Our newest Trek tribute video is The Engineer's Hymn, all about Scotty's job and duty.
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https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/Itay...eScrollers.php
A long, in-depth article about different ways of programming the camera in sidescrollers. There are a lot of illustrative GIFs. |
Today's latest silly online game straight from the Straight Dope forum:
How many taps (i.e. hitting the same button over and over) can you do in a minute? I start out over 400, but around 380 seems to be my average, at least for the first minute. The forumgoers have multiple strategies for upping the numbers, including multiple fingers on multiple keys, which I think is a different category entirely. Random flailing over the entire keyboard gets me up to about 1400, but gets exhausting really fast. Anyway, if you want to waste a minute on a meaningless task and are at an actual keyboard (and aren't somewhere where the noise would bother someone), give it a try. |
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So I'm working my way through a YouTube playlist of anime songs remixed to sound like they're being generated by music boxes...
The Mach Go Go Go (AKA Speed Racer) Theme Wasn't expecting that. |
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Apparently I haven't shilled pocket83 yet. He does the most remarkable things with everyday items. Today he made bookends from hand-shaped clumps of BBs. No, really.
Here are some highlights from his channel: A yard feeder that lets hummingbirds eat, but prevents ants from stealing their food. Custom-made Lincoln logs for more building options. How to sink a nail in one hit. Attempting to turn a potter's wheel into a pumpkin lathe. |
Every so often I try to post a Trek-related Christmas music video...
The Twelve Days of Star Trek And as a bonus... A Trek-themed yard lighting display complete with authentic sounds! PNQ: Is that stuff at around the two minute mark from the Kelvinverse movies or something? As an afterward, say what you will about STTMP, you can't deny that the full Goldsmith main theme isn't a thing of beauty. |
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Let's have some covers of Lehrer's Christmas Carol!
Ray Wright Molly Lewis David Quah Andrew Williams |
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Apparently I haven't shilled yoyomax12 yet. Tammy (Max is her son) cooks creative and attractive food that I would never have the patience (or the food budget!) for. But just like many other "how to" channels, I like to watch other people be creative.
Highlights: "Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup"-really pound cake, frosting, and pudding! "T-Bone Steak"-really a brownie! Pizza Cake-it's a layer cake made out of pizza! Raisin Bread that looks like watermelon-it's funny how many people ask if there's a non-raisin option, forgetting that chocolate chips will melt and not look like watermelon seeds. Minecraft cake-cake, Jello, and rice crispy bars! Rainbow unicorn poop cookies-there's a fad I'm glad seems to have faded away, the rainbow unicorn poop thing. Ro of Nerdy Nummies made these afterward, but Tammy made them first! Kit Kat Ice Cream Cake-I'm always reminded of my mom when watching this video, she loved Kit Kats... Melted Snowman Cookies Marshmallow Cereal Christmas Wreaths-This one reminds me of my mom, she would make treats out of chocolate and chow mein noodles (what some call "chocolate easter nests", only without the bells and whistles) |
Today Numberphile tackles the Wolf/Goat/Cabbage River Crossing Problem.
This is one of the earliest logic problems that I encountered as a child, thanks to this book (oh, did I learn a lot from the Childcraft Library!), just look! For some reason Wikipedia calls this the Fox/Goose/Bag of Beans Puzzle. I've never heard it called that... |
A NextGen tribute video: "To Better Ourselves"
Just some of the best quotes backed by great music. It's worth three and a half minutes of your time, I promise! |
The borders between the nations of the world, along with when each segment was finalized.
You'd be surprised at how "new" some borders are and how "old" some others are, especially when there's a new one next to an old one. There are also notes for several critical segments. Incidentally, the oldest continuous border segment between current nations is the 120 km perimeter of Andorra between France and Spain, 1278. Wow. |
Star Trek Medley on an organ.
It starts out fine, but after about fifty seconds it starts to sound like a Star Trek-themed carousel. Absolutely hilarious. And then at eight minutes we get the radio melodrama version of the theme. You can just imagine the Guardian of Forever shilling for soap powder. |
3Blue1Brown stumps some math YouTubers with a topological problem.
I've mentioned that I'm a topological geek before, and I'm a fan of a lot of the YouTubers shown, and it's fun to see them work through a problem, especially the eureka moment when they figure out why they were given the problem in terms of a coffee mug and not just a piece of paper. |
The Pi Search Page
Put a string of numbers in the box and the page will tell you where they first occur in the full value of pi, i.e. which decimal place they start at. For example, 42 starts at position 92, 47 starts at position 119, and 1701 starts at position 20,239. And that's your meaningless bit of trivia for today. |
A review of the Enterprise-D PC conversion kit.
Just in case you happen to be living in 1995 and want to make your PC look like a few cheap slabs of plastic with Cochrane deltas and LCARS design elements on them. |
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