The Farming Game

Plow the back forty on your kitchen table!

This is a great board game that takes me back to the days of playing it in Reeseville...

YouTube - MIKA - Lollipop

this is one of the best music vids ever.

Headphones Headphones Headphones

This site has reviews of a wide range of headphones & earbuds.

I'm looking for some new, comfortable earbuds that have good outside noise decibel reduction. If they come with a case too, that's cool; otherwise I just wrap them around the iPod...

Among the best brands are Shure, Bose and Etymotic. I've also been happy with some Sony's in the past.



UPDATE: I got some very sweet Etymotic research earbuds for christmas! and then less than a month later, I lost them!?!???!! I've NEVER lost a pair of headphones before in my life, so of course I'd start with some $100+ ones :(

Messenger Bags from Zappos

This site has tons of nice messenger bags for my daily lunch/etc commuting bag. Some of the bags at this site are also laptop bags which is nice (for if/whenever I finally get a laptop at work) but not critical.

Filter the color by olive, green, black or brown and click Narrow Results to see the ones I like best... NOTE: I'm not into the dragons/graffiti/puma designs.

here's a couple of favorites:

Pacsafe Meshsafe
Keen hillsdale
Keen Oswego
Victorinox Ground Force

I currently have a Timbuk2 classic messenger bag (black/olive) but it's wearing holes in it and has a broken clip.

Audiobooks and Movies

The only books I tend to find time to read are audiobooks I can listen to during commutes... Audible.com makes it easy to pick from a wide range of audiobooks.

Buy And Redeem Gifts From Audible.com | Gift Center | Audible Audiobooks | Audible.com


Also, movies at home are way more accessible than finding freedom to get to a theater. NetFlix gift certificate would be cool too.

EZMount Arcade Spinner

I need one more spinner to complete my Metacab arcade cabinet... I've already got a knob waiting for one last spinner...
I have two of these now! It rules for games like Super Offroad, Arkanoid, etc.

EZ Arcade Solutions MAME (tm) Spinner

16GB Flash Drive

Newegg.com - CORSAIR Flash Voyager 16GB Flash Drive (USB2.0 Portable) Model CMFUSB2.0-16GB - USB Flash Drives

USB 2 card

One of my arcade cabinets could use USB 2 access to allow easier copying to/from it. Last time i had to tear it open & pull the system drive just to copy some files to it.

Newegg.com - Rosewill Low-Profile PCI to 2 1 USB2.0 Cards Model RC-100 - Add-On Cards

External Hard Drive Enclosure

I've got a couple SATA drives but need an enclosure to put them in. This one looks especially easy at swapping drives if needed.
I picked up a nice docking style external USB2 drive chassis. I can now snap either of my SATA drives in quite easily.

Newegg.com - ICY DOCK MB559 MB559UEA-1S Aluminum body with partial plastic 3.5" USB2.0 & 1394 External Enclosure - External Enclosures

6 Dollar Shirts.

These shirts rule! Plus you can't beat the price...
I'm still a large....






UPDATE: I got these for Christmas '08!

Photo Archives | History in HD

This blog has loads of high res historical photos: Shorpy Photo Archive | History in HD.

Also, Google now allows searching with a source:life tag inserted to search only images supplied by Life Magazine. Some amazing snaps of history here too with much more control over what you see.
http://images.google.com/hosted/life

Star Wars Storyboards - a set on Flickr

Star Wars Storyboards - a set on Flickr

Toys on Roids

Toys on Roids - a very cool set of polaroid illustration/art photography still lifes

Artifacts of Geek History in Jay Walker's Library

Absolutely the most awesome library design I've ever seen.

Browse the Artifacts of Geek History in Jay Walker's Library

LP Cover Lover | The world’s greatest LP album covers, and 45s too

wow. some crazy old LP cover art.

Zaius Nation - Some apes are more equal than others

Zaius Nation - Some apes are more equal than others

Nice blog about current events, as skewed by a penchant for vintage tv/camp.

The Four Word Film Review

"The Four Word Film Review is a film review site like no other- an ever expanding collection of extremely brief film reviews and summaries. Submissions are welcomed from anyone- the only condition being no more than four words may be used."

Free Piggyback Rides on Rodeo Drive!

YouTube - Free Piggyback Rides on Rodeo Drive!: ""

William Eggleston

hauntingly obvious with an unnatural sense of space and awe. Very cool american photographer....

Ween The Pod ripped off Leonard Cohen?

Had no idea until now that Ween's The Pod ripped off Leonard Cohen in its album art. I did, however, know about the scotchguard bong on the cover.