Magic shaving
This cool little movie has the charm and feel of a short by Mèliés or Blackton (both of whose films are eminently worth your time) from the turn of that other century.
Archive for Fun
The world’s best chocolate chip cookie?
What do you get when you take all of the internet’s best chocolate chip cookie recipes and precisely average the ingredient amounts? What looks to be a darn fine cookie. Gentlemen, start your spreadsheets.
Color of the Year
It’s 2008. It needs a color. Here it is. Pantone presents blue iris. I think it’s going to be a great year!
Best Line Rider ever
You might know Line Rider, the cool little flash timekiller that lets you make a line that a tiny scarfed dude can ride down. Here is a video of what has to be the best one ever. Any favorites of yours that can compete?
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Find the next web page
There are a couple of sites like this, but this one (apparently called N) is pretty good. The idea is you have to figure out the URL of the next web page in the numerical series, which starts at 1 and goes to 30. The way to get from one page to the next changes each time.
Some of these are pretty tough. Wikipedia is helpful in a couple of instances, and you will also need to look at the source code for a few of them.
Keep in mind that each one gives you a clue as to how its URL would be derived, but you’re really looking for the next one in the series.
Another thing: on the internets, Nineteen.html is a different page than nineteen.html or NINETEEN.html.
How far can you get? I can post hints for ones you get really stuck on.
Of the typist, by the typist and for the typist
It’s probably been a while since your last typing speed test. How fast are you these days? Find it in with an elegant little typing test.
Me? Consistently in the high 80s-low 90s wpm, with three or four errors each time. My best showing, after about ten tries: 100.85 wpm, with two errors. Pretty good! Certainly better than whatever I pulled in typing class on the Selectric back in the day.
You? Better than high school?
Scamming the spammers
How to beat the Nigerians (or the Cote D’Ivoirians, in this case) at their own game, and get some lovely handcrafted art out of the deal.
Hitler or Coulter?
Is Ann Coulter a lying harpy or merely a fraudulent gorgon? I’m not one to get drawn into the fray, but I did enjoy taking the “Who Said It: Adolf Hitler or Ann Coulter?” challenge.
I got 12 out of 14, mostly because of context and linguistic cues (Hitler was a better writer). The two I missed were Coulter quotes I attributed to Hitler.
Also fun:
An article about a formerly gay Christian psychotherapist named Richard Cohen — maybe he’s got a “Jesus made me kosher and fabulous” t-shirt? — who happens to help other men become formerly gay. He does this by cuddling with them and hugging them.
bk_keywords:Lying Liars.
School of Hard Knox
Stephen Colbert gave the commencement address at Knox College this year.
Thank you. Thank you very much. First of all, I’m facing a little bit of a conundrum here. My name is Stephen Colbert, but I actually play someone on television named Stephen Colbert, who looks like me, and who talks like me, but who says things with a straight face he doesn’t mean. And I’m not sure which one of us you invited to speak here today. So, with your indulgence, I’m just going to talk and I’m going to let you figure it out.
The transcript is pretty entertaining.
Science is great
Thirty-seven years after we put a man on the moon, researchers have finally been able to simulate the synchronized Dancing Waters™ of the fountains at the Bellagio, using only Diet Pepsi and Mentos. It’s oddly beautiful, and I wanna try!
