A pongy shirt generally is in need of a good wash (or in some sad cases ala my black t-shirt a throw out). This one on the other hand is full of table tennisy/pong goodness. It’s also from glennz.com.
Shirt of the day: Perpetual motion
This Perpetual Motion Device from Glennz.com is pretty awesome though not technically possible. Glennz calls it “Eternal Exercise”…
Happy Birthday: Tetris
Tetris turned 25 yesterday (or today, depending on where you sit on the international date line). 25 years ago Russian progammer Aleksei Pazhitnov sat down and wrote the most addictive game ever.
It is arguably the greatest Russian invention ever. Greater even than the Great Moscow Circus.
The Guardian has a great feature on the game to celebrate the milestone.
Twenty-five years ago, inside the bowels of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow, a young artificial intelligence researcher received his first desktop computer – the Soviet-built Elektronika 60, a copy of an American minicomputer called a PDP-11 – and began writing programs for it.
But not numerical ones. He ended up creating one that would infest the dreams of those who played it, spurring addictions and even the suspicion that it was a Russian plot to divert the youth of America in a pointless exercise.
Here’s what it originally looked like…
And here’s what the creator looked like in 1989…
And here’s what he looks like now (on the right)…
And here are all my previous Tetris posts to mark the occasion.
Pac-ing on the calories
So you’ve always wanted your own Pacman action figure – only to realise that an action figure based on three quarters of a 2D circle isn’t really all the much fun. But lollies are always fun especially Pacman lollies. Especially these Pacman lollies.
Wiggedy Whack
The picture I made this post about is now unavailable…
I’m not sure you can actually buy this anywhere – but there is a modern alternative…
With reference to the title – I actually know Wickety Wak’s manager. I’m not sure if that really means anything to anybody. But hey. If you’re a big fan let me know, and I’ll hook you up.
Bangers and mash
We all know a good mashed potato needs just the right amount of seasoning. Which becomes easier if you can manage your dosage in caliber form… with these awesome salt’n’pepper pistols.
So Peter Piper now packs his pick of “pinch” or pepper… that was poor.
Self filtering
You’ll be happy to know (particularly those following the whole blog off thing) that I generally only post about 40% of my ideas. Which means a 60% increase in posts shouldn’t be a problem.
A bunch of links – June 2, 2009
- An Evangelical for Gay marriage
- Planting at The Village
- Google Local Lures Small Businesses With Their Own Web Dashboard
- Hand Luggage Only: The Small Lessons Learned
- Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Windows Downloads [Downloads]
- Apparently Bing Is Something Of A Hit
Interesting in the light of recent discussions here about government and the role thereof, and Christian lobby groups…
Geek Tattoo
This is the geekiest tattoo I’ve ever seen…
I hope for his sake that the tags aren’t closed.
YouTube Toosday: Con job?
Young Cons – the Young Conservatives (unless it’s a parody) have some issues separating America from the “Kingdom of God”… but this is pretty funny.
“The more money we spend the more mine is worth jack, the Bible says we’re a nation under God…”
Umm, that’s probably the Pledge of Allegiance you’re confused with…
YouTube Tuesday: Entertainering
Giant Pianos are the new black (and white), or at the very least the new Dance, Dance, Revolution.
Sadly, there are heaps more where that came from.
Soap Invaders
These soaps are obviously designed to lure geeks into the shower. And it just might work… but grapefruit scented? What were they thinking.
Friend + Friend + Swiss Ball = Awesome
Somersaulting on one exercise ball is awesome – but two guys somersaulting on one exercise ball is doubly so. From here.
Pick your battles
This SolaPanel post comes at a particularly relevant moment what with all my inner-argumentative-angst navel gazing and debates about what issues are worth fighting for.
- Fight for what is right. (truth)
- Argue for what will work. (tactics)
- And keep quiet about everything else. (preference)
Fight for the God-given Biblical principles, argue for how to put them into practice and just leave all the personality or preference issues up to each person to work out for themselves. I can hesitate on preference, in a meeting I can even back down on my view of tactics, but I must never back down on truth.
Me, I fight on all three, but care about 1 and 2 almost equally (and interchangeably – the media is the message afterall… Or something like that).
Posts at dawn
Simone, Ben, myself and others have entered into some sort of blog off. The rules have already been rigged so that I can’t win. But I plan to anyway.
Here’s how they’re sticking it to the man (me) with the rules… but feel free to enter…
- Nathan’s first 50 posts don’t count. Sorry they just don’t. We need a little head start. So Nathan starts at -50. For the rest of us, we start at zero. Blogger with the most posts at 11.59pm on the 30th of June wins.
- Any post that clearly has no point isn’t counted. To judge a no-pointer, we look to the blogger’s blogging history. If they wouldn’t have posted it last month, it doesn’t count this month. (luckily this doesn’t really rule out anything for me…)
- You (I) can only count posts in your main column!
Thankfully, I can’t see this actually harming the quality of the things I post.