Space.com

Space as in the Universe not as in room although there is a lot of room in the Universe. Space.com may explore many of the up-to-date information of the constantly advancing astronomy category of Science. Photo here.

Boing Boing-> Off World

A new Boing Boing blog has been made to my understanding. It's Boing Boing Off World! Made mostly for the new video games etc. their theme is space as the name suggests. Photo here.

Open source Windows games

Here is a list of open source games for Windows. There are many more open source Windows programs one level up.

Asteroid impact video

Music is The Great Gig In The Sky from Pink Floyd's famous album, The Dark Side of The Moon (third best-selling album of all time).

BRAWL

"'BRAWL' is a non-profit, self and fan-funded, independent web series designed as a parody of the popular Super Smash Bros. Brawl video game for the Nintendo Wii."

Super Obama World

I like this Super Mario parody: Super Obama World!
There is also a related YouTube parody:

Another scary chart

Here's a frightening chart: it shows total US credit market debt (money that has been borrowed by all levels of government, as well as by corporations, and individuals) as a percentage of US gross domestic product (GDP = the total dollar value per year of all goods and services- that is, a measure of how much 'value' there is as measured by how much has actually been paid for stuff). Basically, it is like measuring how much you owe versus how much you spent in a year. Although most people owe more than they spend in any year (easy to do if you have a mortgage), it is generally not good to owe many times more than you can spend...you can't reasonably borrow a million dollars if you have only $50K per year of spending power, because you will never make enough to pay it back.
Look at the Great Depression years, then the years in-between, then the current time.
Yikes.
Click the image for a larger view. For more (but complicated) information and the source, click here.

Lego Mindstorms Creations

Like me this guy has Mindstorms yet I have still much to learn on coding from him he is a master.

Christmas 2008

A few Christmas Things for 2008 one day late (on Boxing day). Photo found at Most Unusual Christmas trees.

Amberial Nebulosa Realms

Amberial Nebulosa Realms is a great game added to the amazing physics Amberial Series. Photo here.

Marcus Graf's Processing applets

www.florito.net has some very nice interactive image generating/morphing toys. Shown here: Attractors_iv

Prickles versus goo

I like this short Alan Watts video.
Photo from DirtyBunny's flickr stream.

Four crashes

Click the image for a larger version.

KOL Wikipedia

If you enjoy the Kingdom Of Loathing as much as I have you may like the idea of a KOL Wikipedia with all the info needed to beat (and enjoy) the game.

Noby Noby Boy

I love this slightly bewildered pre-review (from BoingBoing's new gaming blog) of Noby Noby Boy, the upcoming PS3 game by Keita Takahashi, the guy who made the fabulous but bizarre Katamari Damacy.

Apparently the new game is so bizarre it's hard to describe. When you read an attempt at description you can understand why: "the fundamentals are simple: you control a Noby 'BOY' [who looks like a long snake] with both analog sticks: one for the head, one for the tail, flexing, stretching, and eventually tying yourself in knots, in a playground world that's otherwise devoid of goals."

Real-life Mario Kart

Lights... Camera... Christmas! (Coming Soon)

Some of the very best Christmas Lights on display and caught on camera. The Tree, Perth, 2008 Top, 2007 Top, Crazy 2005,

Teen's 'fantastic' new name

According to ananova.com: "A Somerset teenager has changed his name to Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined.

Music graduate George Garratt, 19, changed his name by deed poll online for £10, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Captain Fantastic said: 'I wanted to be unique. I decided upon a theme of superheroes.'"

Picture from Cayusa's Flickr stream

Age of War 2

It will be coming out soon maybe in a month or two. His blog is Interactive Pixels and gives updates.

Pandemic 1 and 2

Want do make a virus to destroy the world? You've came to the right place try Pandemic 2 and Pandemic 1. Have a killer of a holiday! Photo here.

ecto

   

I just starting trying out this editor called ecto to blog. It looks like it might be very good. It makes it a lot easier to handle tags than blogger does, and has a generally better editor. I'll try it for a while and see what I think.

DSi (New DS)

Finally the new DS (DSi) is out in Japan and photos have been released. It is only available in black or white. More info here and here (Wikipedia).

Evolving Mona Lisa

This guy wrote a genetic program (a computer program that uses natural selection to solve problems) that simulated/replicated the Mona Lisa using 50 semi-transparent polygons. I wonder if any human would have been able to figure out how to do that?

Shown: The 348th and 904,314th generations of evolution.
Via: BoingBoing

Poster on GM Bailout

Via: BoingBoing via buffalobeast.com

Kongregate

Do you want an amazing gaming site it's right here it's called "Kongregate besides having many games it includes badges that award points for getting to a score at some games. It makes it all the more addicting. Also, the site is made in part by Jayis Games!

M of the M

Mario decorating a Christmas tree, well done! Mario of the Month. Photo here.

Massive Losses on NYSE/TSX: Today

Today marks the largest one day loss since the 1987 crash. Read more about the article here. Photo here. -679.95 points or 7.7 per cent for Dow Jones and -864.41 points or 9.3 per cent to 8,406.21 for TSX, only today!

A secret message from a father to his son

Click me.

Pocket Tanks is now playable over a (local) network

The latest version of that great old game Pocket Tanks (available for Mac and Windows) allows players to play across a local network.

Fail dictionary

Confirmed: Scientists Understand Where Mass Comes From | 80beats | Discover Magazine

"Particle physics explains that the bulk of atoms is made up of protons and neutrons, which are themselves composed of smaller particles known as quarks, which in turn are bound by gluons. The odd thing is this: the mass of gluons is zero and the mass of quarks [accounts for] only five percent. Where, therefore, is the missing 95 percent?"
Confirmed: Scientists Understand Where Mass Comes From | 80beats | Discover Magazine

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[Image: Singer Mariah Carey, who has an album called E=mc²]

GM: Bailout Facts (By: GM)

Will the US government bailout yet another massive companie? We'll see. It must be low on money.

PrBoom

PrBoom is an OS X port of the Doom engine, which allows you to play Doom and Doom-derivative games (old-fashioned but fun). You need to find the IWAD data files separately- there is an in-progress free version here, but you can also find the original files if you try hard enough...

Abstruse Goose cartoon

Click the panel above for the rest of this cartoon.

Kingdom of Loathing

Kingdom of Loathing is a type of RPG HTML game but is still exciting if you can get over the certain amount of battles allowed a day and the half repetitive gameplay. But you're sure to get a great laugh at least. Photo here.

Muggle Quidditch

These guys have adapted Quiddich so muggles can play it.

Weird Amusement Parks

A list of just plain weird amusement parks: Part 1 and Part 2. Also, when it comes to scariness in Theme Parks, the USSR is one of the best.

Strange Buildings

Nice collection of 50 strange buildings. Shown here: Kansas City Public Library in Missouri.

M of the M

November Mario of the Month. Photo from here and an interesting Mario ad here.

Warfare 1917

Warfare 1917 is a twist on a Tower Defense game, set in World War I. Instead of defending towers you try to defend your trenches and take more territory. I had a very hard time making it past Level 2, but then I seemed to get the hang of it.

Hoshi Saga Series

A true hidden gem find the star in these 100 minigames/puzzle (won them all): Hoshi Saga (1-35), Hoshi Saga 2 (36-70) and Hoshi Saga 3 (71-100). All games are awesome! Play them. Photo here.

Name statistics

NICHOLAS is the #64 most common male first name

0.275% of males in the US are named NICHOLAS.

Around 336875 US males are named NICHOLAS!

CHRIS is the #96 most common male first name

0.197% of males in the US are named CHRIS.

Around 241325 US males are named CHRIS!

source: namestatistics.com

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Cost of crash: $2,800,000,000,000

According to this article, the recent stock market crash has had a cost of $2,800,000,000,000, or $2.8 trillion.
Picture from the inimitable Brokers With Their Hands On Their Face blog.

Weird Games

Bubble Tanks 2 is a game where you collect bubbles and Adventure Ho! is a "unique" RPG flash game. Photo here.

Triachnid

Triachnid is an unusual Flash game where you control a three-legged spider.

40 video covers of the Super Mario theme.

This site has collected 40 covers of the Super Mario theme. This example on a church organ is by no means the weirdest one in the collection.

Complexification

I have long been a fan of www.complexification.net, a website devoted to artistic computer programming. It uses a free computer language (specialized for visual programming) called Processing that I have always wanted to spend some time learning. There are many more examples here.

Android launches

The T-Mobile G1 phone, the first Android phone (running Google's open source operating system) was just released. I think things will get interesting very fast now in the cell phone world: although v.1.0 of the phone is not going to be perfect, Android's integration with Google's stuff, especially Google maps, combined with GPS in the phone, allows the phone to do some interesting new things. We are going to start to see phones extending the web, not just accessing it. Check out the Android application showcase. Not available in Canada...yet.

Pi pi pi pi

Here's something you don't see (hear) every day: A song about pi.
Image from Wikipedia

Brokers in despair

This blog is devoted to one thing only: Pictures of stockbrokers holding their heads in their hands.
Via: BoingBoing

Thoughtware.tv

Thoughtware.tv is a site that collects "only the best videos and news on Human Progress, ranging from topics such as Transhumanism, Artificial General Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Robotics, Nanotechnology, Life Extension, Biotechnology, Genetics, Ethics and many other fields of Social, Scientific and Technological interest." There is some interesting stuff here. Some of it makes me think of the futurist Ray Kurzweil.

M of the M

Mario Pumpkin here. More Mario snow here.

These Balls Are Made For Hiding

These Balls Are Made For Hiding is simple, hard, addicting game. Photo here.

Funny HaHa and Funny Peculiar

I enjoy this blog devoted to reprinting odd items from the newspapers. When I was a kid I used to read books of misprints and reports of odd items that were called 'Funny HaHa and Funny Peculiar'.
Via: BoingBoing

New Scientist

Deepest fish ever seen. For more video click here.

Artificially evolved walkers

I love to look at these artifically-evolved creatures, some of whom seem so biological it is almost eery. You can download the evolution software (written in Java, which runs on all platforms) here.
Via BoingBoing via kottke.org

Operation Nice

Operation Nice is a blog entirely devoted to the virtue and joy of being nice. A nice idea.

Nintendo to launch new DS with camera + MP3 support

"Nintendo plans to launch a new version of its popular DS portable gaming device with a camera and music player function, according to a report in the Sunday edition of The Nikkei Business Daily."
Read more at Network World.
Pictured: Nintendo DS Bento Box from here.

Ninja Kiwi

Ninja Kiwi is a game site which make fun games e.g. Bloons Defense 3, Hotcorn or Bloons. Photo here.

Test your color discrimination

I was disappointed to do so badly on this test of color discrimination: I got 85 (lower is better). Can you beat me?

Freeware, shareware, demo, & public domain fonts

dafont.com is a good source for freeware, shareware, demoware, and public domain fonts. There is even a Mario and Luigi font (shown sample).