Interesting Links for 26-02-2014

[andrewducker]

• Are You Using The Word 'Ironic' Correctly?
  (tags: Irony language )
• How the World's Next Tallest Building Will Be Built
  (tags: architecture building technology construction )
• Sometimes it's harder to be bad at something: Finishing Super Mario Bros with only 500 pts.
  (tags: mario games video )
• National Flags made from their countries' traditional

Comments

[bart_calendar]

That jump in 8-1 is insane.

[andrewducker]

Dammit, forgot to credit you for that one, because yeah, it's very impressive!

[bart_calendar]

The way he deals with the turtles with hammers is also pretty cool. It's nearly impossible not to kill them. (That said it never occurred to me to wait them out instead of jumping over/on them.)

[andrewducker]

I have to admit to hating those guys. They drive me crazy because they're hard to jump onto.

[danieldwilliam]

Replication Lab has to be hosted by Richard Hammond and Amanda Byram.

[simont]

I went to a party a year or two ago with a buffet table, on which there was a huge pile of spoons when what I actually needed was something to cut cheese with. It struck me as amusing that, although one might plausibly have argued that that wasn't really an ironic occurrence when Alanis Morrissette sang it, now that she has sung it it becomes genuinely ironic when the same situation occurs in reality :-)

[andrewducker]

The thing is, I think that most of the irony in "Ironic" counts as "Cosmic Irony".

Spent your whole life being afraid of planes, finally get persuaded to take one because the odds are that you'll be fine - and then that one crashes? Gods clearly fucking with you.

Desperately in need of a knife, burst into room looking for one, and discover rack after rack of spoons, but no knives? Gods clearly fucking with you.