Posts Tagged: games

Office Supply Movies

Posted and filed under games, movies.

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… Read more »

Speed Stacks

Posted and filed under sports.

Are you as surprised as me that this is not on ESPN right after the poker and billiards championships? Apparently there is a new “sport” sweeping the country by storm: Cup Stacking, in which teams attempt to stack — and unstack (maybe that’s the “sport” part?) — specially designed plastic cups. File under: Decline of… Read more »

The Commonly Confused Words Test

Posted and filed under games, writing.

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… Read more »

The Middle East

Posted and filed under games.

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… Read more »

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Posted and filed under comedy.

I love the design at The Official Rock Paper Scissors Society. This is quite a handy resource if you employ this mode of decision-making often. There are tutorials here for beginners, as well as more detailed, complicated gambits for the professional RPS strategist. They have their own membership cards! And swag, swag, swag … I… Read more »

Hypnotic Flash

Posted and filed under WebLinks.

If you have a few minutes to spare this morning, take a look at this mind-boggling Flash artwork. It’s hypnotizing and beautiful and entirely captivating. Move the mouse. Try not to fall into the monitor. (Flash required, obviously.) link via leuschke.org

Pen Spinning

Posted and filed under WebLinks.

Remember when Val Kilmer was sitting in the lecture when the guys first got to Miramar in Top Gun? He kept walking his pen through his fingers and right away you just knew he was a jerk. If you ever wanted to learn how to look so brooding / arrogant / dextrous, there’s a web… Read more »

Googlewhacking

Posted and filed under WebLinks.

If it’s possible to fall head-over-heels in love with a meme, I’ve done it. Googlewhacking: The Search for The One It took me a few tries. I’ll admit I sat staring at the screen for a bit. Google found thousands and thousands of what I considered to be incredibly strange juxtapositions. esoteric amplitude? 2,250 hits… Read more »

PimpWar.com

Posted and filed under WebLinks.

“PimpWar.com, the only place online where you can put on your leopard print hat and get your pimp on. PimpWar is a browser based game where you play the part of a ruthless pimp on a quest for power and money. You will become a master at the art of pimping your hoes, commanding your… Read more »

AD&D

Posted and filed under My Life, WebLinks.

I can’t remember where I found this link, but here are my personal AD&D statistics: Str: 13, Int: 13, Wis: 17, Dex: 13, Con: 14, Chr: 17 I never really played AD&D but for a little while when I was an early teenager I bought a bunch of the books and created games and maps… Read more »