It’s been a while since I surfed the internet without any particular goal in mind. Appropriately enough, I found a nice web game to help alleviate my boredom. Called Curveball, it’s sort of a three-dimensional twist on classic pong. Be careful, though, because the game’s AI is deceptively skilled. It’s easy to beat when you [...]
Ctrl+Alt+Del is a comic strip about Ethan, a video game addict to whom I can relate more than I care to admit. I first discovered it while customizing my Google homepage during a slow day at work. I nearly fell out of my chair trying to stifle my own laughter. My wife had a similar [...]
This showed up in one of my news feeds today. My wife and I almost fell out of our seats laughing so hard. Don’t worry; there’s nothing particularly offensive about it, except for a tiny bit of profanity. The entire video was choreographed in World of Warcraft, and supposedly references Sesame Street in a lude [...]
I was cleaning off my computer recently when I came across this video clip. It was a piece that my college graphics professor used as an example, although I think it was mostly just a break from the mind-numbing boredom of the subject. One can’t help but feel sorry for the Alaskan knick knack, even [...]
I first heard them in general chat while playing World of Warcraft. Not understanding their origin, I disregarded it as an isolated incident of player boredom. Then it happened again on an entirely different day. At this point I realized something was amiss, but it wasn’t until a coworker brought it up that I realized [...]
Some friends of mine recently reminded me of a website that I had all but forgotton. I used to watch Joe Cartoon years ago when I was still in high school. It seems to have become a lot more commercialized since then. Still, they’ve got a lot of funny cartoons, and it seems that my [...]
Although the work level is always pretty low by Friday afternoon, all productivity seemed to stop today when someone emailed this Guess the Google game to everyone in my office. The premise is pretty simple. You’ll be shown a selection of images that are supposedly the first few results from a Google Image search. Your [...]
Having worked in IT all of my professional career, I couldn’t resist but take the “Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?” quiz on Matt Round’s website, Malevole. I was actually surprised that I got eight out of ten correct on the first attempt. Maybe all those years working around scary-looking programmers has given me some [...]
I’ve blogged about Homestarrunner.com in the past, and pretty much everything on the site qualifies as great entertainment. However, Trogdor stands out from other features on the site. Today, my wife insisted that I go to the computer as soon as I got home to see a tribute to Trogdor’s third birthday. To those of [...]
People are stupid, and then they die, or so I like to say. I first encountered the term “Darwin Award” back in college. At the time, it sounded legitimate, although from the context I knew it must be a joke. Lo and behold, I was directed to the Darwin Awards website. The concept is simple. [...]