Random internet links of interest

These were the best ones I got. I really want Commander Sink Crank and Sonic Fighters Ice Cream Park in my collection.

FINE

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...rcy_church_s_fresco_suing_for_royalties_.html

So how do you explain how different your drawing was from my drawing?

Magic, I tell you. MAGIC!!

What drawing? I just get questions.

Finish it.

Ah, I failed the simplest test.


Nifty.

WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED THERE? It guessed my drawing exactly :(
Fuck you, Byzantium! I'm a fucking AI researcher and I didn't see that one coming.

Very nicely done.

well I did the first test thing, gave me some nonsense about top 20percent. Then when I tried to continue my adblocker futzed it. And it wanted me to log in to reddit or facebook. Neither of those I have. This is the sort of thing that TSW was doing pre launch though.

The percentages keep narrowing, it's part of the marketing and has no validity whatsoever. You are not part of the top 20%. There's no need to log on to any other site, just click 'continue anonymously' which is an option right below the social networking options.

It's worth it.

I did an actual picture I drew as a child, a chef with a big hat.

Nice trick, it breaks down when you see that

I've never heard of this fellow before, he definitely qualifies as a real life, "Most interesting man in the world": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranulph_Fiennes

From the responses following this I wish I'd finished it, though I stopped after test 3 which not only was I not sure what I was doing, but so far as I could tell did nothing and I played with a slider for no reason. Second test seems to be based on speed alone. I liked the first test though, weird but fun, though I wouldn't be surprised if the text at the end is entirely random.

EDIT: And I did finish it. Nifty.

Cats bouncing. That is all.

Needs more cat-bell!

I am laughing so hard I'm crying. Best rundown of "homosexual secrets" ever. Bwahahahahaha.

Is that real? Please tell me it's a parody site because otherwise they are too stupid to breed.

(I'm on my tablet with a noisy tween in the room so I had to exit out quickly)

According to Wikipedia it's a satirical site. Phew.

Thank goodness! I figured it had to be but sometimes you never know...

Today is the day:
http://ergofabulous.org/luther/

Ghosts of History.

A woman takes historical photos of places and combines them with modern photos from the same angle.

Kittycam.

I like to keep this open as I wait for summons or invasions in Dark Souls. Nothing soothes the PvPing heart like kittens.

Senate Charts

The infinite jukebox (seems to require Chrome or Safari) http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html

This morning's distraction: fonts and typefaces used in Dungeons & Dragons from OD&D-3.5.

I was amused that Basic D&D used Futura and later Helvetica - goddamn hipsters!, I thought - then I wondered if it wasn't their use in the 70s/80s that ingrained them in the nerd/hipster consciousness.

I've got copies of the original and revised edition AD&D manuals at home, and I was just relating how awesome the original layouts were with the Friz Quadrata Bold headers in blue, clean text layouts, etc.

http://boston.eater.com/archives/2012/11/28/pigalle-to-customer-you-must-enjoy-vomit-you-btch.php

Customer posts bad review on facebook wall. Owner/Chef goes fucking apeshit. Then deletes posts. Then continues to be crazy. Hilarity ensues.

Wow, chef is a real twat, huh? What's the strategy here, "mad customer making my restaurant look like shit on FB, better prove her right?"

It's hilarious to watch. The latest post has now been deleted and they're basically deleting any and all posts by other people as they come in.

Cool mashup of instagram + google street view:

http://sm.rutgers.edu/thebeat/?q=powerlineporn

I've set you guys up with the hashtag for cool powerline pictures!
Safe for work!

NOW YOU TOO CAN BE A SUPER 1337 HACKER LIKE IN THE MOVIES

http://www.hackertyper.com

(ugly instructions image under the spoiler)

It's possible that no one else will find this funny, but...

On a recent episode of How Did This Get Made, Paul Scheer interviewed Human Giant-cofounder Jason Woliner about his new business, Jeshirt.com, a site where you can go to get pictures of Jay Leno's face superimposed over the iconic image of Che Guevara. Reading his tumblr sets you off on his adventure in small business, personal failure, drug dealing, fleeing from the law and possibly murder.



Tumblrs aren't as good as a lot of blog software, so there's no easy way to read it chronologically. So on the above link scroll all the way down and just read up.

This whole thing has been some of the funniest stuff I've read all week. And hell, if you look at the shirt and actually want one, they're apparently available at rock bottom prices.

It was a pretty funny story but once Leonard showed up it became to crazy to be believable. Still well crafted though.

It's not really a link but I couldn't think of another place to put it. This guy has been doing these each year for a couple of years now, this year's is quite good!

That guy has some serious editing skills, especially the part from 1:33 to 2:48 is amazing. He also has great taste in music. I remember him using Ratatat in his first one, and C2C is supercatchy.

http://estateagents.tumblr.com/

As an aside, how many other professions (other than entertainment) can you think of where the practitioner is so keen to plaster their mug on everything? The consensus in the fair housing advocacy community is that real estate agents market themselves racially.

Law? Personal injury attorneys come to mind.

http://www.boohbah.tv/zone.html
http://breadfish.de/

Finally went through the archives for this, expecting to see my mother-in-law since she sometimes has crazy 90's hair. Instead I found my Grandmother-in-law :(