Are You Hungry Tonight?

My wife’s Grandma handed me Are You Hungry Tonight?: Elvis’ Favorite Recipes the other day.  I thought it was a joke at first, but apparently her sister received it as a Christmas gift this year.  I paged through the book, and indeed it had Elvis’ favorite recipes.  They are mostly southern classics or high fat, high cholesterol heart attack specials.  If Elvis ate like that, he was probably lucky he died of a drug overdose!

Evolution of Dance 2

I got a fever…

Microsoft Songsmith: Sing a Little Song for Me

Microsoft Research is has an neat application out called Songsmith.  Looks really cool to play with, not sure it is much more than a toy.  It might be one of those application like Photo Booth for the Mac that makes people excited about Windows.

 

What is Songsmith?

 

Songsmith generates musical accompaniment to match a singer’s voice. Just choose a musical style, sing into your PC’s microphone, and Songsmith will create backing music for you. Then share your songs with your friends and family, post your songs online, or create your own music videos.

Although it is not Tony Bennett or John Mayer demoing Songsmith, the demo video is amusing.

Word Clouds Made Easy

I was looking for an application to make a word cloud and came across Wordle.  It makes some beautiful word clouds at random and allows you to customize.  The word cloud in this post is a cut and paste of the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution.

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Lifehacker: Most Popular DIY 2008

A great list of DIY projects from 2008 and all time.  Check out this Lifehacker article: Most Popular DIY Projects of 2008 (and All Time!) My favorite for 2008 is the Camera Stabilizer!

A Corkscrew and Nutcracker for the New Year

I can not believe Amazon has any of these in the warehouse.  I am sure they were a hot stocking stuffers in 2008. Happy New Year!  

Corkscrew Bill

The Hillary Nutcracker

Funny Guy: Demitri Martin

Demitri Martin is extremely funny.  This skit had me rolling.

Steve Spangler Top 25 Edu Toys

My wife turned me on to Steve Spangler through his guest appearances on the Ellen Show. He has some great, fun science experiments and toys like Smoke Rings a.k.a. Air Bazooka and Walking on Water (really corn starch goo). It is worth some time to check out all of his videos.

Steve has released his “Top 25 Holiday Gift Ideas – Educational Toys with a High Wow Factor” Some great ideas for all ages, too bad we are almost done with our Christmas shopping. If you like those gift ideas, you might want to also check out his Top 10 Under $10.

Late to the Harry Potter Game

I was a few years behind the first release of Harry Potter. I am glad my wife turned me on to the first book and I am proud to say I have completed the saga. I was very impressed with the ending; it made all 7 books worthwhile. Now I can get on with some other reading, next up Alice Cooper, Golf Monster.

Mostly I cannot wait until my boys are old enough, so I can start over!

BTW, this was posted with Blogo. At first glance, it is a well written blog client. I will give it a fair chance.

One man show: Trubute to John Williams

Absolutely amazing talent, one guy!  The lyrics can be found at http://www.moosebutter.com/lyrics.php/3.

I heard about this on Net@Nite along with a great site, Viral Video Chart.