The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer (link via kottke)

Now this is just plain nifty marketing. From a post at meryl.net comes twenty movie scenes recreated using only office stationery It’s a game and you have to guess each one. I nabbed fifteen of them and am kicking myself for not getting four of the five I missed. Give it a go and let me know how you did.

Amazing! According to this test I am an English Genius. It was not a surprise to see that I scored a perfect 100%, actually, on the advanced sections. What was shocking was that I scored in the embarrassingly-low 80s on what were supposed to be the simple sections. That, and the fact that I could perform under 90% on any section and still be considered a “genius” by this test. I wonder if that’s because I did so well or because so many others have done so poorly.

(I don’t know that “English Genius” is how I would describe someone with good skillz in the ol’ vocab department, though. Doesn’t that phrase just make you think that I’m a genius from Merrye Olde England?)

All that time spent in Model United Nations in high school did not go completely to waste. It only took me about two minutes to complete this map of the Middle East game. Bahrain and Armenia threw me for a while there, but I got them eventually. This is really a great teaching tool. I’d be interested in learning how long it would take the average 20-something in the U.S. to complete a game like this of the 50 states.

It’s true. You can find everything you could ever imagine on the internet. You can find many things that you never would have imagined, too. I never would have thought to program a bunch of video games using form submit buttons, but someone did. Quite nifty. A high nift factor. Niftalicious.

Note: My keyboard goes through a PS/2 adapter and then a USB dongle before connecting to my laptop. This is my excuse for only managing a 6.83 in the 50 yard button dash.

There is nothing like a completely useless, meaningless toy to brighten your day.
<big grin>Thanks, Zannah!</big grin>

I finally took the What’s Your Flavor? quiz at eMode and it told me, “Yum! You’re cinnamon. Explosive and utterly red-hot, you’re as tasty as they come.”

I just discovered - after visiting Brendan’s On-Line Anagram Generator - that you can rearrange the letters in my dad’s name to spell Animal Wiggle.

Want to try and best me at a game of digital Rock, Paper, Scissors? Go on, I dare ya.

Hot, Hot, Hot
Getcherbuttrightouttatown! Thank you. Thank you very much. No, really. I love the applause, but … oh. No, you’re too kind. Yes. Thank you. It is a wonderful joy to have finally won The Quote Contest at re-run. Go on, now. You’ll have to start playing now, you realize? <grin>

First one to name all the references gets a free bling t-shirt.

• “How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?”
• And a thousand thousand slimy things
  Lived on; and so did I.
• Everywhere people stare
  Each and every day
• “You say there’s a horse in your bathroom, and all you can do is stand there naming Beatles songs?”
• ‘Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.
• From childhood’s hour I have not been
  As others were - I have not seen
  As others saw - I could not bring
  My passions from a common spring
• I’m in the sky tonight
  There I can keep by your side
  Watching the whole world wind around and round
• Well, you know I need a steam shovel mama to keep away the dead
  I need a dump truck mama to unload my head

I think I can win this scavenger hunt without even leaving my desk.

Jason, link-finder lackey, sends me The Worst Nintendo Game Endings Ever.

Lifted from Snoop Duck: The Love Calculator was not very nice to most of the women that popped into my head:

• Sheryl Crow - 12%
• Venus Williams - 26%
• Sylvia Gagne - 14%
• Firda Beka - 59%
• Britney Spears - 75%
• Tori Amos - 19%
• Gwen Stefani - 74%
• Madonna - 77%
• Eva Gardner - 16%

but … woo hoo! …

• Oprah Winfrey - 91%
• Also, interestingly enough:
  Eddie Vedder - 77%
• Dave Grohl - 67%
• Tom Petty - 91%