Man, that stop-motion is so much better than the stupid Diet Coke stop-motion they've been showing in theaters recently....

http://www.wiihaveaproblem.com/image...es/p375/01.jpg

Behold the dedication of the Revolution bowler! A robot to automatically swing a Wiimote to get a strike every time! I find that to be either:

1. The coolest thing ever. Why not use every advantage (short of a Gameshark) that's available to to win a game.
2. THe most pathetic thing ever. After all, we're not talking about earning virtual gold on an MMORPG here, I'm pretty sure that all you get with Nintendo WiFi are bragging rights for winning the game.

I love that thing. There's gotta be a simpler way to cheat, but who needs one?

Anyway, it's well known around here that I am a <a href="../videogames/doom.html">master of Doom humour</a>. But I'm not the master. Not by a long shot. No, the only people with any claim to that title are the makers of -- and I can't believe I didn't find out about this till now -- the 1996 promotional Doom comic.

Do not read while eating. What little you manage not to spit out won't go down well.

(Spot the Frank Miller reference on page one!)

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

Fantastic.

Battlestar opening meets DS9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtWn1aKGWkI

If I had Homeworld 2 to hand, I would so be installing this mod now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulwer-...iction_Contest

As a fan of both Snoopy and Dixon Hill, the opener "it was a dark and stormy night" as long held a special place in my heart. Professor Rice has challenged people to come up with something even worse. You can enjoy the submitted entry at the Wikipedia page, but I have to relate the remarks of the latest winner:

Jim Guigli: My motivation for entering the contest was to find a constructive outlet for my dementia.

I think that most fivists will agree with me that this is one reason why we write fivers. :)

Or in my case, insanity. :)



Hmm, this sounds familiar . . . . ;)

o_O Are we sure Mickey Spillane didn't have a hand in putting that together . . . ?

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

Only in a crazy world like ours could a guy barter from a paperclip up to a farmhouse in Saskatchewan in thirteen steps. I find it inspiring, and even more clever than the Million Dollar Homepage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mil...ollar_Homepage

http://www.icechewing.com/

Finally! Proof that the world is doomed! An ice chewers forum? Who thought THAT up?

Hey, I'm a moderate ice chewing addict myself, but I'd never join a forum like that.

...Wow.

The paperclip story is indeed a cool one, in a very Ferengi sort of way.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...kfastStoneSoup

So I was wandering around TV Tropes and found this entry. The fact that it uses a Calvin and Hobbes strip immediately earns points, but the Dave Barry reference seals the deal, especially since I'd never heard that Barry joke before.

"Humorist Dave Barry once suggested that the commercial pitch should be, 'adjacent to this complete breakfast,' or, 'on the same table as this complete breakfast,' noting that the same claim could be made about 'a can of shaving cream, for instance, or a dead bat.'"

http://www.blogthings.com/quickanddirtyiqtest/

I found this Quick and Dirty IQ Test quite accurate, and NO, I won't reveal what I got. ;)

Bargearse.

Like Yu-Gi-Oh! TAS, but done long before that. LONG BEFORE, I mean there's a Christopher Skase reference.

And that IQ test made my non-American brain fail. :(

You remind me of the introduction to Dave Barry's book Boogers Are My Beat. Here is an excerpt. Standard disclaimers of the frailty of human memory apply:

We went through some of my older columns to see if they were worth including. What we found, quite frankly, surprised us. They were full of people that were apparently at one time quite famous, but whose names no longer ring a bell. "Al Gore," for example?

http://www.douglasadams.se/links/

This is officially the high point of my day. Douglas Adams was a fan of Dave Barry! Is that cool or what?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...ustEatGilligan

I can't believe that this never occured to me. Just eat Gilligan! Read the page and you'll get it.

http://www.technosphere.game-host.org/

A site I first stumbled across many moons ago that disappeared for a while, but now has return-ed. Basically, you create a creature, and it either eats other things or gets eaten itself, and perhaps even has offspring. I promise you, you'll not be able to stop with just one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y39gHihP74

Steam Trek! A great fanfilm shot in grainy black and white just like the old silent movies. It even uses those comical dialogue flashcards. The ship needs coal to keep going, so our intrepid crew must descend via ladder to a planet to get mixed up in various hijinks to save the day!

That IQ test is US centred. How TF should I know about nickles and dimes?

However, I am apparently a verbal genius. Which fits - the last WAIS verbal score I got was 153.

Whatever WAIS is.

I'd show off my ACT score, but you guys would hate my guts. More than usual, I mean. ;)

Wechsler (sp?) Adult Intelligence Scale...

You guys should read Dave Barry's spiel on those intelligence quotients Word used to give you when you ran a spelling and grammar check. You know, those things that tell you you write like a third-grader or whatever.

I hate Word. Particularly the words "Passive Voice (consider revising)". What's wrong with the passive? It's not like it outlaws other abnormal forms, even - optatives, subjunctives, perfect passive participles, nominative absolutes, gerunds/gerundives (and no, I'm not sure which is which either...). Why specifically the passive?

Then again, it probably wouldn't mean anything at all to most of us. You could throw any old number out there, and without looking it up I wouldn't have an idea whether it was good, bad or indifferent.

You can go into advanced options for the spelling/grammar checker and select various components to check or not check, including 'passive voice'.

Well, I'll tell you then. I got a 30 overall, which is 97th percentile. I graduated in the top 11 percent of my class!

Didn't know that. Thanks.

Grand. Super. I got a 1230. See? Doesn't mean anything to you, does it?
You know, if you were to ask, I'd bet that you'd find that nearly everyone here could say the same. But don't.

Note that I used percentile as a universal measure. 97th percentile means that of 100 people who took the test, I beat 97 of them. That's darn impressive.

Good stuff, indeed. :)

Well, is everyone enjoying my ever-expanding list of sig quotes? I found the MST one at TVTropes.org. Somehow I find that it applies to a LOT of fivers, and actual Trek episodes, for some reason. :cool:

My motivation for reading them is to find a constructive dementia for me to inflict.

Ugh, that grammar is atrocious.

http://www.reviewboy.com/ravenpoem.html

Jim Wright of Delta Blues fame presents a hilarious sendup of The Raven with Seven of Nine in the Edgar Allen Poe part.

If that the irony of this statement would not go unpunished!

What, is that not proper grammar?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23r9iPq6opg

This happened on the way back from Boston (long story involving American History class)

I'm in there... somewhere

http://members.cox.net/stegokitty/ds.../printable.htm

The Dark Side of the Rainbow

I still find this odd, and more than a little obsessive, but still amusing. Finding a correlation between The Wizard of Oz and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon brings to mind that famous quote of Douglas Adams when confronted with the "6X9=42 in base 13" hypothesis: "I may be a pretty sad person, but I don't write jokes in base 13."

http://homeonthestrange.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=4

The Wish Project

As someone who's often overly obsessive with grammar, I have to give full props to these guys. They have made it their mission to create perfect wishes with no adverse side effects, just in case a genie wanders by. Some of them can get quite elaborate, but that's what it takes to get what you want from a magical being without regretting it.