Together We Are the Best
DEVPLL offers you tons of flash games to while away the hours. Try your hand at the logical games they offer like Hidden where your cursor disappears as you make your way through a simple maze or Paths 2 where a steady hand is your best asset.
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Vicious…you hit me with a flower
Three chords and four noble truths: on Philadelphia‘s legendary Buddhist hardcore band of the 1980s, Ruin.
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Feline Reactions to Bearded Men
Feline Reactions to Bearded Men: Cats do not like men with long beards, especially long dark beards. Cats are indifferent to men with shorter beards. Cats are confused and/or disturbed by men with beards that are incomplete and to a lesser degree by men whose beards have missing parts.
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R2D2 mailboxes from the US Postal Service
The USPS is rolling out a line of R2D2 mailboxes in honor of the 30th anniversary of Star Wars — these are really amazingly cool, they just work really well. It’s the Anthony Trollope/George Lucas mashup I’ve been waiting for all my life!
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Let us whisk you 5000 miles away to a land of romance and splendor
Arkiva Tropika is a huge archive of tropical-themed ephemera. Browse restaurant and drink menus, postcards, photos, brochures and matchbooks. Hours and hours worth of retro tiki goodness.
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Lovers of Wisdom – And ACTION!
From the award-winning comic series ACTION PHILOSOPHERS! comes these biographies of the titans of thought!
Thrill to the killer koans of Bam-Bam Bodhidharma! Shudder before the noble savagery of Terrible Thomas Jefferson! And enjoy (Or pick apart) tales of Crusher Carl Jung, Nasty Niccolo Machiavelli, Rowdy Rene Descartes, uh, Terribler Thomas Aquinas, The Pre-Socratics, and Gentleman John Stewart Mill!(Scroll down)
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A little rorschach with your breakfast
Art on a napkin:
Before ketchup art, before Esquire Napkin Fiction, there was the Mama’s Royal Café (checks and credit cards are cheerfully not accepted) napkin decorating contest. Enter now, (or, maybe don’t. I don’t want anyone to hurt my chances here!)
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Web 2.0
What is Web 2.0? [PDF] The best description of Web 2.0 that I have read.
The six big ideas…
1 Individual production and User Generated Content
2 Harness the power of the crowd
3 Data on an epic scale
4 Architecture of Participation
5 Network Effects
6 Openness
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Free (Audio) Books.
More and more authors are turning to podcasting to find their audiences after being rejected by traditional book publishers, it seems. Interested in hearing some of their stories for free (or if you’re feeling generous, a suggested donation of $9.99)? Check out PodioBooks, where there’s a tonne of free literature just waiting to be downloaded to your iPod.
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Larry David got ME $320,000! Thanks, Larry David!
Juan Catalan, 28, was arrested in the May 2003 murder of Martha Puebla, 16, outside her Sun Valley home, even though he told detectives that he was innocent and had been at a Dodgers game with his 6-year-old daughter at the time of the crime. Catalan’s defense attorney, Todd Melnik, went through footage of crowd shots from the televised game between the Dodgers and the Atlanta Braves, but he did not find his client. Then he learned that Curb Your Enthusiasm had been shooting at the ballpark that day. Sure enough, there he was on the cutting room floor, eating a hotdog.
Juan spent nearly five months in jail for a crime he did not commit � he filed a suit for police misconduct and today he was awarded $320,000. Catalan was not a fan of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" before his time in jail. "He is now," Casselman said. Well, duh.
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Is your fetus gay?
Is Your Baby Gay? Southern Baptist theologian Albert Mohler has come out to support stem cell research: If a biological basis [for homosexuality] is found, and if a prenatal test is then developed, and if a successful treatment to reverse the sexual orientation to heterosexual is ever developed, we would support its use as we should unapologetically support the use of any appropriate means to avoid sexual temptation and the inevitable effects of sin.
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First Robotics
The FIRST (“For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology”) robotics competition has recently begun it’s 2007 competition season. The competition, which began and still enjoys it’s greatest popularity in the United States, challenges high-school students and mentors to design and build a (teleoperated) robot to play a game in six weeks. Founded by Dean Kamen, of segway, IBOT, the first home dialysis machine, and clean drinking water fame founded the competition in 1988 to inspire students to enter the engineering profession. Every year a new challenge is put forth, and this year’s game involves placing inner-tubes on a cylindrical rack in addition to lifting other team’s robots. A sizeable community has sprung up around FIRST, with much attention paid to Dean Kamen’s ideal of gracious professionalism which is like sportsmanship without the sports.
The 2007 regional competitions provide teams an opportunity to show off their work. If you’re interested in getting involved, or just watching the events, FIRST provides a handy Event Locator.
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Cranks of the Dark Ages
The dark ages of western Europe � nasty, brutish, and short — did nevertheless produce technical innovations in metallurgy, agriculture, and, as identified in the Utrecht Psalter, a groundbreaking simple machine: the crank.
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Shiny happy people
To Baldy Go: Thinking of shaving your head? Undergoing chemotherapy? Afraid you’ll lose a bet? If you want to see what you’d look like bald, the friendly fellow at BaldlyGo will baldify your picture, free of charge, whether you’re an average man, woman, teen or even a world leader. Here’s the demo for the private service.
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No vulgarians were harmed in the making of this post.
A handsome, though humble, little game: Sprout. The clear winner, in my mind, in this game design competition. (Though the sequel to Gateway is as eerie as the first.)
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Masturbating elephants for science
“One guy I know got a black eye from being hit by an elephant�s penis.”
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History in Miniature
Joseph Neumeyer’s Dynamic Dioramas has tons of cool photos of dioramas with miniature soldiers and ships from many different historical eras.
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Gummi Art
Artist Ya Ya Chou works in several materials, the most interesting being gummi bears. The Mommy, The Candelabras, and sculptures are nice, but the Bear Rug is not to be missed. The best piece is the Chandelier, which apparently is perfectly fine after two years.
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The Mile High Collection
“I’ve often been asked what when through my mind when I first realized that I had stumbled across the greatest accumulation of Golden Age comics ever discovered. Frankly, even after 25 years have gone by, it still gives me chills to think about staring at that huge closet stacked to the rafters with mint Golden Age comics. " In 1977, a 21 year old comic book dealer in Colorado named Chuck Rozanski got a phone call from a realtor who wanted to dispose of a "large" number of comic books in the basement of a house that was about to be sold. The owners of the house were eager to get rid of them, and Rozanski purchased the "greatest comic collection ever found" , consisting of over 18,000 mint condition Golden Age comic books collected by artist Edgar Church, for a bargain price (rumored to be as low as $1,800). Recently, just one comic book from the collection sold for $273,125. Rozanski used the proceeds to build Mile High Comics, now the largest comic book retailer in the industry. Amazing as the Mile High discovery was, Rozanski still believes that his "Mile High II" find was his best.
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You don’t know You Don’t Know Jack
You Don’t Know Jack playable online. "If 50 Cent was actually worth 50 cents when he was born in 1975, adjusting for inflation, what would his name be today?" Plus, see the topical daily DisOrDat, including: Is this quote from the Bible or Deathstalker III? Crayola color or award-nominated porn movie? Brand of computer software or member of the Justice League? (NSFW for insulting commentator and suggestive references)
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Music of golden proportions
Zelda and the Golden Ratio. A fascinating examination of the music from Nintendo’s Zelda games, and the recurring appearances of 0.618, the bisection point on a line at which the relationship of the shorter segment to the longer one is the same as that of the longer section to the whole line.
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I, personally, don’t laugh at this sort of thing.
Barfield is Garfield with banality largely replaced by puerility. As such, it’s a tad NSFW.
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