Did You Know? 2.0

J suggested this video. His teacher showed it to him.

Another Rube Goldberg Device

Someone's got a LOT of time on his hands...

Do Not Attempt Unless You are an NFL Athlete.

Contrast Cannon

Just shoot the targets. It's just like Putt-Putt! (Except that gravity behaves in a thoroughly bizzare way...)

GAME: 99 bricks

Like Tetris, only harder.

PUZZLE: Auditorium

Lights and colors and pretty streams...

Energuy!

Take Energuy by the hand and show him how to save energy, and watch his goofy dances! While you're doing it, bang him against the ceiling or drive him into the floor!

It's fun! It's violent! It's educational! It's... Well, it's something cool. Or warm. Or energy efficient. Or painful. Or something...

Star gazing

Click the title. Find the star. How you do that is where the fun comes in.

GAME: Spellblazer

Bejewelled meets D&D meets Pokemon.

When they say "patrol the area", it means defeat monsters on the red and yellow paths, turning them green, then you go back to the pulsing city and get your reward.

(Oh, and you can skip the intro. It's long and doesn't say much...)

Hedgehog Launch

Buy stuff. Launch your hedgehog into space with a rubber band, and, maybe, some rockets.

Didn't make it? Buy more stuff and try again.

(You don't actually have to spend money. And no hedgehogs are harmed. And it's not really space. And the ending - after the credits - is really kind of sad...)

Trogdor

This game is so much more fun because of the voiceovers from Strong Bad!

Totem Destroyer

This game is amazingly addictive. Knock away the blocks, but don't let the totem guy hit the ground. Level 24 is when I got tired of it...

Paper Airplane Flight in NYC

Here's a paper airplane thrown from the 31st floor of a building in New York City. Something else to do whenever I get to visit the Big Apple...

The Cast of Spongebob Squarepants in Classic Movies

This was apparently done at the Annie Awards, where the Spongebob Squarepants cast (M.C. Tom Kenny, Rodger Bumpass, Carolyn Lawrence and Bill Fagerbakke) tried to prove that they shouldn't be typecast...

FUNNY: The Sumsing Turbo 3000XL Cell Phone

Notice that it doesn't actually seem to work as a PHONE!

(Click the title to go to the link.)

GAME: Mighty Spidy

Yes, they spelled "spidey" without the "e". If you like being a web-slinging hero, my guess is that this will not be what you expect.

ROBOT: The Bristle Bot

Make a robot out of a toothbrush, a watch battery and a "pager motor" (the little motor that makes pagers and cell phones vibrate.


(As with almost all of these, click the title to go to the link.)

GAME: Virus

Looks old school. Be sure to read the instructions BELOW the game panel. It tells you how to use the bombs. You'll never guess how to use the bombs.

Interact 10 Ways

It's absolutely amazing how long you can just click and click and click and click and click and click and click and... Where did the last six hours go?

GAME: Ragdoll Avalanche

Don't let the spikes hit the stick figure. Spikes are VERY BAD for stick figures...

Rube Goldberg Device

Crazy Rube Goldberg Device

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If Rube Goldberg liked to blow things up.

On Second Thought, Let's Not Go to Camelot...

Two of my geekiest things... COMBINED!!!

Star Trek and Monty Python!

"We're opera mad in Camelot! We sing from the diaphram a lot!"

Korean Freestyle Slalom Rollerblading

Give her a few seconds. She takes a bit to start, but then watch her go!

Thanks to Rev. Sue for the link!

glumbert - Korean Freestyle Slalom Rollerblading

SCOUTING?: Animated knots

I'd write more about this site, but I'm all tied up at the moment.

(OK, I'm sorry. Those responsible for that truly miserable joke have been fired. I'll tie knot to do it again.)

(OK, those responsible for firing those who wrote that miserable joke have been fired.)

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SCIENCE: Space Geek Show

Neat internet show by a guy calling himself Doctor-P. Lots of graphics and effects.

Star Wars vs. Star Treck TNG

OK, so these are Dad's cool sites, and Dad thinks this is extremely cool.

Extremely cool.

(Except that the Death Star's primary weapon wouldn't be maneuverable enough to do much damage to... Sorry.)

GAME: Desktop Tower Defense

Very cool strategy game. Read the rules first.

GAME: Flight of the Hamsters

Make your hamster sore like, well, like hamsters were never meant to soar....

(Hint: Read the instructions. Not everything is apparent.)

Complaints Choirs of the World

That's right. Complaints choirs. Choirs where people sing random complaints. You got a problem with that?

Stick Soccer

Not as much fun as the baseball, IMHO, but it is soccer!

If you dig straght down...

This Google Maps mashup will show you where you'd end if you dug straight down from anywhere on earth. (They always told me I'd end up in China, but just a glance at a globe tells you that can't be true.)

GAME: Shuffle

Kind of like billiards. I guess....

GAME: Stick Baseball

How often do you get to hit as Babe Ruth???

GAME: The Distraction Game

Hey!!! Get out of the way, dog!!! And what's with the flash camera!!

Animator vs Animation II

This time, he creates "The Chosen One"...

Giant Wii Remote Caption

Click the title to see a rather inventive Wii remote, and some humorous possible captions.

Lazy Wii Guy

So maybe you don't need to get all that exercise with a Wii after all... (Click on the title for an article at Engadget that has a movie.)

Birthday Calculator

Click the title to find out more about your birthday than you ever want to know. (I, for example, will be able to boil 4.8 ounces of water on my next birthday.)

Will It Blend? http://www.willitblend.com

This site is getting really popular. The Blendtec blender people put just about everything in their blenders: golf balls, light bulbs, an iPod.... Go to the "Don't Try This at Home" section. (And the "crowbar" is a bait-and-switch, BTW.)

Also, while I was there, I stumbled upon this short and funny video. It's not what you think it is.

Spikey Ball Game

Be sure to read the directions. Otherwise, you'll probably die on the first level.

Attack of the Sprouts

Smash the Brussel sprouts, or you have to eat them...

Mister PicassoHead

Like Mr. Potato Head, but artsier!

The Human Clock

Time flies when you've got a whole bunch of people taking pictures.

Moon Trees

Trees grown from seeds that were taken to the moon. Pretty cool!

Fun with Roller Coaster Tycoon 3

TIME.... is still marching on!

Line Rider Game

Featured in Time magazine, build a course with your pencil, and watch the little guy on the sled ride it out. Or maybe not. Life can be short for a little guy on a sled....

Updated Snake Game

Back in the day, we used to play a game called snake, where you had to eat the bits of food, which made you grow longer, only you couldn't touch yourself or the wall. Single color snake. Four drections. Keyboard only. No mouse. No music.

And we were thankful.

The Dots Game

You know, the one we play in restaurants and stuff where you've got to make boxes and keep your opponent from making boxes? This is a computer single-player version of that.

Play

Fun shockwave flash movie. When it says "Play", click to start it.

Punch through the ice

For some reason, it's called the "Nex" game. You're this guy running along and there are these big walls of ice in your way. Click at the right time and you punch through. Don't click and, well, you don't.

The Very Long Pi Song

In case you every have to memorize the first, say, hundred or so digits of pi, maybe you can sing this catchy song!

The Never-Ending Dugong (Manatee) Song

It doesn't have wings, because that would be silly.

Looking for Pie

Fairly simple Mario-like platform game with a little blob that really likes pie....

Flying Around in Google Maps

You can fly the little airplane around New York, or Disneyland, or Paris, or ...

Use the arrow keys for up and down, left and right. A to go faster. Z to go slower. Space bar to fire bullets, though I can't figure out why...

Pool Tricks

Nonlinear Cornstarch

The third man listed on this video's title (Harry L. Swinney), graduated from Rhodes College (my alma mater). I get to hear him speak once.

The cornstarch and water mixture sits on a vibrating table that shakes it really hard and really fast. The results (through the "magic" of nonlinear physics), look truly bizarre. Watch the whole thing through...

What's it like to be color blind?

A color-blind website designer blogs about what it means to be color blind. It's from a design perspective, but it's still pretty cool.

Class Hamsters

They learn about science. The HARD way...

Online Art Lessons

Huge collection of online art lessons.

I might try one myself.... I think I'll draw a face.... a happy face... and a mustache... and big eyes... OK, let's see how it turned out:

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(*@#$!!! They hung it up sideways!)

[Note: I just saw that they need a registration to take many of the lessons. The registration is free, but they still want information from you.]

GAME: Crazy Pong Game

Y'all don't remember PONG, but you'll figure this out pretty quick.

NFL Rule Changes for 2006

The last one there, about inadvertant whistles, is my favorite new rule. It should have been in place years ago.

Underground Nuclear Explosion

Just in case you get the idea that a nuke is not such a big deal...

Balancing Point

This is an incredibly cool video. A little more information at this blog.

Disaster Map

If you're ever think that you're feeling too good about the world, this rapidly updating map of earthquakes, radiation leaks, volcanos, bird flu, and more should put you back into an appropriate level of "AAAAAAAH!!!!!"

(Or, you could just feel good when none of that stuff is too close to YOU...)

The Cool Calvin and Hobbes Collection

That is, of course, John Calvin, the 16th century theologian, and Thomas Hobbes, the 17th century philosopher.

NOT!

This site has all kinds of stuff about the world's most eloquent six-year-old and stuffed tiger.

Incredible Dancing on a Unicycle

Unicycles and dancing. Seems like another good fit...

Robot Soccer

Robots and soccer. Seems like a good fit....

Amazing Stop Motion Video - www.2BlogGadgets.com

Stop-motion photography and classic video games. This must have taken FOREVER to do.

The Size of Our World

Click the title to get a sense of proportion.

What's That Bug?

Lots of pictures of bugs. Some really strange ones. Like the one climbing up your neck!

Cursor Kite

It's a kite that looks like a big cursor in the sky...

Flatlife

Jonas Geirnaert graduation project "FLATLIFE" (2004), selected for Short Films in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2004.

High Speed Photography

Find the video of the baloon popping (4th one from the left on the top row). Really cool. (If you film in high speed, you can play it back in super-slow-motion.)

The other clips on the site are cool too.

Make your own Trampoline Game

You make the game out of ball bearings, baloons, peanut cans and wooden dowels.

Draw Like Jackon Pollack

Jackson Pollack was an artist who did abstract art by dripping paint onto canvas.

Click on the title to do the same thing without the mess. (Hint: Click the mouse to change colors.)

The official blog of the FOSTER'S HOME FOR IMAGINARY FRIENDS production crew.

It's called "BLOGregard Q. Kazoo".

FUNNY: Chico Marx at the Piano

This is some phenomenal, er, unusual piano playing. Funny stuff.

Renactment of Pointilist painting

Sunday (no, Saturday) in the park (no, Wisconsin) with George (well, somebody there was probably named George.)

This is pretty cool.

Rocket Muppets

Because what Ernie's friend Bert always wanted was a rocket stuffed up each leg...

Yeah, y'all need more games...

Clear skulls of the same color from the board, eh? There's a timer, eh?

OK, so this is a little bit political, but...

How often do you get to tell the President of the United States what to say? (Not really, of course.)

Magic Trick (but REALLY freaky)

OK, so this is a bit scary, so don't watch it if it's going to freak you out.

You know who you are.

It's only a trick. Here is a story that talks about it over at Snopes.

Fire Rainbow

Just so you don't think this is photoshopped or anything, have a look at the amazing "Fire Rainbow" at the myth-debunking site Snopes.com. They explain it too.

The Lyrebird Video

Stay with this one. Don't give up just because nothing blows up in the first ten seconds. You'll be amazed.

The lyrebird in Australia has the most amazing song, or, rather songs. The spot was voted the favorite segment by the incredible David Attenborough on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

Seriously, you'll want to talk about this one.

GAME: COLOR box

Something like Tetris, but with single blocks, and their different colors, and there's no time problems, so I guess it's not really like Tetris....

DANCING: I guess....

So this guy invents a suit that lets him make music by dancing. And then he writes a computer program to let you "choreograph" his dance.

Weird. You'll love it.

GAME: Keep the Ball in the Air

Keep the tennis ball in the air by clicking at the right place at the right time.

Card Tricks Revealed

Amaze your friends! Amaze your enemies! Have a good reason for keeping an entire deck of cards together, and not spread out all over the family room!

Attraction/Reflection Toy

Move the circles and play with the water drops!

Ping Pong Ball into Plastic Cup

Sounds easy?

Yeah, baby! Radio Controlled Acrobatics

GAME: Click Drag Type 2

No instructions.

Figure it out.

GAME: Noodle Mine

I think this is from a noodle company in Britain. Or, it could be from some raving lunatic who happens to think sheep live underground and you mine noodles.

Either way, it's a side-scrolling Flash game (like SuperTux).

Jet Set Show

From the producers of Rocketboom, it's a show for kids.

Juga Bonito

The beautiful gane.

Also, have a look at this:

SCIENCE (?): Mentos and Diet Coke Fountains

Who knew you could make a fountain out of Mentos and Diet Coke?

Rock Paper Scissors 25

This is the site where the 25-item Rock/Paper/Scissors/Dragon/Alien/Cockroach/... game is outlined.

Spanish Castle Optical Illusion

OK, it's an optical illusion.

There's this picture of a castle which looks kind of yellow and blue. You stare at it for 30 seconds. (You can blink.) Then, without taking your eyes off the picture, you move your mouse onto it. For an instant, it's color, then it goes to black and white.

If you move your mouse onto it without staring, it's just a black and white picture.

FUNNY, SCIENCE: Rube Gold-burger

From the Zoom folks: make the Rube Goldberg device put together lunch for the TV crew.