since the english language usually doesn't assign sexes to objects (except of course for warships.), these guys want your input to help start assigning things. Try these on for size.

Hey You... with the illegal files!
Want to feel better about yourself? Send them back! I was thinking about sending them all back in ASCII format myself. Which way will you use to clear your conscience?

Daily Uber Game!
I figured I would round out this friday with one of the better online games out there. You may or may not remember me posting an earlier version of this game back in the Crayons & Razors days. Trial Bike is back and kicking some serious ptachuli. (A horrible scent, by the by) You know, I have really taken to the word "Uber" lately, sans umlout. I really think the umlout just takes away from the complete americanization of the word. And what a good word it is.

Daily Game Muthas
It's the game where you spot the differences between the two pictures. You know, like the kind they have in the bars, except without the option to play "dirty picture" spot the difference. I know this will disappoint some of our female contingent. You'll just have to settle for plain Jane spot the difference instead.

Finally...
Somethig that Macs are useful for!

*People... I jest. I jest.

Pushing the boundaries of science... with dairy.
Remember the time we told Hoj that he couldn't drink a gallon of milk in an hour without puking. Then he said he could do it in 20 minutes. So I went to that asian market to buy milk, and then he drank a bunch, but quit before he could finish (or puke for that matter)? Well, if Hoj was a science teacher, he would be this guy.

Milwaukee Drafts and Detroit Music
This combination makes for a very good night as I discovered last night. I tipped back a couple of the old Miller Lights to keep true to my Wisco roots, and watched the Von Bondies play some of the old Rock and Roll music. Good Times.

Rock eating for the uninitiated
Here is a quick reference on how to eat rocks. Most notable: when and when not to chew. Take it to heart people. And hurry up, because all the cool people are doing it.

I am a contest superstar
So, I have decided that I am going to attempt to register for as many online giveaways as possible. I am using a different email than normal, and I am trying to see how much spam I get by only signing up for contests and clicking the "don't send me any additional email" button. It should be fun. Like the time we got the free sample of astroglide and glided up everyone's door handles in the dorms. And by door handles I mean "door handles". Wait, I really mean 'door handles'. Yeah, that's it... 'door handles'.

Because kids have questions too
So, when the family is sitting around the table for dinner and the conversation eventually turns to the Paris Hilton sex tape, what do you do? What do you do?

Personally, I tend to steer the conversation towards my favorite local sports team. How 'bout that favorite local sports team?

Daily game quiz
It's kind of like a game. You know, the kind of game where you fill in the blanks. I did rather poorly, though I grew up listening to KOOL 108, your oldies station.

College radio is A-OK
Here is a chart list for WSUM, the local college radio station. Peruse and enjoy.

Nintendo Songs + Heat Suits + Rapping=???
8-bit. A rap group that I saw play at a recent show. I'm not sure how well the stuff holds up on it's own, but live it's terrific. Especially the song Robot fight in which they all started tackling each other and then dragging the fallen ones around the stage by their feet. Another band I saw at that show was Midway. They were pretty solid. Solid like a rock. A metamorphic rock not a sedimentary one, which really aren't all that solid. How's that for science?

Daily Game strikes back... monkey style.
Today's menu offering is none other than Monkey Lander, a spin on the classic moon lander games of yore. Crank up the speakers and let the delightful monkey sounds take you away to a floating fruit filled land of wonderment.

What a great day for televised chess!
Just caught the epic battle between Kasparov and 3Dx on ESPN today. What the crap! Why in the world are they showing live chess battles. I don't care if it could or could not be a sport, when it takes 22 minutes for someone to make a single move, it is not exciting. When they have to go back and review the last six moves for the third time in a row, because they need to fill air time, it is not exciting. When they bring in the telestrator and push the little pieces around to illustrate series of possible moves... it is not exciting. This definitely takes the Spelling Bee as the dumbest thing ESPN has put on the air as of late.

Daily Game!?!?!?
Destined to fall by the wayside with the likes of Daily Word and "Tour through the student information technology free websites" is "Daily Game"! The first game... Something Fishy. You're a fish. You need to eat smaller fish and not get eaten by bigger fish. Simple, fun, addicting.

How wide is America?
Depends... are we talking distance between coasts or distance around waists? Matt Frondorf drove trans-continental and rigged a camera to shoot a picture at what he was looking at out his window every mile. What does this mean? A lot of pictures of roadside bathrooms. I think that it would have been even cooler to do the same thing, but get out of the car at each marker and take the best possible picture you can take. Plus, it would take about twenty times as long. The things I sacrafice for science.

More secrets revealed! Disney style!
Since I was on the topic of secret societies, I couldn't let the good folks at Disney off the hook. Did you know that, since all of the stops in Future World (ala Epcot Center) were sponsered by tech companies, many of them have secret conference rooms attached? Pretty sweet. You can find out about them, and a bunch of other cool random hidden stuff, here. The page hasn't really been updated in awhile, but who cares! It's fun.

Illuminati junk and stuff...
So, here is a whole bunch of random info on the Illuminati, or secret order of the illumined wise men. There's some stuff from all the reliable sources... conspiracy archive, freemansonry.com etc. Wait. That last link was about Freemasons, which may or may not be related to the Illuminati. I would like to think that they are, since that would be pretty sweet. Did you know they had a chapter in St. Paul Park? Yep. Right by the Super America there. Nice locale, if you ask me. Here's the rest of the info on Freemasons. It includes a Straight Dope column on May Day, a look into secret rituals and a nifty slide show revealing the crests for each of the 33 degrees of Freemasonry.

P.S. There was no Jack the Ripper. It was the Freemasons killing off the hookers they were sleeping with to keep them from talking. I swear... it's true.

Holy Crap! Boing Boings back!
And in style. Since I will probably be culling the next gazillion links from BoingBoing, you can just go there yourself if you want to. But then you would miss out on my mindless commentary.

I have been into maps lately. Books of maps, giant map wall hangings, exploded diagrams of things and the like. Jess and I are actually waiting on the frame to come back for this great exploded diagram of the Picadilly tube stop of the London Underground. It was supposed to be here weeks ago, but I guess it is being held up by lazy people. Or it's another by product of the Red Scare. Anyway, back to the good stuff. Here is an amazing 3D map of the entire Underground system... for those of you who refuse to settle for only 2/3 of the spatial dimensions.

Has anyone heard of this band?
Because I haven't. I mean, unless you're in Madison, you probably haven't either, but I figured I would give it a whirl. So? Anyone? I say that if they have a quantum computing reference in there, they have to be cool.

Man I hate those IPod commercials
The only thing that would make them better is if Steve Balmer could take the creative reigns. That crazy Balmer.

Attention angry girl from BW3's
Please don't be angry. I am sure it is just a part time job that you have. Just think, someday you may actually look back on those yellow and black bygone days of yore and chuckle to yourself. "He he he." I hope you feel better, and by better I mean "not angry".

Another quality song born from the ranks of drunkeness
"Who put the gay? Do do do do do da da da da da do do do da da" My guess is that is was Rando's angry friend whom we spoke with on Friday night. We concluded two things from that conversation: (1) She is angry and (2) She doesn't want to listen to me give her a running update on the status of the pizza we are cooking.

Hey Rando's angry friend! Why are you so angry? I think you just need a hug.

I have just received an omen
But not one of those bad type omens. This one is good. And it is about reading that book on card stacking I have been putting off. This guy, Bryan Berg stacks ordinary playing cards into these huge crazy structures. And he wrote a book about it.

Stew's not dead!
In case anyone was wondering, Stew is not dead. He just got a new phone. I am sure he simply lost all of the numbers that were on his old phone, and that is why he hasn't actually contacted any of us in the last couple of months. Additionally, he more than likely also kept all of his email addresses on his old phone, as well as any connection to the internet, which could be used to look up the aforementioned.

Or he's just been hanging out in Vegas with Bender the whole time.

Catapult... this time without actual cats.
This game reminds me of the old one in school where you had a gorilla that would throw bananas. You had to control the angle and power of the banana to hit another gorilla. I should try to find that game instead of filling my life with poor substitutes. This one is good though.

I noticed that "grad student" wasn't on this list
Probably because I make less money that I did when I was 14. Though the benefits now that I am older do include driving a car and getting in to see R rated movies. These guys, though, get paid tons for not really doing that much.

I can read!
Man, this library thing has been working out pretty swell. I am currently reading a book by Tim Dorsey called "Triggerfish Twist". It is an irreverant tale of a bunch of crack-heads, used car dealers, unemployed bank workers and soccer moms who live in the same neighborhood. I highly recommend it (thus far).

The one that started it all
Since so many crash stories have been put up today, I figured I would post the "mother-of-all-crash-stories".

Brake-fest? Yes please.
I just wanted to come up with a Headline as cheesey as the one they used for this article that Paul graciously sent me. Who wants to bet that the dog in her car that distracted her weighs less than 15 pounds?

Gas - Brake + Bushes = Crazy lady
Here's an older one from October. Lady hits worker at oil-change station, then hits some bushes. (Note: Not Noel Bush... she was at rehab at the time).

Something's going crazy over at BoingBoing.
Does anyone know what happened? Right now, I go to the sight and all I see is a redirect to plastic.com. And the caption "
good night, freedonia."

One more reason to get Tivo
The Programs > Cable Science Network. All science, all the time. Missed the latest Hawking lecture? Catch it on the repeat at midnight!

You know, Lee Majors had six million dollars worth of surgery.
I can't remember if I posted this before, but is is good, so I'm posting it again. Some guy has taken the time to point out who the winners are in the "Awful Plastic Surgery" competition.

Coming up with a Zine title is hard.
After visiting my local library (to help curb my book buying habit), I came across a compendium of the best articles from Zines published in 2002. This has inspired me. I am going to put together my own zine. I just don't know what to call it yet. I have decided I will charge either one or two dollars (depending on how thick the final publication is) for it. That's all I got. I know some you people out there are writer types, and I am cordially inviting you to submit crap for my zine. Right now, the working title is "Science... and crap", since I have grown rather attached to the name. The working title for the first issue is "The Pirate Album." Let's go independize some media!

Uber Phone
Now if they could only apply this same technology to getting the boogers out of my nose.

Who hasn't been posting much this week?
Why, it's me! Since I have a big honking journal article due next week and my experiments are going to hell, things have been pretty busy around here. But that doesn't mean that I shouldn't dig up some decent links to post. So check out the following in no particular order.

A listing of different sites that will bring up random webpages for you.

A photoshop tutorial on how to put good wall-to-wall blood splatter in your pictures.

"If you have enough monkeys banging randomly on typewriters, they will eventually type the works of William Shakespeare." - Blah I say!

And finally... Welcome to the United States Beer Drinking Team.

Don't let the pretty pictures fool you...
Madison is not at all sunny, breezy and beautiful like the cover girl portrayed on their admissions flyers. It is full of construction (sans constructabots), rainy and generally chuck full of ne'er do wells. See for yourself via the amazing Engineering Media Services FountainCam!

Check out this flim-flam job!
Lady tries to pass off the old fake roll of quarters for a burger job and gets away with it. Sweet.

By the by, I have no ideas why the comments aren't working. I guess that is what I get for putting my faith in an outside commenting host. Of course, those guys generally rock, so I am sure that there is something serious going on for it to not be working. In honor of the lack of comments I shall listen to some Built to Spill. Rock on Built to Spill... rock on.

Old people popping and rocking?
Late at night? One a bench? With a nearby construction worker? Give me more! More!

Holiday Wishes from Jack Black
How come Kyle Gass never gets to be in the cool interviews huh? He's the real brains behind the group you jerks. Anyway, if you want a lifetime backstage pass for the D shows, click here.

It's CGNU time baby.
Watched the last part of Average Joe last night. It is the show where a good looking girl is set up "bachelorette" style with about 20 guys... ugly average guys. It doesn't get much funnier than watching some three hundred pound balding guy talk about how he hoping to get a piece by the show's end.

For those of you playing pinochle tonight at my place, a word of warning: I'm going big or going home... and I'm already at my house.

Finally, the Wednesday One (now appearing randomly throughout the week... I won't let the damn roman calander hold me down.) What is your favorite type of cheese? I really like Smoked Gouda. It is great on pizza and crackers. Plus, it is smoked. And smoked is good.