ok now. i found where i want to go on vacation

Giant Midwest Mecca of Nerditude in Oklahoma

By Jim Merithew

PAUL'S VALLEY, Oklahoma — If you're a regular Wired.com reader, there's a good chance that collecting action figures topped the list of your future careers when you were a kid … and an adolescent. Let's face it, you'd still do it if you could. Well, Kevin Stark from Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, has done it.

Stark is a figurine collector and comic book artist who has become the Action Figure Museum curator.......

The Adult Collector's Bedroom Diorama has more than 6,000 figures, none of which are glued down. That way, the exhibit is living and ever-changing.

Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com

do you like barenaked ladies

like i do? well geekdad at wired links us up for a FREE jingle bells download (how cool is that?)

Barenaked Ladies: Snacktime!, a Free Holiday Download, and CD Giveaway

This has been an interesting year for multi-million selling Canadian pop-rock favorites Barenaked Ladies (or just BNL). They've been busy engaging in rock star kinds of shenanigans- you know, miraculously walking away from airplane crashes and that sort of thing... But they also kicked the year off with their first ever kids' CD release. I mentioned Snacktimeback in a Canada Day post; have a look and you can watch the video for the song 7-8-9.

The CD is worth revisiting for several reasons: it's pretty damned good, it would make a great and inexpensive Christmas gift for any young ones you might have running around the house, and BNL vocalist/guitarist Ed Robertson made the time to talk with us about it............

i want one

from thinkgeek
crystal cube necklace

(guess what? I JUST ORDERED ONE!!!)

found via wired

GeekDad Holiday Gift Guide #4: GeekMoms!

wired brings us

the best fictional doomsday devices

i don't agree with all of 'em but i sure DO agree with THIS one

this is a good thing to know

my peeps! (list at the link)

Listening Post's Top 10 Hottest Music Sites

By Eliot Van Buskirk

Change is the only constant in the music business, and that goes double for the digital music business. Nonetheless, we've assembled a list of the 10 hottest digital music websites in the world.

Criteria were simple and admittedly subjective: Sites were chosen based not only on what they currently do for music fans, but also on their potential to impact the future development of the music industry. Based on how things go with the first iteration, this list could be updated periodically and opened for voting.........

the secrets of the entire universe

(or at least the blogosphere) as listed by lore sjoberg

Secrets of the 7 Basic Blog Posts

and damned if i don't do all seven!

here's just one

............4. People are dumb!
Try this: Put up videos of yourself volunteering at a soup kitchen, giving a speech at a symposium and breaking your arm in seven places doing the "shopping cart luge." Guess which one will get the most hits. We like our animals to appear smarter than they really are and our humans dumber, which means that the perfect internet celebrity would be a somewhat slow-witted centaur. In a Darth Vader outfit. ......................

i could live here

wired has a little (so to speak) piece on "Small and Fabulous: Modular Living as It Should Be". check out some of the houses. they're kinda cool

picture: weehouses.com

merry tesla christmas

Tesla Coil Artist Sparks Up for Christmas

wired's top ten gifts

they'd like to get

and on top of all of the tech gadgets and the like, guess what's number one? click the link to find out BUT i have a couple already.............. AND one is pink and purple

Wired's Top 10 Gifts We'd Love to Get

(legos imperial walker and leatherman skeletool)