Rubber Band Gatling Gun
Holy crap, this is cool!
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Iraq Text Adventure
This text adventure game is pretty fun. Takes me back to those Zork days. The HHGTTG text game was really tough. I always got stuck in the belly of the Vogon ship trying to get the Babelfish in my ear. *squit*
Oval Office
You are standing inside a White House, having just been elected to the presidency of the United States. You knew Scalia would pull through for you.There is a large desk here, along with a few chairs and couches. The presidential seal is in the middle of the room and there is a full-length mirror upon the wall.
What do you want to do now?
> INVADE IRAQ
You are not able to do that, yet.> LOOK MIRROR
Self-reflection is not your strong suit.> PET SEAL
It’s not that kind of seal.
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1/20 Second Appraisal
A study says a web user can evaluate a web site in 1/20th of a second, and decide to stay or leave. That’s less than the blink of an eye. Sounds about right. How about a study on how long before a light turns green and someone honks to go. I’d say 1.5 seconds.
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Honeybell Mashup = Grapefruit vs. Tangerine
The Cushman’s grow the HoneyBell fruit in Florida, and claim it’s the world’s only limited edition fruit. The HoneyBell is a natural hybrid of grapefruit and tangerine, though it looks more like a dark orange. It grows only in Florida, and for only a few short weeks in January, and then they are gone till the next year. From their site:
A friendly warning: It`s often easier to begin sending Cushman HoneyBells than it is to stop.
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Name that 8-bit Game
I didn’t do so well at the audio-based Name That 8-bit Game Quiz… But only because I spent more time playing the games they didn’t choose! Okay, fine, I should no longer call myself a geek. I’m not worthy. I sentence myself to downloading emulators and playing old school games till I am properly nerd-ucated. Game on! Where’s that Spyhunter rom?
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Snoopy the Cat loves HD baseball
HDTV is not only showcasing the imperfections of celebrities, it is finally reaching the standard of quality suitable for discerning felines. Snoopy the HDTV watching cat is a strong supporter of HDTV, and will snub his little nose at standard def TV. Show him some fishies as mondo-resolution and he’s in heaven, pawing at the screen … but animals in analog, he’s not interested. HD seems real to Snoopy.
It’s no mystery that pets love TV as much as we do. Countless badly written jokes on the Planet’s Funniest Animals proves that. But what does Snoopy’s addiction to HDTV tell us? Obviously some pets are more discerning about their TV content, perhaps some are picky about their TV quality. I did some research on the vision of cats, but couldn’t find anything that would cause cats to perceive HDTV as crossing the boundary between an image and reality. Perhaps just like humans, some individuals are more attuned to the resolutions, the color saturation and screen size.
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How’s your Engrish?
A user commented about the Hanzi Smatter site that spots incorrect Chinese usage in Western culture. They pointed me to Engrish.com - a repository for bad English usage. It’s not quite ‘All your base are belong to us”, but it is almost at a ‘clitical’ mass of ‘crumtious’ly bad ‘Engrish’.
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strictly for the ‘ardcore!
There are some products that will sell best in Japan, and the iKitty nano case is one of those. Only the truly hardcore cute-seekers will wrap their nano in this rubberized kitten goodness, complete with cord-tail. In unison now … “Kawaii!!!”
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