Change the world

10/15/2004 Dr Wingnut Waste Time Comments Off on Change the world
  • 27 photos that changed the world (most depicting not-fun situations): Link
  • A SP-Mologue by the one and only Ze Frank, Gel 2003 speaker: Link Many more fun things on Ze’s site: Link
  • Sort of interesting – Google images quiz. See the images, guess the search query. Link
  • Speaking of search fun, Steve Nelson reminded me about his site: Link
  • For geeks only: In honor of the new Star Wars box set, and the release of the outstanding making-of documentary “Empire of Dreams” (now playing on A&E), here’s a “scientific” comparison of the weapon systems in “Star Wars” and “Star Trek.” No offense to the Kirk-or-Picard set, but I think we all know who wins THIS battle: Link
  • David Teten points us to this very cool map hack, which overlays a street map (as you move your cursor) over an aerial photo of the Tower of London. It would be more useful if the background was the street map, and the overlay was the photo, but it’s still cool: Link
  • Fly these colors all over the screen (use your arrow keys):Link
  • Free virtual-bridge-building contest: Link
  • Jodi Moore points us to someone who writes back to spammers: Link (Choose any of the letters under “The Victims” dropdown menu.)
  • The late, and beloved, Richard Avedon’s photos in the New Yorker: Link
  • Grated Fanny. Click on links to left to see more “rude food” (heads-up, much of the humor is spicy).. Link
  • Funny/bizarre Japanese commercial: Link
  • More of the same here: Link
  • Self-explanatory domain: Link
  • Finally, Ian Stokes suggests the following “call center therapy”: “If annoyed with a call centre, go to this web site – Link– and input text such as this: ‘Your customer service is not helpful. I want to speak to a real person. I don’t want to listen to a robot.'” Also fun to select non-English languages and hear the various accents.
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