Amusing: November 2006 Archive Page

constructing a pie with the topology of a sphere from 20 triangular sub-pie modules attached with amazing magnets.
--modular pie-cosahedron (Instructables)

Now this is geeky.

Via boingboing.

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

--Asteroid's Revenge

This 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.

[Image showing a few paragraphs from a story spoofing the "Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective" book series.]

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--Adam Cadre --The Case of the Captured Koala (adamcadre)

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 series.

--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.

I made this with cleverpig.com's Whack-A-Pig tutorial.

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)

--Percentage of Chart Which Resembles Pac-Man (themot.org)