Thursday, January 11th, 2007

Oi!

Yes, I'm still here. Why does my edit box look all wonky?

Am I around for another long span? Dunno. Maybe I'm just bored right now and I'll lose track of it again when school restarts. (A distinct possibility, given that during school I more-or-less live at my girlfriend's suite, and I tend not to bother logging in to stuff from her computer.)
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Saturday, August 26th, 2006

Umm?

Okay, so Weta makes rayguns. They even sell them.

20 July 06 - "When I received my ManMelter for use on my trip to the rain forests of Vasplurgia, I blew my left leg off at the hip. Marvelous invention!"
-Major. Alfred Beardlington
See?

(Now go check out their website and look at all the cool pictures.)
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Lots of interesting stuffs, but I'll only post the most recent.

Apparently water can read and has emotions. --> Linky!

Okay, so only one thing. But it was funny!
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

[UPDATED] I swear, these people are crazy.

Pong is amusing, but Space Invaders? Out of this world. (Watch to see what I'm talking about.)

EDIT: Link updated
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

Yay for geeks!

From Kaja Foglio's LJ ([info]kajafoglio):
I haven't played a lot of Mario games, my heart 's in Hyrule, but SMS is a pretty fun game. Also, Phil sits around watching me play, singing: "My wife's a Super Mario Lord, Doo-dah, doo-dah", whenever I rip through one of those weird floating-in-space side puzzles. This adds to the ambiance.

In related news, Phil was digging around in the back closet and found a copy of the Nintendo sticker book that he did some work for. It mostly looks like routine pictures of Mario and pre-OoT Link (ugh), but Phil's style shows through in a couple of places. It's...weird.
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Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

Stuff and things

Greenpeace press release: "In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world's worst nuclear accident, there have been nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE]."

No, really. They claim that it was a staffer's joke that accidentally got published.

In unrelated newsfactiods, the website for public radio's Whad'Ya Know? is NotMuch.com.
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Saturday, June 3rd, 2006

/

[A certain female] (12:45 AM) :
slash fanfiction

CrazyDreamer (12:45 AM) :
"The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you've got millions of pals out there. Type in 'Find people that have sex with goats that are on fire' and the computer will say, 'Specify type of goat.'"
-- Rich Jeni

CrazyDreamer (12:46 AM) :
God exists: I was about to send that when you sent me "slash fanfiction." I rest my case.



Welcome to the Academy
Location: W20 (Stratton Student Center) [MIT]
Date: 2003.02.19

In response to an article in The Tech, hackers hung a banner proclaiming "Welcome to the Academy!!!" from the side of the Student Center. The hackers were responding to an announcement by Robert Redwine, Dean for Undergraduate Education, that a new committee would be examining "how best to welcome these new members of the community to the Academy."
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Monday, May 29th, 2006

Chicken v. Egg

http://improbable.com/2006/05/29/chickenegg-theory-vs-experiment/

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? A recent theoretical debate has come to the opposite conclusion of the existing experimental datum.

An amusing read, if only for the experiment.
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Sunday, May 28th, 2006

Okaaay . . .

Frequon Invaders is no doubt the most unique Space Invaders clone I have ever seen. The gameplay is hard to describe, so here are the designer's own words: "...your mission is to destroy each invading Frequons by moving the cursor on top of it. What could be easier? Except for one itty bitty detail: the Frequons are not displayed in the usual spatial domain, but in the Fourier Domain. Frequons look like colored waves. Your "self" is a wave too, with opposite polarity. Instead of manipulating some local point on the screen, you manipulate a global wave pattern. You destroy Frequons by achieving destructive interference with them."

Sounds confusing, right? And it is. This is one of those games that are impossible to describe (unless you happen to be an optical engineer or mathematician) because it cannot be visualized until you play it. So, hmm, I will just end this not-much-of-a-review by saying that if you like Space Invaders and psychadelic swirling colors don't give you a headache, Frequon Invaders is a lot of fun (and educational too - I didn't know anything about Fourier Domain until I play this game). It is fun, original, and strangely addictive once you get used to looking at colored waves, although the extremely high 'geekiness quotient' may intimidate some action gamers from trying it out. Two thumbs up!
(http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=4128)
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

Zoo babies!

2006 Spring Babies! 

SOOO CUUUTE!!! )

Stolen from the St. Louis Zoo.

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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

Update!

Quotes from my current addiction )
Damn, I forgot what I was going to write here.
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Friday, May 19th, 2006

Okay, some of these product descriptions are just getting wierd.

After the product description, go read the English text on large product picture.
This is not entirely the same text.
Right, then.
Appropriate for the end of this list, yes?

I'll have a more substantive update when I'm more awake.
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Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Ahem.

http://www.partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1428
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

Thank you, Nissa. [Updated thrice!]

We have been visited by alien lifeforms, they just aren't intelligent.

[If you're at risk of taking that title seriously, check my icon and think again.]

UPDATE (x3!!):

35th anniversary clip show
Can you play hatless?
Jimmy Kimmel, if you're into that sort of thing. (Yes, this is on-topic.)
Lobster [UPDATED!]
Pasketti
Swedish meatballs
Chocolate Moose
I need a longer copy of this.
I wasn't going to include this until the last ten seconds.
Johnny Carson wins.
Chicken in a basket
Japanes cake
Banana split
Jon Stewart loses.
Leonard Nimoy . . . somethings.
WTF? Is this real?
ABCDEF you know what comes next
I wasn't going to include this until the very last second.
Animal wins. He just wins.
German techno-pop! (See notes.)
Muffins + Boomshooten =

And, to end with, Just One Person. Rest in peace, Jim.
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." —Dr. Seuss
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Hmm.

As happens most months, Doki Doki Productions has posted a list of jokes, videos, &c. As happens most months, I've gone through them to find the two or three that are actually funny and that my friends might like.

For you video-gamers, prerecorded from 4chan, it's Video Game Rocks!

For some reason, someone went through way too much trouble to make a trailer for Titanic Two. I'm more entertained by their skill than with the actual content, but still.

And, finally, a guy in a suit covered in squeezebulb horns plays classical music that invariably devolves into something silly. (I'd have a better title for it, but the guy's speaking in French, so I have no clue what he refers to it as. Some people call it "toot toot.")
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Monday, May 1st, 2006

One of the funniest GG pages in a long time . . .

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/cgi-bin/ggmain.cgi [May 1st, 2006 page for those of you reading this Wednesday or later]

Fun for all, especially those who know the meaning of "dungeon crawl."
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Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

More amusing for academics than others

The world's worst storage systems researcher
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

Sushi, ya?

Am I the only one who finds this video on sushi bars a little . . . odd?

UPDATE:
Was directed by Junji Kojima. Comedy duo Rahmens contributes.
director: http://www.digital-voice.net/vv2/movies/
comedy group: http://www.twinkle-co.co.jp/profile/rahmens.html


Here is a list of some of the other stuff they have done:
http://osaka.eigasai.com/ssff2005/osaka/o_02.html
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For my foreign-agent friends

Numbers stations
Letter beacons
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

LtU&E

JURY DUTY! YAY!
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