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Garfield the cat doesn’t actually speak, so what would Garfield the comic look like if he just wasn’t there? Apparently it would look like Jon is a mental patient.

by Zach 2 months ago | Link »

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A very cool new scooter design from the MIT Media Lab Smart Cities Group.

by Zach 5 months ago | Link »

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The ROFLCon preliminary guest list is up. They’re trying to get every famous internet meme or celebrity to go to Harvard in April for a conference. Must attend!

by Zach 5 months ago | Link »

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In case you actually decided to try Dwarf Fortress: The best how-to guide ever on how to play.

by Brian 6 months ago | Link »

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Time Monday Jul 31 2006 11:19am

Permalink for '' Spam That’s Hard to Swallow

Author by Grant Tags under , , , , Comments with 0 comments

Romanian visual artist Alex Dragulescu wants you to have your spam and live in it too. His new work Spam Architecture investigates the question of how V14GR@ and 0XyC0nt1n can help inspire flowing curves and gentle slopes. Apparently the answer is “not very well”.

The visualization alorithm uses real 100% unsolicited emails as its input. […]

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Time Thursday Apr 6 2006 12:39am

Permalink for '' Allow Me To Distract You

Author by Brian Tags under , Comments with 2 comments

Look, I know you’re reading this while procrastinating or avoiding other work. So I’ll make it easy for you. Because of our “relations” with the guys over at RRRRThats5Rs.com, we have a special place for flash games in our hearts. Especially different flash games.
Flow
First off, Jenova Chen’s Flow. It’s by the same guy who […]

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Time Friday Feb 10 2006 1:23pm

Permalink for '' How many “R”s was that?

Author by Zach Tags under , , Comments with 6 comments

A couple of friends of ours have finally put content up on the difficult-to-pronounce RRRRThats5Rs.com. Not only is the domain name fiendishly difficult to tell someone about, but the games are also sadistically clever. Don’t Shoot the Puppy in particular is both frustrating and a lot of fun. Give it a […]

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