Have you ever had that urge where you want to see sexy, attractive women who have been ripped to shreds, reanimated, and are now posing evocatively for the camera?
If you have, go to ZombiePinups.com and buy one (or 20!) of their pinup calendars (and please, please, please don’t tell us about it!
[ Link submitted by CurtisP ]
The overview of the calendar showing all 12 months of pinups
Jane Doe #27-4138-722-1F bobbing for apples
Ever wonder what hapened on a particular date in history (like your birthday)? How about a particular year (”I know that year was important, I just can’t remember why!”)?
There are a lot of sites out there to help with that (even WikiPedia to a degree), but I found the wonderfully named Spiritus Temporis to be both easy to use and fairly comprehensive.
Pick a year in history and give it a shot - you might be surprised what you learn!
The site’s a little ad-heavy, but they’re reasonably well targeted to your search (Google!).
The date search allows you to specify whichever information you want and leave the rest blank
I searched on the year 1893 and found that my favorite symphonics piece premiered that year!
(to avoid sound overly snobish, I’ll admit that I can only name like 5 pieces of symphonic music, but still…)
Bloxor was, at the time of it’s creation, a one-of-a-kind sort of game. The idea is to roll the little cube(ish) thing around and get it to slide, satisfyingly, down into the little square hole.
It sounds simple (and sometimes it can be), but it’s also insidiously misleading.
This is one of those “you have to try it to “get” it.
So do that (try it, I mean).
This is the start of one of the aforementioned “insidiously misleading” levels.
Same level, I’m about to finish, I just have to stand up the block in the whole and I’m done!
(Ignore that 367 Moves thing, that HAS to be a mistake, doesn’t it?)
And of course there are a plethora of cool little wrenches to throw in the works - this one is a teleporter!
POTRTP = Picture Of The Random Time Period, I.E. I’ll put ‘em up when I find ‘em!
Enjoy!
You remember that favor you asked me for? Yeah, I don’t think so.
99Bricks is very distantly a “Tetris-Like” game that’s a little different. The blocks follow real world physics and the goal is to stack them as high as possible.
This is significantly more difficult than you might imagine. The blocks slide around, roll off, shift under the weight of new blocks, etc.
You get a trophy icon if you can manage a tower or 350, but I never even made 300!
What, you think you can do better? Just TRY it, buddy!
Here I am in mid-topple. The game doesn’t end here, of course, I still have 38 Bricks to stack!
The image below shows the current, state of the art technology in TAHs (Total Artificial Heart)s. While it’s only been used so far in 7 patients, 6 of who didn’t survive long enough to leave the hospital, the reasons for the failure were NOT failure of the device, they were primarily failure of the body to accept it. This may sound like word games, but the difference is that the researchers know how to fix the latter problem. We’re well on our way to a truly man-made, replacement heart (and let’s not forget the 7th patient who has lived with the heart for over a year and leads a fairly normal life).
So, anybody know any Nausicans who really need to be messed with?
(Hey, I can only resist so much!)
The AbioCor TAH is currently in the early stages of an FDA
sponsored feasibility study and is probably a few years from
approval as a valid, natural heart replacement.
On the night of October 20th, a strange pinkish-purple cloud (as seen in the picture below) appeared over London for just over an hour starting at around 8:30 London time. People proposed a lot of strange theories as to what could cause the phenomena, but the final “official” story was that it was a “low altitude cloud reflecting light from the city”.
Does this sound like a cover-up of some kind to anyone besides me? I’m not saying it was aliens or mega-psychics, but maybe a gas leak of some sort that somebody didn’t want to admit to?
Who knows, really, but it sounds an aweful lot like the excuse that “J” made in “Men In Black” to explain the bug’s space ship…
I’m just sayin’.
An interesting view of the “low hanging cloud” that appeared over London for about an hour.
I don’t know about everyone, but I’d say that at least most of us have imagined how cool it would be to have a sweet lookin’ ride that was completely covered in beautiful, shiny, reflective chrome!
Stainless Steel? Yeah, DeLoreans are cool, but they’re not chrome! I want to have people in every direction around me completely blinded by the sun reflecting off of my awesome car.
Ah… I remember those dreams…
Ah look at the beauty… James Bond would be proud!
Speed racer should BE so lucky!
And I would never consider even having a dream about taking it out on the streets!
If you’re using OpenOffice (and you should be), you’re probably already aware that version 3.0 is out and it’s even better than before.
Well, here’s an article on MakeUseOf.com that shows you 9 plugins to OpenOffice that make it better still!
Oh, did I mention that I recommend OpenOffice? And that it’s Free?
Well, I do, and it is. So there.
(Go get it and try it if you aren’t already using it!)
Here’s a shot of OO Writer editing of H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine”
And here’s a view of the Writer’s Tools dropdown (which is only ONE of the nine in the article!)
And finally, here’s a view of the option box for selecting a new Presenter (I.E. PowerPoint) Template
