Apple - Switch - Ads - Will Ferrell - Santa.
Santa has lawyers and an iPod.

The Official Predicta Television Site!.

Triple E Christmas Tree Farm, Easton, Maine.
Call Reginald and he'll cut a tree down for you, and ship it.

X-Acto® Heavy-Duty Wood Paper Trimmers.
This will cut that paper to shreds.

Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman.
Complete text online.

Annual Thanksgiving Day of Mourning in Plymouth.

SHARP AQUOS 4:3 lcd television | LC-15B2UB.
I just took a look at this Sharp 15" flat screen TV, at Tweeter, and this has by far the brightest display.

Mmm... LCD TeeVee.

The Museum of Online Museums features The catalog of 1970's playground equipment.

Step right up and see oversaturated photos of happy kids playing on dangerous devices in the Saddle Mates exhibit.

Aaron Has Another New Girlfriend?

Reports say that the tabloids have been staking out Aaron?s apartment in his hometown, and that he been secretly seeing someone. Her name is Julie Ross, she?s a 23-year-old kindergarten teacher, and they?ve know each other for about a year. The tabloids say she arrived at his apartment last Thursday at 11:30pm and snuck out the next morning at 6:20am. I also hear that Aaron had been trying to get with her since they met, but she was in a relationship, and always turned him down. Then a month ago, they ran into each other at a local bar. Of course, by then, Aaron became this big star, and she dumped her boyfriend of 4 years and went home with Aaron. They?ve been seeing each other a few nights a week since then, and Aaron?s not denying it. When they reached him for a comment, Aaron simply said that ?Yes it?s true, Julie stayed at my apartment last night."

Valerie Zellmer & Aaron Buerge.
The Bachelor's last wedding didn't happen.
Thanks [ Anngelle ]

'21 Jump St.' Leaps to Big Screen.
Cool. I liked that show.

Fruit SMASH another online game by Electrotank.
It's a lot like Bejeweled, where you clear the board when you get three in a row, but this game makes you click on each adjoining fruit. No click and drag online.

It'll waste a few minutes if you have the time.

Off On A Tangent is made up of 21.92 % text content.

Hey, I like pictures.

Hot Hot Heat.
Get In Or Get Out.

Ugly or Pretty It's Still My City.

Make Up Your Mind.

Get In Or Get Out.

Press Play.

Repeat.

Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation.
Where to drop off your used rechargeable batteries.

Based on the links on http://offonatangent.blogspot.com, here are some interesting sites you might not be reading.

H E L L O my name is PETER FUNCH.
found on [ Portfolio Sites ]

Weekly DV.com features my video 120 Second News on their site this week.

I'm linking to Jason Kottke now, so that when he links back to me it'll be a reciprocal link.

Test Ad for Virgin Experience.
Will never be shown in the US.

[ Requres Quicktime, and headphones if you are at work. Yowza! ]

Ellen Feiss - The Interview.
She WAS on drugs!

Who's Crying Now?

Hot Deals Club - updated many times daily with the best deals.
via [ Site du Jour of the Day ]

And from todays's WSJ there's:
dealofday.com
fatwallet.com

These sites might be good places to get those PRONOTION CODES that get you discounts.

MUSiT.
Free music forever.

You just download it from the sky.

Really.

The Onion A.V. Club | Wil Wheaton.

Pitchforkmedia.com
Independent music daily.

And they've got The Top 100 Albums of the 1980's list too.

A site for Sore Eyes.

MOVIE: UFO Spotted By Leonid Watcher.
[ REQUIRES Quicktime ]

Panasonic 15.2" 16:9 Widescreen Enhanced-Definition-Television LCD Monitor Model: TC-15LT1
Nice, huh?

MorphX.
MorphX is a simple free application for calculating images or movies where one image transforms into another.

TriggerStreet.com

TriggerStreet.com was founded in January 2002 as the web-based filmmaker and screenwriter's community of record - an interactive mechanism for the purpose of discovering and showcasing new and unique talent.

Action!

o r g a n i c a.
Who links to me and who I link to.

More or less.

#1 Favorite Sexy Milk Bottle Of The Week.

The Oxford Bottled Beer Database.
Mmm... Beer.

Dragster: If Then Software.
My Mac stopped letting me drag my files around the desktop.

I had missing icons.

Dragster fixed it.

Thanks Dragster!

Crutchfield.com - Samsung LTM1575W.
This would be cool to attach to my ATT Cable box.

Henry Kloss Portable Audio Laboratory (PAL)
It play AM, FM and it's weatherproof!

Avon Sells Atari Joystick.
No console or computer needed. Just hook up to your TV and play any of 10 games.

Oh Oh, a bad review.

Message to Intuit:
PLEASE SEND ME A LINK FOR FREE SHIPPING FOR A MAC VERSION of Turbotax.
I clicked a link in your email for Turbotax and all I get are options to buy the 'Windows version' with free shipping. (That's because I had a PC last year).

Now I have a Mac and only get order screens that want to charge me for shipping.

You need to give Windows users who have switched to a mac the option of ordering a mac version with free shipping from your email link.
PLEASE SEND ME A LINK FOR FREE SHIPPING FOR A MAC VERSION of Turbotax.

stevenberlinjohnson.com is the blog of the minute to be reading.

Non-Denominational Slot Machine.
Send one to your friends for the Holidays.

KnitWitology: How to Remove a Dead Whale from the Beach.
Or not.

chang.info is the personal website of Emily Chang, featuring new pieces, ongoing projects, and past work. The site is part-artweb-database and part-blog.

There's so much here to look at, you'll have to go take a look yourself, to see what it's all about.

artcodes | motion hybrid (For Miramax's "Naqoyqatsi").

WeeklyDV.com : Getting The Christmas Photo.
It took them long enough to get a good shot!

Ami Vitale, Photographer.
Good Stuff.

George W. Bush in new Oxford quote book.

"To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States."

Nice.

Mad Magazine: Gulf Wars Episode II - Clone of the Attack.

Panasonic Consumer Electronics - DVD Video Recorders.
12 hours on one DVD.

RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter.
Small Webcaster Settlement Act of 2002.

Sounds good for bringing college radio station streams back online.

Yay!

Bottles, Bottles, Bottles, and more Bottles.
If you search around you can find some beer bottles.

But, they are empty.
via [ Site du Jour of the Day ]

The Presurfer made MSNBC's Best of Blogs List.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ... went off on a tangent.

Slim Devices, Inc.- SliMP3 Ethernet MP3 Player.

The SliMP3 uses your home network to access the music stored on your PC or Mac.

Or you could just plug your iPod up to some Cambridge Soundworks speakers.

one.point.zero - Blogging in Brussels, Belgium - a weblog about politics, web design, music, and more.
Find the answer to why we are attracted to equipment that glows blue.

Neuros: Product Detail

The Neuros MP3 audio computer can broadcast songs wirelessly to your stereo. It can record and identify songs from the FM radio.

Can it slice bread too?

Canadian "Switch" Parody.
For one thing the beer is good up there.

muvee Technologies.
Now Windows users have software that does Smart Automatic Video Editing and creates Finished Productions from raw video automatically.

It deletes all your natural sound and puts in a music track.

No one wanted to hear you talking anyway.

What people are really interested in are boring shots of your baby crawling around and eating baby food, spliced together in a random fashion, that makes no sense, with a sappy music sound track to help numb their brains.

MacStumbler is meant purely for educational or auditing purposes. It shows you all the wireless networks in your area.

It's also known as wardriving.

Roxanne and Allison Will Be Rocking the Casbah.
The Police, The Clash and Elvis Costello and the Attractions will join the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year.

iBlog is a standalone blogging tool for Mac OS X.

Well and The Irresponsibles rocked the Linwood last night.

autumn moonmilk.

WeeklyDV.com started out on JasonZada.com.

You have a DV camera. You have a computer. You have a spare few hours to spend. What are you going to do?

You're going to make a movie!

It only took me one day, if that, to see why TiVo is soo cool.

Since I taped The Bachelor, TiVo thinks I'd want to see the HBO special DOWNLOAD SEX: Nerve Magazine.

Ha Ha.

TiVo is smart!

But I've already seen it, so TiVo isn't that smart!

Aerosmith's Calendar shows that they have the night off.

Presidential Pet Museum.

Rutherford Hayes owned pedigreed Jersey cows, the first Siamese Kitten to reach America, Hector and Nellie, Shepherd dogs, one goat, four canaries, two hunting pups, and one English Mastiff named Duke. Also four kittens, one Mockingbird, and several Carriage horses.

Woof!

Apple 1 GHz PowerBook G4 with SuperDrive.
Now they come out with a SuperDrive!

I want one.

Or one of these.

Fast Food Fever - Pumpkin Apple Pie.

McDonalds has pumpkin pie?

Franklin Brass Safety First 24" Safety Grab Bar
I'm a little late in posting today since I had to go out and buy a grab bar and install it at my mother-in-law's apartment downstairs.

The installation seemed straight forward. All you needed to do was to drill six 1/4" holes in the wall, insert plastic anchors in the holes and then screw in the Grab Bar with the provided screws.

After drilling the holes, I saw that I only had five anchors! That's not right.

I found an extra one, down in the basement, and the bar is now securely fastened to the wall.

I called the company and told them that my package was missing an anchor. They said they'd inform shipping.

I did my part to help improve the safety of people who buy these safety bars.

When I took a close look at the package to find the phone number, I read:

IMPORTANT-CAUTION: Grab bars are safety supports only when installed properly and securely. Toggle bolts are recommended for plaster or dry wall installation

Hmm. Don't you think they could have put those IMPORTANT instructions ABOVE the installation instructions?

And why don't they just supply toggle bolts to start with.

Oops. Gotta go, just heard a big crash downstairs!

Just kidding.

 VS. 
War vs. Peace.
Cold vs. Warm.
Us vs. Them.
Politics vs. Sports.
Life vs. Death.

Go Pats!

TV Barn - Brady Bunch In The White House.

"In an entirely new installment of the cult feature franchise, the blissfully ignorant Bradys are propelled into the national spotlight as America's First Family. ... When Bobby finds a lost lottery ticket worth $67 million, Mike decides that the only Brady thing to do is try and return it to its rightful owner. Mike's honesty is rewarded by an unscrupulous President of the United States who needs to add an ethical Vice President candidate" ... blah blah blah ..."Mike suddenly finds himself taking the Oath of Office and moving himself and his family from their split-level ranch house to 1600 Pennsylvania" ... blah blah blah ... "Greg falls for an attractive intern, Jan is haunted by the disembodied voice of Abraham Lincoln" (why does that sound like an old "SNL" sketch?) "and Cindy learns that she shouldn't tattle on her family to reporters."

That airs on November 29th on Fox. Tellingly, that's two days AFTER sweeps.

My Gentleman Jim Corbett eBay auction ends on Sunday.

Nice of eBay to advertise it for me.

Jenny McTagerty Girl Pirate Weblogger is Elmont.

The Verbatim Digital Vinyl CD-R looks and feels like a 45-r.p.m. record.

Hmm. I never made a habit of feeling my 45's. I always handled them by the edge and kept them dust free in sleeves. Same for my albums.

Henry Fountain wrote about this in yesterday's NY Times.

EvoCam was so easy to use.

I set up my webcam in minutes.

Here's how I did it.

sVideo Monitor.
New Mac software to let you videoconference.




The video test worked!

More or less.

Thank you.