Posts tagged “games”
Office Supply 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
Speed Stacks
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
The Commonly Confused Words Test
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
The Middle East
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
Sony Playstation 2 Info
A lost post
Rock, Paper, Scissors
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
Hypnotic Flash
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
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
Googlewhacking
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