Cool Links of the week.

Steampunk Web Game Sort of Thing - PMOG

The Passiveley Multiplayer Online Game seems to have a steampunk theme.

http://pmog.com/

I've been playing it a bit today, and haven't quite figured out what the game of it is.

I did find this nice site with scary pictures using it though. It's called childhood fears.

http://www.soothbrush.com/children-fear-photography/

BEST PAGE ON WIKIPEDIA!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles

Including the story of a man that built a palace out of rocks that he found while walking around town. hmm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Cheval#Gallery

Titan I - extensive tour of a Colorado site
This site has an extensive tour of a Colorado Titan I that apparently not very many people have gotten into. Site 724-C

http://www.chromehooves.net/missile_silos.htm

I believe this is the location of the silo.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=k&ll=39.66511195217172,-104.49225425720215&z=15

On an unrelated note, here is the "badlands guardian", a natural erosion formation that looks like a Native American with a headdress.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=medicine%2Bhat,%2Balberta&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1_%2F&ll=50.010442,-110.112791&spn=0.006523,0.020084&z=16&iwloc=addr

And Finally, Raps about tea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA&eurl=http://b3ta.com/links/Elemental_Cup_Of_Brown_Joy_Dir_Moog

british

Cup Of Brown Joy - Elemental

When I say Earl Gray, You say yes please.

Here's another tea rap - american style and nsfw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNMdUAyHxuU&feature=related

"one sexy muthaf**ker with a finger in the air"

"f**k your coffee, we just drink tea"

"b*tch I'm gunna kill you if you f**k with my tea"

Toothless Residents

As I may have mentioned before I'm currently checking trivia for geeks who drink. Well in the process of fact checking I've come across a state statistics web page that I just had to mention. They have numerous tables of state rankings you can look at, but this is the funniest. Guess which state has the most toothless residents? Just ask statemaster.com

http://www.statemaster.com/graph/hea_ora_hea_los_of_nat_tee-health-oral-loss-natural-teeth

My life with alchohol

I've heard that if you're life depends on alcohol you're an alcoholic. Well I don't consider myself and alcoholic, since I rarely drink myself and haven't been what I consider truly inebriated in a long time, but I do seem to be involved with alcohol quite frequently, and even cyclicly (is that a word?).

During college I mostly only had access to cheap beer, and a Heineken or something Canadian was considered premium. Then I moved to Seattle and ended up surrounded by beer snobs. That's where I got my "sophisticated" taste that I still enjoy today, as I knew the owner of Bottleworks, Matt Vandenberg through some friends. At one point two of my housemates worked at the store, and we enjoyed and indulged in the finest Belgian brews and the hoppiest and strongest beers that this country can produce. My snobbiest favorite was Oude Kriek, which most people I offered it too found unpalatable, but anyway.

For the past few years I've been in Denver. I wasn't here long before I ended up working for NightRiders, the designated driver service that got lots of publicity for their flashy image and catchy scooter gimmick. That job lasted a year before the company went out of business after a last ditch effort to keep things going with a trip across the country to end drunk driving. Incidentally that trip also ended my plans to be a documentary film maker, but that's another story. I had a short stint with NoDUI Denver, which I refer to as noduiden (no dwee den) (it's their phone number), and then went on to the corporate world of customer service and glorified telemarketing. Still though, that was round 2 of my life depending on alcohol.

Now I'm in grad school to be a librarian (actually knowledge management) and have picked up a side job for a company called Geeks Who Drink. They run a great trivia game in about 30 pubs in Colorado and New Mexico. Luckily, I'm not dealing with drunks directly anymore, as I did as a designated driver, but instead I check trivia facts. Still though, that's 3 dependencies on alcohol. Am I an alcoholic?