Category: Cool

Fiesta Bowl: Boise State 43, Oklahoma, 42 in overtime on a gutsy two-point conversion. Congrats to the Boise State Broncos on a gritty well-played game and hopefully this victory will put more pressure on folks to get rid of the BCS. And anything that keeps aggravating Oklahoma even more after losing to Oregon is always good (and yes, I know Oregon got thumped by BYU — I never said Oregon was a better team, just that I don’t like Oklahoma).

Update: Below the jump is a video of the last few minutes of the game, including overtime.

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YouTube, for all it’s successes and content, succombs to the copyright police quite a bit and pulls videos off their site. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t find it elsewhere — and this little tool will make it a ton easier.

Somebody obviously has far too much time on their hands as they were able to create this massive collection of complete instructions for every Lego set ever made. I might have to dig my crate of Legos out of my closet now.

These things are just amazing.

It is a circular table which, when rotated at its outer perimeter, doubles its seating capacity, yet astonishingly remains truly circular.

The expansion leaves are stored within the table and, in just four seconds, smoothly and quickly emerge upon rotation, rising and radially expanding outwards as the entire top is turned through 30°. Existing tables can seat six persons when small, and twelve or more when expanded, but there are other design possibilities.

Be sure to watch the videos of these undoubtedly expensive tables in action.

Worried that the guy at the bar that’s hitting on you might not work out, but still want to give him a chance? Or want to list something for sale online but don’t want to give out your home phone number? Give out a craigsnumber, and auto-expiring free phone number. They have local numbers for a bunch of major metro areas (I wouldn’t expect Bend to appear on that list any time soon).

This games have been killing off far too many hours lately

• It’s a marketing campaign for Altoids, but The Great Flying Mintini is stupidly fun.
• I was so dang close to completely filling the board on Picto.
• Like Smack the Penguin, Ice Slide is another fun winter-time “How far can you launch the animal?” game. I launched the seal 343 meters.
• You have to install this one, but Armadillo Run is a fun little game as are many of this year’s IGF Finalists.
• A simple game called Tilt (thanks Dave).
• Mission in Snowdriftland has a classic retro feel that I just love (reminds me of Super Mario Bros. 3).
• Jardinains 2 is way better (and way more stable) than the previous version of this stupidly fun Breakout-clone.
• And here are 25 others to kill off your day.

Enjoy!