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Calculator Spelling and Mary Toft: Wikipedia’s List of Unusual Articles

by Susana Polo | 2:02 pm, March 13th

It’s Saturday, so hopefully you don’t have much that needs accomplishing.

If you do have something you need to do today, then by all means do not visit Wikipedia’s list of Unusual Articles. We just lost about a half hour to it, simply in the process of writing this post.

If you’d like to spend some time being enlightened about things that will probably never do your life any constructive good, with brief moments of Discovery-like love for all the weird and wonderful stuff in human history, then it’s probably safe.

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Codeorgan Turns the Internet Into Music

by Susana Polo | 2:28 pm, February 20th

I spent my college days in the scholastic embrace of Oberlin College, which has as its counterpart (counterpoint? har har) the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. The two schools share living space, dining facilities, and even a five-year double degree program, so student interaction between them is common. I’ve been friends with a number of conservatory students, including Composition and TIMARA (Technology In Music And the Recording Arts) majors.

Anyway, this is all a very roundabout way of saying that I’m no stranger to procedurally generated music. I’ve heard programs that generate music based on ten tones of your selection and all the known digits of pi, and computers that bring dead composers back to life through the cunning use of flags numbers.

The newest music and numbers thing I’ve been introduced to is CODEORGAN, which will turn any humdrum work-a-day website into the dulcet tones of an angelic choir. Or, failing that, set it up with a nice reggae beat.

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Procrastination Station: One Button Bob

by Susana Polo | 12:13 pm, February 8th

We have a little gem for your Monday, courtesy of Armor Games, patron saint of procrastinators everywhere. Its called One Button Bob, and the entire game is played with a joystick.

/glance at notes

Or one button. Yeah. One button.

Enjoy.

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How Were We Not Aware of This: Yakkety Sax Anything

by Susana Polo | 12:21 pm, January 30th

Maybe you’ve seen this before, but it sure slipped by us. Benny Hillifier is a website that will take your regular old workaday YouTube video, mute it, and, with the sure touch of a lifelong craftsman, lovingly apply the Benny Hill Theme to it. Et voila.

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14 of the Best Geekiest Beers

Given beer's pervasive place in human history, it's not surprising that the geeky pastimes of drinkers would eventually rub off on the beers themselves. The result is a veritable cornucopia of nerdy beers, 14 of which are right here.

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Eric Limer I'm trying to come up with a control scheme where I can use my xbox 360 controller for leisurely web surfing. It's....interesting.
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James Plafke For a show about a sport I don't really dig, Friday Night Lights is an alright show.
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Eric Limer Just spent a few hours playing Kyntt. Stunning, cute little game. Highly recommended.
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Max Wanna create work flows, wanna make it all work work work.
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James Plafke I am jealous Elmo got to make out with Kristin Chenoweth.
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Eric Limer I swear under my breath A LOT. This must make people near by me very uncomfortable. That being said, I have no intentions of stopping.
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Max Court is now in session at the Burp Castle.
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Eric Limer I don't look at my finances as often as I should which is the main reason why I don't often want to look at my finances.
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Max Desert PolyBus: The game where you drive to Reno and then die.
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Eric Limer If I wrote a webcomic, every strip would be titled "Get it? GET IT?!"
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Max Got chili oil on my hands and face. It hurts. A lot.
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Eric Limer Suddenly I remember what I hate about PC gaming. Mainly never having a computer that can actually do it.
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James Plafke The halftime show taught me that football-watching men drinking beer who love seeing muscular men beat each other up really like to vogue.
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Max Pestering your friends at 8am is how you show you care, right? #hopeso
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Eric Limer Twitter is like RiffTrax for EVERYTHING.
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James Plafke I know global warming is scary, but not having a winter was pretty cool. I didn't have to spend money on shoes for the snow.
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Eric Limer I hereby apologize to all persons --past, present and future-- who have the misfortune of hearing me "sing" dubstep songs.
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Max Even Facebook's Timeline thinks I could have done more with my life.
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Max I did that thing where Facebook turns your Timeline into a movie. Mine had pictures of ducks and foliage set to really dramatic music.
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Max "But I don't wanna go to the dog show!"
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