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March 30, 2009
Settlers of Catan
Piece on Settlers of Catan in Wired (via Metafilter).
Fun game. But frustrating when the dice don't roll your way. (All I need is a stinkin' brick!)
March 25, 2009
Movies on Hulu
Confessions of a Superhero - a documentary about Hollywood "superheroes" (aka panhandlers) that might make you feel a little better about yourself
Super Size Me - classic
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist - Chicken goes cluck cluck cow goes moo
39 Steps - Early Hitchcock
For the Love of the Game - this one is just for Siskow since it involves Costner and the Tigers
March 24, 2009
Turn it up
The trend of "loudness" is music: less and less dynamic range. Be sure to check out the YouTube video toward the end. (via waxy)
March 21, 2009
Best Cartoon Ever: alternate version
Can you tell what's changed?
Night of the Livid Pork Chop
March 19, 2009
Dorodango in progress
Might start another one today in between painting the kitchen.
March 16, 2009
Batting Stance Guy
Check out his YouTube page... he covers most teams there. Pretty impressive.
March 15, 2009
Baseball cards: not just for bike spokes anymore
Check out what Topps is up to nowadays:
March 12, 2009
Thru-You
Some guy makes a mash-up YouTube video from bits and pieces of other YouTube videos. Impressive. (via)
Pet AT-AT
A guy took some photos of his AT-AT before he gave his Star Wars toys away to his newphew. Photos here. But can they be house-trained? (via)
March 11, 2009
Keeping up with the Joneses
March 9, 2009
Indy story conference
Story conference with Spielberg, Lucas and Kasdan on Raiders of the Lost Ark. (via waxy)
Wikipedia links of the day
Corrupted Blood incident: yes, a plague accidently spread through World of Warcraft
50 Greatest Comedy Films: Sorry, Shaun of the Dead shouldn't be #3 (ah, it was done by the UK)
Rack your brain on the missing dollar riddle (hint: PEBKAC)
... and open source Sim City game. Looks like you need X11 going for the Mac.
Edit: Another fun one: Paraprosdokian
March 7, 2009
Mac in Watchmen
If you're curious about the Mac in Watchmen.
March 6, 2009
Tour of Chernobyl
This guy goes there so you don't have to. (via MeFi)
March 5, 2009
Hoaxy
The Hoax Photo Database. I don't think they are all "hoaxes" but that's ok.
Facebook vs Twitter
Facebook instituting changes to compete with Twitter. I'd like to see a graph charting the inverse relationship between Facebook's popularity and the Dow Jones average.
Birds like ice cream
Birds stealing ice cream. (via)
Captiony
(via The Big Picture)
March 3, 2009
The beat goes on
A click track is basically a metronome drummers can listen to through headphones during recording sessions or concerts to help keep time. Which bands used a click track while recording? Well, this guy did a couple tests. (via waxy)
