Topic: Thread of Nifty Internet Things

[stargazer2]

I love that!  It reminds me of my two very bossy little nieces, one of whom believed firmly at that age that the words "I have an idea" meant that we would be acting on said idea.  It took her ages to realize that simply because she "had an idea" to go to Sea World, stay up late, or eat all the cookies, didn't mean we would play along.

[Lady Malchav]

Sounds a lot like my niece, stargazer.  She's like a little Activities Director, and everyone just goes along with her.  She loves going to day care cause all the other kids listen to her.  She walks in and goes 'We're going to play in the sandbox now!' and they're all like 'Okay! '

Even the adults get into it.  When the house is full, she can have  or 6 grownups eating out of her hands.  One night recently, she had us playing imagination games involving circle time, dancing, and making a car out of pillows.  This went on for HOURS.  I don't know how she does it.  You just WANT to play along with her.

[Narcissa]

http://www.myconfinedspace.com/?attachment_id=49486

I couldn't link to the original site, tubbypaws.blogspot.com, because the pictures weren't showing up.

But I am totally gonna print this and put it up on my wall ^_^

[Tamsin]

Baconize your internet.

For example: http://bacolicio.us/http://zetachannel.com/

[Pixie]

http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/05/happy-falker-satherhood.html

I love cake wrecks, always, but this?

This just beats everything. 

[Tamsin]

I am happy to say that when working as a bakery clerk, I never took anyone on a word journey.

[Symmetry]

Map of the universe.

Its really cool.

[Tamsin]

Wow. Wolf 359 is actually hella close.

Those Star Trek episodes are about seven times as creepy now.

[phobos]

I remember being delighted when watching that episode, that the writers had chosen Wolf 359 when looking for a nearby star at which to have their battle. Everyone does Alpha Centauri - or sometimes Proxima, which may or may not be the same system. Once in a while somebody will go for Sirius, and following Douglas Adams you'll get the odd mention of Barnard's Star.

But Wolf 359? That's going way beyond the call of duty for a scriptwriter. I'm sure it made a whole lot of astro geeks very happy indeed.

edit:

By the way, if you like that map, why not explore it for yourself? Download First Encounters, a space exploration / combat / trading sim following on from the classic Elite. Then download a high-resolution hack. You can wander freely around the known region of the Galaxy - or the unknown regions, if you've got a fuel scoop and lots of time on your hands. Most of the Galaxy is procedurally generated, but the region near sector [0,0] is hand-coded to the best of early nineties astronomical knowledge.

Wolf 359 as I recall was a decent place to pick up computers to ship to the garden worlds around the G-type stars.

[Gudy]

There, I Fixed It. Kludges ranging from the ingenious via the WTF to the downright This Should Have Been A Darwin Award.

[KnightOfNi]

The Mountain Men's Three Wolf Moon Short Sleeve Tee. You must read the reviews...

[TGU]

Ba-dum CHH. (you need sound)

[Symmetry]

Epidemiology of zombie attacks, the paper:
link

[Bunner]

For TGU:

This morning, yawning as I woke

From another Troy-trapped night

I watched Sol rise for the 2000th time

And wondered: “Was it all a dream?”

Did I really climb the scree-streaked

Side of Husband Hill? Did one night I thrill

To the sight of shooting stars and two

Silvery moons fleeing across the sky? Did I

Drag my ruined wheel for mile after endless mile,

Ploughing a ragged furrow through Barsoom’s

Cinnamon-dusted crust before Doom

Caught up with me and left me stranded

Here, impatient in this pit of ancient sand?

 

When I arrived, falling out of the salmon-

Hued sky, trailing a flapping banner of flame

And fury, a backshelled-Beowulf, none on Earth

Thought I would survive even a hundred nights -

Yet, here I am, alive, after two thousand!

True, I cannot move, and my horizon has

Not changed for what seems like an eternity

But I can still see, and there is beauty in every

Rock, and stone, sliver, slice and shelf of shale

Around me. And if I am fated to stand

At this wind-whipped, stony place, statue-

Still, until only ghostly traces of my graceless

Lines remain then so be it; I will not rage

Against the end of my days, I have seen

More wonders than I dared dream I would,

And I have always known that every turn

Of my wheels was carrying me closer to

The End.

 

They will send others after me –

Bigger, bolder, more capable machines –

But I will always be The First,

The one that faced and overcame the worst

That Mars could do and made the old

World New again for millions watching

Back on Earth. That was my worth – the rebirth

Of the Red Planet in the minds of restless men.

I’ll be forgotten, that is the way of things, but when,

One day, I’m found, and the so-long silent hills

Of Gusev ring to the sound of celebratory “She’s here!”

Cheers, they’ll speak my name again..!

[TGU]

Where did you find that, Bunner?  That's awesome.

[Lorelei]

11 Things You Didn't Know About Pinball
http://tech.msn.com/products/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=21514777

Surprisingly very interesting.

[oh knee]

http://projectwaldo.blogspot.com/

Project Waldo.

As the author himself says:

"Follow along as I learn how to make a comic by making a comic. I hope you're not in a hurry. "

[Scix]

Holy crap.
http://labs.mppark.jp/hige/

Upload a pic of yourself. It will realistically and automatically animate the face. Creepy, actually.

[TGU]

To be totally unoriginal and simply copy the Fark headline:

Um... well, I don't really know what this is, but it is cool in a kind of freaky way(link)

Guesses so far include different kinds of sashimi recorded through a fisheye lens and played in a loop, what a real-life Katamari would look like, and a vagina trying to eat itself.

[phobos]

This is just beautiful.

A note to xkcd: Get off 4chan and start doing proper geeky comics again.