Elf Yourself is back. This time you can chose a few dances. Charleston, Country or Disco versions. Love the Disco version.

Check it out at JibJab. ITM - Check out the ones I did.

The folks over at Dynamic Architecture are really at it. They have an idea that could really spin off. It is a turn in the right direction.

OK. Enough puns. If this Skyscraper is possible, then you will see a whole new idea in design. It basically is a bunch of pre-fabricated buildings on a spindle. Each level is like a blade of a fan connected to a turbine. The building spins and creates it’s own energy.

Is it possible? Can you get…. what would that be… if it’s Seasick for sea, then it would be Scrapersick, right? The idea is a pretty cool one. The best part is it makes its own design simply by how the wind is moving.

The rooms are Pre-fab, so the majority of time would be spent on building the center structure. Then, each room is shipped, lifted and connected. Turn it clockwise like a Carnie loading up the Ferris wheel. Each floor will get loaded up within 7 days. It apparently takes less work and even less workers to put the building together.

Check out the Videos for yourself. But the real question is:

What kind of fool would try to run for president of the United States in this political climate? Well, me!

As a self appointed representative of the defunct Rhino party I, along with Bitstrip friend TheDoctor, I have takedn the initiative to get us past all this economic turmoil, and put us in the land of fun and candy!

Sure, it’s a fanciful ideal, wrought with peril. So? I ain’t got a chance in hell of winning, anyway! I just want to be the Ross Perot of the 2008 election. I’d love to turn on the TV on election night, and see the media’s mouth hanging wide open as Thomasilly shows, with that percent of the undecided vote.

Look, it’s your civic right to vote. My belief is that, if you want the right to bitch about the next administration, you had better vote! If you don’t know which to go for, McCain or Obama, or one of those other Greenhouse Gas backrunners, give me your vote!

Vote! Go to the polls, and vote! Vote for the Thomasilly of your choice, but VOTE!

Why is it an Internet when you can get it anywhere - In or out?

Is it really Social Networking if we sit behind our computers to do it?

These, and a lot more questions won’t get answered, but you can find all of them at Crazythoughts.com. It’s a place that will make you wonder where things are going. How far east can you go before you’re heading west? How fast do hotcakes sell? Why can’t donuts be square?

If you are an inquiring mind, you should go through this list. Don’t go all “Scanners” on us, though.

Got this in my email today:

Due to challenging malternative segment sales and declining consumer
interest, MillerCoors has decided to discontinue production of Zima
effective October 10.

Current inventories of Zima will remain available for order with
distributors on a first-come, first-served basis, pending available
inventory. We expect to fill our last orders for Zima sometime in
December.

This decision is necessary to reduce complexity when it comes to our
brand portfolio, allowing for more focused activity at retail on
consumer-preferred brands, especially Sparks.

With that in mind, we are telling our consolidated shared-house
distributors to sell through Zima in their warehouses and then backfill
retail shelf space with Sparks and Sparks Plus 4-packs and Sparks Light.
We are asking unconsolidated, Coors-only distributors to backfill with
other, consumer-preferred, MillerCoors brands.

We appreciate your help in ensuring we turn this difficult decision into
an opportunity to grow the MillerCoors portfolio.

Sincerely,
Andy England
Chief Marketing Officer

Thanks to Andy from MillerCoors for the email and confirmation. Everybody start partying like it’s 1999.

Did you ever draw that Zippy character? The turtle you would see in the back of magazines next to the pirate? How’d ya do? Well, if you can do that, then maybe you can get into the high stakes world of Manga.

A Mangaka is a Manga artist. Manga is a Japanese cartoon art that came out of World War II.A Mango is a type of fruit.

So enough of this. How do you Manga? A step to the left, a step to the right? Not exactly. In fact, if you really want to read about how, check out this article on what to do. If you start drawing, please send us some examples and we’ll post them here.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….

In 1976, Star Wars was released in theatres. A movie about a young boy who learns the ways of the force to fight the Empire. It was also a movie that inspired many in different ways.

Since then we’ve seen 6 episodes, an animated movie, a couple Television shows and a few games. But out of all the movies, Episode IV - A New Hope is probably the most prevailant.

Now it’s time to see this movie in a whole new light. The ASCII light. ASCII is simply using text characters and turn them into a picture.

In Star Wars ASCIIMATION, Simon Jansen took the whole movie and reshot it using ASCII. Well, not reshot it, more like re-coded it. Complete with fast forward and reverse buttons, you can watch it at your own speed.

Then again, you can just use the force.

You will succomb to the Dark side of the… wait…. put down that paint can…. NO…. NO!!!!!

Well this one is pretty awesome. I first saw it on Geekologie: The Vader Project is a re-imaging project of the famous iconic Star Wars figure. They basically take the shiny black helmet and paint weld and do a lot of other cool and unique things to it.

Maybe the guys at Orange County Choppers can make a Vader Chopper?

Need more information and some cool photos? Go to the MySpace Page

All Photos are also on the Flickr Page

I actually can solve a Rubiks Cube. When I was a kid and we got our first cubes for Dorkmas, they were generic ripoffs. But the cool thing about them is they also came with instructions on how to solve.

Soon I was the King of the Cube on my block. I solved them with my hands. I solved them with my feet. I even solved them with Jedi Mind Powers….

Well, maybe not - But I could still solve a cube AND the pyrimid. After that, the interest dwindled away. I have been approached every now and then with a color-discombobulated cube. While I’m not the fastest, I can still do it.

If you want to solve your Rubiks Cube, well maybe this site will help. WrongWay.org has a program where you enter in the cube colors the way it looks on your cube. Hit the “Solve” button, and the program will give you the path to salvation.

Once you’ve solved it (without taking the stickers off), you can do it all over again. You might just find patterns that you can do to solve it without the website. Then you can do it with one foot hanging upside down blindfolded.

If I went up and got a chance to talk to the President of the United States, I am not sure what I would say to him. Most likely I would shake his hand and say “I have some really cool websites you should check out…”

If you want to say something to the President, or even to the Democratic and Repulican Candidates, then maybe What Would You Say is for you. Here you can send a comment or even a video to support or question the person in your 5 minutes of fame.

So get your heads a scratchin as you try to figure out what to say. Real question is: Will they read it? Probably not.