Coolaroo Shade Sails look like a pretty cool way to add a privacy screen to your porch. Just as long as the porch doesn't catch a gust of wind and fly away.

Indivos.

Buy stuff with your finger.

The original Callback service for international long distance calling. Kallback has Low cost phone rates to almost every country in the world.

So lets say you're in Belgium. You call Kallback and hang up quick. Then Kallback call you back with a cheap US dialtone!

FellowshipChurch.com.

It's an online church.

What would Betty Bowers think?

Wanna Be A Video Producer?
To start, you've gotta mingle.

Next Boston Final Cut Pro User Group meeting is on March 21st.

Register Here.

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Business (Yours Is a Very Bad Hotel)

I saw Rudy Maxa on Public TV talking about two guys who made up a powerpoint presentation about their bad hotel experience. Rudy's cool. He had some great tips for travel.

Yours Is A Very Bad Desk Clerk!
I recently checked into The Mountain Club and had an unpleasant experience. I was there for a weekend of skiing.

I gave the desk clerk my name and he looked up my reservation. On completion of the check-in he presented me with a receipt and informed me that I could pick up my lift tickets in the morning. I also noticed that the total cost on the receipt included the cost of lift tickets.

Our conversation follows:

Me: I only wanted a room, I don't need lift tickets.
Deskclerk: (pushing reciept in my direction) That's your reservation.
Me: But I don't want lift tickets.
Deskclerk: You must have requested them when making the reservation.
Me: I didn't.
Deskclerk: You must have given the reservation clerk the impression that you wanted lift tickets.
Me: I gave the reservation clerk no such inpression. I do not need lift tickets.
Deskclerk: I'll take care of it but you had to in some way indicate that you wanted the lift tickets.
Me: (show desk clerk season's ski pass) I have no need for season tickets since I have a season's pass right here!
Deskclerk: I'll take care of this for you.

What was this guy's problem? This could have been handled without his condesending attitude.

UPDATE: 3/11/02:

Steve,

I am at a total loss to explain the behavior of our Front Desk Supervisor. I will be meeting with him personally on this today. There is absolutely no excuse for his behavior and on behalf of the Mountain Club I would like to apologize.

I have forwarded this and your email to our Director of Guest Services. He will follow up with you personally.

Once again, I apologize.

BP
General Manager

Thanks!

Their 'We Keep Your Cash' Cancelation Policy.
Their cancellation policy, if you make your reservation within two weeks and cancel:

You get charged a $25 penalty and they keep your deposit, one night's fee, on credit for you to use at a future date.

Have you ever heard of such a thing?

You can make Org Charts on the web.

TribalPages:Free Online Genealogy Family Tree Web Pages.

Corante.

Microcontent News: Weblogs, email digests, Webzines, personal publishing, content strategy, Microads.

Chess - A Review of the game.

The latest offering in the rapidly overflowing strategy genre is hard evidence that strategy games need a real overhaul, and fast. Chess, a small-scale tactical turn-based strategy game, attempts to adopt the age-old "easy to learn, difficult to master" parameter made popular by Tetris. But the game's cumbersome play mechanics and superficial depth and detail all add up to a game that won't keep you busy for long.

Checkmate!
via [ Sore Eyes ]

Shop Class.
I used to play chess with my dad on a cardboard chess board until I took a Shop Class.

In shop class when the instructor asked us what we wanted to make, out choices were either a lamp that had this horse trough in it so when you pressed the handle hte light would go on, or a step stool. My friend Bob and I were really into chess and thought the ohter projects were stupid. So we asked if we could make chess boards. We could! It was a great learning experience.

You take brown and white wood and cut it into strips. Then you alternate the white and brown and glue the strips together. When it dries, you cut the square block across the brown and white rows, leaving you with long strips with alternating white and brown squares. Then you flip every other strip around and glue it back together again. You secure it with vice grips nad wait for it to dry.

Then you send the board over to the Tech school where they plane it down for you. The next three weeks are spent sanding. After that you put a clear varnish on top.

At this point in time, school is almost over and the instructor helps you make up some trim for the sides. There's no time to spend three more weeks sanding the sides, so he helps you attach the sides to the chess board and asks you to make sure you sand them down during the summer and finish off the project at home.

The unfinished sides are still attached to my nice shiny chess board.

Kevin Meany Arrested - Wife is Hot!

When security officers asked to pat search Meaney's wife, she told them she had nothing to hide and exposed her bra.

Cool! It's a Stereo Speaker in a Sunflower.

The Political Graveyard - The Web Site That Tells Where the Dead Politicians are Buried.

FreeGolfInfo - Free golf club reviews, lessons, golf handicaps and more.

Amber Kulhanek painted this.

I don't know if she was topless or not.

Blosxom is...

Blosxom [pronounced "blossom" or "blogsome"] is a lightweight (to say the least -- it's <30 lines of code) Weblog-in-a-jiffy Perl CGI script for (but in no way limited to) Mac OS X.

via [ boingboing ]

Mitt Romney Looks Better Now.
http://mittromney.blogspot.com now looks nicer.

A Bluerobot Layout was used there.

3 Columns Flanking Menus - http://bluerobot.com/web/layouts/layout3.html

Doug Jacobson's RGB Hex Triplet Color Chart helped.

Shadow Government Activated for U.S..

$5 Million Wet T-Shirt Contest.

Southwest Texas State University student Amber Kulhanek went to spring break in 2000 on South Padre Island for her 21st birthday and ended up taking off her shirt at a wet T-shirt contest in Mexico.

Your Future Is What You Make It by Amber Kulhanek.

The magical surprise is that beneath that pile of unalterable pieces of your life, the game of chance creates an infinite number of opportunities for us to play with.

$5 Million = Opportunity!

This Czechvar's For You!

Czech Budweiser Budvar has rich creamy malt, vanilla and gentle hop aroma and palate, with a hint of apple fruit from the house yeast.

American Budweiser, served ice cold, has no discernible aroma or flavour.

Mmm... Beer.