Amusing: November 2006 Archive Page
November 30, 2006
modular pie-cosahedron
Now this is geeky.constructing a pie with the topology of a sphere from 20 triangular sub-pie modules attached with amazing magnets.
--modular pie-cosahedron (Instructables)
Via boingboing.
November 29, 2006
Zombie Portraits
With the aid of a photo, master illustrator Rob Sacchetto will hand-illustrate a custom portrait depicting you as a brain-chasing ghoul. --Zombie Portraits
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Art
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Humanities
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PopCult
November 29, 2006
Asteroid's Revenge
--Asteroid's RevengeThis resembles a videogame version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, the modern play that retells Hamlet from the perspective of two minor characters.
The website calls it "Asteroids Revenge," but I'll excuse the mistake.
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Games
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Humanities
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PopCult
November 20, 2006
The Case of the Captured Koala
[Image showing a few paragraphs from a story spoofing the "Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective" book series.]Make sure you stick with it until you get to the solution, which is where you'll find the gimmick that makes this story worth blogging -- especially if you know the Encyclopedia Brown--Adam Cadre --The Case of the Captured Koala (adamcadre)
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Social_Software
November 18, 2006
Dumb Azz Burglars, A MUST SEE WMV
--Dumb Azz Burglars, A MUST SEE WMV (YouTube)Do not -- I repeat, NOT -- drink milk while watching this, for it will shoot out your nose.
This one is also kind of cute, though it's too long.
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Amusing
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Ethics
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Humanities
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Weirdness
November 13, 2006
Whack-A-Moliere
Whack-A-Moliere (Jerz's Literacy Weblog)
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Amusing
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Games
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Humanities
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Literature
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Media
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Weirdness
November 12, 2006
The Google Book
FAR! FAR away, the Google lives, in a land which only children can go to. It is a wonderful land of funny flowers, and birds, and hills of pure white heather.
[...]
The sun is setting ?
Can't you hear
A something in the distance
Howl!!?
I wonder if it's ?
Yes!! it is
That horrid Google
On the prowl!!! --V.C. Vickers, 1913
--The Google Book (Google Blogoscoped)
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Aesthetics
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Amusing
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Books
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Cyberculture
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Humanities
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Literature
November 2, 2006
Percentage of Chart Which Resembles Pac-Man
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Aesthetics
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Amusing
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Cyberculture
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Games
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Media
constructing a pie with the topology of a sphere from 20 triangular sub-pie modules attached with amazing magnets.
FAR! FAR away, the Google lives, in a land which only children can go to. It is a wonderful land of funny flowers, and birds, and hills of pure white heather.

