Check out these screenshots of the standard def version of The Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship of the Ring compared to the high-def version of it and you’ll see how this stupid format war needs to end now so it’s not a complicated pain in the butt to enjoy this stuff.
Category: Cool
Fun Flash Timekiller
This will kill off quite a bit of your day. The goal is level 16, but I could only make it to 15. How about you?
The Love Mattress
I mentioned a while back an xkcd comic for a great mattress for couples. Looks like somebody’s gone and created the concept for something similar:
This version doesn’t have the Rock ’em Sock ’em Robots like the xkcd version does, which I believe is a requirement for this thing to go to market.
Link via BB.
Real Life Tetris
Playing Tetris with humans would be far more entertaining than the video game:
New Year Clearing Out Random Link Dump
To ring in the New Year and to start anew, here are the links that I’ve just had sitting here for a long while in various places around my hard drive. These are totally random, some fun, some interesting, some funny, some just downright scary, but should keep you entertained for a bit.
(And before I post all these, I wanted to wish everybody a happy and safe new year. Welcome ot 2008, everybody, and feel free to share your resolutions below.)
Links below and videos after the jump.
- Social Engineering Gone Wrong (I’ve had conversations like this).
- 8 Things You Don’t Really Have To Do.
- Tim O’Reilly is thankful he’s not Bill O’Reilly (I would be, too).
- The Biggest Data Disaster Ever.
- Swearing at work increases company morale.
- How to track down anybody online.
- Find Free MP3s at BeeMP3.
- Everybody who lives in Bend and is proud of our landmark butte needs this shirt.
- How did Futurama’s Zoidberg get his name? From an Apple II game that Futurama creator David X Cohen created.
- The problem with mainstream media today.
- FOIA reform: Bloggers are journalists, too.
- Laura Bush wishes she could stop s**ting blood.
- Moron crook for the day manages to get featured on the front page of a newspaper cleaning up in front of his business as well as robbing a store.
- One ridiculously expensive Starbucks drink.
- Boise firefighters return to find firehouse on fire.
- The 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2007.
- On the Bulletin’s free music downloads.
- Hot-or-Not-style Wedding Betting.
- Fake Warrant Generator.
- Mariah Carey’s Saudi Arabia Album Covers (yes, they’re legit).
- What is your home’s Walk Score?
- A bunch of Lifehacker top 10 lists with WiFI tweaks, body hacks, PDF tricks, iPhone apps, and more.
Videos after the jump.
Happy Festivus
As one of the traditions of the holiday, it’s time to air your grievances. Anonymously or otherwise, contribute below. Or feel free to put your grievances to song:
The Return of The Killer Christmas Light Display
A couple years back, I posted a video that nearly blew up this server because of the bandwidth it used. It even caused me to have to move Web hosts (500 connections per second on a six megabyte video would kill most barebones shared hosts like I had). It was an incredible Christmas light display set to music.
After hearing “Wizards of Winter” again on the radio today, the song in the background of that video, I thought of it again, and wanted to make sure the newcomers to this site who weren’t here during the German invasion (read the entry and you’ll understand) got a chance to see it during this holiday season. So enjoy the show, everybody (and if anybody has a higher-res version of the vid they can send me, by all means do).
Stupidly Fun Blog For The Day
One man’s quest to play all 4,000 old-school arcade games in the Twin Galaxies record book. He creates a blog post for each game he plays, and the results and his commentary are hilarious.
Link via Waxy.
Frustrating Game for The Evening
I got to level 15 25 32 37 of this before I was so miffed that I had to quit.
Update: OK, I really need to quit playing this…