For the guys it might be an all-too familiar experience, but for the girls it could be eye-opening. Either way, this game gives one the chance to try to keep it all "on target" through progressively increasing intoxication.

Paul of the East Coast Contingent dropped this in my email. Although my overall response was one of utter confoundment, I found a silly smile on my face as I watched the videos. The story is near the bottom of the page.

I'm not sure why I find this so interesting, but for many people it will be entertaining and even possibly useful. The Random Name Generator takes actual US Census first names and last names, and assembles them for (usually) fictitious full names. It suggests you use them for books or fake IDs. For convenience you can Google each of your new names to make sure they are truly unique.

For those who have too much time and processed grain products on their hands: this guy makes portraits out of toast.

The multi-content post of the week:

• Rave Slaves: Samurai Jack takes on raver kids.
• Fiz: These odd pelets go inside your soft plastic fishing lures and bubble, making them move on their own.
• Playmore: I am not sure what to make of this, I think it's an Xbox advertising site. At any rate it's interesting to look at and does contain at least one way cool item: an origami Master Chief (from Halo)
• The Wal-Mart game: Fun, if prejudicial, stuff to do at Wal-Mart. Actually I suspect in the community the author is from, Wal-Mart occupies a little lower status level than it does here. Perhaps it would be the K-Mart game in Hawaii.
• Tire Toss: An alternate version of the addicting spear game below, this time featuring monster truck tires.
• Remove recent documents from Start Menu: Now why would you want to do that?
• N!xau dies: He was the star of "The Gods Must Be Crazy."

This is too much. Do-it-yourself kits for kittywear: Catprin

SUNDAY, 7/6/2003, 10:Ish pm HST by Penfold

In the big hockey story last week, Paul Kariya and Teemu Selanne have been signed by the Colorado Avalanche for a combined total of $7 Million. Check out the story here.

How'd Colorado managed to sign both of them away from Anaheim (offering Kariya only $1.2 million) when Anaheim was offering a reported $9 million for both players is beyond me. Maybe Anaheim should have made the qualifying $10 million offer to Kariya after all. Maybe Adam Oates is still around. But now the questions becomes, who is going to be Colorado's goalie? Aebischer? CuJo? Burke? Potvin?

Also in hockey news, Derian Hatcher leaves Dallas and heads to Detroit.

Go forth and hunt the elusive creature called the Mullet. Maybe it'll become imortalized in html here.

This just out from the minds of Google, comes the new Google Toolbar. Why does this seemingly run-of-the-mill toolbar add-on get TA coverage? Because it has a built-in pop-up stopper that actually works quite well, even compared to my past fav (paid for) from Panicware.

I hate pop-up ads.

Canuck political humor

On behalf of Canadians everywhere I'd like to offer an apology to the United States of America. We haven't been getting along very well recently and for that, I am truly sorry. I'm sorry we called George Bush a moron. He is a moron, but it wasn't nice of us to point it out. If it's any consolation, the fact that he's a moron shouldn't reflect poorly on the people of America. After all, it's not like you actually elected him...

I'm sorry about your beer. I know we had nothing to do with your beer but, we Feel your Pain...