July 17th, 2010 § 0
To build sympathy with the colorblind, try Wickline’s Colorfilter! Guaranteed to make any webpage look like you have daltonism, dichromacy, or a vision deficiency of another hue. Notice no difference? Perhaps this is no illusion!
Wickline’s Colorfilter. For Sympathy, Awareness, and Diagnosis-at-home.
July 3rd, 2010 § 0
Terry Gilliam, brilliant director of surreal films like Brazil and artist behind all the hilarious animations in Monty Python, knows his stuff. Here he lists what he considers to be the ten best animated films . . . of all time!
June 20th, 2010 § 0
Philosophy Experiments is a fascinating little site with questionnaires to test the internal consistency of your beliefs about stuff like God and murder, as well as a handful of logic puzzles that humans seem hardwired to fail. I never quite understood the Monty Hall problem until I saw it explained here.
The only downside? Needs moar experiments!
December 25th, 2009 § 0
Come, all children, both nears and fars;
Read Rossmore’s Darkness Into Stars—
A Christmas tale for Christmas day
But different in every way
From Yuletide tales the way you’ve thunk:
For this one happ’ns to be steampunk!
September 15th, 2009 § 0
So a week or two ago I was rooting through my hard drive in preparation for leaving for college (which event explains and half-way excuses the recent blogular hibernation in these parts), and I encountered a great host of files I had forgotten about long ago. Amongst them were this mp3 file and this image:
. . . captured in the wilds of the internet and raised in captivity. Zoological research has confirmed that they originally resided on these two websites, respectively, though the former homeland has ceased to be as hospitable as it once was.
Best enjoyed in tandem.
August 23rd, 2009 § 0
In elder days, when þe earþ was young, when everyone talked like Shakespeare, and þe English language was not yet spread þroughout þe world, the alphabet extended beyond the twenty-sixþ letter. Þere was once anoþer letter, named ‘þorn’. Þorn originally stood where þe letters ‘t’ and ‘h’ now substitute in combination; and doing a much more satisfactory job þan þat untoward twosome. An insightful guy by the name of Alex Peak is advocating þorn’s resurrection — and I raþer agree . . . þough þe possible confusion resulting from ‘þ’s similarities to ‘b’ and ‘p’ could be, at times, awkward.
August 5th, 2009 § 0
Every year, on the first 3-day weekend in August (That’s next weekend, this year!), twins from all over converge on Twinsburg, Ohio. And the Twins Days begin! Sports, talent shows, food, singing, a parade, and more — all committed by an army of 2000+ all-natural human clones (the identical ones, at least).
July 28th, 2009 § 1
It’s an escape-the-room Flash game, with puzzles and codes and secret panels. And a Swiss army knife.
Yes, this is not your everyday trapped-in-a-basement incident: here we’ve got tests with actual logic, clues that really lead you, and near-photorealistic graphics. It’s hard, yes, (mayhap even tear-your-hair-out-in-clumps hard), but possible.
I have seen it done.
July 26th, 2009 § 0
Probably the most creative music video I’ve seen in a long time:
July 23rd, 2009 § 0
There’s fear, and then there’s fear. Phobias are the italicized kind.
This site (which I guarantee no Logizomechanophobic person will ever see) lists them all. Or more than anyone cares to know, at least!
