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Overheard on an airplane

Lady in front of me to one of her neighbors: "I don’t understand why they even bother making the seat cushions float–have you ever heard of a water landing? When you hit water it’s like hitting concrete." Ummm, hello? When you hit the runway, it’s even more like hitting concrete. [Edit: changing category from MSN's [...]

Hapland 2

A sequel to the original Hapland puzzle has been released! http://www.foon.co.uk/farcade/hapland2/ (I think I posted the previous one, but just in case: http://www.foon.co.uk/farcade/hapland/.)

Puzzle fix

http://web6.midworld.luxadmin.org/game.html http://www.deviantart.com/view/8666529/

Video game remixes

I admit: I love the vast amounts of 8- and 16-bit nostalgia being poured out by geeks (surprisingly even those in the mainstream) these days. SNES on eBay? $35xBox 360 launch price? Dunno–$399 maybe?Zelda and remixing? Priceless. http://www.ocremix.orghttp://www.vgmix.comandhttp://www.gamingfm.com

How many mm^2 does _your_ car use?

Want to know your vehicle’s fuel economy in mm^2? Google will tell you. How exactly this works (and probably more importantly, what in the hell it actually means) is left as an exercise for the reader. Feel free to leave a comment to show the world how smart you are. Google Search: 25 mpg in [...]

I’m a pilot!

About 4 months after my first loggable flight back in January, as of today I am a licensed private pilot! I showed up at the Boeing Field today around noon to have my instructor go over the checklist of stuff that I needed to have with me for the examiner to review. We had that [...]

Smartstick adventure

http://www.hedonistica.com/flash.php?path=/flash/smartstick.swf&w=550&h=400

Cupstacking

This is just plain strange. I always wonder how people get motivated to spend every second of their spare time practicing useless skills. Granted, it is extremely fun to watch such amazing feats of dexterity… http://www.speedstacks.com/home.htm

Today’s instructionless puzzle

Both v1 and v3.764 have some fun challenges to offer. http://nocircles.com/index.php?boyhave=flash

Movie review: Cellular

I just watched the movie "Cellular". It was a pretty fun little thriller involving a kidnapping and a poor dude who gets sucked in to the whole deal just because he answered his cellular phone. Makes me even less interested than ever in answering the phone when it’s a number that I don’t already know. [...]