2010 World Cup is lowest scoring competition ever

"2010 is indisputably the lowest scoring World Cup in history."

 From: http://footballpolemics.wordpress.com/ via: http://www.marginalrevolution.com/

The man who sold a $22 billion share in Apple for $800

Ron Wayne co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. At the beginning he owned 10% of the company. Today that 10% would be worth $22 billion. Alas, Wayne sold his 10% back for $800 before Apple succeeded. A rough investment decision! More details at CNN here.
With a tip'o'the hat to Uncle Eric.

OnLive gaming service comes to the Mac

Image via Wikipedia

These are good times for gaming on the Mac: Following Steam's recent arrival, OnLive has now arrived for the Mac. From the site's own description: "The OnLive® Game Service is a revolutionary, on-demand video game platform that delivers the latest and most advanced games instantly over a broadband connection on virtually any PC or Mac®, via a small browser download, or HDTV, via OnLive's MicroConsole™ TV Adapter (coming soon). OnLive enables an entirely new way to discover, explore, purchase and experience the hottest video games from the world's leading publishers."

Shortest possible game of Monopoly

"we started to wonder about what the shortest THEORETICALLY POSSIBLE game of Monopoly would be. That is, if everything went just the right way, with just the right sequence of rolls, Chance and Community Chest cards, and so on, what is the quickest way one player could go bankrupt? After working on the problem for a while, we boiled it down to a 4-turn (2 per player), 9 roll (including doubles) game. Detail on each move given below. If executed quickly enough, this theoretical game can be played in 21 seconds"
Text and video taken from (and further discussion at)  scatter.wordpress.com, via BoingBoing.

Lego robot chess

More info here.
Via Gizmodo.

FIFA US VS England Highlights- In LEGO

Final score: 1-1, even if England was, in my opinion, dominating the game.

Stop motion Super Mario

Pretty impressive.
As usual, via BoingBoing

The Khan Academy

I love what this guy is doing: Salman Khan has recorded over a thousand ten-minute lectures on every topic in the K-12 curriculum (and quite a bit beyond that), and they are all free. There are tons of math lectures. He is doing it primarily as labor of love, not for profit. I hope he gets very rich off it anyway; he deserves it.  Amazing and inspiring to see. Check out the Khan Academy. 
Via: BoingBoingth

M of the M

Mario of the month for July. Based on the game
Mario vs. Donkey Kong series. Via Flcikr.

Coke and Mentos Car

Via Epic Win FTW

The Art of Money

There is a great web page on art made from money here at the Brain Pickings website.
Image shows a hand-made work by American artist Mark Wagner.

With a tip'o'the hat to www.marginalrevolution.com

Lego printer

Via: BoingBoing

My desk is 8-bit

MY DESK IS 8-BIT from alex varanese on Vimeo.
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