Matt Van Stone

If you like snow and skate brands then you should check out Whiskey Militia. It’s a clearance site for Dogfunk.com.

The site has a pretty original/sweet premise. Basically they put up a wicked deal, usually 30% or more off on a clearance item. There are limited quantities and usually they sell out pretty fast. If the item sells out a new one is put up, if it doesn’t sell out a new one is put up anyway. Most stuff I wouldn’t even consider buying, hence why it is clearance. But every once in a while there is a decent deal. I have bought a couple of shirts from the site. Expect to add about $15 for shipping, but even with that the deals are pretty decent.

And, if you like Whiskey, check out Steep and Cheap and Chainlove.

I have been using Interfacelift for quite a while now, and I just realized I have never posted anything about it. It is my favorite free wallpaper website. The majority of the pictures these days seem to be scenery photos, but if you dig back in the archives there are lots of abstract graphics and other photography.

The real winning aspect of the site is that it offers most of its wallpaper in a range of resolutions including widescreen, fullscreen, 720p and 1080p, and even mobile phone resolutions.

There are new additions almost every day but if you don’t happen to like whats on the main page hit the “Random” button at the top to see something else.

So, if you like free wallpaper check out Interfacelift or iphone.interface.com from your iPhone for direct access to 320×480 wallpaper. Oh yeah, the site also has free icons and themes too if that tickles your fancy.

I just came across this website called My Crazy Roommate and it is GOLDEN.

The guy is clearly not making it up, it’s just too funny to be fake. Even if it is fake, it’s still golden. His name is Matt I believe, and I think he lives LA. Could be Wily though, cause thats the author name on the posts. I don’t know, I’ll call him Matt. He has a roommate who’s name starts with P, so for privacy, Matt calls him P. Since P moved in with Matt in January there have been hundreds of crazy interactions between them and Matt has posted a dozens of them online for our enjoyment.

If you get a chance, take 20 minutes and read them from the start. They are in chronological order and some won’t make sense if you don’t read the first ones. I specifically enjoyed his bike story.

The Bike Incident

Me: What hapanned to you?
P: I fell down the stairs.
Me: We don’t have stairs.
P: I fell down the stair in front.
Me: You look like you were hit by a bus. The “stair” out front is a 3 inch step.
P: I had hot dogs in my hand.
Me: What?
P: I tripped on my shoe and saved the hot dogs.
Me: Who does that?

Now, if this was anyone else in the world, I would’ve called bullsh*t right there. P being P though, “I tripped over my shadow” was believable….

The Next Day….
Person 1:
J: What happaned to you?
P: I crashed M’s bike.

Person 2:
S: What did you do to your hand?
P: I crashed M’s bike.

Brilliant liar this P….About 20 people later…..

P: So, ummmm……There’s something wrong with your bike.
Me: Yeah, I know, it fell down a stair.
P: Yeah, so, thats fine, right?
Me: Nope. You took it without asking, crashed it, then lied about it. You buy it or fix it.
P: It’s not my fault! I didnt’ mean to crash.
Me: You’re retarded. You have a week.
P: Nooo! The important thing is that I’m o.k.
Me: No, it’s not. The important thing is that you owe me money or a fixed bike or your homeless.
P: I’ll fix it, I’ll fix it.
Me: I know, and you’ll buy a lock for it too. I’ve been having problems with people taking it and crashing it.

Not always fun and games when dealing with a crazy person.

Like I said, read them from the start. They just keep getting better from #1 on.

I just want to point out that Microsoft’s Live Search for images is my favorite image search engine. Really it’s only for one reason too: I love it because you don’t have to click “next page” ever. As you scroll down it automatically loads more pictures. You can continue scrolling forever and if there are pictures to load, it will load them. Kudos to Microsoft on this feature.

Now if they could somehow create a spotlight style search where images start appearing in the results view as you type your search, that would be a sweet feature.

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Oldversion.com is a site that hosts the history of several common free programs just incase you upgrade and decide you don’t like it. New programs are often becoming bloated with extra features that have no real use, or just don’t get used at all. Personally I prefer MSN v6.2 over the new V7.0 (not that I prefer MSN at all, but that’s a different matter all together). If you try something and decide it is not for you, there is always the option to uninstall and revert back to one of the older versions hosted at this site.

Check out the software at Oldversion.com/

Don’t you wish you could have your own personal radio station that plays exactly the kind of music you like? Well then check out Pandora. Pandora is an online radio created by the Music Gnome Project which is designed to help you find new artists that play the same type of music you already like.

Pandora references the Music Genome Project database to compare the songs you like with ones with similar genres, instruments, rhythms, lyrical content and many other attributes. This way it is able to make a logical guess at a similar group or song to the ones you like.

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Bill Gates is an interesting guy who has lots of interesting things to say. He has also been wrongly quoted a lot of times. The quote which is probably his most famous, “640K ought to be enough for anybody”, has wrongly been attributed to him. Well if you want to read some great Bill Gates quotes (with confirmed sources) check out the Wikiquote entry on bill gates.

Bill Gates Quotes

Some other quotes that are not sourced, but are still funny can be found here:
Unsourced Bill Gates Quotes

This Webshots gallery has some pictures of some freakin huge catfish. If anyone has been to Beaver Lake in Victoria BC, Canada, you’ll probably think twice about swimming in there after seeing these images. Not much more I can say about it than that.

Huge Freakin Catfish.

Yes, yes there is and its name is the Wayback Machine. Ever since 1996 the Wayback Machine has been taking snapshots of internet sites. A quick search for www.yahoo.com brings up a list of hundreds of archived yahoo pages from 1996 to 2005. It can be both fun and practical. You can check out sites that no longer exist like www.scour.net or you can view the evolution of a website over the years like yahoo.com Google.com, or Microsoft.com.

Check out the full post and try it out for yourself.

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