Marshmallowcraft

It is magically delicious!

Finding that the 'estimated cooking time' just isn't accurate?

Turns out you are not alone.

The Shadow Scholar

The story of a literary mercenary whose work has infiltrated academia.

The Hitler

And here I present The Hitler as an SI unit.

A pail of air

Speaking of post apocalypse, here's a really interesting short story, read it.

LOLKrug

I think I found my Halloween costume?

Inspired by one of the greatest films 1986 had to offer, which is apparently more relevant today than ever.

Shamelessly Plugging along

My friend created a gaming blog he is trying to get readers for. I thought I would pass it along to my grouping of gaming professionals to check out, judge for themselves and pass along if they see fit. Enjoy!

Stephen Colbert Testifies to Congress

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Commerical break

58 commercials, to be exact!

Amnesia

Played the game Amnesia: The dark decent for about an hour and a half and I'm putting it down now so I don't have nightmares tonight. I'm serious, this game is scary. Also, it's available on steam for like 20 bucks. Anyone else playing?

The best comic ever

Is here.

100 Abandoned Houses

This here is a somewhat haunting album of 100 Abandoned Houses in Detroit.

Zombie Ants

Nuf said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/aug/18/zombie-carpenter-ant-fungus

Panda Thursday's Wednesday

This, ladies and gentlemen, is one pathetic panda. Watch as it struggles to climb a single stair. PUNY MORTALS!

Question

So, who all reads the blog still, and how regularly? It would be neat if people posted more often!

starcraft 2

Eben and I have had some fun playing starcraft 2, it's an excellent game. We've been playing a little 2v2 against random jerks or against the computer. Also available would be FFA or team games if we had more players. Anyone else here play? My realID is my usual email address add me as a friend and join the fun.

Panda Thursday!

Here is this weeks Panda Thursday. JAILBREAK!

Red Panda Thursday

THIS RED PANDA SHALL BE SPARED IN THE COMING ENDANGERED* EAT-A-THON!




*Okay, so they are technically "vulnerable," but that is close enough.

God Hates Kittens!

Comicon fans counter protest Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church.

4 chord song

This may be old news for some of you, but here is the 4 Chord Song.

Herp derp

All the hurr that's fit to durr.

Panda Thursday

Here is a video of a young panda trying to climb a tree. Enjoy.

Zombies + MFW

Have we mentioned that the son of the authors of "Rise Up Screaming" attends Haverford?

History's greatest monster

...is Thomas's ISP, but this guy was pretty weird too.

Discovered thanks to Dinosaur Comics.

AIM, and Philly

I talk with Ethan and Adam occasionally on Skype which is fun, but I should be better about saying hi than I am. But that's about the only people I still talk to. I never see anyone else on AIM and I don't spend a lot of time signed into Google chat. What services do you guys use, or should we just be better at signing on and saying hi? This sight is nice but it's hard to converse, it's great for hey look at this but talking about it in the comments section is pretty hard to do.


Second, I'm tired of studying surface slant so I'm quitting my job and finishing my master's degree over the coming school year. Amanda will be teaching at least part time so we're stuck in Rochester for the time being. But after that we're free and have a whole bunch of friends and family along the eastern seaboard, especially NYC, Philly, and DC. So we're planning to move to Philly next summer. Anyone else know where they're going to be in a years time?

A-Team

I think this might just be heresy. A-Team, the movie.

Dorkiest thing ever

Found this from a friend on Facebook. Bears repeating...http://www.arcattack.com/video/vid5.php

Brownies: Penagon Style

The governmental rules and regulations for confections.

Evolution of PC audio technology

As told by Monkey Island

An ode to mothers.

This is a neat article on mother's day(tomorrow) and evolution. You could even forward it to your mother.

Robostabber

It has finally happened, robots are rising up against their human oppressors.

mech warrior, free

One of my friends just sent me this. Apparently you can now get and play mech warrior 4 for free. It's been years, I think I'll give it a try. Here

Diagram of the same-sex marriage debate

Also, apparently, the Allied Forces were an instrument of God's wrath.

More gross medical things

Total face transplant!

do it yourself surgury

Care to perform an auto-appendectomy?

Octopus: 1, Panda: 0

Learn why the panda is an overrated animal.

Our new robot overlord

Behold the awesome might of a five axis C&C lathe/router!

Who's your daddy?

You can meet all kinds of people on the Internet, including your father - even if he is an anonymous sperm donor. Even if you are a [clever and resourceful] 15-year-old.

Makes you ponder the extent to which we will be affected by online genetic databases.

Barack Obama looking at awesome things

Because Kim Jong Il isn't the only one who can look at things.

Eye see you!

The Eye of Sauron has surfaced at a college in Illinois!

I've started writing again.

But it's pretty much all about television shows. Check it out here and give me some more hits so that I can attract advertisers and begin to make some dollars.

Secrets of Area 51...

...revealed.

Apparently the folks who worked there are allowed to talk now? It's pretty much what you'd expect: they still aren't saying anything about aliens. There is a funny story involving test pilots and a gorilla mask, though.

2 nukes weren't enough

So apparently anime is a prime example of why 2 nukes weren't enough. Ouch, Mr. Representative, ouch. As an anime fan i take offense. Maybe a little more than an "official reprimand" is in order...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp-USKnPDbY

starcraft 2

So the University of Rochester runs an annual convention call SimCon for board and roleplaying games, and anime. That was this weekend, and during it the computer science students also put together a LAN party and starcraft tournament. I didn't play in the tournament, I haven't played SC in years, but I went and watched a few rounds which was fun. They had a starcraft 2 beta key up as the top prize! Also they had two beta counts playing head to head for people not in the tournament, so I got to play a few rounds of the starcraft 2 beta. The game is apparently a beta by blizzards standards, but by anyone else's it's exquisite. Anyone else excited for this game?

Thomas

Meme alert

Kim Jong-Il is brimming with confidence.

space 1889

I've been reading "Iron Council" by China Mieville which is modern and pretty fun steam punk, with some fantasy elements. I think so far my favorite bits have been the creatures, humans or animals augmented with iron and steam and clockwork, even other parts of animals. Anyway, it got me reading about steampunk in general and I bumped into a setting that I need to try. It's a role playing game called space 1889. Reading some reviews, apparently the rules of the game leave a little to be desired, but how cool is an ether propeller?

This too shall pass redux

OK Go seriously has too much fun with their music videos. Also, the NPR story on their departure from EMI because of this video.

hovercrafts.

This was on digg, so you may have seen it. but it's pretty neat anyway.

car-boat-plane.

Sit around all day...

...and watch videos on the internet.

Sitting causes cancer

Actually not joking.

New Gorillaz album

Listen to the whole thing on NPR

Stolen Descartes letter found

Back in the 1800s, some Italian mathematician stole a bunch of Descartes's letters from the Institut de France. So far, only 45 out of the 72 documents have resurfaced. Recently one of the letters was discovered in the special collections of a certain college in Pennsylvania, a place you may have heard of before...

Songs

MC Lars - True Player for Real

Legos = the best

Nathan should totally add this into his fallout game... which is totally going to happen some day.

Campaign ad

Perhaps the funniest campaign ad I've ever seen.

hey check out these neat websites

http://5z8.info/white-power-rides-upon-stallions-unstoppable_w0x4_hitler
http://5z8.info/trojan_h9z4_how-to-build-a-bomb
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http://5z8.info/torrentEverything_h8q3_friendster-of-sex

Dante's Internet

In case you wanted to know what hell looks like.

(Bonus points if you catch the science fiction reference.)

Hodgmania

If you haven't yet seen John Hodgeman's nerdtacular Whitehouse Correspondents Dinner speech, check it out!

Music Friday 2/12/10

Muse - Invincible

Unhappy Hipsters

Applying perceived cultural attitudes to lifestyles magazine copy.

Midweek music extra!

Here is the video for Hard n Phirm's fantastically mathematical song "Pi"

Music Video of the week - Feb 5

Barenaked Ladies - One Week

Metal sucks, Foam for the win

Some awesome science-y links for you science types out there...

btw...since I'm completely computer illiterate, how do you post a link using regular text? Cause thats cool, and I would like to learn how? Until then enjoy my links in the old fashioned way...copied and pasted.

article:
http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/02/01/researcher-creates-strongest-metal-foam-ever/

youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfFcs25KmMc

Animal Research

So I work in a lab at the university, and while we don't work with animals there are other labs in the building that do. And one of them posted the following poster in the kitchen, which I thought was hilarious. It's the Advanced Animal Directive, like the advanced medical directive only a terrible idea. The link is here. check out the directive there, it's a pdf otherwise I'd link it directly.

Music Video of the week - Jan 28

Flight of the Conchords - "Hurt Feelings"

I don't even know what to make of this

Read this here paragraph.

Music Video of the week - Jan 22

Okay, this one is only a music video in the sense that it is music in a youtube video, but it is still fun. Rodeohead by Hard and Phirm, a bluegrass melody of Radiohead songs.

NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

British police officers go sledding on riot shields!

Read This

you all should check out http://www.lettersofnote.com

A sample:


1. In his laboratory, the last man on earth worked furiously. He had only a few moments left.
2. Giant cataclysms were shaking the reeling planet, destroying mankind. It was in its last days, dying...
3. The last man placed his infant babe within a small time-machine he had completed, launching it as ---
4. --- the laboratory walls caved-in upon him.
5. The time-vehicle flashed back thru the centuries, alighting in the primitive year, 1935 A. D. A passing motorist sighted the metal cylinder...
6. ...and upon investigating discovered the sleeping babe within.
7. The infant was placed in an orphanage. The first day, it playfully bent its metal bed out of shape. The astounded attendants, of course, did not realize they were caring for a child whose physical structure was millions of years advanced from their own.
8. The babe, named Clark Kent, was a physical wonder. At the age of five, when an older boy sought to bully him, Clark sent him flying thru the air.
9. Clark's colossal strength was a source of wonder and pleasure to him. He found, at twelve, that he could easily shatter the world's high jump and dash records.
10. His powers increased unbelievably. When maturity had been attained, Kent discovered he could leap over a ten story building, raise unheard-of weights, run as fast as an express train, and that nothing less than a bursting shell could penetrate his tough skin.
11. & 12. Early, Kent decided he must turn his titanic strength into channels that would benefit mankind. And so was created SUPERMAN, champion of the oppressed, the physical marvel who had sworn to devote his existence to helping those in need!

New project

Here is a home made phaser!

Music Video of the week - Jan 15

OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass"

Google takes a new approach to China(!)

Wow.

In response to cyber attacks on the Gmail accounts of Chinese civil rights advocates, Google is no longer going to offer censored search in China and therefore will probably shut down google.cn entirely. I'm surprised that even Google would do this.

Update:

Triple wow. An official slap in the face to the Chinese government. (If the link is not working when you read this, it was a google.cn/images search for "tianamen square", which previously had all of the tank pictures taken out.)

Update:

It's officially a thing.

Mirror Matter

This is a pretty neat Wikipedia article pertaining to dark matter.

It's not Anti-Matter, it's Mirror Matter.

Harold and Kumar, anyone?

BBC story recounts how two British nationals spontaneously traveled to Afghanistan and wound up in Guantanamo Bay. Turns out their primary reason for going there was to score some pot.

HKO now in Beta

You know you want in on this.

The Good, The Bad, And The Clever

These snow sculptures from Northern China are pretty damn good, mostly!