And the winner is…..Mike Manifold!  Mike, shoot Tizmanian an email at tizmanian (at) yahoo (dot) com with your physical address so we can get your prize mailed out! We loved all of the entries in this one so we had to select the winner randomly.  More contest fun to come! Winner originally announced in first […]

The Oscars are February 26th, 2012. They air on ABC starting at 4 PM Pacific and 7 PM Eastern. This includes the red carpet coverage. The official nominees are here. The official ballet is available here. There is also an official Oscar app for the iPad/iPhone.

“The first, moss-like plants emerged on land about 470 million years ago. In just 25 million years, they stripped the planet of vital minerals, wrecked Earth’s carbon cycle, started an ice age, and caused a mass extinction of marine life.” Pave it over or it will kill us all! 🙂 You can read the rest […]

If you’ve been Nibblin’ on sponge cake, watchin’ the sun bake; and want to be one of those virtual tourists covered with oil. Strummin’ a six string on my front virtual porch swing. Smell those shrimp – They’re beginnin’ to boil. (THEY REALLY are – tend to your fire! Tend to your fire!) If you’ve […]

If you can tear yourself away from the 12-hour Super Bowl pre-game show, the Disney Store is having an online-only 25% off everything CARS sale. Yes, everything already on sale is another 25% off. Your coupon code is: MCQUEEN    

Hey Taker5ers! Tizmanian here with a little housekeeping… We just installed a new image zoom feature which should work on most of the images we place here. Click on an image and you’ll see a control bar overlay. Looks handy so let us know what you think in the comments. Not sure about how it […]

Kids try to help out … Via iwastesomuchtime.com

The Matthew Broderick Ferris Bueller Super Bowl ad is available for early viewing … (the extended version) There are “dozens” of references to the film … some are pretty obvious and direct and others are subtle such as … “Behind Broderick on the roller coaster on the Santa Monica Pier is a man wearing Cameron’s […]

Two Canadian kids using a weather balloon send their Lego man with a camera to the boundaries of space – 80,000 feet! (most commercial jets travel between 30,000- 37,000 feet). The full video with music … Or just the skyward flight portion … You can read more via the LA Times.

The MicroDrifters lineup will get a Colossus XXL Dump truck … It’s impossible to tell the actual size of this but it looks like it’s about the length of a hauler (@9″) and about 9″ tall …so mostly in scale with the less than 1″ MicroDrifter CARS but obviously not in scale with the 3-4″ […]