What do you think?  Is WALL•E jammin’ or what?

That got me thinking, what would be even cooler? I work in a paperless office, so a paper holder isn’t exactly what I need. What about…

• iPod/iPhone Cradle - With charging capabilities of course.
• A cell phone holder.
• Pencil holder. Kinda lame, but I always loose my pen.
• Candy dispenser. Full of M&Ms for me please.
• Atomic clock with weather capabilities.
• A Timer
• Cord Organizer
• Light so that my iSight makes me look good when chatting or playing with PhotoBooth.
• Mini keyboard with only Expose and Spaces buttons.
• USB Hub
• Flower holder. You know, for the girls. They were really popular in VW Bugs.
• Microphone for those that do audio chat.
• A bigger, multi level shelf for post-it’s and knickknacks.
• A rear view mirror so people don’t sneak up on me.
• A whiteboard so I can write down all my cool ideas.
• Funny signs to warn people of my mood. Like “If it’s important, you’d have told me about it already.” or “I was having a good day, until I got to work.”
• Some sort of cool color changing orb.
• Trash can for my candy wrappers.
• Disco ball. Who doesn’t want a disco ball?!
• Memory stick dock.
• Picture frame. For my cats of course. LOL!
• A rolladex. These are coming back in style. I just know it.
• A piggy bank. Or maybe a swear jar.
• A cool glowing Apple.

Granted our seats weren’t that close, and digital zoom isn’t the best, but I was pretty happy with my pictures.  View them all.

And the concert ROCKED!  Daughtry is awesome and Bon Jovi sings non stop.  His vocal are great yet his dance moves are corny as can be.  Still, one Wild night.

Here is the video for Workin’ For A Living’ featuring Garth Brooks, Huey Lewis and Nascar!

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(If you are in an RSS Reader, click through to the post to watch the video.)

This has to be my favorite new song off the Ultimate Hits collection.

3d Logic II- Stronghold of Sage - There is quite a bit of a story here, and lots of nice graphics, but the game is very simple. Just connect the colors. Click on any one colored square and then fill in the transparent squares until you connect it with the matching colored square. Sounds easy right? Well it is for the first few levels. After that, it gets tricky!

filler - Again, a simple game. Just fill up 2/3 of the screen with with balls you create and you win the level. However, if you’re creating a ball and one of the bouncy balls hit it, yours will pop. Hint: Trap the little bouncing buggers to keep them out of your way.

Spin the Black Circle - Simply move your ball to the black whole and advanced to the next level. However, watch out for the spike’s as they’ll kill you. Gravity is also not on your side… or is it?

Moon Master: Rahkon - This is one of those that is just fun to play even if you don’t know what you’re doing. Move left right, jump, bounce, collect balls, shoot lasers and just have fun.

Chain Factor - A bit of thinking is needed here. The instructions may sound complex, but once you get it figured out, it’s quite addicting. I enjoyed it the first time even though I had no idea what I was doing.

All of these games have a few things in common; no additional software is required, no overly complex instructions and all are free.

Enjoy!

Granted, I think that even being dead, he’s got better link love. He’s a Harvard grad that has written eighty scientific papers, two scientific books, had six inventions patented, and published three novels. Yea, well I’ve created like eight Firefox themes.

If you’d like to help me beat out Thomas McMahon (Harvard guy) in Google searches, link back to this post (or www.twistermc.com) with ‘Thomas McMahon’ as your link text. If you want to vote for the other guy, well that’s just rude.

Yes, it’s true, I could probably go and re-optimize my website for ‘Thomas McMahon’ but I don’t really want to go that far. I’m hoping just a few links help. If not, oh well.

What do I get if I become #1? Nothing. Except the satisfaction that if someone searches for my name, it doesn’t immediately pop up and tell them I’m dead.

Check out this great Flash move called the “Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun.” The whole idea is to relax and get the most out of life. It’s simple and very well done.

You can either click through on all the numbers, or just sit back and watch. There is more to each number than you think.

As we all lead lives that are way to jam packed with work, school, bills and all that jazz, it’s important to stop and do something just for you. Even if it’s only for 5 minutes while watching “Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun.”

It’s really simple. All you need is Safari 3 and a Mac. Here’s how to do it.

1. Go to iphone.facebook.com in Safari 3.
2. Make your browser window as small as you can horizontally and as short as you’d like vertically. Make adjustments based on your personal likes.
3. Click the ‘Open in Dashboard’ button and select the visible screen area. If your browser window doesn’t show the button, you can go to File and select ‘Open in Dashboard.’
4. Done! Enjoy!

Now, whenever you open Dashboard, it’ll refresh the news feed and tell you what all your friends are doing. Unfortunately scrolling it’s as great as it should be, but it works sometimes.  If you need more room vertically, try to re-create the widget.

The Facebook widget features include:

• Seeing friend’s updates.
• Updating our status.
• Viewing Friends
• Writing on friends wall.
• Viewing inbox.
• Sending messages.
• All sorts of Facebook fun.

It may work with other iPhone apps too like Netvibes, Weather Underground or many others. However, if there is a good Dashboard widget already, that’s probably your best bet.

Thanks to Apple’s web clips technology, this widget is extremely easy to make. Thanks to Facebook’s iPhone application, it’s quite useful too.

Now I know this is strange. I opened up Dashboard the other day and there was a missing key on the calculator widget. Where could it have gone? It can’t just pop off. Can it?

Maybe Steve will announce Calculator 2 at MacWorld tomorrow. No buttons, just answers.

The more virtual friends I have, maybe my stories will get Dugg more or my Oregon Trail wagon will survive the trip!

This year for Christmas, my wife got me an iPod Touch! This little device is extremely cool and I’m completely addicted.

I now have an iPod that plays videos and Handbrake will become my new friend. It also has a calendar built in with two way syncing with iCal. Cool!

And lets not forget Safari. I sit at home on it and surf the net. I’ve already spend hours looking up iPod Touch (or iPhone) web apps. I just wish there was a way to download them and use them offline. I guess I’ll have to wait until February when Apple should start letting developers build offline apps for the iPod Touch.

I’ve also been looking for work arounds. I wanted a text application and found a great tip where I can create an address book entry and use that. So I now have A List in my address book and it just contains one notes field where I put my shopping list or whatever else I need.

I also tried jumping on other people/companies wireless networks. As my wife drove through town, I asked her to slow down when the iPod started picking up an open wireless network. I do have to say that many more people password protect their networks than I thought. I guess that’s a good thing though.

Christmas was very good to me this year and I’m extremely happy with all gifts. I hope yours was too.

I’ve no formal update plans for Tinseltown, so I’m asking you. What would you like to see updated?

I’ve been running Tinseltown for a few days and there are no major issues that I see. But you may be seeing something that I’m overlooking. So please do share.

Ohh and for those running Firefox 3 beta, Tinseltown probably won’t be available this year. Sorry, but Firefox 3 is just not far enough along for me to start theming it. I may try it out and see how it works though if there is interest.

Mario is back in all his glory. The worlds are amazing. You are on round levels that you can literally run all the way around. Fall in a hole and you’ll pop out the other side. Bridges are not always straight across, sometimes they curve around to the underside of the level. Mario walks up, down, left, right and all over the place. Some areas you just feel as if you make one wrong step, you’ll fall into space. However, you merely walk onto the side of the object and it’s very cool!

Another cool thing is that Super Mario Galaxy is not just one player. A friend can help you pick up star pieces and shoot enemies. One Mario, but to people working together to keep him alive. It’s like a 1.5 player game.

Our 90 minutes went very fast. However, we got three stars and about 25 lives. It’s nice to see that getting more lives is easy. Even when you do run out, you just start back up at the beginning of the level.

Now I just have to convince my wife to let us play it all weekend. Or may be call in sick. *cough* *cough*

This is one of the best Wii games we’ve played and if you love the other Mario games, you’ll love Super Mario Galaxy!

I’ve listed out 5 games below. All are free, simple and addicting. There are no complex rules, no user registration, no downloads or anything like that. Just fun!

In no particular order, here are 5 cool web games that are worth checking out.

Boomshine - Probably my favorite. This little game is so simple, you just place one expanding dot on the page and as it interacts with others, they then too expand and interact with even more. Each level has a certain amount of that you need to interact with before advancing. They say less than 4% actually make it though level 12. My wife and I are in that 4% though.

Shuffle - Kind of like shuffle board, kind of like lawn bowling. You need to knock your opponents balls off the table. Last one standing wins the round.

A Very Simple Game - In this one, all you have to do is click on the dot. Some dots are easy to spot, some are much harder. I have beat the game, but it takes some good investigative skills to find those dots.

NANACA†CRASH - Interesting game that I don’t quite understand, but do enjoy. You hurl your guy into the air and if he hits the right ladies, he’ll fly even farther. Tip: When loosing momentum, click on one of the ladies in the upper right corner. If you play the game right, you guy can fly for five minutes or more.

Cat with Bow Golf - A little more skill is needed in this one, but you just pull back on your bow and arrow, aim and launch your cat towards the target. Like golf, you only get so many shots before you start loosing points for the hole/target.

Do you have other web games that may fit with those above? If so, share them by posting them in the comments. I’m always looking for fun and addicting games.

So what are you dressing up for Halloween? My costume (for work) is kinda lame but kinda funny. It’s a visual thing so here you go.

What am I?

I’ll post the answer in the comments later today after my co-workers give me grief for it.

I love the new dock and the rounded corners on the menus. Small things I know, but Apple is known for the small details.

Safari 3 also rocks along with the folder quick view and stacks. I have a lot more features to go check out so I’m going to go play.

Everything pictured above is either cake or frosting. Right down to to the fries and ketchup.

To make it even better, when the hamburger was cut, the bun was white cake and the burger in the middle was chocolate cake. So it even looked like a burger once you took a bite out of it.

A lot of thought and time was taken to make this cake and it turned out pretty darn cool. We just had to buy it when we saw it was only $11.

Mmmm, it’s like dinner and dessert all in one meal.

Candy Go Crazy - Download Large
Fonts: Crazy Killer & Bumpkins

Happy Halloween - Download Large
Fonts: Halloween Borders & Bleeding Cowboys

Happy Pumpkin - Download Large
Font: Bumpkins

Purple Cats - Download Large
Font: Halloweenies Demo

Skeleton Actor - Download Large
Font: Dancing Dead

Square Halloween - Download Large
Font: Trick or Treat BV

Trick or Treat - Download Large
Fonts: Trick or Treat BV & Seriffic Grunge

Vines - Download Large
Font: Halloween Borders

Trick or Eat - Download Large
Fonts: Loserboi Grunge & No Fear

All desktops are 1440 x 900 as that’s what my iMac screen is set to. That should be big enough for most and it should shrink down nicely too for those with smaller screens.

A big thanks to the font developers and DaFont.com.

Also, check out HalloFF if you’re looking for a Halloween Firefox Theme!

Enjoy!

Here are some visuals:

Refreshments

Networking

Partying at the Google Dance at Google’s Offices

Inside the Googleplex looking for ranking insider tips or Matt Cutts.

Stalking Matt Cutts.

Totally BFF with Matt Cutts now.*

TopRank Blogging Team, minus the boss.

The boss getting interviewed by NBC.

Many more photos at the TopRank Flickr account and session recaps at the Online Marketing Blog.

*No, not really.

Now, I’m not tying to say that I thought Renegade wasn’t going to be good. It just wasn’t that tall and you didn’t look at it and say ‘wow’. It just didn’t look overly amazing. However, once we started down the first hill, we screamed our way though all the twists and turns and didn’t slow down to the very end. It was one awesome ride! Even my wife, who’s not a big fan of coasters, loved it!

We also got a chance to jump on the Xtreme Swing. Basically, it’s like the swigs at the park, only much faster and much more intense. It was a short ride, but very fun. To make it even more extreme, they don’t give you anything to hold on to!

Even from the ground, it’s just cool to watch. Everything is tightly packed in and even those passing by feel as if the ride is going to take them out.

The two latest additions to Valleyfair are awesome and really bring up the thrill factor of the park. They are definitely worth the checkout!!