Category: Waste Time

Count the 12 guys. Watch carefully as, in a few seconds, they turn into 13 guys.  Matthew Baldwin explains where the 13th guy game from.Stevan Baird points us to another greeking tool (More useful than fun…)About the wapro, or Japanese word processorBarbershop signs from West AfricaProximity – simple and engaging. Nice work, Brian Cable! Good…

Some suggestions on how (not) to speak “Murr-kin“Fun “greeking” machineYou can now download and listen to all the episodes of Dr. DementoThe view from Mt. Everest (thanks to David Teten)Beatles remixesTheo Jansen is a Dutch artist and creator of “beach creatures” – huge wind-powered walking machines made of little more than plastic tubing and glue. …

That outstanding institution of journalism, The Weekly World News, reports on an important fix to an environmental problemShaken faces and… JowlersJason Black points out something similar to boohbah. kids’ games Plaintext outline-summaries of pop songs – funnyStructures from penniesOlder pranksters back a few yearsAnd, of course, up-and-coming prankster Charlie Todd will speak at Gel 2005…

Lejo theater: click “filmpjes” and have a ball. OK, if you must, click GB for English. (Thanks to Lee Humphreys.)Comparing skylines around the world.Bizarre kid-friendly fun (thanks to KP for the reminder)Another oldie but goodie (note, it’s sort of dark humor) “Transparent” computer backgroundsHow do you spell a raspberry?If you’ve been watching my numerous “numa…

We could all learn from this.  How to say thank you in most human languagesSomeone has finally created a Web calculator for an equation I’ve been promoting for years: half plus seven Silly patents (what else?) For kids: animals from the alphabet.  Thanks to Cathy CotterStrange origami10×10 – up-to-the-moment grid of current events in pics…

Bizarre experiment with mixed nuts, run by nutsThe adventures of Chad, the guy who was so into Super Monkey Ball that he decided to live in a ball (bizarre video game commercials)Absolutely bizarre music mixes. (Thanks to Third Coast Festival)  Check out #3 (I’ve Got You) and #13 (Bier Bier Bier Downtown).And this, uhhhh,… I…

Bizarre, bizarre, bizarre Flash video chock-full with pop culture references. (Who has time to make this stuff?)Only a little less bizzare: M. B. Saulnier points us to 3-minute world travelogues, starring a pair of fingers and a lot of paper.Still less bizarre, but cool – dancing Flash-dude movie.Futurist Poetry (thanks to Geoff Ross)I always like…