Compare “Three Girl Rhumba” by Wire to Elastica’s “Connection”.

Do you find CNET video reviews helpful or at least interesting? Would you like your 15 SECONDS of fame? ShopWiki, which I posted earlier this week, now has video reviews for any product contained within their database. They are paying $50 to the first 500 accepted video reviews. And yes, you can submit multiple reviews.

Not to be paranoid, but is giving Google your credit card to hold really the best idea? Google Checkout seems to think so.

Snap the correct pictures: Zoo Tycoon 2 Photo Safari.

The Life & Times of the Barbarian Brothers.

The History of Toys and Games via The History Channel.

If you want a wood carved replica of a Commodore 64 keyboard you may want to reply to a 419 scam.

Gamma Bros is a good old-fashioned space shooter.

There was some problems with the MySQL server I use for this site today so no posts (I’m leaving for work now). Back tomorrow!

Shameless plug: I started a new mp3blog over at www.pressrandom.com if you’re looking for music.

After watching Jimi Hendrix on the Dick Cavett Show I headed to the Wikipedia where I found out he was once kidnapped for two days. Bizarre.

Songbirdnest looks like an interesting music player. It’s indexing my music collection now and I’ll report in if it causes any problems.

4×4 Rally has a bit of drifting going on.

This is a huge selection of full-length cartoons that are hosted on YouTube. They have South Park’s “Woodland Critter Christmas” so I have at least one to watch again.

13 things that do not make sense. This is from the New Scientist Space website so it’s pretty serious.

The NNDB is a people database focusing on people they deem noteworthy. There’s a “news” section that pointed me to Aaron Spelling where I found out he was married to Carolyn Jones, otherwise known as Morticia Addams. That strikes me as crazy for some reason, don’t ask.

Gutenkarte shows locations from famous books on a map.

I haven’t posted much lately, but thought I would begin Monday by geeking out with some new and old personal faves.

Frankly I am on the fence with the influx of Social websites and bookmarking software. Its all very cool, but so overwhelming. Plus you need to sign up for each one- what a pain! But with the 2-year old Yelp, it’s at least functional with finding local businesses on a modified google map. Idealab’s Insiderpages is moving in a similar direction.

A real old standby of mine is Michael Fagan’s Fagan Finder’s URLinfo. Rather than try to summarize, here it is from the horse’s mouth: “URLinfo is a tool for handling web pages, such as finding information about it, translating it, finding related pages, etc. To use it, type a URL (web page address) into the box in the top frame. Then choose a tab (such as General or Cache), and click on the name of the specific tool you wish to use. ” Be sure to use the bookmarklet too!

So new, the launch date hits today! Jellyfish is yet another shopping engine (various interviews and thoughts on its pre-launch, including references to Jellyfish’s Blog posts) that is claiming to be a “Robin-Hood-like search engine …SHARING at least half of every $1 they earn when you shop and buy products using Jellyfish.com (they have a handful of stores that won’t allow them to share, so when you buy from them they can’t give cash back, but you will always see clearly the amount of cash back you get on any purchase). ” I’ve been looking for an upright freezer for awhile now and the results came back with zilch, but I’m willing to wait things out if not at least for curiosity.

Here some other cool shopping sites I’ve been using lately: auction/classified focused Mpire and ShopWiki which has a new sweet color-enhanced search engine.

Enjoy not getting nothing done today….Paul

Cult Sirens, a particular type of female in movies.

647 “street names” for marijuana in the shape of a leaf. “Goblet of Jam” is a definitely a new one to me.

Keep your opponent from hitting the ground: Keep Them Uppy.