Blow Up My House

The new Batman movie, “The Dark Knight” has been filming in Chicago and today they blew up “Gotham General Hospital”. Playing the part of the hospital is the old abandoned Brach’s Candy factory on the west side of Chicago. About 150 Chicago locals gathered around to watch this building get demolished Batman style, and the [...]

Lasse Gjertsen

Funny Videos Who is Lasse Gjertsen? Beats me. I don’t know where he’s from, who does his hair, or even how to pronounce his name. But I’m not a Lasse Gjertsen expert…I’m just a fan. Lasse has put together some quality videos, but before I even try explain the technique behind it, you should just [...]

What is Firefox ?

Cool Websites I have many good things to say about Firefox, but first I’ll offer a chunk of Wikipedia’s definition: The developers of Firefox aimed to produce a browser that “just surfs the web”[10] and delivers the “best possible browsing experience to the widest possible set of people.” The main features included with Firefox are [...]

Kiss My Ask

Although I’m primarily a Google man, I really like the changes that Ask has been making to their search services. Ask Here we have the Ask homepage with it’s list of search tools on the right hand side including: Images, News, Blogs, etc. I personally think it looks cleaner than the Google homepage, and they [...]

Widget Wrestling

Cool Websites Since adding the MyBlogLog sidebar widget to my site, I’ve been going widget crazy! So, what is a widget you might ask? Widgets are snippets of embeddable code that can be copied and pasted from one website to another. Or, as the kids say, it’s wicked, cool blog bling for your website or [...]

Let’s Get Social!

Cool Websites With websites like Myspace, YouTube, and Digg I’m officially more social on the web than I am in real life. Keeping with that trend, I have added my blog to MyBlogLog.com. MyBlogLog.com not only gives you the opportunity to see who reads this blog, (see Recent Readers on my side bar) but you [...]