This story is simultaneously disgusting and fascinating Most things on this blog look gross, but this is a perfect example of bacon making everything better
Without question I can say that this is the best flowchart ever to appear on graphjam
Well finish up today with a really neat stop motion video. There is no telling what it cost in either prints from a developer or photo printer ink
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Not much web junk this week and I'm not really sure why. But enjoy these 2 links and a classic video. One of my all-time favorites. I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've ever seen "the cheese placement was all wrong," listed as the reason for a crime
This cracked me up and I'm sure every guy in the world would like a good answer
I've posted this video before, but it's pretty much hilarious so enjoy it again.
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Is your computer screen a little dirty? This might help Please sign this petition and reunite the cast of Saved by the Bell
I'm a total hippie because I observed Earth Hour. Here's a really neat photo gallery of some cities around the world as they observed
I almost posted an April fool's joke here complete with a snarky comment. It's the only one I bit on, and now I feel stupid
Speaking of jokes, is America being punk'd? Because this story says if every penny we generate this year goes to the bailout, we could actually pay for it.
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This will be worth your 5 minutes. Especially the part with the chess board
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This kid is seriously named Jed I. Knight And this is seriously the greatest Star Wars action figure of all time
While I'm on this science fiction theme, here's some answered questions from the Battlestar Galactica finale.
I have no idea what tilt-shift is, but it makes really neat pictures
This graph pretty much describes my kitchen perfectly
I didn't see a lot of good web videos this week. But this was the best. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywu1DeqXTg4]
Last weekend I tried out a new type of scavenger hunt. Because of the technology we used, it would not have been possible a few years ago. I thought I would share the details of it here on my blog for others to copy and improve upon. Why would I simply give away my hard work? Because many others have been generous to me in this way. All I ask is that if you try this and successfully improve upon it in some way, leave a comment and tell us how you made it work better. I will call it the reverse bingo scavenger hunt. Here is how it works.
First I went around town and took pictures of both public places and homes of church members. If those things were obscure enough, then I left them as they were. In other cases I cropped the context out of the pics. For example, in one case I took a picture of a lake behind an apartment complex, that is completely beautiful and completely public, but there's no reason to assume that anyone in my youth group had ever seen it. That photo I left intact. But then I took a picture of just one panel of a window in a nearby school, or the back side of a sign, leaving very little contextual clues surrounding it. Then I assembled the photos into a bingo board. Here it is:
The reason I am calling it reverse bingo is because in normal bingo each player has a different board and everyone has the same numbers to cover it. In this case there is only one board and the teams get their pieces separately.
I gave the teams a 10 second look at the board. Then I provided them a handout with all the pictures printed on it, but not in any order. I also gave them a sealed copy of the bingo board with instructions not to open it. The sealed board was only to be opened when the teams were notified. (My plan was to allow them to open it after 1.5 hours, or if it was obvious that no team was going to get a bingo.)
Now you see the challenge. The teams knew how to get the pieces, but not where they fit on the board, only I knew that.
Here's where the technology comes in. Each team had a camera phone, and the email address of a flickr account and a twitpic account. Their instructions were to take the same picture with one of the team members in it, then they send the pictures to the 2 addresses. I would place a chip on their board as soon as I received it, and the first team to get a bingo was the winner.
The weak link was definitely with the phones and photo services. Flickr worked perfectly. However, twitpic was not up to the task; it only received the updates from one team. (My hope was that twitpic would get the photos and twhirl would alert me when they arrived. That plan was an epic fail) Another team had to switch to a new phone, because I was not receiving any updates from them. After a couple of adjustments however, I was receiving photos from all teams. Then it was jut a matter of covering the right square. As soon as a team got a bingo I texted out bingo and they returned to the church.
Our church is in an urban environment and no picture was more than 6 miles from the starting point. It took only abuot an hour to complete.
You've all seen daft hands and daft bodies. Now you can have your own daft keyboard I knew there was a reason I sometimes stare at my keys and wonder which one I need. Apparently my brain is declining
I have March madness, but I'm not ever doing this
This is an impressive win
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Today is my favorite TV watching day of the year. I love the NCAA tournament, especially the first two rounds. I will be working some today but with digital cable and 4 games at a time most of the day, I'll be pretty distracted. Also I have read somewhere that the NCAA office pool is the most popular workplace game of all. With the advent of the internet it's easy to join many groups and play at multiple places. I assume that everyone is in at least 2 bracket pools.
Now the age old question.
Do you enter the same bracket (a sheet of integrity) into all your groups or do you play multiple brackets for multiple groups.
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If you are the sheet of integrity type, let us know your final 4 in the comments.
Urban Camouflage - Realtree is replaced by realbox I often say that love is not a feeling. Here's an example of why I say that
This is probably the awesomest toilet ever
Here's some inspiration for your Friday.
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And the best video of the week...Ricky Gervais and Elmo
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I do not know if I can convey with words the awesomeness of the guys who did this. You know you want to know if you'd be safe.
So brilliant. I need to make a set of these for my pastor
This is one of the best mashups I've ever seen. (actually I only watched the first one of these)
Usually I avoid links that contain swears, but the next two things are very interesting and have at least one curseword
Making War funny - Genius!
What a great prank.
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Since I have posted so many times about Twitter in the last 2 months, I thought this seemed appropriate. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.790878&w=425&h=350&fv=autoPlay%3Dfalse]
[Usually] I like to highlight the most interesting and odd search terms that brought people to my blog in the last month. There are certain trends that become obvious from these searches. One is that I am currently a very popular source of Bell's Palsy information. Also, there is a mixing of things from posts so that they are combined in sometimes very interesting ways. Here are the best ones from February. They are not edited in any way, simply cut and pasted from my stats page. Oddly, this month one search was vulgar. I am disturbed that that search lead someone to my blog
Bell's Palsy related searches
Lent related searches
This is an amazing picture. I've seen a heron swallowing a bluegill whole, a hawk eating a snake, and an osprey flying over with a fish in it's talons, but I never even dreamed of catching it on film. This completely cracked me up (seriously, this one is hilarious)
I knew it - Mosquitos are indestructible
Some guys just know how to use technology
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This is enjoyable as well (ht - Phil for this one)
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien began during my senior year of High School. I watched it with regularity throughout college and less frequently in the last few years. Since the show is no more and Conan is moving on to a more famous time slot, I thought I would share my all-time favorite bit from the show. Enjoy Mr. T picking apples. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.787725&w=425&h=350&fv=]
I think this is not a fail, but rather an entrepreneur win I would really like to live here. If I had money, I'd buy it in a second
I don't know if this is real or fake, but it sure is scary
This is the best of the SBC blogs this week
This is simply unbelievable.
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Geek in any language... I especially like how the "lyrics" to this are sound effects. The guy does sound just like Mario jumping
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I kept looking for the joke here. Finally I found it. Here's a blog post about the D-now I participated in back in January.
I totally agree with this list, Except I would have found a place for the speeder bikes.
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This weekend is our annual Senior Adult banquet. For the past few years we have played "Battle of the Generations" Here's how it works: We ask our youth questions that the senior adults would find easy and we ask our senior adults questions that the youth would find easy and see which group wins. (It's always the seniors)
This year I am officially out of creativity. So I would like your help. Here's how we will do this - You submit questions that fit the above description to the comments. If I use your question in my game, I will email you the finished product. You supply the creativity, I'll supply my powerpoint skillz.
Here are some sample questions from the past few years to give you an idea what I'm looking for:
Questions for seniors -
Master Chief is the main character in... a. A popular TV show b. A popular video game c. A popular movie
Identify Master Chief
Which of these people is not the star of their own reality show?
Youth Questions -
Marshall Matt Dillon is the main character in... a. A popular movie b. A popular television show c. A popular comic book
Identify Marshall Matt Dillon
Which of these did not have a sidekick?
I assume by now that everyone with an internet connection has seen this video of David after leaving the dentist all hopped up on gas or some sort of anesthesia. It was everywhere on the web last week and remixed about 1000 times [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txqiwrbYGrs]
And I hope you have all seen the Chad Vader series.
So here's the Chad Vader response to David after the dentist
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGTAnXqn9Jc]
Also, finally they have begun season 2 of Chad Vader
If you only watch one Japaneese commercial for a gun powered alarm clock. This should be that commercial Wonder why I've never seen this before. Seems like an obvious project for a star Wars fan
24 weird pillows - really nothing else to say about that. Some of them are very cool
Wow - Best Buy sarcasm is mean and funny
What happens when a geek has way too much time on his hands? He calculates the real-world cost of the Death Star.
Funny [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhUHPhjStcs]
I just can't even imagine that this is possible
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It is no secret that I love Portal. I believe it is simply one of the most brilliantly designed and executed games I've ever played. So of course I geeked out over this set of Portal guns somebody made I also love a good rant periodically. This rant about a flight on Virgin airlines is both hilarious and well-written. Here's a choice quote:
No sane person would serve a desert with a tomato would they. Well answer me this Richard, what sort of animal would serve a desert with peas in
This is a silly pic
Easily the greatest hacker prank of all time
The Super Bowl is Sunday and these are some pretty interesting numbers about its production
I almost passed out laughing at this. It's truly hilarious. Be warned - it does have a swear.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUbsc_a-e3g]
This video is really neat, so neat that I can tolerate the terrible song.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY]
This is a short version of best web junk this week. Far Side reenactments I loved the far side, and this makes me miss it
This clip from Saturday Night Live is really well done and funny. Although honestly it could have been an 11th grade Spanish class
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