Archive for July, 2006
What happens when you combine Mario and someone with way too much time on his hands? You get these kinds of things:
Room painted in Super Mario World theme
Mario 64 completed in 16 minutes
Super Mario Bros (NES) completed without the B button in 7 minutes
Mario made out of cans
A video demonstration of just how easy it is to steal a bike in New York City confirms what most of us have known: the bigger the city, the less people care about everyone else. Watch as the demonstrator starts out with bolt cutters and quickly changes to slower, more crude methods, while everyone just [...]
For the non-Mac users out there, QuickSilver is an awesome application that allows you to quickly open any program on your system. You hit apple+spacebar and start typing the program name. It doesn’t sound all that useful (Firefox is a lot to type in), but it learns what you open. Next time [...]
As mentioned in a previous entry, I submitted a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) about a company called “Oceanside Sales and Marketing, Inc.” having children sell their deceptive products as a fundraising effort. The large box of cookies I bought had only ten cookies in it. If that had been the [...]
Although Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert) is exceedingly intelligent, I never expected that he would write a book quite like this. First off, it’s free, which tells you Scott is passionate about it, expects that it is good enough that people will buy a hard copy anyway, or maybe he is just crazy. [...]
