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August 03 2010
May 21 2010
http://biggtsdesigns.tripod.com/index.html
Incredible throwback web page, all eye-shattering backgrounds and animated GIFs with purple text. Apparently a true relic,mnot "ironic"."Welcome, and thank you for surfing in to my web design habitat. My purpose is to design web pages for small businesses and personal enjoyment. In todays world of high tech, a web page for business is almost essential to reach a greater number of customers and increase your earning potential."
May 17 2010
Stanley Kubrick's 2001 vs Popcap's Peggle. SCIENTIFIC COMPARISON.
"At the far end of the tunnel of human consciousness there is an invisible light. Peggle is the quest for that light. So is Kubrick's 2001, but 2001 has no unicorns.1. PERFORMANCE. Peggle will run on a cheap netbook. So will 2001, but it really needs a big screen to be effective. PEGGLE WINS. PEGGLE AHEAD.
2. GRAPHICS: Peggle runs in 800x600 resolution with simple, cheerful, minimally animated 2D graphics. 2001 is a major motion picture directed by one of the greats of the 20th Century and photographed in Super Panavision 70 with marvellously undated best-of-breed in-camera special effects. 2001 WINS. NECK AND NECK...."
Read on to see which work of genius wins.
April 30 2010
New Age terrorists develop homeopathic bomb
"Homeopathic bombs are comprised of 99.9% water but contain the merest trace element of explosive. The solution is then repeatedly diluted so as to leave only the memory of the explosive in the water molecules. According to the laws of homeopathy, the more that the water is diluted, the more powerful the bomb becomes. ..."The severity of the situation has already resulted in the New Age terror threat level being raised from ‘lilac’ to the more worrisome ‘purple’ aura."
March 23 2010
March 18 2010
"No Dashes Or Spaces" Hall of Shame
Publicly shaming websites that stupidly forbid dashes or spaces in credit-card numbers. (Don't they know how to use regexes?!)January 25 2010
Play Our Unofficial Apple Tablet Game! [NYTimes.com]
Even the Times gets in on Apple-announcement-themed Bingo games...January 21 2010
10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling - The Oatmeal
Maybe this list is funny enough that people will finally remember how to spell "its", "their", etc...January 20 2010
A Treatise On Dice Rolling Strategy [BoardGameGeek]
Advanced techniques for rolling dice. Example: "Wounded Crane Technique "Method: Hold the dice in your dominant hand, bring it behind your back, bring your non-dominant hand back to create a "cup" for the dice, shake the dice vigorously as you lean your head forward and twirl it around in a perfect circle; finally, catapult the dice between your legs onto the table. "Commentary: Another tricky move requiring moving the neck in, once again, absolutely perfect circles. Nothing else suffices and will result in failure..."January 07 2010
Crazy Cat Fanciers card game [Invisible City Productions]
A card game for two to four pet aficionados, by Jonathan Leistiko. "Goal: End the game with cats. Lots of cats. Cats that match your personal quirks (Youʼre not crazy. Youʼre just different.) are especially nice to have. Donʼt let the feral cat population get to high or youʼll attract the attention of the ASPCA, and you donʼt want that."December 28 2009
I, Cthulhu, or, What’s A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9' S, Longitude 126° 43' W)?
A silly short story by Neil Gaiman, with an illustration.Recursion in C, by Kernighan, Ritchie and Lovecraft
"C functions may be used recursively; that is, a function may call itself either directly or indirectly. Uninquiring souls may take this as just another peculiarity of those C folk, of whose ways their neighbours speak little to outsiders but much among themselves. "Keener news-followers, however, wondered at the events of the winter of 1927-28, the abnormally large number of calls placed upon the stack, the swiftness with which that list was sorted, the disturbing lack of heap allocation throughout the proceedings, and the secrecy surrounding the affair..."October 10 2009
Apple iPhone Doomed To Failure -- Windows Mobile 7 Plans For 2009 Leaked
Mitchell Ashley of NetworkWorld predicts certain doom for the iPhone, back in January 2008, as Microsoft leaked ponies-n-unicorns magic photos of Windows Mobile 7 (which has since slipped to late 2010). "iPhone will fail to dominate as so many other Apple products have failed to in the past. The iPhone is certain to fade into history as another cool Apple innovation, that others soon rushed competitive, like-products to market, blowing away any significant lead Apple might have. ... Enjoy the limelight because it won't last long."September 25 2009
Hobbit 419
"Dear MR BAGGINS, Fellow Conspirator, I am Thorin Oakenshield, descendant of Thrain the Old and grandson of Thror who was King under the Mountain. I am writing you to discuss our plans, our ways, means, policy and devices for rescuing our treasure from the dragon Smaug. ..."September 03 2009
"The Mosaic Navigator" by Sigmund Freud, Katherine Jones [Google Books]
Metadata FAIL from Google Books: "Title: The Mosaic navigator: The essential guide to the internet interface Authors: Sigmund Freud, Katherine Jones Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939 Length: 218 pages"August 30 2009
"Inventory" [Brain Harvest]
You are standing at an existential crossroads, a wasteland at your feet and a song on your lips. Overhead, a trio of mechanical vultures have begun circling, and the red dots of their laser-sights are crawling across your bare chest. To the west runs a dank near-motionless river, and every now and then something thrashes around in the water. The way east is blocked by an endless sense of ennui. South is a burning city, and an ex-wife to whom you owe alimony. To the north stretches an endless desert, with rumours of a herd of undead camels. There is a gleaming muscle-car parked here, but passage to it is blocked by an enormous white bull. There is a set of tubular bells here, and a three-legged stool. There is a sign on the river bank. Obvious exits are North, South, and Angst. > |July 15 2009
Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs, by Leonard Richardson [Strange Horizons]
"I want to buy a gun," said the Thymomenoraptor. He moved his foreclaw along the glass case of pistols, counting them off: one, two, three, four. "That one." He tapped the case; the glass squeaked. "Why would a dinosaur need a gun?" asked the shop owner. "Self-defense." The owner's gaze dropped to the three-inch claw that had chipped his display case. "These are killing claws," said the dinosaur, whose name was Tark. "For sheep, or cows. I merely want to disable an attacker with a precision shot to the leg or other uh, limbal region." "Uh-huh," the owner said. "Or maybe you figure humans shoot each other all the time, but if someone turns up ripped in half the cops are gonna start lookin' for dinosaurs." Tark carefully pounded the counter. "There used to be a time," he said, "when gun dealers would actually sell people guns! A time . . . called America. I miss that time." ...[It gets even better!]...July 06 2009
Rules of Moopsball
“Moopsball is a contact sport played by up to three hundred and twenty-four people, divided into two teams, for three days, on a field more than ten times the size of a football field. Each team is made up of the following players: ten shields ten hoops ten flingers twenty cavalrymen four lieutenants five buglers one standard bearer one wizard one captain In addition, each team is allowed up to one hundred noncombatants, support personnel: camp followers, wives, husbands, cooks, medics, dogs, turkeys, etc. There are also fifty-one referees.”June 22 2009
Enterprise Ruby [github]
“Wish you could write your Ruby in XML? Has the fact that Ruby is not "enterprise" got you down? Do you feel like your Ruby code could be made to be more "scalable"? Well look no further my friend. You’ve found the enterprise gem. Once you install this gem, you too can make Rails scale, Ruby faster, your code more attractive, and have more XML in your life. “I’m sure you’re asking yourself, "how can the enterprise gem promise so much?". Well the answer is easy, through the magic of XML! The enterprise gem allows you to write your Ruby code in XML, therefore making your Ruby and Rails code scale. Benefits of writing your code in XML include: • It’s easy to read! • It scales! • Cross platform • TRANSFORM! your code using XSLT! • Search your AST with XPath or CSS!”
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