Link Thread

[Sa'ar Chasm]

This thing will take a word and show you another word it might look like from the side if the letters were constructed in a certain.

My name works out to Shame, and "Saar" turns into anal. I think this thing has it in for me.

[Zeke]

For all that he runs a "radical journal", I gotta hand it to this Withiel guy. If <s>Samuel Marchbanks</s> Robertson Davies were still alive, these are the kind of complaint letters (http://www.zen20775.zen.co.uk/letters.html) he'd write.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.xkcd.com/549/

XKCD takes on The Princess Bride. Must be read to be believed.

[Zeke]

Via fortemaster (a fellow Ottawan and fan of the site), here's the memoirs of the guy who designed the decon chamber (http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/blue-stripe-decon.php?page=1).

Also, my new favourite blog is Save Your Generation (http://hilarytheguy.blogspot.com/) by pistols at dawn. To see why, scroll down to where it says "labels".

[NAHTMMM]

Well, if we're gonna bring up RPG stuff, it doesn't look like "1250 things Mr. Welch can no longer do during an RPG" (http://theglen.livejournal.com/16735.html) has been linked here yet.

And then there's the Post-Mortem Hall of Fame (http://users.tellurian.com/dano/hallfame.html).

[PointyHairedJedi]

Maybe this is dangerous, and maybe you've already heard of it, but I present... Dwarf Fortress (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress), quite possibly the most complexly thought out game ever created. The graphics are basic, to say the least (though if ASCII doesn't take your fancy there are fan created tilesets available) and the learning curve is atrocious... but if you can get to the end of Wikipedia's article without at least feeling intrigued then you are no true nerd.

[mudshark]

I don't think I've seen this posted here yet: Drex Files (http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/)

[MaverickZer0]

This has got to be the only place on the internet not linked to TV Tropes.

<a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main">And now it isn't.</a>

[Nate the Great]

I coulda sworn we already linked to that. In any event...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NateTheGreat

My Contributor Page. I hope you don't mind me using the quote, mudshark. It's a favorite of mine, and is quickly becoming my official motto.

[Chancellor Valium]

Maybe this is dangerous, and maybe you've already heard of it, but I present... Dwarf Fortress (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress), quite possibly the most complexly thought out game ever created. The graphics are basic, to say the least (though if ASCII doesn't take your fancy there are fan created tilesets available) and the learning curve is atrocious... but if you can get to the end of Wikipedia's article without at least feeling intrigued then you are no true nerd.

Is this an appropriate point at which to mention Progress Quest and then go on to praise Planescape, KotOR II and NWN2: Mask of the Betrayer?

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8gA6xDofLQ&feature=related

If any of you like Whose Line Is It Anyway, here's a game where they make a Geordi LaForge joke.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWXcDZNgOWs&feature=related

Somebody took the normal swords out of the Inigo/Rugen duel from The Princess Bride and put in lightsabres! Sound effects and everything!

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGQ20yDDVzQ&feature=related

A group of students put on a performance of the original Super Mario Brothers on stage. Complete with sound effects, music, and props for all of the enemies and powerups.

[Nate the Great]

http://xkcd.com/567/

Uh, is there an electrical guy out there that can explain this one to me?

[NAHTMMM]

Heheh.

It's not electrical so much as perceptual. ;) When an atom changes charge, it's usually because it loses or gains electrons. Protons tend to just sit around in the nucleus.

When an atom has one more electron than it has protons, it has a negative charge . . . but it presumably got that way by means of an electron being added to it . . . but that means its charge dropped from zero to -1 . . .

People are not used to associating "negative" or a "decrease" with "addition". ;) But they didn't know about electrons and protons back in Franklin's day, of course, and so he called one positive and the other negative without any knowledge of what was really going on. As it happens, he guessed "wrong".


[edit]I think that some engineers -- electrical engineers? engineers in the armed forces? -- use the opposite convention, calling electrons positive and protons negative. This means that their currents flow opposite to everyone else's currents! :p But then, they use J to signify a current in an equation, whereas everyone else uses I. So they're just kinda weird like that. :)

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHX2TJkG-gY

The latest Trek 11 TV spot.

PNQ: Does "This is not your father's Star Trek'' feel insulting to anyone else? 'Cause I find it very insulting.

[Zeke]

It felt insulting when they said it about ENT too. It's also literally untrue -- this IS my father's Star Trek. They went back to the same characters because they knew it would sell. Kinda hypocritical to pretend otherwise.

In other news: Fighting fire with fire, stream-of-consciousness style. (http://cutthroatapathy.com/comics/58/)

[Nate the Great]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8037688.stm

It's official; Duke Nukem Forever is dead. For ten years I've paid tribute to the King of Vaporware, for ten years I've been tormented by those three words that haunt the dreams of every Duke fan, "when it's done."

Furthermore, I've been a fan of Apogee/3D Realms for much longer, so to hear that they've gone under depresses me greatly.

[MaverickZer0]

http://www.bunny-comic.com/

Like xkcd, but daily, funnier, less geeky, and original. With bunnies.

[Zeke]

Bunny's a fun comic. The size of the archives is intimidating, but since it's a gag panel comic, you don't really have to read them all (unless you're some sort of near-neurotic completist... cough).

ShadowBent (http://www.shadowbent.com/) is an interesting sketch blog. I found it today while looking up a Ray Bradbury story (as I've noted before, he's probably my all-time favourite sf writer). Brian, the blogger, has done a sketch for each story in Bradbury's classic The Illustrated Man. His style is very much like that of Joe Mugnaini, a friend of Bradbury's who did the official illustrations for some of his books. If you've read the stories, the comment threads are worth checking out too.

And another thing: Kriegsaffe No. 9's reflections on doors (http://kriegsaffeno9.deviantart.com/art/Enter-the-Scary-Door-20193363). (K#9 is a guy I became familiar with through his extremely bizarre Azumanga Daioh fanworks. He's into Cthulhu and whatnot.)

[Nate the Great]

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0507/1224246059241.html

Long story short: Someone dies, and a Wikipedia editor invents a quote from the deceased. This fake quote is used in newspapers around the world. No citation was offered or sought. Sheesh, you'd think people would know to double-check facts for newspaper articles.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RouXygRcRC4&feature=related

One of the best Rube Goldberg contraptions I've ever seen.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30846812/from/RSS/

Archie to finally choose between Betty and Veronica? That'll end well. Incidentally, one online poll is 80% in favor of Betty. What a shock.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wus6Hp664XI

Randomguy puts the Marvel and DC characters into a spoof of Star Trek 11. From the studio that brought you I'm A Marvel and I'm a D.C.!

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUjDq67nBCA

A compilation of LOLCatz set to "What's New Pussycat?" How long can YOU hold out before the cuteness overloads your brain?

[Zeke]

I love that latest Wikipedia hoax. The site is enormously useful, but that seems to make us increasingly blind to its severe limitations.

Speaking of vision, here are the three winners (http://www.aip.org/isns/reports/2009/051309visualillusion.html) of a recent optical illusion contest, including one which may explain why curve balls look curvier from the batter's point of view.

[Nate the Great]

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/

One of my favorites. Full props to the Nostalgia Critic and all of his cronies. Watch Linkara's review of Star Trek #1 (a comic set after Wrath of Khan), it's great.

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/4114-star-trek-1

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRAUlK8_2VE&feature=rec-HM-r2

I'm a sucker for the Mac/PC ads, and this is a fun one.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JABTWqkJH8Y&feature=related

The classic Weird Al song E-Bay set to clips from Voyager. Very well done, I must say.

[ijdgaf]

http://www.jandrewedits.com/

If peoples here don't already watch these, they probably should.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hYGkqc1gqE

It's the third anniversary of Yu-gi-oh The Abridged Series, so it's time to party!

[Nate the Great]

http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

The Bible translated into lolcatz-speak. Just to show we're not the weirdest site around...

[Nate the Great]

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/277296

A flash game parodying The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Will Anju shoot the real Kafei, or Link pretending to be Kafei? Or will she take the epic third option?

[Nate the Great]

http://xkcd.com/626/

As a huge math geek, this one just cracked me up. Nice shades, too.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGs9THQnZec

I didn't know about this one. A guy on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire wins with style; using his phone lifeline to tell his dad that he's about to win.

[MaverickZer0]

Now that guy is just classy. I love his tone when he's doing it.

"Hey dad, I don't really need your help. Just wanted to tell you I'm about to win the million."

*ten solid seconds of cheering ensues*

[mudshark]

http://www.jandrewedits.com/

If peoples here don't already watch these, they probably should.
I've watched a few. They're pretty amusing, so far.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.cinemassacre.com/AVGN/Images/Misc/42-45_EGMBR80.pdf

Could someone translate this for me please?

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgM15R9RzOM&feature=related

Live-action Zelda cosplayer Carmelldansen!

[NAHTMMM]

http://www.cinemassacre.com/AVGN/Images/Misc/42-45_EGMBR80.pdf

Could someone translate this for me please?

At first scan, it looks like a videogame enthusiast / video journalist being interviewed about the future of videogames and videogame programming. But you could probably guess that as well as I could with my limited Spanish.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnuGi0P6-qc

An example of failed logic from the classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer special. Just watch!

[Nate the Great]

http://t-shirts.cafepress.com/humor?page=1

Funny shirts from CafePress. I'm not affiliated; I'm not encouraging purchases in any way. Some favorite punchlines:

Come to the Dark Side; we have milk and cookies.
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.
Yet, despite the look on my face, you're still talking.
I'm ashamed of what I did for a Klondike Bar...
Resistance is not futile (Omega=V/I) It's voltage divided by current.
Silence is golden. Duct tape is silver. (Duct tape covers smiley face's mouth)
W.W.S.D. What would Scooby Doo?
I'm smiling. That alone should scare you.

And that's just from the first twenty pages!

[Nate the Great]

http://www.howitshouldhaveended.com/

I've been a fan of How It Should Have Ended for a long time, but their latest video is just great. The Terminators have decided to ensure victory by killing the creator of time travel: Dr. Emmett Brown. How will Marty ensure the eventual victory of the human race over the machines?

[Nate the Great]

http://www.cockeyed.com/incredible/octopus/octopus1.html

Someone makes himself a Dr. Octopus Halloween costume for Halloween, complete with a Spider-Man dummy captured by two tentacles hanging overhead. I only wish I had the patience and dedication (and budget!) to put together a costume like that.

[NAHTMMM]

I guess no one's posted the technabob blog (http://technabob.com/blog/) yet. For a blog focusing on gadgets (http://technabob.com/blog/2009/10/08/flexpeaker-paper-thin-speakers/) and general nerdiness (http://technabob.com/blog/2009/09/29/space-invaders-shower-curtain/), it has a lot of variety (http://technabob.com/blog/2009/10/03/microsia-makes-molecular-music/).

[Nate the Great]

http://www.seriousopinion.com/hedviga-golik-sat-dead/

A woman dies in her apartment and nobody bothers to check up on her for 42 years? Um, what? Nobody noticed? Her landlord, her employer, her relatives? Was someone paying rent for all that time?

[evay]

Was someone paying rent for all that time?

duh, it was George Turklebaum. (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/fivedays.asp) He just had the rent automatically deducted from his paycheck.

[Nate the Great]

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/147-chefprotoss/12473-cpcookchicken

Cooking for Those Who Can't Cook. Um, yeah....

So this guy expects us to make roasted chicken with NO culinary skills? Okay, that sounds like SUCH a good idea.

Is there really nothing simpler that he could ease people into? Pasta? Peppered steak? Heck, how about a salad?

[Nate the Great]

http://www.startribune.com/business/64651167.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD 3aPc:_Yyc:aUUX

Target stops distribution of a "Illegal Alien" costume. I can see the violation of political correctness, but I also think it's quite a funny sight gag.

[NAHTMMM]

"Brewster Rockit" explains string theory. (http://news.yahoo.com/comics/brewster-rockit#id=/comics/uclickcomics/20091011/cx_tmrkt_uc/tmrkt20091011)

[Nate the Great]

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1921845

What happens when Luxo jumps a little too hard on the Pixar logo?

[Nate the Great]

http://ianundercover.com/2008/12/13/iuc-paul-mccartney-says-barenaked-ladies-sing-much-better-than-fab-four/

Paul McCartney is a Barenaked Ladies fan! How cool is that?

[Nate the Great]

http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20090317.html

A Shortpacked strip. Any description would ruin the gag.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OKqoqz785g&feature=related

The original, unaired Mighty Morphin Power Rangers pilot. Um, yeah, it's a little different...

[Nate the Great]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/18/2746050.htm?section=justin

The U.S.A.'s national debt has officially topped 12 trillion dollars. Words fail me.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/dpgo_Call_911_McNuggets_Emergency2225286

A woman orders McNuggets at McDonald's. They are temporarily out of McNuggets. They will not refund the money, but instead suggest a substitution. She calls 911.

Okay, yes, she overreacted, but I would also expect the person at the counter to know there aren't McNuggets right now and thus not take her money in the first place. Seriously, there's a policy that says you can't refund the money in a situation like this? Who thought that up?

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Krq2AnROo

Behold a Turkish knockoff of The Original Series!

[Nate the Great]

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ram/clt/1497995852.html

Behold the Star Trek Frisbee! "To Boldly Throw..."

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llza5PYsp-k

Some kids at a high school recreate a level of Goldeneye from N64. Music, sound effects, and everything else are recreated as closely as possible. Even the motions of the actors are consistent with the game!

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkMsF_H8rws&feature=video_response

A music video tribute to Dr. McCoy. Great stuff.

[LtFielding]

http://soundofthepounding.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/frank.jpg
A giant picture of Frank Sinatra.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiCtAUrZbUk&NR=1

This is ludicrous. A guy claims that in order to beat the Running Man in OOT, you need to do the following:

1. Challenge the guy as Adult Link.
2. Go back in time and go to the finish line.
3. Wait seven years of game time, which is supposedly a week in real-life (based on the rate at which the sun rises and sets, presumably).
4. Young Link will suddenly be replaced by Adult Link and the guy will appear and concede defeat.

Ludicrous. I distinctly remember reading that someone did a full dump of all of the game text, and that there was no message in there to allow for a victory. Besides, I'm pretty sure any and all events in OOT operate on a trigger, and unless there's a physical timer on the screen time means diddly squat. The trigger is set off by one of your actions, usually a conversation or beating a dungeon. Furthermore, you can't beat the running man if the race timer leaves the screen; and going back in time automatically overrides all such timers.

[NAHTMMM]

Seems like it'd be so much simpler to send this Running Man guy 7 years forward, go off and do other stuff for the next 6.99 years, and then stroll to the finish line ahead of him.

[Tate]

Unfortunately, time travel doesn't work like that in OOT. It's more of an "All Good Things" situation than a "City on the Edge of Forever" or "Future's End" one. ;)

[Nate the Great]

I actually wonder if someone is going to leave their N64 on for a week so they can come back and confront this guy. I hope someone does!

The really rotten part is that someone at TVTropes took this YouTube video at face value and added it to the site as though it was a fact.

[Naki]

Massive Link Dump time

Cause I waste my life on StumbleUpon

http://www.merzo.net/ Handy reference for starship scales

http://www.piratelaws.com/ Because its important to know the rules so no one can surprise you with a parley

http://www.reasonablyclever.com/lego/firefly/images/lights%20on.jpg Impressive sci-fi lego

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/09/dd-flavored-jones-soda/ Awesome, that is all

http://gizmodo.com/5359078/when-you-think-about-it-the-death-star-was-stormtroopers-911 Hilarity ensues

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1219 this explains Zeke

http://i40.tinypic.com/fwh9h4.jpg Adorable and sweet

http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=801388 stop asking questions about Canadia

http://www.collegehumor.com/picture:1795150 best DeLorean EVER

http://incredimazing.com/page/If_Websites_Were_People Link is self explanatory

Enjoy


NAKI FLEE! -smokebomb-

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GDXIq3Dles&feature=related

It's Captain Kirk versus that most elusive of opponents-The Road Runner!

[Nate the Great]

http://www.liliputing.com/2010/01/now-that-we-know-the-ipad-specs-and-price-do-you-want-one.html

iPad specs.

Comments:

They really should've put in a smaller screen and a physical keyboard. With a screen this big you're going to want to actually type instead of just tapping out short memos.

Six versions? Really? Are there that many people who want to pay the extra money for 3G access? If I wanted to pay every month for faster Internet in something like this, I'd get an iPhone!

No Flash? Still? I mean, come on! Any computer with a screen larger than a phone should be able to access every single website that exists! I'd willingly pay an extra ten bucks for the licensing for these things, doesn't Apple know that? And have they even tried to negotiate for a discounted bulk rate for software like this?

(Note: one of the comments indicates that the lack of Flash forces you to use the App Store to download all programs. I call that laziness on the part of Apple. There must be other ways to force us to use the App Store and keep away the unauthorized developers).

[LtFielding]

The iPad seems like a giant iPod Touch to me.
Unrelated link: hlcomic.com

[Nate the Great]

The only difference between an iPad and a giant iTouch is that you can pay the extra money to access 3G networks and pay a monthly fee for the privilege. Oh, and you can't fit iPads into standard iPod docks.

[Nate the Great]

http://cartoonguy11.deviantart.com/art/Chef-Excellence-Generator-151972547

Truly one of the most useful pages anybody could ask for: The Chef Excellence Generator!

This one needs a bit of history. Famous YouTube tat reviewer Dr. Ashens unwittingly created an Internet meme when he reviewed the Chef Excellence Stay Fresh Cheese Bags. All they are is Ziplock knockoffs "As Sold on T.V. (In Some Countries)." Chef Excellence is a marketing device created in lieu of a genuine celebrity endorsement. Dr. Ashens created a fake jingle to present with the Chef Excellence picture along with a joke. Someone on Deviant Art modified it so you can put whatever you want under his picture!

[Nate the Great]

http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/apple_adobe_flash

A discussion regarding Apple and Adobe Flash.

PNQ: If Apple is resistant to let Flash into it's products, why can't they arrange to work with Adobe to create a BETTER Flash? A crashproof Flash!

Additionally, there is discussion about how bad Flash is.

PNQ: Does anyone else want to say "Tough cookies, I don't care how bad Flash is. That doesn't change the fact that some of my favorite sites run Flash!"

[LtFielding]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6081486.stm
Thank goodness that our guns won't harm the environment

[Nate the Great]

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2010/02/decision_tree_should_i_buy_an.php

A very useful decision tree to help you figure out whether to buy an iPad. ;)

[NAHTMMM]

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog (http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/) (e-i-e-i-o). Very funny if you're willing to sit there and parse the medieval English.

[LtFielding]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Garibaldi
Some guy I'm related to.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPoiH0JlQ9A

Clips from Star Trek featuring the second most important number ever, 47! The most important is 42, of course. :)

[Tate]

http://www.cleverbot.com/
An interesting site my siblings discovered. Talk (er, type) to the computer and it'll talk back.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz-MepaJCM4

One of my favorite Star Trek conversations. Garak and Quark discuss root beer and compare it to the Federation as a whole.

[LtFielding]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8540891.stm
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2010/us2010tfan/#details

A few links about Chile

[Nate the Great]

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/theme-lyrics/17828-star-trek-voyager

The Voyager theme song didn't need lyrics, but That Guy With The Glasses added them anyway, HA!

[Nate the Great]

http://www.tsl-game.com/

For several years now I've been following the fan-made King's Quest game The Silver Lining. Vivendi (Sierra) had already given them a fan license, but then Activision bought them out. The creators (Phoenix Online Studios) have finished the first episode, but now they've been told to Cease and Desist. NOW, when there's a complete game in existence. And this isn't a cheapy flash game or ROM hack, this is a real game. A game with full 3D models and voice acting that's been in development for the better part of a decade.

The gang at Phoenix have worked on this with their own money, never once expecting to make a SINGLE penny off of it, and now it's all down the drain. What is the freaking point?

Furthermore, why can't Activision honor the license that Vivendi already gave these guys?

[Nate the Great]

http://qntm.org/odd

Apparently some people have had a problem reconciling the Trek film odd/even rule with the "bad" Trek 10 and the "good" Trek 11. Their solution is to treat Galaxy Quest as the "true, good" Trek 10 with Nemesis as the "bad" Trek 11 and Trek 2009 as the "good" Trek 12.

Of course this is fanwank at its best, but I still want to hear opinions.

[NAHTMMM]

I don't consider that rule to have a very strong correlation with reality. It was already discounted by the last few Next Gen movies, wasn't it?

[Naki]

http://www.whereismyeyeball.com/2d/starwars.html

Steam punk + Star Wars = Win

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnKOXX-lB7Q&feature=related

A guy hacks a Super Mario World game to propose to his girlfriend. Aww...

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVp0oaOz41A&feature=related

A video made in the UK to promote Star Trek. There are a few inaccuracies, and their standard of "major events" seems a bit off, but what can you do?

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Zhoesi7cg&feature=related

I'm a fan of Smallville, so seeing the theme song set to Star Trek footage tickles me, even if it's from Trek 11.

[Nate the Great]

http://memory-alpha.org/index.php/United_Earth_Space_Probe_Agency

I've long been interested in the United Earth Space Probe Agency, or UESPA, the organization only mentioned a few times in TOS before the concept of Starfleet was finalized. This page has an interesting hypothesis, that the presence of army-based ranks like Colonel in a naval-based Starfleet may be attributed to a combined service of UESPA and Starfleet officers.

[Nate the Great]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Star-Trek-Voyager-26-1-VHS-set-lot-Extreme-Risk-/380222250429?cmd=ViewItem&pt=VHS&hash=item5887031dbd

This one gave me a good laugh. A lot of Voyager tapes for sale on eBay "Starring Robert Picardo!" Not Kate Mulgrew, not a rundown of all the main characters, our friendly EMH has taken center stage!

[Nate the Great]

http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/fiveminute/episodes.html

So our Angelfire front page is down, but somehow the index pages survived. Some fivers still exist, some don't. A piece of our history, ladies and gentlemen.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=9827&take_again=yes

A quiz to determine your accent. It was accurate for me, so give it a try if you're bored.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZNgyPbga3g&feature=PlayList&p=FF13E2EEBBE336C2&playnext_from=PL&index=43

Behold Eyefinity! Ocarina of Time on three side-by-side screens!

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am-5DMBXz8s

Just in case anybody needed to be cheered up, here's McCoy on the Enterprise-D to remind us what the name "Enterprise" means.

[Tate]

A quiz to determine your accent. It was accurate for me, so give it a try if you're bored.
Apparently, I have no accent. Of course, I could have told you that anyway. People from around here talk normally; it's everyone else in the world who has an accent. :)
Behold Eyefinity! Ocarina of Time on three side-by-side screens!
Impressive.
So our Angelfire front page is down, but somehow the index pages survived. Some fivers still exist, some don't. A piece of our history, ladies and gentlemen.
Also impressive. I'm trying to remember if I was around when 5MV was on Angelfire. The earliest I can remember was 3Sygma. I've been around this site for a while now.

[Nate the Great]

I was also around in the 3Sigma days, I think Angelfire precedes even me.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

A quiz to determine your accent.

Neutral. So, Canadian (although I'm not sure how a quiz designed for the States would deal with traces of Aussie).

Most of those questions just confused me.
"Do you say RIGHT and PRICE with the same vowel sound as RIDE and PRIZE?"

There's a way to pronounce those words with different vowel sounds? Man, you people talk funny.

[Nate the Great]

Who's ready for a Canadian joke?

http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_keyboards.shtml

"Back in the good old pre-PC days we sold a system that required the user to hit Ctrl-A in order to sign on. We sold one to some outfit in Canada. Well, trying to get them going over the phone took an hour. We'd say, 'Hit Ctrl-A,' and they'd say, 'Ok, we hit Ctrl, eh? And nothing happened, eh?'"

[Nate the Great]

http://stuarthughes.com/newdawn/product_info.php?products_id=85

An iPad with a gold casing, for people with far too much money.

£129,995.00, which is about $190,000 US or $195,000 Canadian.

Well, that's one way to make sure you never sit on it or leave it behind in a coffeehouse, huh?

[LtFielding]

http://firstpersontetris.com/
Warning, I got motion sick from this. It turns the camera with the block.

[Nate the Great]

Wow, that game is harder than it looks.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347

A tool to show you the relative scales of the largest and smallest things in the universe. Will you start at quantum foam and work out or at the universe itself and work in?

[Nate the Great]

http://www.gamerankings.com/browse.html

It is a sad, sad day. Super Mario Galaxy 2 has dethroned Ocarina of Time at Game Rankings.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1936443

CollegeHumor takes on Goldeneye for Nintendo 64. I love that game...

[Nate the Great]

First, Ocarina has once again overtaken Galaxy 2...

http://www.gamerankings.com/browse.html

Second, the Duke Nukem Forever lawsuit is finally settled. Amazingly 3D Realms still has control of the Duke Nukem franchise. Um, who's going to finish the game now? Where's the money coming from to finish it, especially after all the lawyers get their fees? If 3D Realms didn't have the money a year ago how do they have it now? And is anybody going to write them a huge check to save them?

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/64233

[Nate the Great]

Just a few comments regarding this year's E3...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyward_sword

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword? Clearly this name is going to have to grow on me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldenEye_007_%282010_video_game%29

Okay, I love Goldeneye 007, but couldn't they add "Wii" or "Remix" or something on the end to differentiate? I also hope that they finally ironed out the legal hassles for All Bonds.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.tsl-game.com/

King's Quest lives! In two weeks we'll finally be able to play The Silver Lining.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fkOJh7_DSc&feature=related

As a kid I enjoyed this show, King Arthur and the Knights of Justice.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr1zxxEjw_w&playnext_from=TL&videos=g67X_8deNRQ

Ah, Sopwith Camel. One of the truly classic DOS games. Good memories.

[Tate]

I found this link the other day. It seems that CBS has acquired syndication rights to Enterprise and is streaming <a href="http://www.cbs.com/classics/star_trek_enterprise/video/?ttag=mktg_startrekenterprise">the entire series</a> online. I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I'm looking forward to watching some of those episodes again.

I'm also not sure if you can watch the episodes outside of the US. After all, the BBC didn't allow <i>me</i> to stream Doctor Who. And since I don't have cable or satellite TV, I have to wait until a year or two after an episode originally airs before it comes out on DVD and I actually get to watch it. Not that I'm bitter or anything... :)

[PointyHairedJedi]

Well the answer would seem to be a firm "no". Pity. I still have never seen beyond the end of the second season (aka the part where it actually got better).

International TV licensing can be a pain in the wahoonie.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.xritephoto.com/ph_toolframe.aspx?action=coloriq

How good is your color acuity? Arrange the colored squares so they're in the correct order from one extreme to the other.

(My score was 52/100, by the way. At least I'm above average a bit...)

[Nate the Great]

http://www.virtualapple.org/J_oregontraildisk.html

A site to play the classic Oregon Trail for Apple IIe!

[Nate the Great]

http://instantrimshot.com/

Just in case you needed a site that will produce a rimshot sound effect at the press of a button.

(Yes, imagine how many manhours have been saved through this site. Bah-dum-chish.)

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX09WnGU6ZY&feature=player_embedded#!

Somebody uses Mindstorms to make a "dot matrix printer" out of LEGO bricks and a felt-tip marker!

[NAHTMMM]

Awful Library Books (http://awfullibrarybooks.wordpress.com) lists books that are often not so much awful as dated, weird, or silly in a "What were they thinking?" way.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlbLCNdaV2s&feature=related

The Three Amigos sing My Little Buttercup.

A great movie and a great scene to cheer anybody up.

[Nate the Great]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Smuf

Behold Smuf! A webcomic that only consists of one panel. Apparently a bit of a joke at TV Tropes.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.lauracarey.com/kisses

A quite extensive collection of different flavors of Hershey's Kisses.

I'd like to try the marshmallow creme, hot cocoa, and caramel, but how about you?

[Nate the Great]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11506354

Harry Potter 7 Part 1 won't be in 3D after all, but maybe part 2 will be.

Um, what? Isn't Deathly Hallows supposed to be one BIG movie that just happens to be in two parts? What good is half a 3D movie?

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy5M5Xo4wcQ

An old PSA featuring the ST:TAS crew.

[Nate the Great]

Okay, this one'll take some setup. This summer RandomGuy did a video for ComicCon featuring Deadpool...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcIjRuYz61w&feature=channel

Which is a parody of an Old Spice Commercial...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE

Which was also parodied by Grover on Sesame Street...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkd5dJIVjgM&feature=player_embedded

So apparently this commercial became a meme and I never noticed...

[Nate the Great]

http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/

The Blog of Unnecessary Quotation Marks. These guys take photos of signs that seem to have...well...unnecessary quotation marks.

(See, if this was TV Tropes I'd link to the Exactly What It Says On The Tin page)

Anyway, a few of these are quite funny.

A cafeteria sign: Please don't waste "food items".

PNQ: Why can't the sign just say "Please don't waste food?"

A dance center sign: Come visit our "state of the art" facility...

PNQ: How can a dance center be state of the art anyway? It's just a few kinds of flooring, some handrails, and proper lighting, right?

A sign: "Wet." "Paint."

PNQ: So it may or may not be wet, and it may or may not be paint?

And so on...

[Nate the Great]

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-behind-back-to-the/706591

You gotta hear the voice of this guy they're getting to play the part of Marty McFly in the new Back to the Future game. It's uncanny.

[Tate]

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-behind-back-to-the/706591

You gotta hear the voice of this guy they're getting to play the part of Marty McFly in the new Back to the Future game. It's uncanny.

Wow. That's a good voice.

It's interesting thinking about Back to the Future with regards to video games. It doesn't seem like an old movie, but it was released in 1985, shortly prior to the US debut of the Nintendo Entertainment System. That the NES seems archaic by today's standards probably just shows how far video game technology has advanced in the past 25 years, but it gives an interesting sense of perspective. No doubt the new game will be much more advanced than the early 8-bit adaptations of the films.

In any case, I'm looking forward to learning more about this project.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgCkmUS1IYI&feature=related

This is cute. Batman has to talk to Bruce Wayne in the old '60s show. It's great how Adam West attempts two different voices, but doesn't quite pull it off.

[Nate the Great]

http://dvice.com/archives/2010/10/all-of-geocitie.php

Someone created a 900 GB torrent of ALL of the former Geocities.

Who has a terabyte of hard drive space AND the time to sort through all these pages?

[NAHTMMM]

More to the point, who has the time and patience to download a 900 GB file?

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU9SNOvLW6E

I haven't played the Duck Tales NES game much, but I do feel nostalgic enough about it to love this remix of the Moon theme.

[Nate the Great]

http://swededfilms.com/films.html

What are "sweded films"? Fans making abridged remakes of famous movies. They're really funny.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/levork/sets/72157603262151483/with/4965599865/

LEGO minifigs customized to transform them into classic DC characters! This guy paid attention to details.

[NAHTMMM]

http://dvice.com/archives/2010/10/all-of-geocitie.php

Someone created a 900 GB torrent of ALL of the former Geocities.

Who has a terabyte of hard drive space AND the time to sort through all these pages?

Incidentally, I have since happened across Oocities and Reocities, both of which appear to be bent on putting as much of Geocities back online as they can manage.

[Chancellor Valium]

The Shepherd, by Hermas (http://www.gnosis.org/library/hermas.htm):
The Shepherd of Hermas (Greek: Ποιμήν του Ερμά; Hebrew: רועה הרמס‎; sometimes just called The Shepherd) is a Christian literary work of the second century, considered a valuable book by many Christians, and considered canonical scripture by some of the early Church fathers such as Irenaeus. The Shepherd had great authority in the second and third centuries. Along with the Apocrypha, it was bound with in the Codex Sinaiticus, and it was listed between the Acts of the Apostles and the Acts of Paul in the stichometrical list of the Codex Claromontanus. Although Early Christians afforded the work high respect, they did not consider the work to be on a par with those considered "divine" but rather apocryphal.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl-xMVGi_Ho&feature=related

Various Star Trek actors play a game of The Weakest Link.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/875/t664743-five-minute-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time/

Back in 2006 someone copy-pasted my Ocarina of Time fiver into the Neoseeker Forums.

Could someone who has Facebook get this guy's e-mail address so I could message him? I don't particularly feel like registering for this forum just to send one message.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W0ggyx1Npk&feature=related

I like it when people make Mario Paint versions of songs, and you gotta hear this version of the Inspector Gadget theme.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udqIBv41b_Y

Someone took clips from "Amok Time" and spliced them together with narration to look like one of those old-timey anger management videos. It's a real hoot.

[NAHTMMM]

^ :D The other instructional videos are funny, too. The lip-synching in the "Space Date" one is pretty good.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z86V_ICUCD4

The Most Useless Machine Ever.

When you flip the switch to turn it on, a arm pops out of a hole to hit the switch to turn it off. Hilarious.

EDIT: Also known as a Leave-Me-Alone Box. There are dozens of these videos. All kinds of boxes and arms, including a few made out of LEGO!

EDIT EDIT: http://www.leavemealonebox.com/ The homepage for the idea, with plenty of videos, an old magazine clipping showing how old the idea is, and the programming required to make one.

[Nate the Great]

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2011/01/25/the-line-it-is-drawn-25-comic-book-characters-and-star-trek/

Comic book and Star Trek characters crossover in single panel gag comics.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/oregon-trail-bonus-level

A gag based on an old Apple IIe game. Does it get any better? ;)

[Nate the Great]

http://www.destructoid.com/telltale-rebooting-king-s-quest-franchise--194447.phtml

So Telltale (makers of the latest Back to the Future game) want to take a crack at King's Quest next.

Yeah, um...

This isn't like what they're doing with Back to the Future. This will be a reboot. The phrase "don't fix what ain't broke" comes to mind.

[Nate the Great]

http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/ab85/dariaRTthread/Pan02.jpg

Remember in Superman The Animated Series when Mr. Mxyzptlk inserted himself into Clark Kent's Sunday comics page? Well, here's a screenshot. I didn't know the page also had knockoffs of Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, and other popular strips.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGbyEhX1620

Someone singing the theme to The Original Series, complete with the lyrics that Gene Roddenberry wrote. Y'know, the ones that were never meant to be sung?

[Tate]

I have a book of Star Trek sheet music that has those lyrics. I didn't realize they were written by Gene Roddenberry. Weird.

[Nate the Great]

This'll be a double link.

I was feeling nostalgic, so I looked up the Popcorn Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBYjZTdrJlA

In elementary school they used to play this song when we played Parachute Popcorn:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uW04rXFORA

(I recommend putting the game video into a loop when listening to the music. Use the Endless YouTube site at http://endlessvideo.com/)

[NAHTMMM]

Parachute Popcorn was fun. :)

[Nate the Great]

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/ir/marzgurl/vlogs/30697-fourhorseburger

Some geeks attempting to eat some Four Horseman Burgers. Apparently eating these absurdly spicy burgers is a challenge.

(As an aside, extra kudos for the guy wearing the Overclocked Remix shirt)

[Nate the Great]

http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen//99_cent_store/99_cent.php

A 99 cents store is now trying to take even more money. Now instead of the prices ending in 99 cents, they end in 99.99 cents.

This is even worse than when the gas pumps did it. Ugh.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHCbp5LTgbU

A fanvid making fun of the time travel in Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask by using jokes from Back to the Future. By the end Link is wearing Marty's orange vest. Funny!

[Nate the Great]

http://xkcd.com/902/

A NextGen joke in XKCD. Groovy.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.amazon.com/Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-Figures/dp/B000VAUFWM

You guys just had to see this. They actually made Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures wearing Star Trek uniforms.

[Nate the Great]

As a fan of Duke Nukem I've long been following the Duke Nukem Forever fiasco. I was heartened to hear that the guy with the ancient preorder reciept is getting his dues at last:

http://www.gearboxity.com/images/web/slash000_orig.jpg

The preorder reciept itself.

http://www.qj.net/pc-gaming/news/10-year-old-duke-nukem-forever-pre-order-gets-bountiful-reward.html

The load of swag he got.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU6kKRJpZoM&feature=feedu

Just when I thought I knew all the tricks and glitches in Ocarina of Time, Mike of Cinemassacre teaches me a new one: swimming on land.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_zbqij7ZRA&feature=related

I'm sure we all love it when the EMH turns into the Emergency Command Hologram, but what happens when someone turns Voyager into a James Bond movie starring everyone's favorite Holodoc?

Epicness, that's what.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebS3ZVA5xNo

At 6:50 the California Raisins do a Star Trek spoof. Um, yeah...

[NAHTMMM]

:D :D Good stuff!

[Nate the Great]

http://scandybars.tumblr.com/

A blog whose purpose is to cut candy bars in half and take high-resolution scans of their cross-sections so we can see them. In a way, it's relaxing.

[Nate the Great]

http://vimeo.com/25088498

A short CG cartoon in honor of the 20th anniversary of The Rocketeer! I'll be the first to admit it's not the greatest movie ever, but it's fun escapism.

[Nate the Great]

http://xkcd.com/980/huge/#x=-3352&y=-7184&z=4

XKCD did a breakdown of what all of the gifts mentioned in the song "If I had $1000000" would cost. If you don't want to zoom among the picture I'll just list the relevant figures:

Furniture: $21,160
Plymouth Reliant: $3,000
Tree Fort: $15,000
Llama: $2,120
Joseph Merrick's Remains: Unavailable.
House: $224, 820
Tiny Fridge: $99.08
Gourmet Pre-Wrapped Sausages: $34.48
Kraft Dinner: $3.06
Expensive Ketchup: $10.75
Faux Fur Coat: $198.00
Limo Ride to Store: $186.59

They claim all of this would be $263,330

Um, not all items are listed. Mentioned in the song but not priced are:

Joseph Merrick's Remains: Sure, you can't BUY them, but with a million dollars I'm sure you could arrange a theft. This guy is trying to impress his girlfriend, right?
Limo: Um, I'm sure the singer wasn't thinking of "a" limo ride to the store (listed above), but actually purchasing and maintaining a limousine. And the services of a chauffeur, too.
Green (but not REAL green) dress: Probably skipped because "dress" is such a vague term. What size? What brand? How fancy of a dress?
Picasso or Garfunkel Painting: Seriously, I refuse to believe that every single painting made by these two is unavailable for purchase.
Monkey: If pet llamas are available, why not monkeys?

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pq8iyhMFLYE

Someone made little sculptures of all of those bizarre snowmen Calvin and Hobbes used to make. Real nostalgia.

[Nate the Great]

http://whydidyoubuymethat.com/

Why Did You Buy Me That? is a blog where people send pictures of the bizarre and tasteless gifts that they've gotten.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.tribecafilm.com/tribecaonline/future-of-film/Movie-Theaters-Should-Think-Like-Netflix.html

An interesting idea to make going to movie theaters more profitable for the theater, the studio, AND the moviegoer.

Basically, you choose two theaters (he presents the scenario of a mainstream theater and an indie theater) and pay a monthly fee to be able to go to the movies whenever you want. You still have to ask for a ticket, which are first-come-first-serve, but you don't have to pay for it. And if you don't go to the movies the theater still makes money. Depending on which movie you go to a portion of your fee will go to the studio that made that movie.

Furthermore, this membership will allow more targeted advertising opportunities.

PNQ: Opinions?

[NAHTMMM]

I just don't expect the monthly fee would be low enough to be worthwhile for most people. I'm no expert on economics, but Netflix and individual movie theaters seem like two different business models. $8 for all the $15 movie tickets you want seems like a horrible deal for the theater. A bookstore model might be more feasible: You pay to have membership at the theater, and then either get bonuses for spending lots of money at the theater or get reduced ticket prices. (It wouldn't surprise me if there were already theaters doing this.)

[NAHTMMM]

Star Wars Uncut (http://vimeo.com/34948855)

In 2009, thousands of Internet users were asked to remake “Star Wars: A New Hope” into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted. Within just a few months SWU grew into a wild success. The creativity that poured into the project was unimaginable.

It's amusing to see the different approaches taken. Stop-motion, Legos, drawings, 3D models, live-action with grown-ups or children (pets were promised but I didn't see any in the first few minutes), all performed with varying degrees of believability and accuracy. The 15-second format seems ridiculous, but it works out pretty well. If you don't like one approach, you can just wait a few seconds and it will be gone. If you do find a certain approach appealing, you can stop to imagine the rest of the movie in that style as best you can, without being spoiled by the tedium of two hours of imperfect execution. (I liked the scribbly effect of the scene where the escape pod blasts free, but it probably wouldn't work well for the whole movie.)

[Nate the Great]

I watched a few portions of that. Cute stuff, and I agree on the fifteen second limit. Should've been one camera cut each, regardless of length.

http://www.actsofgord.com/

The Acts of Gord are the memoirs of a snarky used gamestore owner who refuses to be ripped off or manipulated by the idiotic or criminal gamers out there. Funny stuff.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1972/02/07

Snoopy makes a Star Trek reference in a Peanuts strip.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.fusedfilm.com/2012/03/michael-bay-reponds-to-fan-outrage-about-changing-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-into-aliens/

Michael Bay says that the rebooted Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are aliens.

http://blip.tv/confused-matthew/random-rant-michael-bay-the-ninja-turtles-6037000

Confused Matthew responds.

I gotta say, I agree with Matthew on this one. To me turning the TMNT into aliens is akin to blowing up Vulcan. And we all know how I feel about that fiasco.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eR14SH5tby4

William Shatner and Adam West sharing the screen. That's right, the two titans of Sixties pop culture hammy acting were in the same movie once upon a time.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL6_t-cdgLI

I've just discovered the joy of the "literal music video", so here's one of "The Rainbow Connection." For those of you who don't know (like me an hour ago), a literal music video is what happens when someone takes a real music video and rewrites the lyrics to reflect what's actually happening on screen. It often turns out hilariously.

There are tons more, some of which you can find on the TV Tropes page:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LiteralMusicVideo

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=URtK7jlHfAg

A one-man show that presents all of Harry Potter in five minutes. I suppose I'll have to coin a term for a live-action fiver now. "Liver" is taken, so I hereby dub this an actver.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de4xdOVVROQ&feature=related

Someone has made a machine out of LEGO Technic that can automatically place dominoes in a row so you can knock them down later.

You guys probably don't know that I am both a fan of LEGO and domino toppling.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-840keiiFDE

An AMV. How I found it would take awhile, but you must watch it. It has a cameo of the Enterprise (and the Power Rangers, and Godzilla, and Superman...), but that's not the main feature. An anime girl fights Darth Vader in a lightsabre duel. Wearing a Playboy Bunny costume.

Look, it's Japan. Japan's weird. Just go. Watch. It's worth five minutes of your time, I promise.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4W7hsDhSCBg

Someone's making a Zelda movie, and it's a Western based on Ocarina of Time. This is the trailer; the movie itself is coming soon.

Yes. You heard me. Zelda as a Western.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_795648&feature=iv&src_vid=MYMigBNFSKs&v=XK8EOD9buLc

The trailer for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series.

I am aghast.
I am dumbfounded.
I am speechless.

[Nate the Great]

I apologize for the proliferation of links today, I really do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OyUN5vG1T8k#!

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson himself celebrates the design of the original Enterprise (no bloody A...you know the rest).

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FquUiAHcNbw

So in Ocarina of Time Nabooru is trapped within the armor of an Iron Knuckle for seven years. The programmers of the game cut corners by putting the model of Nabooru inside ALL Iron Knuckles. Kinda creepy when you think about it.

[Nate the Great]

http://oregontrailtombstone.com/

This site will put whatever text you want on a tombstone that's straight out of Oregon Trail for the old Apple IIe's!

Hey, I'm a child of the Eighties. Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, and Carmen Sandiego are my trinity of classic nostalgic games.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUTkgXPiEk0

The theme song from the French Sailor Moon dub.

PNQ: Is it just me, or does the melody sound like an eighties sitcom theme?

[NAHTMMM]

Definitely an '80s vibe there.

[Nate the Great]

http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/3546489.html

Spider-Man helps Charlie Brown kick that football and get some revenge on Lucy. And the best part is, it's not fanart, it's official!

[NAHTMMM]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oRNJCqcWNUk

A Voyager video set to the Monk intro!

[Nate the Great]

http://notalwaysromantic.com/the-triforce-of-love/23645

A Legend of Zelda-themed marriage proposal. It'll take you less than a minute to read, but you'll feel good all day. Just click.

[Zeke]

http://bit.ly/tea_for_two

This is a few too many steps removed from relevance to link on the site proper, so I'm doing so here. I've mentioned before (I think) my fondness for the slice-of-life manga and anime <i>K-ON!</i>. This is a short fic I've had on the back burner for a while; I polished it off because it may lose relevance after the election. Yeah, it's a weird one.

[NAHTMMM]

Well, KJ and I liked it. :)

[Nate the Great]

It's Obscure '80s DOS Games Day in the Link Dump Thread!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB4VAGzJzZs

Sopwith Camel. Back when one man, a machine gun, and a handful of bombs could bring an entire air force to their knees.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO7Wpv3y-5E&feature=related

Arcade Volleyball. You'd think creatures without arms would be unable to invent volleyball, but there they are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIQXI5ns6iU

God of Thunder. Proving that crossing Thor with Link and tossing in the odd block-pushing puzzle can actually work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih_c3XDCkDY

Paganitzu. Block-pushing puzzles and running away from the odd giant spider? Count me in!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJh1SjgzuSI

Dangerous Dave. Even today those sound effects take me back to a simpler time. A time when you could ride a jetpack and stay perfectly vertical the entire time.

[Nate the Great]

http://shirtoid.com/86056/the-delorean-trail/

Someone drew the DeLorean/horse scene from BTTF 3 as though it was a graphic from Oregon Trail.

[NAHTMMM]

http://dianabotsford.com/?p=877

One of the original writers of TNG's "Rascals" talks briefly about the original idea behind that episode, the recent Dark Shadows movie, and the rewriting process in Hollywood in general.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FufQ-tc6cqk&list=PL1E3AE5343628D509

A Pokemon love song, filled with absolutely horrific puns.

[Nate the Great]

http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/08/18/a-fun-gallery-of-10-star-trek-cakes/

Some fun Star Trek-themed cakes.

[Nate the Great]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrq8v9ijPs4

Unicorn Poop Cookies. A LOT of work for a few pretty cookies that will be eaten fairly quickly.

[NAHTMMM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPkByAkAdZs

Quinto and Nimoy in possibly the funniest (and dorkiest) automobile commercial ever.

[Nate the Great]

The best part is when Leonard starts bopping along to "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins." Talk about an obscure reference for only the die-hardiest of Trekkies!

[Nate the Great]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_8Z9OOGG34

I've been a fan of Steve Ramsey's woodworking projects for awhile, but this one especially tickled my fancy. He takes old pallets and turns them into tiny pallets, just big enough to be a coaster for a drink!

[Nate the Great]

http://eadgeart.deviantart.com/art/Paper-STAR-TREK-373410797

Someone drew Kirk and Spock in the style of the recent Paperman cartoon along with the girl from Paperman (whose name is Meg, by the way).

In case you haven't seen Paperman, watch here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C76DPZzpS4

[MaverickZer0]

I'll leave this here for anyone who may be interested...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mME569si9hY

(It's a new Smash Bros trailer. Mega Man.)

[Nate the Great]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zItKxjn57YQ

Before I talk about this video in particular, let me just give Smooth McGroove a few thousand plugs. He does great acapella versions of video game instrumentals.

Now then, in this video he teams up with another guy to sing a parody of the Pokemon theme, as sung by one of those random, ordinary trainers that you find by the dozens in any game. Ah, the tribulations of being an NPC destined to be defeated by the hero...

[Nate the Great]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoTlgwlxU-c

A Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. clip. Go to the four-minute mark. The Mystery Machine has just been destroyed, and the gang does a homage to the destruction of the Enterprise in Search for Spock:

Fred: Oh my gosh, gang. What (Shatnerian pause) have I done?
Daphne: What you had to do. What you always do. Turn traps into a fighting chance to live.

[NAHTMMM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7pMYHn-1yA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkbQDEXJy2k

Lou Costello having trouble with math.

[Nate the Great]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2IW4E-WxM

Someone rewrote the lyrics to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer so you could sing them to the melody of the Hawaii 5-O theme. Must be seen to be believed.

[NAHTMMM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ9N7oCKC1E

Jonathan Winters having trouble with a gas station.

[Nate the Great]

I would hope by now that all gamers would be familiar with the classic Zelda quote "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this." (http://www.google.com/imgres?client=firefox-a&hs=yJK&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1280&bih=853&tbm=isch&tbnid=vnIyB1fPosl4cM:&imgrefurl=http://www.ohmz.net/2011/08/09/its-dangerous-to-go-alone/&docid=XdEGZ0MEsf2oTM&imgurl=http://www.ohmz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/its-dangerous-to-go-alone-take-this.jpg&w=1600&h=1000&ei=hw5HUoCXPOG8yAGI_oC4Bg&zoom=1&ved=1t:3588,r:0,s:0,i:90&iact=rc&page=1&tbnh=177&tbnw=284&start=0&ndsp=18&tx=138&ty=90http://)

Fans have made a few variants.

Star Wars (http://www.google.com/imgres?client=firefox-a&hs=yJK&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1280&bih=853&tbm=isch&tbnid=n2vofhR5sWDTDM:&imgrefurl=http://www.controlpadblues.com/%3Fcat%3D3&docid=JBCPtKdwxbvIbM&imgurl=http://www.controlpadblues.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/its-dangerous-to-go-alone-take-this.png&w=700&h=438&ei=hw5HUoCXPOG8yAGI_oC4Bg&zoom=1&ved=1t:3588,r:12,s:0,i:126&iact=rc&page=1&tbnh=175&tbnw=247&start=0&ndsp=18&tx=141&ty=67)

Lord of the Rings (http://www.google.com/imgres?client=firefox-a&hs=yJK&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1280&bih=853&tbm=isch&tbnid=y8RwbP81i7nOJM:&imgrefurl=http://www.tshirtvortex.net/legend-of-zelda-dangerous-to-go-alone/&docid=YWS5GyI33U8mBM&imgurl=http://tshirtvortex.net/wp-content/uploads/8-bits-To-Rule-Them-All.jpg&w=560&h=560&ei=hw5HUoCXPOG8yAGI_oC4Bg&zoom=1&ved=1t:3588,r:5,s:0,i:105&iact=rc&page=1&tbnh=184&tbnw=178&start=0&ndsp=18&tx=72&ty=98)

Harry Potter (http://www.google.com/imgres?client=firefox-a&hs=yJK&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1280&bih=853&tbm=isch&tbnid=Dr5bouAmmh0uJM:&imgrefurl=http://beware1984.com/2012/06/&docid=8RGonRB4P_53CM&imgurl=http://beware1984.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/seekers-quest-01.jpg&w=800&h=800&ei=hw5HUoCXPOG8yAGI_oC4Bg&zoom=1&ved=1t:3588,r:69,s:0,i:307&iact=rc&page=3&tbnh=176&tbnw=155&start=48&ndsp=30&tx=84&ty=97)

[Nate the Great]

Someone has put the iconic TOS fight music into a music box (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKsysvkelxw).

[Nate the Great]

You all remember the classic Leonard Nimoy song "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins", right? Of course you do. Well, someone asked the cast of the Hobbit movies to read it.

Clicky! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YStHE8S82to)

[Nate the Great]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiSn2JuDQSc

Someone took the lyrics to "Let It Snow" and found clips from NextGen that featured the characters saying the words from it, then piecemealed them together. He had to tweak the lyrics here and there, most notably substituting "Make it so" for "Let it snow", but it works!

[Nate the Great]

http://i.i.cbsi.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/11/18/Trexel_Orig_Art.jpg

A bunch of Star Trek characters as tiny pixelated avatars. Some of them are quite good.

[Nate the Great]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oVSaUWeKt0

A group has constructed a life-size WALL-E remote control robot.

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNcyzbcECbM

Forget toy bat'leths, a real blacksmith has made a real bat'leth. I also recommend this guy's other videos, including a genuine Zelda Master Sword.

[Nate the Great]

http://dusty-abell.deviantart.com/art/Star-Trek-The-Original-Series-333378020

A wonderful fan poster of just about every character to appear in TOS.

[Nate the Great]

I happened to stumble upon this guy Dennis Budd on DeviantArt. Among other things he's made art of several Star Trek characters, as though they were in a stylish comic book or Flash animated series.

http://dennisbudd.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=star+trek&offset=0

As a bonus, here's Indiana Jones (http://dennisbudd.deviantart.com/art/Indiana-Jones-84072963) and the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman (http://dennisbudd.deviantart.com/art/Wonder-Woman-Lynda-Carter-118321022).

[NAHTMMM]

Nice. :)

[Nate the Great]

http://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/category/son-of-typecasting

I enjoy nitpicking movies now and then, but not to this extent. This blog is devoted to nitpicking the fonts used in movies. I.e. is the lettering used in signs within period movies accurate or anachronistic?

[NAHTMMM]

TL;DR Wikipedia. (http://tldrwikipedia.tumblr.com/)

Basically "Five-Second Wikipedia".

It gets a bit edgy at times, but otherwise it's funny.

[Nate the Great]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dpXHnJXaE

A guy has a modem from 1962 that still works. But this thing isn't a dialup modem in the strictest sense, it literally communicates to and from a telephone handset via sounds. He even connects to a text-only version of Wikipedia.

[Nate the Great]

Japanese Trailer for the Sailor Moon reboot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Ft3viBgtQ).

I just have one question: Where is the Sailor Moon leitmotif, "Moonlight Denetsu (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQyOaaE7ovQ)"? i.e. the theme that we all love?

[Nate the Great]

Official Red Shirt Cologne (http://shop.startrek.com/star-trek-red-shirt-fragrance/detail.php?p=451667). I have no words...

[NAHTMMM]

Timelapse of a star's outburst, as seen through the Hubble. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1fvMSs9cps)

[Nate the Great]

http://www.viralnova.com/box-of-money/?utm_content=buffer87124&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Someone carves a block of wood to look like a cardboard box that's full of stacks of money!

[Nate the Great]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7_Yd3_M8iQ&list=PL4F80C7D2DC8D9B6C&index=40

Wil Weaton and friends play Star Trek Catan. I remember playing a different variant of Catan years ago, but the video just brought back the memories.

PNQ: What makes this game fun? It seems to have all of the complexity of tabletop RPGs but none of the roleplaying or depth, so what's the point? Where does the fun come in?

[Nate the Great]

A guy playing "Linus and Lucy" on a ukelele. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNaOu_pMzds)

I love this song, so of course I've heard countless piano covers. I've heard heavy metal electric guitar remixes. I've heard chiptune remixes. I've heard Christmas remixes. But this guy does something to the song that I've never heard before. It's not my favorite version of the song (incidentally, look up one of David Benoit's many covers on YouTube), but it's nice to hear something new and fresh.

[Nate the Great]

Some people found out what equation is required to produce a Batman logo when plotted. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-yAgyrzGdo)

[Nate the Great]

The Numberphile YouTube channel. (https://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile/videos)

I've long been a fan of the more esoteric aspects of mathematics. Far too many people think math is just addition, subtraction, etc. when in reality it contains numerous applications of logic, art, and so forth. I could never be a professional mathematician, although I did take more math courses in college than were strictly necessary.

And if you want something a little simpler, may I suggest Donald in Mathmagic Land (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJgkaU08VvY)?

[Nate the Great]

http://consumerist.com/2014/12/18/traveler-gets-luggage-back-from-airports-lost-found-20-years-after-plane-trip/

Reading the story of the person who got their luggage back 20 years later makes me ponder: What would my luggage look like 20 years ago?

Probably fewer books and more action figures. ;)

[Nate the Great]

Someone did a "Let it Go" Frozen parody, only using Star Trek: First Contact. That's right..."Make it So (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7h7Mfe8BDw)!"

[Nate the Great]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ywCj-H6vNI

Clarence Nash (voice of Donald Duck) on the show "What's My Line." It's hilarious how far from the mark the judges got, as they have no idea who Clarence Nash is.

[Nate the Great]

A DuckTales Moon Theme/Joy to The World mashup (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82FVyNVwAgc&list=PL3A40A96F46174EA9&index=115). Just for those of us who like our Christmas music mashed up with 80s nostalgia...

[Nate the Great]

The front page of Australian eBay! (http://www.ebay.com.au/)

The reason I got to this page is a long story, but I just had to share this. Right at the top it says "G'day!" My fancy was tickled, as they say.

I decided to check some other country-specific eBay front pages. Most are just translations of "hello" or "welcome", which means Australia is special.

[Nate the Great]

Beating Mario 1 with only 500 points. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kvT0dywaF8)

I've seen speedruns for minimal time. I've seen speedruns with minimal equipment. But minimal points is something new. Minimal points in Mario 1 means no coins, no powerups, no killing, and hitting the flagpole with only a second left on the clock every time.

[Nate the Great]

Neil Degrasse Tyson guest-stars on Nerdy Nummies helping to make a Star Trek: Voyager cake! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1c0exqJ0eQ)

If you're not aware of Neil Degrasse Tyson, he's been so many things that I may as well just refer you to his Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson).

But one thing I love him for is his love for the design of the original Enterprise (http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyUN5vG1T8k). Quoth Neil: "[The NCC-1701] is the most astonishing, awesome, beautiful, seductive... (the applause of the crowd muddles the rest of the line)."

[NAHTMMM]

Apparently I haven't linked Planet of Hats (http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/) here yet? The idea came from a similar project for the X-Files, Monster of the Week (http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/2012/06/29/06292012/).

[Nate the Great]

The Windows 95 startup fanfare.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miZHa7ZC6Z0)
Pure nostalgia, people. Pure nostalgia.

[Nate the Great]

The Return of Ganondorf (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/105053). (Also available on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSmhWrrLqcU) if you don't like Newgrounds, but you won't get to squeeze a stuffed animal or get a secret video!)

One of my earliest online video memories, from way back in the dial-up dark ages. As a serious Ocarina of Time freak I would've loved this fan animation as is, but the humor and timing to be found just makes it a classic.

[Nate the Great]

The origin of X-Men: Death Becomes Them (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-pm6rjCsy0)

Ten years ago, on Newgrounds, the first major Floating Hands production was launched. Yes, Newgrounds.

Anyway, the two main Floating Hands guys take the opportunity to discuss the creation of the video, including the time and technical constraints.

I was either still in college or just graduated when I stumbled upon this video (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/218160)on Newgrounds (later pirated onto Youtube here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdv3g5P4EYI) in low quality, then properly by the original Floating Hands team here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL6J7FJmy1c)).

I know I've shilled Floating Hands before, most likely at least twice in this thread already. But this tenth anniversary discussion provided me another excuse.

Incidentally they apologize for the horrid Canadian accent of Wolverine, but proceed to argue Rule Of Funny (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfFunny) (is it time to shill for TV Tropes again? I guess so!)

[Nate the Great]

X-Men: Death Becomes Them (Fixed Edition) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=316YUno-GmU)

We all know that YouTube's automatically generated subtitles aren't the best, so the Floating Hands guys redubbed the video using YouTube's version instead of their own. It just points out how inaccurate and pointless YouTube's transcription program is.

[Nate the Great]

The Laughing Vulcan and His Dog (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBg9T_3CI1A)

You probably don't remember a throwaway line from the TNG episode "Disaster" where the schoolchildren suggest singing the song "The Laughing Vulcan and His Dog", but Picard's never heard of it. Well, a fan wrote and sang such a song.

Incidentally, the creators have said that this song's title isn't a reference to Sybok. Personally, I doubt it. Just look at this scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N7c5nf1c50&t=3m47s) and tell me that's not a laughing Vulcan and his dog.

[Nate the Great]

I don't think I've shilled for Matthias Wandel's woodworking channel yet. He has lots of good stuff, but today he invented a cake knife (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=801NU7CkEQM) to cut hexagonal-shaped pieces of cake.

Among other projects he's also invented a set of continuous stairs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dinVcBEDhQ) for a Slinky to go down and some rather clever wooden tarp clips (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLxFCulKoRk). I just cherry-picked a couple videos for you to get started with, you can continue on your own.

[Wowbagger]

The Laughing Vulcan and His Dog (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBg9T_3CI1A)

You probably don't remember a throwaway line from the TNG episode "Disaster" where the schoolchildren suggest singing the song "The Laughing Vulcan and His Dog", but Picard's never heard of it. Well, a fan wrote and sang such a song.

Incidentally, the creators have said that this song's title isn't a reference to Sybok. Personally, I doubt it. Just look at this scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N7c5nf1c50&t=3m47s) and tell me that's not a laughing Vulcan and his dog.


Hmm... this is weirdly relevant to my interests.

[Nate the Great]

Someone has harnessed the sounds made by floppy drives to make a musical instrument. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W641eqW_ENs&t=1m15s)

Yeah, I don't get it either. The link is for the part where he plays the Tetris theme.

[Nate the Great]

A guy impersonates a bunch of Muppets singing "Let it Go." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L1NvsVHWtw)

It's things like this that make you realize all over again that you don't need to leave the planet to find the truly bizarre, it's all around us every day.

P.S. He does a respectable job with all the Muppet voices, especially considering that adding singing to impersonation isn't doubling the effort, it's adding at least another order of magnitude.

[Nate the Great]

The Paul Lynde Halloween Special! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4psTeRpQ-1o)

Paul Lynde was famous before our time and probably many of you would only recognize his voice as Templeton the rat in Charlotte's Web. However, as a connoisseur of older movies I know of him from the original Bye Bye Birdie movie amongst other places (including some classic quips on Hollywood Squares). This special from 1976 just has to be seen to be believed. Where else but a 70s variety show are you going to find Tim Conway, Florence Henderson, KISS, Margaret Hamilton as the Wicket Witch of the West, Bette White, and Donnie and Marie Osmond?

[NAHTMMM]

The art of editing in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (https://vimeo.com/86125935)

[Nate the Great]

I'll bet you didn't know that "I Hate You" from The Voyage Home was a real song.

Well, it is. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8kKEh8DGU)

At least, it's longer than the clip used in the movie. Incidentally, it was recorded by ultraobscure (as in, the band was a bunch of people from the sound department working on Star Trek IV, and they only recorded this one song) band Edge of Etiquette and the punk on the bus was played by associate producer Kirk Thatcher, who also wrote the lyrics.

[Nate the Great]

The Star Trek Theme has been discofied. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzwatKnnjj4)

I have no words. Give it a minute for the lyrics to start.

[Nate the Great]

Scotty, Data, and "It is green."
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPpvViI6tgg)
Green Aldebaran whiskey and red Starfleet uniforms, what could be more festive than that? ;)

[Nate the Great]

Controlling Mario 1 with a theramin. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnZeI8uLJnw)

If you don't know what a theramin is, just knowing that it's a stringed musical instrument should be enough to know how hard it'd be to use as a controller.

[Zeke]

Er... are you sure you know what a theremin is, Nate? Much like Ultron, there are no strings on it. (It's also like Ultron in being completely electronic.)

That was neat. There are quite a few interesting spins on Mario 1 to be found on YouTube; here are two of my favourites.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBb9wFP7uZM">First Person Mario</a>. Somebody went to a lot of trouble recreating Stage 1-1 as an FPS, complete with achievements. This is just the tip of the iceberg -- there's a playable version out there too, and same goes for the first two Zeldas. There's even 8-Bit Deathmatch, a popular Doom/Quake clone based on the classic Mega Man series.

<p>Some people play Mario fast. Some play slow. Some can't control the stupid moron plumber and get killed all the time. (Ahem.) Wanna see all that at once? Here's what it looks like (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTiJaWCaKas) when nearly a thousand people's playthroughs of the same Mario level are superimposed! (It looks like a custom Mario 1 stage, though the video is set to the relaxing music of Mario 2.)
By the way, I think I'll rename this the "Link Thread", since the "dump" part is a reference (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes) that's pretty dated now. Any objections?

[Nate the Great]

Well, he played it sorta like it was a stringed instrument....

Open mouth, insert foot...

[NAHTMMM]

It's okay, Nate, we got some new forum titles out of it. :)

[Nate the Great]

Freaky Dot Patterns (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAja2jp1VjE)

I've shilled for Numberphile before, but I found their newest video particularly interesting. Optical illusions and related subjects have long been an interest of mine.

[Flying Gremlin]

It's okay, Nate, we got some new forum titles out of it. :)

He's lucky. Mine is referring to the wrong core.