Month: October 2005

Cultivate the geek within by taking a look at Physics Flash Animations and Ron Fedkiw’s Physics Movies.

Check out this funny ad for Tennent’s (embedded QuickTime video).

The Chicago Tribune’s front page best expresses the city’s sentiments now that the Chicago White Sox’s 88-year World Series drought has ended (“BELIEVE IT!”), but for more details you’ll probably need to visit some of the sports pages to ensure that the front page headlines don’t disappear in the next couple of days.

geoff_chaucer has posted a translation of the lyrics of Shaft into Chaucerian English:

Wha be tha blake prevy lawe
That bene wantoun too alle tha feres?
SHAFT!
Ya damne righte!

Wha be tha carl tha riske is hals wolt
Fro is allye leve?
SHAFT!
Konne ye?

Wha be tha carl wha ne wolden flee
Whan peril bene all aboughte?
SHAFT!
Verray!

Alle clepe tha carl ane badde mooder-
SOFTE!
Speken of Shaft bene I.
THAN KONNE ALLES WE!

He be a man konne unnethes
Namo save is mayde konnes im.
JOHN SHAFT!

I-Mockery.com has collected a whole bunch of Halloween advertisements from “the last 60 years or so.”

Liquid Generation presents the Flash game/documentary How To Carve A Pumpkin (slightly NSFW).

Just when I thought I’d seen it all…

Inspired by the world’s obsession and devotion to the iPod, iBelieve is a replacement lanyard for your [iPod] Shuffle. It is a social commentary on the fastest growing religion in the world.
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Just toss your old cap habit, pop on the divine iBelieve and rejoice!

I’m speechless, and not just because of the dubious religious statement(s).<!–

They do claim that “$2 from every sale will go to various relief funds and children’s charities,” so if that’s true, I guess that’s something…–>

8-bit Empire Strikes Back is the sequel to 8-bit Star Wars and is an animated .gif file that encapsulates the entire movie.

Space.com has an interesting article entitled Did the Jedi Have It Coming?.

Check out these cool photographs of San Francisco in Jell-O.