“Flying Witch Arcade Game Prototype with Broom”
Anybody want to take bets on whether this will lead to a Harry Potter Quiddich arcade game? 😉
Archive of posts filed under the Amusing/Interesting/Appalling category.
Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
“Ig Nobel Prize: Vanilla flavoring from cow dung”
Darn, I missed the free public tasting yesterday.
“Pink, white katydids found in Osaka”
If you don’t believe that marketing departments are taking over everywhere, check out Mother Nature’s new line of products.
Pink Trinkets Annoy Women
Apparently women don’t care for pink tech toys, despite the fact that it has been proven that girls prefer pink. Of course, I’m writing this just after GoddessJ picked up a pair of pink ear-bud headphones for her new MP3 player. Apparently she’s one of the 9% of women who do like pink tech toys.
Onion Attack And Literal Interpretation of Myth
Be careful when visiting Iowa. This fellow was arrested there… for throwing an onion at his wife. While you’re at it, be careful endorsing unpopular thoughts there too. Un-frickin’-believable.
“Mech Warrior casemod”
My friend Don, Mech Warrior aficionado, is going to freak when he sees this.
“In defence of computer games”
I’m not into Halo 3 itself, but this article (thanks, Joshua) reinforces what I’ve been saying about computer gaming for the last couple decades, back when “multi-player” meant two players using modems at best, or a hot-seat arrangement on a single system.
“Czech falls off motorbike, wakes up with British accent”
This is a fascinating story in it’s own right, but I really love the last sentence of it, on someone else with a similar problem: “It might sound funny to others, but suddenly thinking you are French is terrifying.” I couldn’t agree more. 😉
Speaking of Frivolous Lawsuits…
…oh good heavens. And I thought numerology went the way of phrenology within the last couple hundred years. If this is the kind of thing that anyone with money has to put up with, I’m tempted to abandon Project X now, before it can make any.
Music Appreciation
I’ve just finished loading our CD collection onto the new hard drive. The grand total: eight hundred thirty-six albums. 41 gigabytes of data. I could listen to it for a month straight, twenty-four hours a day, and still never hear the same track twice. Some of them were already loaded onto my desktop system, but …