NotesHaven’t most April fools jokes got a bit silly lately? They’re more just funny than actually fooling you. This year, I thought I’d raise the bar with a completely fake MMO Asteroids, but I could never imagine so many of you would be taken in. I’m so sorry. FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesCartoonists, illustrators and other artists have used nerds to mean eraser crumbs for more than sixty years. When I worked at newspapers in the sixties, we had a special brush for getting rid of nerds before inking a drawing because the tiny pieces of rubber would cause blots and blobs on the art.Unfurl
NotesAs a junior member of ARCHIVE TEAM you must team up with JASON SCOTT to destroy a mutant monster made out of Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson! Learn to type! Save website! 256 Colors! Not safe! MAC/WINDOWS/LINUX MAYBE. MADE IN REN'PYUnfurl
Notes<blockquote>According to a post on Geekosystem, BioWare’s new MMO allows players to dance by entering different commands—which, apparently, is something that other MMOs let you do as well, a thing I didn’t know was true. But what sets SWTOR apart from those other games is that, while your on-screen avatar is boogying with the “/getdown command”, your enemies “can’t maintain focus,” meaning you can’t get hit.</blockquote>
This is not a bug they should have fixed :)FeedUnfurl
NotesI suppose we could blame The Curse on The Fall, but then this phylogeny would suggest that Adam and Eve were part of a population of squirrel-like proto-primates living in the early Paleocene. That’s rather unbiblical, though, and what did the bats and elephant shrews do to deserve this?FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes Turns out that our headlining DJ last night, Alan Braxe, has a bladder control problem. That's the generous explanation for why he decided, in the middle of his DJ set, to turn around and piss on our back-wall curtain instead of using the restroom which is twenty feet away. FeedUnfurl
NotesSometimes, just to screw with people, I will rewrite .bashrc to contain only:
echo "Python 2.6.6 (r266:84374, Aug 31 2010, 11:00:51)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information."
export PS1=">>> "
trap bashtrap INT
bashtrap() {
echo -n "
KeyboardInterrupt"
}Unfurl
NotesThroughout its 224-year history, America has had many channels of discourse, its citizens expressing themselves by means ranging from pamphlets to protests, newspaper editorials to televised debates. In recent years, however, a significant new avenue of expression has emerged: "Peeing Calvin" decals.Unfurl
NotesOne week, George came in and typed up his piece, dropped it at the editor's desk, and went off into the night. The editor looked at the copy and it was utter gibberish. Lots of consonants. Remembering that George was a touch-typist, the editor took the piece, put his hands on the keyboard, but moved them one key to the side. The piece was perfect, except George had started one key overUnfurl
Notes Do you like shoveling snow? Then stop reading this and go back to your pushups and granola because you are not someone that I want to talk to.Unfurl
NotesHere at GeekDad we review a lot of products — books, toys, gadgets, software — and I know it’s impossible for most parents to actually afford all of the cool stuff that gets written up. Heck, most of us can’t afford it either, and we’re envious of the person who scored a review copy of a cool board game or awesome gizmo. (Disclosure: that person is probably me.) So while we love telling you about all the cool stuff that’s out there, I understand that as parents we all have limited budgets and we sometimes need help narrowing down our wishlists.Unfurl
Notes If we had to imagine our dream DIY project chances are it would involve Arduino, Twitter and, of course, cats. How we'd combine those things we're not sure, but we'll admit to being big fans of Samuel Cox's eSleeper, which turns a hollowed-out eMac into a bed for his feline. Inside the shell is an Arduino Ethernet connected to an IR sensor, some LEDs and a sound shield. When the cat breaks the infrared beam it triggers the iconic Mac chime and turns on a series color-shifting LEDs for a little mood lighting. From there the clock starts ticking. When little Fluffy (Captain Whiskers? Matlock? Penny? Greg?) decides she's had enough napping and leaves the white plastic cocoon, tripping the IR sensor again, a random phrase is tweeted, along with the length of the cat's siesta. Check out the video after the break to see the eSleeper in all its adorable DIY glory. FeedUnfurl
NotesKeep in mind that Valve isn't above trolling its own fans -- Gabe Newell could have a 50-square-foot room at Valve studios stuffed full of Half-Life 3 t-shirts, foam hands and head crabs to keep the excitement alive, and a lot of empty hard drive space for the actual game. Nonetheless, @Ekanaut, the marketing man for Monday Night Combat studio Uber Entertainment, spotted this Half-Life 3 shirt "worn by a Valve employee" at Seattle's Eastside Industry Night.FeedUnfurl
NotesThere's nothing better than a wild UFO conspiracy theory — unless it's a UFO theory that wraps in a debunked comet, the Catholic Church, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
...
So will YOU be ready when Jesus of Borg arrives?
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Notes@fchimero: Things no one ever says: I wish I had more ways to passively communicate my status and activity across a multiplicity of social networks.Unfurl
NotesThis monstrosity is called a Banana Candle, which consists of a banana stuck in a pineapple slice, with mayonnaise and a maraschino cherry on top. And it is a crime against nature. If someone brought this into my home, I would slap them, and then burn my house down and salt the ground where it stood. This photo is the reason flocks of birds inexplicably die and fall to the ground. Goats and gangrene, who approved this picture??? Imagine my horror – I actually touched this book.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesPoe's Law is an axiom suggesting that it's difficult to distinguish between parodies of religious fundamentalism and its genuine proponents, since they both seem equally insane. For example, some conservatives consider noted homophobe Fred Phelps to be so over-the-top that they argue he's a "deep cover liberal" trying to discredit more mainstream homophobes. FeedUnfurl
NotesPoe's Law is an axiom suggesting that it's difficult to distinguish between parodies of religious fundamentalism and its genuine proponents, since they both seem equally insane. For example, some conservatives consider noted homophobe Fred Phelps to be so over-the-top that they argue he's a "deep cover liberal" trying to discredit more mainstream homophobes.
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NotesLast night both my wife and child were out for the evening and I was alone with a Lord of the Rings movie marathon on Encore, and access to Twitter. What happened next will be revealed, behind the cut.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesIt is a called a cherpumple, and it represents all that remains good and right in this fallen world. Pastry chef David Lowery made this 21 lb. 10 oz. concoction for guests at the Grand Geneva Resort in Wisconsin. I feel a rekindling of hope for the human race because we can still do great things like this.FeedUnfurl
NotesWhile Lopez, Fiat, the automotive firm’s PR people, and its Detroit ad agency would have consumers believe that the star deigned to return home to film a low-speed pilgrimage through the gritty streets of her hometown, she actually never set foot in the Bronx during the filming of the Fiat spots.Unfurl
NotesIn the name of due diligence, TPM called up UC Davis to make sure we identified the same pepper spray police used on protesters last week. It’s the same brand, though the police use a 7 percent formula. It’s not clear whether this formula matches exactly what the police used.Unfurl
NotesTo back up your claim that pepper spray is a food product, please consume as much of it as was sprayed on each protestor's face, in one sitting, on camera at Fox News. You may mix the spray with one serving of food or drink, as I am not a sadist. Then, please relate the effects to your audience.Unfurl
NotesThe μWave is a hack involving an Arduino and a TouchPad taped to a microwave door, which plays YouTube clips perfectly matched to your cooking time. This Frankenstein uses the Arduino to send data from the microwave's seven-segment displays to a web server, which finds a highly-rated YouTube video of the right length. The web client running in the browser treats you to a video clip that ends right when your food is done, then optionally tweets or sends a text message. The hack was created by students at the University of Pennsylvania, where it won first place in the PennApps Hackathon. There are no stated plans for commercialization, but the team will present the project to Google as part of the grand prize. If Mountain View announces a microwave any time soon, we'll know to expect great things.FeedUnfurl
NotesIf there’s one arthropod with an unfortunately bad rap with the human world, it’s the spider. Generally reclusive and non-threatening to people, spiders eat all the creatures that annoy humans (mosquitoes, flies, roaches) while occupying the empty crevices of human shelter. And yet their very presence makes the average person go after these benevolent creatures with a fury. And so is the sad world of the Misunderstood Spider:FeedEmbedUnfurl
Gotcha! Fake MMO Asteroids April fool :) | Seb Lee-Delisle
World Wide Words: Nerd
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fuck yeah dementia!!1!
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Cats as HTTP status codes
DNA Lounge: 10-Dec-2011 (Sat) Wherein urine sounds better with you.
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The Two-Fisted, One-Eyed Misadventures Of Sportswriting's Last Badass
eSleeper combines cats, Arduino and Twitter in an eMac shell (video) -- Engadget
Apparently Valve employees have Half-Life 3 t-shirts | Joystiq
When Used Books Attack: Banana Edition | BOOK RIOT
Poe's Law - RationalWiki
Lorem ipsum on French wine label
Lord of the Tweets – Whatever
A Cherry Pie, an Apple Pie and a Pumpkin Pie, Each Cooked Inside a Separate Cake, and Then All Cooked Together inside Another Cake
Bronx Cheer For J. Lo's Phony Fiat Commercial | The Smoking Gun
Petition: Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly: Eat or drink a full dose of pepper spray on national television. | Change.org/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/13883141/uwave.1419963132.png)
Microwave hack uses Arduino and TouchPad to play perfectly-timed YouTube videos while you cook | The Verge
The Sad World Of The Misunderstood House Spider | Runt Of The Web
