Once again, the best news source: the Doo-Dah News Ticker. Now more than ever during election seasno.

For those who couldn't be there: Wil Wheaton's performance at Comicon/Comic-Con/whadeva.

You know that Mario clone video where the level looks like World 1-1 but everything's a trap?

On this 4-ch post about the game, there's a link to the video, a link to the downloadable version of the game, and a complete list of all the Japanese text in the game, i.e. the taunts that appear next to an enemy when it kills you ( Read more... )

DOUGLAS ADAMS!  Now that I have your attention:

First of all, the Royal Institute Christmas Lecture for Children, in 1991, was delivered by Richard Dawkins, at the point where people were over the controversy of "The Selfish Gene", and he hadn't become cranky enough to write "The God Delusion" yet. Oxford professor Richard Dawkins presents a ( Read more... )

If you're watching James Van Praagh and John Edward on their upcoming Larry King Live appearance, be sure to print out this Cold Reading Bingo card beforehand.

It turns out that Super Mario Galaxy probably won't arrive at EB Games until tomorrow. So instead, I'm going to trot out this old gem: Swear, the classic Snake game, played out in non-Euclidean space. Play on a sphere, a torus, and all manner of strange manifolds ( Read more... )

BoingBoing gives us the Ten Commandments of Mafiosi and Cowboys, respectively.

Has anyone here ever belonged to an organization that had a code of conduct spelled out in this way? Apart from the original Ten Commandments, of course.

So last night I was at daemonx's house and we were all in his room watching internet videos, and we came across some misheard lyric videos ( Read more... )

An oddly appropriate bash.org quote: the other day i found out that my Uni's fire evacuation policy for ppl with wheelchairs is to 'push them into a room, close the door, escape and then give the room number to the firemen'

Fold your own Pigasus, the flying pig.

I had a glass Pigasus I bought at one of Tempe's street festivals. I wonder where it is, and whether it survived the move. (Ed: It was still attached to the hanging backsets, which are hanging once again.)

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If you can be trusted with scissors, you can also make Portal papercraft.