Today’s color is relaxing mint green. It’s the color of a college student on Spring Break, determined to blow off doing his huge pile of homework and projects for one more day. Tomorrow. I’ll start hitting the books again tomorrow.
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Normisms
Normisms presents all of your favorite “Norm” lines from Cheers: “Hey, Mr. Peterson, Jack Frost nipping at your nose?” “Yep, now let’s get Joe Beer nipping at my liver, huh?”
Wheelbarrow Freestyle
Update
I’ve added DrikoLand to the GeoURL database. Click on the icon at right to see my neighbours…
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Today’s color is whatever you want it to be. It’s the color of someone with so many colors racing through his mind that he can’t pick any of them. If you’re in a good mood, I suggest yellow, the color of the daffodils that are beginning to bloom. If you’re in a bad mood, you might try an anguishing mixture of hideous colors based on the feelings of those at war. Personally, I can’t decide today, so I’m going to help a friend cut down trees in his yard. My color might be sort of a sweaty, chainsaw smoke grey.
The Museum of Unworkable Devices
The Museum of Unworkable Devices is a very informative and entertaining site specializing in depicting and debunking perpetual motion devices. The author does a good job explaining in laymans’ language the laws of physics that prevent such machines from working. The site includes galleries of proposed devices, the appearance of physically impossible devices in art and optical illusions, and a lot more that I haven’t even explored yet.
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Today’s color is bright sky blue. It’s the color of a perfect day in Washington. I’m going out to enjoy it, because it’s a rare thing indeed.
Fictional Histories and Timelines
Edgar Governo has collected dozens of “online chronologies, timelines, and histories” for TV shows, movies, books, games, and comics. For example, there are sites detailing the chronological events of the Star Wars and Star Trek universes as revealed in all of the related movies, books, and comics, as well as sites chronologically summarizing the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert Jordan. Most of these sites are quite thorough to the point of obsession, but I suppose I shouldn’t be throwing stones. 😉 Still, they do seem to have a lot of “time” on their hands. Get it? Yeah, I know, that was pretty bad…
Cooking For Losers
Cooking For Losers presents a great recipe for authentic Mexican tacos that even I could handle. I think.
Aluminum Can Art
Tesscar Aluminum Craft showcases lots of models of airplanes, ships, cars, and more made out of aluminum cans. I have a couple of airplanes similar to those shown here that I bought at airshows, but most of these models look much cooler. Plans for making your own masterpiece are available for $10 per model; it might be fun, although I’m sure they’re a lot harder to make than they look.
