moebius recursive

I bet this guy has wanted to do this ever since he was a little kid.

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My recent sniglet creations:

Solutionating: Combination of solution and hallucinating. What vendors and software designers do when they convince themselves that their product (solution) does something that it absolutely does not.

Annausysis: Combination of analysis and nausea. That feeling you get during your analysis that tells you just how screwed up something is. Frequently accompanies solutionating.

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fun, humor, ideas, language, sniglet

Here you have it yet another eye candy time waster. I warned you.

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This Wired headline The Lagoons of Titan: Oily Liquid Confirmed on Saturn Moon made my twisted mind think of two possible immediate reactions:

1) Republicans push for a mission to Titan to begin drilling and extraction

2) Some late night infomercial claiming that they could even get a Titan-esque’oily liquid’ stain out of clothing

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dubious, fun, humor

Lost Parrot Tells Veterinarian His Address. No seriously, in Japan.

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This article about a Japanese woman living in a man’s closet without his knowledge reminded me of the character Lazlo from the movie Real Genius.

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Fun to watch once or twice. Please, no one take this as a lesson in how to design a site using flash. Please.

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flash, fun, webdev

Google search is providing enhanced flight tracking info through the ever more productive search box.

I am sure there is a reason for mouth-eyes pictures, I just don’t know what it is. Creepy.

Pretty impressive video of a guy singing a song backwards while performing actions that make it clear that he is not simply rolling the tape in reverse (at least until half way through). My second impression (after amazement) was that this guy has way too much time on his hands.

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If only one of my memory lapses proved to be so profitable…

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Have we really become so politically correct that we have to screen for script-kiddie speak on license plates?

You know that you are not winning hearts and minds when you are forced to make a public statement like this:

“We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.”

This would probably make an amusing party question/activity: determining your porn star name. A quick survey via email yielded these gems from some friends: “Fuzzy Boxwood”, “Bituminous Pineglen”(!) and “Buffy Maple”. Based on those results, I could see this really working for someone ‘in the biz’.

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Interesting visualization of national flags by color. It is somewhat remarkable the consistency in choice of colors across the various cultures and aesthetics.

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flags, color, visualization, ideas

Wired has a longish story about how the CIA used a made-up science fiction movie to smuggle six Americans out of Iran. Strange, but true (I presume).

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cia, movie, iran, strange

In a multi-million dollar deal finalized on Friday, March 31st, the mobrec.com domain name has been sold to Microsoft to support a new, undisclosed online service to be rolled out later this year. With the accompanying NDA, that is all I can really say about it at this point.

I noticed that I (inexplicably) get a fair amount of traffic from the microsoft.com domain, but had no idea that they were more interested in my domain name than my content.

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Now this takes me back: someone has created a simulation of the Amiga GUI in Javascript and DHTML. It was fun to see ‘eyes’ and ‘juggler’ again. The Amiga was my second computer (after the Commodore 64, of course).

Man, was Amiga way ahead of their time.

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Flickr is an excellent general photo sharing site, but sometimes you are looking for specificthings. ST is a web site that collects photos on a specific theme, some of which are kind of off the wall. Fun stuff.

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Wherein a guy gets some African email scammers to re-create the (in)famous Monty Python Dead Parrot sketch in hopes of getting money “from a film making grant”. Hilarity follows (and they actually did a pretty good job of it).

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Building on the annals of beer can wifi extenders a Kiwi eschews a $20,000 link; instead uses a $10 wok to keep a TV station on the air. Priceless.

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This was too funny to pass up.

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These are probably a really bad idea of there is any likelihood that the other guy is going to be toting the real thing.

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Casio has recently celebrated the sale of its one billionth calculator. It is amazing to think about the progression of calculator functionality and form factor over that period of time as well as how they went from being an expensive novelty to an everyday item that is practically given away.

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