Quote of the Week

Virginia's Marquis Weeks caps off his 100-yard kickoff return for the touchdown.

Now that's just funny.

The Official Shotgun Rules

In case you've ever argued over the dos and don'ts of calling the passenger seat in a vehicle, I present to you The Official Shotgun Rules.

Request

Request is a very well acted out monologue.

You owe it to yourself to watch it.

Horrible Swedish Weather

If you thought hurricane season in the Carribean was bad...oh man...I'm glad I don't live there...Read the text on the site before clicking the link for the image.

Horrible Swedish Weather

12 or 13

Are there 12 or 13? And if it changes, where does the extra one come from?

A novel approach to music piracy

Green Day has done something really, really cool. They are offering a 5-pack of custom printed blank recordable CD-Rs featuring the color artwork of Green Day.

I think this a really original way of confronting music piracy, and it doesnt suprise me in the least that its coming from a punk band first.

Despite what the site may suggest about the use for these cds, we all know what they are really trying to do is simply make the best out of what is for them a bad situation. I think its very admirable that instead of whining on about their legal property and suing random nobodies for all they're worth the band and the company got together and figured out a way to keep their integrity (what punk band would support copyright laws?) and still earn from their work.

Tobby

It's been a while since I posted a flash game, so here's one for your amusement

Tobby the dog is floating around on a balloon.

Use your fan to give him a helping breeze and move him towards the goal while avoiding the walls and other hazards along the way.

Viral marketing for something with Toshiba.

Best. Vacation picture. Ever.

Ouch

Craziest

Craziest is a very cool flash movie about one girl's love affair with the board game we all know and love: Scrabble. The animation is superb, and the story is somewhat reminiscent of the movie Pi.

The home computer in the year of 2004

The home computer in the year of 2004

Before and After Star Wars

I hate George Lucas.

He's done it yet again. In the newly released DVD box set of the original Star Wars Trilogy, he's made several "improvements." Most of them are fine, but one of them just pisses me off.

Lucas has removed the guy who used to play the ghost of Anakin Skywalker at the end of Return of the Jedi and replaced him with the kid from the new movies, Hayden Christensen.

I'm not kidding.

No mention of why Yoda and Obi-Wan are old and Anakin is young. Good jeorb Lucas.

A pretty cool article over at G4/TechTV is Before and After Star Wars. Kind of a "where are they now" type thing.

Scott Kurtz of PvP tells people like me to grow up, Penny Arcade has their usual brand of humor on the subject and SA had a pretty good Star Wars Photoshop contest.

Ylympics

Yeti + Olympics = Ylympics

Play the first five Yeti Sports games in one tournament.

Optical Illusions

Just a collection of optical illusions. Some old, but some I'd never seen.

IRC Stories

t0rbad} so there i was in this hallway right
BlackAdder} i believe i speak for all of us when i say...
BlackAdder} WRONG
BlackAdder} IM SICK OF YOU
BlackAdder} AND YOUR LAME STORIES
BlackAdder} NOBODY HERE THINKS YOURE FUNNY
BlackAdder} NOBODY HERE WANTS TO HEAR YOUR STORIES
BlackAdder} IN FACT
BlackAdder} IF YOU DIED RIGHT NOW
BlackAdder} I DON"T THINK NOBODY WOULD CARE
BlackAdder} SO WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THAT FAG
*** t0rbad sets mode: +b BlackAdder*!*@*.*
*** BlackAdder has been kicked my t0rbad ( )
t0rbad} so there i was in this hallway right
CRCError} right
heartless} Right.
r3v} right





{erno} hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.



{Zybl0re} get up
{Zybl0re} get on up
{Zybl0re} get up
{Zybl0re} get on up
{phxl|paper} and DANCE
* nmp3bot dances :D-{
* nmp3bot dances :D|-{
* nmp3bot dances :D/-{
{[SA]HatfulOfHollow} i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet




{tatclass} YOU ALL SUCK
{tatclass} er.
{tatclass} hi.
{andy\code} A common typo.
{tatclass} the keys are like right next to each other.





* Gregory is away - gone, if anyone talks in the next 25 minutes as me it's my roommate Todd being an idiot-
{Gregory} HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I AM HOMOSEXUAL





{Cthon98} hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
{Cthon98} ********* see!
{AzureDiamond} hunter2
{AzureDiamond} doesnt look like stars to me
{Cthon98} {AzureDiamond} *******
{Cthon98} thats what I see
{AzureDiamond} oh, really?
{Cthon98} Absolutely
{AzureDiamond} you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2
{AzureDiamond} haha, does that look funny to you?
{Cthon98} lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******
{AzureDiamond} thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that
{Cthon98} yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as *******
{AzureDiamond} awesome!
{AzureDiamond} wait, how do you know my pw?
{Cthon98} er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw
{AzureDiamond} oh, ok.






{kow`} "There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't."
{SpaceRain} That's only 2 types of people, kow.
{SpaceRain} STUPID






{Girlygirl} Thank you for listening to me.
{Girlygirl} You know your a really good listener.
{Girlygirl} Sweety please say something.
{Sandaedar} Ok I'm back.

Spelling Quiz

Pop-quiz hotshot! Let's see how well you can spell today.

My results:

You scored 16 out of a possible 23
Not bad at all. You have a good grasp of the language's tricksier words, and only have a few blind spots.

SPAMSHIRT

SpamShirt

We at SpamShirt have come up with a plan: recycling useless spam into sparkling new t-shirts! environmentally conscious, and a new lease of life for all that spam that floods your in-box.

You can also add your own favorite spam subjects if you care to.

My choice: "quantities of a ruddy-brown fluid were spurting up in noisy jets out of the ..."

Name that game!

Cool flash quiz where they play a sound effect from a classc video game and you have to guess which one it is.

Name that game!

Games are getting too darned expensive

Matt and I saw the new Resident Evil movie the other day, so I was feeling all nostalgic for the series. While looking at a couple of sites, I happened by the official site from Capcom.

Please go here and look at how much they are selling Code Veronica X for.

Biggest. Wave. Ever.

You have got to check out this video of a surfer dude riding the biggest wave I've ever seen in my entire life.

Ever.

Google Hardware

Take a look at the primitave hardware our favorite search engine used to run on.

The Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect looked promising, even though there was one major strike against it. That strike, of course, would be Ashton Kutcher. He has already sucked his way through a couple of other movies, like Just Married and Cheaper by the Dozen (and how could we forget Dude Where's My Acting Ability?). It seems that any movie Ashton Kutcher stars in automatically turns into mud; mud with corn in it that is.

However, my gut feeling felt that this film would be good, even though Ashton was there.

I saw two possible outcomes: either this film would be a complete masterpiece, or a complete disaster. This is Ashton’s first role where he tries to act serious. Jim Carey tried to be a serious actor, too, and the results were pretty good. The difference is that Jim Carey has talent, so to put him in the same boat as Ashton is in my mind a heresy.

I saw the director's cut originally, and I will tell you that it is a much different movie including the changes within that version of the film.

This movie was great. The acting jobs were top notch, including Ashton himself. The plot of the movie is quite old indeed, rapidly springing to mind is the episode of the Simpsons when Homer changes the past to find everything perfect (Marge is gorgeous, Bart is well behaved, etc) except nobody seems to know what a "doughnut" is so he flees just as it begins to rain. Except the rain is doughnuts instead of waterdrops. But this movie pulled of the idea quite well, and despite myself I'm actually looking forward to Ashton's next efforts.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go slash my wrists.

The Oddest Guinness World Records

There are some real interesting records over at The Oddest Guinness World Records.

My favorite is Most Feet Sniffed: In a 15-year career, Madeline Albrecht sniffed 5,600 feet while working for foot care experts Dr. Scholl.

Unusual Search Engines

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know of the major search engines like Google or Yahoo. But did you know that there are many other smaller or niche search engines out there that can offer you unique help? Let’s take a look at some of these and get some insight into how they can be of benefit.

Mooter Search

Developed in Australia, Mooter takes a different approach to showing results for your queries. Instead of delivering you “flat” search engine result pages with lists and lists of results, Mooter delivers its results in cluster categories. For instance, if you type the word “labrador” you will see clusters of categories related to your term into which you can drill: organization, retrievers, Canada, map, band, and nature. If these aren’t the results you are looking for you can simply click on the “next clusters” link.

Mooter is beneficial because unlike many search engines, you don’t have to perpetually backtrack and/or type in different sets of key terms in order to reach the result you want in the first place.

Girafa

Girafa, which boasts that it “visualizes the Web,” shows its users more than the average list of results. Enter the term “marketing” into its Visual Search and not only will various related sites show up, but so will screenshots of each site. Talk about making a split second judgement! Now if you like the look of one site over another, you might just head there first…and buy from them!

Thumbshots.net

Part of the Open Directory Project, Thumbshots.net is similar to Girafa, though Thumbshots.net starts with a directory of categories so there are two ways to search. Once you enter your search query you will see thumbshots on the left side of the screen followed by the title, description, and url of the site.

WiseNut

WiseNut, developed by LookSmart, is simple and easy to use. WiseGuide is like Mooter because it clusters your search into different categories like a directory but on the same first page, it will also display “normal” flat search listings.

Moreover, you can actually Sneak-a-Peek into each site result. Under each normal search listing you will find a description of the site followed by a url and the Sneak-a-Peak hyperlink. If you click on this a large screenshot will appear directly under the listing after choosing this option. You may then simply close it once you are done.

iBoogie

iBoogie clusters its results too, but it displays them like the Windows Explorer screen: you see the flat search listings on the right-hand side while on the left you see clusters you can research by.

Like some of the larger search engines, iBoogie allows you to search for your term from just one search bar by other means: MP3/Audio, Images, Video, Directory or Advanced.

ProFusion

An extremely powerful meta search engine, ProFusion combines search results across multiple engines. What’s even better is that it provides you with the option to limit your search to include specific categories such as career, entertainment, government, etc. There are 22 categories in all and each one of them has a vast number of subcategories from which to explore. In other words, you can search sites for very targeted content all in one query.

Picsearch

Picsearch searches solely for images related to your key term/s rather than sites. Plug in the term “Johns Hopkins” and you will encounter various images of the school, affiliated magazines, hospitals, family vacation photos, etc. Once you choose a particular image you can find out the url source of the image as well as file size, file type, and image size.

Picsearch is family friendly; all offensive material is filtered out by advanced filtering systems.

On your next foray into web search, why not test one of these search engines out for size?! They may even be of more use than say, Google??

Your useless fact for the day...

Optimus Prime is 17 feet, 4 inches tall.

4 simple questions

Fast Questions is a honor-system quiz you take. It consists of only four questions, and I'd heard two of them before, but number 3 sure tricked me.

DDR Freak

Right-click and Save As to watch this chubby DDR kid !go to town

Photo Differentials

Supposedly only 12 people in the world have been able to spot the difference in this picture in under 60 seconds.

Can you?

The Blue Chamber

Remember the Crimson Room and Viridian Room? Well, here's the next one in the series:

The Blue Chamber

Another puzzle site

This one is a bit easier than the last one I posted (thank God).

Welcome.

General hint: the goal is to move to the next screen by deciphering what the next URL is, and later what the user & pass for the next URL is.

On screen #3 remember that False = off, and True = on. Post questions/comments in the comments section (btw, you can post comments anonymously even though it asks you for a username and password, there is a link at the bottom for anonymous).

Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory

Cool preview of SP3 over at GameSpot. Here's a highlight:

Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the demo is the artificial intelligence. For example, while skulking around early in the level, we were detected by a guard who immediately opened fire on us. While we pulled Sam back around the corner to unsling his rifle, the guard kept firing. When we swung around the corner to open fire, the guard pulled back around his corner and disappeared from view. He then popped out and fired a burst in our direction. We then steadied our rifle on the spot where the guard's head would appear should he poke it out a second time to fire, but instead of doing that, he unexpectedly darted into the room faster than we could react. Being a locker room, the room had several rows of lockers, and the guard disappeared down the middle row only to reappear in the farthest row, not quite where we expected him to be. After firing another burst, he ran out of the room and back to where he had been shooting from us originally, and it was only from a lucky burst when he popped out again that we finally managed to nail him.

Yetisports 6

Yetisports 6 Big Wave it out.

Giving it a try now. I'll post my best score in the comments. If you beat it, let me know what your top score is.