So not much going on, I saw my friend Brian last week that I used to play Ultima Online with and we used to run the Pacific Roleplaying Community.  We hadn’t seen each other since I visited him 7 years ago, unfortunately it was only for a couple hours but it was great being able to hang out and talk, I missed that.  By the way he needs up update his blog, he’s a slacker.  I X-Men First Class a couple days ago and have officially declared it the best X-Men movie ever, it wasn’t perfect but it was a very solid 9, the two main actors were perfect for their roles and I really liked the story.  Last weekend we saw Super 8 and it was great as well, I have said this before and I will continue to say this, J.J. Abrams can do no wrong, he is the best in the business.  Other than that I am still working on finished a new smoker that I’m hoping to use for our 4th of July party,  I should have it finished tonight.  Our tomatoes are starting to ripen, and the peppers are starting to look great.  Not much else new here but I know some people appreciate it when share more than links.  Looking forward to Green Lantern but I don’t think it will be able to live up the how good XMFC was.

And now onto the cool stuff.

These are the cool things I found around the web for June 1st through June 14th:

• 2D Glasses – NOT 3d glasses! I might need to get these.

This video with Leonard Nimoy is pure awesome!

• Denise Milani’s breasts – Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia – This is funny.

This is why you don’t leave messages with businesses you are mad at.

• Use Shaving Cream to Remove Tough, Greasy Stains [Clever Uses] – I’m going to need to try this with some shirts that have washed in oil stains…

There is nothing wrong with a little spanking between friends…. right?

Britta and Annie spanking...

Talking about Britta.  Knock Knock!

Related articles

• ‘Super 8′ Easter Eggs (slashfilm.com)

• YouTube – 取精機(男士專用)..笑爆咀 – OMG Japan has sperm collectors!
• BARNSTORMERS.COM eFLYER – Under the Net – First I’ve ever heard of or see this.
• ESPN’s Web Gem Scoreboard – Points leaders for ESPN Baseball Tonight.
• Review: Barnes & Nobles’ Nook Color goes Android Tablet | ZDNet – Wow, this is big. Now you don’t have to root it to do it, it’s official!
• SETI Institute to shut down alien-seeking radio dishes – San Jose Mercury News – This is unfortunate.
• Big Ben (big_ben_clock) on Twitter – Haha, Big Ben has a Twitter, and all it does it Bong!

Matt Kemp Kills Baseballs!

Hey!  It’s Dan of the Garion clan.  How about that Matt Kemp?  He’s been killing the ball.  So my wife Kelly said my blog has been boring since all I post nowadays are links…  Is that true?  Are my links boring, would you rather hear me talk about the Next Great Dancing Crew?  I mean I know I can be funny when I don’t try at all, but can I be entertaining, especially in a world where people watch crap like Pregnant in Heels, Glamour Bells, and Playdates (yes these are all really TV shows, on REAL TV).  WHO THE HELL WATCHES THIS STUFF.  I mean it’s one thing to make fun of it, which is why I religiously watch The Soup (well and that Joel McHale is awesome), but really who watches this type of shit? This will be the only blog that someone says the word shit and then starts talking about Easter.

It’s Easter this Sunday, and I for one welcome our Zombie Jesus overlords.  I’m happy I can get back to swigging soda and chowing down on chocolate now that Kelly no longer has the obligation to give up something she likes for Lent.  Other than that there really isn’t much going on.  The onions in the back yard are just about ready to get cured, we got a citrus tree that seems to be doing well, I fixed the grout in the master bathroom and Kelly is just about done with painting the shelf that our awesome neighbor made for us in the spare bedroom.  Next up we are getting the HUGE birds of paradise plants in the front yard removed and we might be getting sprinklers installed in the front yard as well.

Lastly for those that really know us, be on the lookout for information about our 3rd Annual Fourth of July Party!  Now it’s time for! DUN DUN DUN!

These are the cool things I found around the web for April 20th through April 22nd:

• The Geek Zodiak [PIC] Geek Zodiak – Geeks are Sexy Technology News -
• Owners, union discuss playoff expansion options – ESPN – NO NO NO! Please no, do not expand the MLB playoffs! Don’t dilute the playoffs to shit.
• Bristol riot over new Tesco store leaves eight police officers injured | UK news | guardian.co.uk – Peaceful… huh? What idiots.
  
  For those that don’t know Tesco is a like a grocery story… Way to get worked up about something completely unimportant Brits.

• AT&T: Filing Admits Network Wasn’t Ready For The iPhone – HAHA!
• petewarden/iPhoneTracker @ GitHub – Little did you know, Apple has been tracking you all along. This can’t be, Apple is not at all evil…
• SEX! « OkCupid – More research from OkCupid, this time about SEX!

• Oatmeal in Jars: Make a Week of Breakfast in 5 Minutes | Apartment Therapy The Kitchn – Great idea for having oatmeal every day!
• The Always Up-To-Date Guide to Rooting Any Android Phone [Video] – In case you are into this sort of thing.
• Page Speed Online – Very cool way to check and see if your sites are running efficient.
• The Complete Guide to Ribs of the World | Serious Eats – Everything you want to know about ribs all around the world (Cooking)
• Sign Up for Boxes of Tech Parts You Can Upcycle – Pretty cool sounding if you are into DIY gadget projects.

• The Pratfall of Penny Arcade – A Timeline – Bunch of people are Butthurt over a comic that Penny Arcade did back in August. Wow, talk about blowing things out of proportion…
• YouTube – HD Twilight Landing At LAX (Cockpit View) – If you are going to watch one video I post this week, this should be it!
• The Mathematics Of Beauty « OkTrends – Another datasheet analysis on OkCupid. This one is about beauty. I love the things they found out (highlighted in Yellow).
• The Long Recall: The Civil War in Real Time, 150 Years Later | The American Interest – Great blog doing a real time recount of the Civil War, added it to my news reading feeds.
• YouTube – Drawing in Microsoft Excel – Did you know you can do elaborate drawings in Excel?
• Why Was I Banned – Putting the BAWWWWW in Xbox – Hilarious website that links complaints about being banned and why they were banned on Xbox Live!
• ezeStand – Buy it Now! – Cheaper docking station stand for the Droid X.
• YouTube – Captain America Teaser Trailer – I think I like the other one more. But still looks like it will be fun.
• YouTube – Captain America Trailer Oficial 2011 [ HD ] – Not sure if this is the real one but if it is, this is pure awesome. I love the title art, that’s perfect for the time setting.
• YouTube – Marvel Studios’ The Avengers: The Intros – I love Joss Whedon’s quote. “I had a dream all my life, and it was not this good!”.
• YouTube – “Premakes” Up! (1965) – Awesome fake trailer for a real time version of Up as if it was a movie from the 60′s Check out the other “premakes” they have as well. Really well done.
• YouTube – littlebigplanet one-take – Ever wanted to see a live action version of Little Big Planet? Well now you can!
• YouTube – Old Spice | I’m Back – Yes! He’s back!
• Inventables: Find new materials – Ever wanted just really neat stuff, even though you don’t know what to do with it?
• YouTube – Blowout Sale – Hey it’s Abed!
• Buy And Sell Unused Groupons (And Other Daily Deals) On Lifesta – Another service has popped up now that there are discount coupon sites! Why didn’t I think of this?

• The Food Lab: A Better Way to Caramelize Onions (Plus, French Onion Dip!) – Just in case you are looking to make Onion Dip from scratch for your Super Bowl party!
• How to Create a Portable Hackintosh on a USB Thumb Drive [Hackintosh] – Nice little tech thing to have if you do support work.
• In praise of the sci-fi corridor – Den of Geek – Great article about the look of corridors in Sci-Fi.
• Touch Trigonometry – A nifty interactive trigonometry graph and circle featuring the six basic trig functions.
• Guy Makes Comedy Videos Asking For $1 Million… And Gets It – Pretty funny story of a comedian that asked for a million dollars and now appears to be getting it. It’s funny because I had a idea like this with letters to rich people.
• Boo! -
• YouTube – Browser-IT CROWD – Oh how I love the IT Crowd.
• YouTube – Marisa Tomei is obsessed with hula hoops – The video where Marisa Tomei hula hoops…
• Baconnaise | Serious Eats : Recipes – Yes… You too can make your own Baconnaise at home!
• YouTube – GTA 4 Carmageddon – 2! – This is a pretty cool video of Grand Theft Auto if you set the friction settings to a negative number. It’s just pure car armageddon!
• Space Jam – Wow.. the website for the movie “Space Jam” is still online…
• Home | Trunk.ly: Never forget a link – Pretty cool site to use to save all the links you share on different social media networks.
• Spaceflight Now | Delta Launch Report | Mission Status Center – Check out all the links for January 8th. Great pictures of the Shuttle Enterprise!
• A gadget’s life: From gee-whiz to junk| The Washington Post – Here’s a look at which gadgets have gone from obscure to ubiquitous over the past 30 years, and how their prices shrank along the way:
• MealShare.org – food. friends. fellowship. – A site to help you share meals with your friends.

During the last couple weeks we’ve been doing a bunch of yard work, getting the yards in as good a shape as we can this year.  Other than that, we haven’t really done much.  So I guess I will just post the links…

Cool Music
I can’t remember if I shared this band yet on here, but Rock Sugar is an awesome band.  The lead singer was the guy that did the voice of Wacko on Animaniacs.

Food Stuff
Four articles from Serious Eats that I thought were great to share.  How to Salt Food, 6 Things Every Griller Needs, Top 10 Tips For Making Better Burgers, and  Mastering the Art of Burger Blending.  I’m very interested in getting a grinder for our KitchenAid Mixer and blending my own meat!  If you are interested in finding a local fruit and veggie or even meat CSA you will want to check out both Local Harvest and Eat Wild.  Too bad there aren’t really any close by meat CSAs in SoCal.  I did recently discover that we have a local grass fed beef rancher 5 Bar Beef, we are going to try some of their ground beef tonight for burgers.  If you want to know more about beef cuts, this poster is great.

Beer Stuff
Make had this cool weekend project for a portable homebrew cooler dispenser, that I might give a try when we have a party.  Talking about beer, Floating Sheep has some maps about bars and areas where there are more bars than grocery stores.

Funny Stuff
When you are buying a home, the most overlooked requirement is Zombie Protection!  Well OC Reader has you covered if you are looking for a home in Orange County.

Cool Sports
If you are looking to buy some tickets for a game or even a concert, Seat Geek has you covered in helping you find things for the best price available.  They forecast if it’s a smart time to buy of if the price will be going down and suggest you to wait if you are buying the tickets on sites like StubHub, Tickets Now, or Ticket Network.  Plus they will graph out the ticket locations for you.

Cool Sites
CNN Money’s 20 best Money Sites.  Mensa’s 50 top websites.  Groundspeak, the team behind Geocaching.org are slowly making their way into the geolocation game with Whibbit, looking forward to see how it compares to Foursquare and GoWalla.

More Cool Stuff
Probably should have been in the food section but I love that this site will locate Where is My Milk From.  Science has discovered that as the use of porn goes up the amount of sex crimes goes down!  Take that feminists!  After you are done watching some porn, check out these awesome airports, I’m not sure if I want to land at any of those…

And last but not least, videos.
I think I will show this one during my Defensive Driving training classes I do.

Photoshop CS5 Content Aware Fill, it’s amazing what photoshop can do nowadays.

Sir Mix a Lot like But-terfingers

Awesome TV Theme duet

Food Stuff
For Super Bowl we had a small party with our parents coming over to watch the game with us, I wanted to try and cook buffalo wings, but wasn’t at all in the mood for frying them up, I found this awesome recipe two days before the game for cooking up crunchy buffalo like wings in the oven from Serious Eats, you owe it to yourself to cook them this way!  I also found this cool site that reviews all the interesting snack foods out there called Taquitos.net, they have everything from national brands to regional favorites.  Lastly if you are the type of person that is interested in trying your hand at brewing your own beer check out this quick blurb on Lifehacker about two free open source programs that will help you with your goal.

Music Stuff
I haven’t had much music stuff lately, but I had to share this awesome project that Michael Deal is working on that is a graphical exploration into the Beatles and the creation of their music.  This is a project and any true Beatles fan will want to check out.

Sad Stuff
For those that don’t know the Mars rover Spirit is stuck and can no longer move, so they have pretty much pulled the plug on the project, xkcd has a sad comic to show us that rovers have feelings too.

Funny Stuff
If you are a friend of mine on Facebook you might have already seen this, but if not, check out this graphic on How to Suck at Facebook.   I’m proud to say I don’t do any of those things listed, so I must not suck.  If you saw the Google commercial during the Super Bowl (which was my favorite ad) you saw a clever use of their auto complete feature, the site Autocomplete Me turns the auto complete feature into a interesting look at what people search for on Google.

The Lego Millennium Falcon!

Cool Stuff
I just found this today but I wanted to pass it on, someone has taken the initiative to educate today’s men on what they need in their wardrobe, with Newbie Fashion Tips for Grown Men.  It really is a good group of tips and suggestions on how to look your best.  Wardrobe Oxygen takes it a step further, but I have to disagree with some their what to remove from your wardrobe section.  I’ve been wanting to get some Lego sets recently to put together for fun and I was checking out the online Lego store, they have a $499 Star Wars Millennium Falcon, a little more than I want to spend (it is 5000+ pieces though)…  I’ve seen a couple places recently selling recycled bottles that have had their tops cut off so you can use them as glasses, here is someone that decided they could just make them instead.  Check out this great article on the 19 Most Complex and Dangerous road in the world, I’ve seen some of these on Top Gear, the Road of Death in Bolivia looks like a bitch.  If you know me you know that Kelly and I met online, so I find the research that OkCupid is doing on their dating site is extraordinary, they recently wrote an article about profile pictures, and I highly suggest anyone that is doing any sort of online dating read their articles, they will help you make a better personal ad.  Example, Men: don’t make eye contact and don’t smile, Women: make eye contact and a flirty face.  And the last of the cool stuff, this blog post regarding the changes to the Crayola color spectrum throughout the years.

Not Cool Sports Stuff
The Chicago Cubs have thought up an complete asshole plan, they are going to charge a 20% premium on those that purchase tickets the 1st week they are on sale, and then after that they will be the normal face value.  Talk about scalping your customers.  I hope we don’t see this become a trend.  (edit, this is nothing new they have been doing it for 8 years.)

Cool Videos
Some geeks have figured out an awesome use for Microsoft’s surface, Dungeons and Dragons!

D&D on the Microsoft Surface from CrunchGear on Vimeo.

Hot Tub Time Machine will be the movie event of the year!

Someone has edited all the violence from the 2010 Super Bowl commercials into one epic Youtube video.

And last but not least does this sound familiar?

Ok, this one is really short, since I’m just tying up loose ends and finishing on the cool links.

Chicks Stuff
What is a blog post without me commenting on the current crop of hotties in the AskMen.com Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2010?  You don’t need to answer that question, but here are my thoughts.

#97 Sasha Grey one of the best looking adult stars around.
#96 Diora Baird something looks wrong with her face…
#89 Denise Milani hello whoever you are.
#88 Angelina Jolie still don’t think she’s that great looking.
#86 Kristen Wiig Really? She’s pretty, but really?
#82 Jessica Simpson *scratches head*
#81 Whitnet Port who and why?
#79 Anna Paquin more please!
#76 Kristen Bell has such a pretty face.
#74 Eva Longoria one of my favorite “Latinas”.
#71 Sophie Monk looks like plastic face.
#70 Tricia Helfer it’s amazing the range of looks she has, she always looks different.
#61 Anne Hathaway she should be higher!
#58 Christina Hendricks and her golden globes (sorry I had to do the joke again…)
#53 Emily BluntJohn Krasinski has good taste.
#51 Taylor Swift she’s cute but there is something weird-looking about her.
#44 Emily Scott are those real?
#42 Kim Kardashian say whatever you want, but you can’t say she’s not hot.
#40 Zooey Deschanel super cute.
#37 Giada De Laurentiis I’m just including this one for Kelly.
#34 Salma Hayek still reins in my top 10!
#28 Heidi Klum there is something about Heidi that always makes me smile when I see her. She’s just an all around cool woman.
#27 Jessica Biel taking place of my Julia Roberts obsession of women with big mouths.
#24 Adriana Lima I know she’s pretty, but she doesn’t do much for me.
#23 Scarlett Johansson Scarlett, my lovely Scarlett…
#22 Keeley Hazell not really known stateside, but she’s the looker.
#21 Kristen Stewart WHY? She always looks like a drugged out whore…
#18 January Jones she’s only the 3rd of 4th best looking woman on Mad Men…
#17 Natalie Portman she’s starting to lose it to me.
#16 Kelly Brook another UK girl, that’s not really known in the states. She’s sort of losing it too.
#15 Erin Andrews eh.
#12 Gisele Bundchen another beautiful woman who just doesn’t do it for me.
#11 Megan Fox she isn’t as hot as the Interwebs thinks she is.
#10 Miranda Kerr I say yes.
#9 Eva Mendes still a gem.
#8 Cheryl Cole it’s another girl from the UK, bring them on!
#6 Beyonce no.
#5 Jessica Alba hell yeah.
#Alessandra Ambrosio one of the best looking VS models of all time.
#3 Kate Beckinsale now we are talking!
#2 Marisa Miller BUZZ! Wrong!
#1 Emmanuelle Chriqui she’s up there, but I’m not sure I would pick her #1.

Video Stuff
This one is for my wife.

I know I didn’t mention this yesterday but it’s been pouring here in Southern California all week, some of the worst rains I’ve seen since 2005. Fortunately the house has held up well. Now on to the continuation of the Weekly Cool Links #21.

Cool Tech
For the last couple years I’ve used XBMC installed on my old Xbox as my be all media player for our living room, but with news from the most recent CES I just might look into replacing it sooner than later. Here are the devices I’m looking into.

Patriot Box Office Media Player
HDX BD-1
Asus O!Play HDP-R1
Popbox
Boxee Box (by D-Link)

The Boxee Box would be the one that is most like my current setup, since it’s based off the XBMC, but I’m not very happy with D-Link after various issues with some of their devices I’ve had in 2009. Right now it’s a wait and see approach, the Patriot Box Office is at Fry’s now for $130, but it seems a bit under whelming.

Cool Stuff
I know you thought I was done with 2009 lists after 21.1 but I had to share the Top 10 Everything of 2009 by Time. And the last mention of 2009 in this post, Gamasutra’s 99 Best Free games of 2009. Last week I watched this awesome video from TED about the intelligence of crows, it’s really eye-opening and will get you to look at crows in a whole different way. Of course this picture of search terms might make you wish you were a crow (women want their men to propose, and men want their women to give them head). If all that has made you feel a little less smart, check out this periodic table of elements with pictures!

Cool Advertising
Companies aren’t happy with just names, now they want to own colors… This is just plain wrong.

Cool Food
Kelly and I have done our best to start eating in more often, and it’s sites like No Takeout that help me plan our meals, they give a complete menu, shopping list, and game plan to get your meal done and on the table. Of if I’m just looking for a recipe based off of items I have there is Supercook or a new site I found call Cooking By Numbers.

Cool Videos
How online gamers play games in real life…

British comedy skits based on PBS like shows (this on is on Water there are others)

More PG Porn! This time with the lovely Jenna Haze!

Superhuman tape measure skills

Realistic Hollywood Sex-Scene