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One Man Band is a charming, easy-to-use music toy with a surprising variety of musical progressions -- i.e. not your simple 1-4-5.

( Click here for songs I made )

The company that makes to most rubber tires annually:

Lego, with ~306 million

The 4 6 states contained completely within the original Louisiana Purchase:

Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma

Parts of Oklahoma and Kansas later left the US to become part of the republic of Texas. I was confused looking at this map: Leave a comment

Which are the only four US states which lie completely within the historic Louisiana Purchase?

UPDATE: It turns out I can't read maps. There are actually 6.

What company produces the most tires annually?

So you like Escape-the-room games, huh? Like that Christmas one in my last post? Well, you're in luck, because there have been some good ones recently. But first:

Pursuit Across Europe Think Cruisin' USA, but slightly more artistic and free to play online.

Vector Runner - Short, sweet, and deliciously retro. Avoid the obstacles, collect the ( Read more... )

Here's a really simple but charming escape the room game for the holiday season. The object is to ... wait for it ... escape the room! And hunt for all the presents.

High quality full-length episodes of The Chaser's War on Everything (mentioned in this post) are available for free download here. There are a few sketches that people outside of Australia won't get (Australian news and politics), but there's definitely enough awesomeness to go around ( Read more... )

You may now include me in the subset of people who have eaten poutine.

The version I ordered came with fried onions and bacon.

For the third straight year, I am sending out for free (yes free!) a compilation of songs that happen to make me groove just that much more. As per usual, leave me a comment or send me an email or catapult a caped marmot in my general direction to indicate your interest. I'll get your address from you and you'll be set ( Read more... )