Some of the most clever paper engineering I’ve seen has resulted in the transformation of a pair of Paris Métro tickets into an itty bitty X-wing fighter. X-wing en tickets de métro step by step contains all the instructions you need to convert your Métro tickets into the premier starfighter of the Rebel Alliance.
In the “stunning waste of time better spent doing something productive” department, it’s hard to beat the list of company name etymologies at Biography.ms. There’s more trivia here than you’ll find in most very trivial things.
After some complaints about not being able to view the puppy images, I’ve resized them to a more manageable 800×600. The automatic popup image generation facility in Movable Type is pretty cool, but unresizable popup windows that contain 1600×1200 images won’t fit on most people’s monitors.
My apologies for the unusable images; they’re now a much [...]
We have a new family member who hasn’t received nearly the amount of public attention she is entitled to, so it’s time to commit a random act of bad taste and post more pictures of puppies on the Web.
Penny (or Platinum’s Pennies from Heaven, as she’s known among the canine cognoscenti) is a Basenji pup, [...]
Ever needed to find a proper, scientific name for a class of critters, such as “bovine” for cows or “lupine” for wolves? Here’s a great list of animal adjective forms that covers much of this ground, provided it ends in -ian or -ine. This kind of stuff makes the language geek in me smile.
via Steve [...]
My wife finally succumbed to peer pressure and started her own LiveJournal. Largely, this was a result of not wanting to repeat herself every time someone wants a status report on recent events in our little family, particularly our latest electrical and plumbing fiasco.
Speaking of which, the long form of the electrical nightmare is thus:
You’re famous, and your exploits should be recorded in a beautifully embroidered tapestry that will awe future generations. The only problem: you lack the mad sewing skills required for such an undertaking. What to do?
You could do worse than the Historic Tale Construction Kit. This lovely little Flash toy lets you assemble your own story [...]
There’s some great gift advice for parents at What a Crappy Present. Don’t buy your kids CDs from major record labels. You’re supporting an industry that uses graft as its primary business model, and chances are your kids have already downloaded those tunes, anyhow.
Once Upon a Dime presents a little Flash game called 12 Pixel Heroes, in which you are asked to identify superheroes who have been reduced to a three by four grid of colored squares. I was able to identify 19 of the 21 heroes presented, despite the low resolution.
It says something about the visual impact [...]
Levitated is a site I keep going back to time and time again, because it contains an endless variety of mesmerizing and entertaining Flash animation. Unlike most of the gaudy Flash toys on the Web, Jared Tarbell’s creations are elegant, at times introspective, and always fascinating to watch. This is more than a collection of [...]
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