I intent this to be a place for occasional (probably very occasional) posts of odds and ends that don't fit in with the Lee County Clowder, or anyplace else I might set up in the future.
A long time ago, I got myself onto a mailing list from something called ThinkGeek. I'm not sure I've ever actually bought anything from them, but I've spent many an otherwise useful hour browsing around their website. If you haven't encountered them before, let me just say that most of their products are either computer geeky, or science fictiony, or just plain weird. Some, like this Star Trek lamp with a revolving shade, are all of them together.
Anyway, one of the things I just wondered across there was a industrial strength flashlight. This flashlight is rechargeable, but outputs so much light the run time is only about fifteen minutes. This flashlight uses a 100 watt halogen bulb as a light source, and it gets so hot you can cook an egg on the lens.
A long time ago, for reasons I no longer remember, I signed up for Aish.com online newsletter. It usually has some interesting things in it, even if (maybe even especially if) you are not Jewish.
Anyway, a year or so ago, Aish produced a short video on the Dreidel, which is some sort of gambling toy top. (I've never seen one in person in my life, so the description is a bit vague. Sorry.) Eventually, that video found its way to YouTube, where it apparently was at least a minor success.
Indeed, so much of a success the World Poker Tour complained, and YouTube showed their courage by yanking the World Dreidel Tour video, apparently based upon the fact that YouTube'rs can't tell the difference between a card game and a spinning top.
More information and a Petition are available here.
TV coverage (at least in the US) is on something called Versus. My guess is Versus is a descendant/spin-off of Outdoor Life Network that covered the Tour in the past.
