Archive for October, 2008
Penny Arcade
This is one of my favorite on-line comics, and one of the few entertainment sites that I check regularly. While it focuses the cartoon misadventures of two archetypical computer/videogame geeks, it does provide the ocasional pearl of ingenious insight.
www.penny-arcade.com
Tycho’s writing is engaging and provocative, and Gabe’s drawings are always fresh and cartoony. Go ahead and check it out, and maybe you’ll [...]The Ultimate Diet Coke + Mentos Experiment!
A few years back, an unseemly match featuring a specific brand of chewable drops and a hugely known brand of diet soda was formed, deep within the vast cyberspace boundaries. All of a sudden, putting Diet Coke and Mentos together was all the rage, and dozens of videos quickly scoured the Internet. Within such videos, [...]
Play classic ZX Spectrum games online! (http://www.zxspectrum.net/)
There are many people out there – such as myself – who have been introduced to the world of computing via the massively popular micro-computer from the eighties, the ZX spectrum. Who doesn’t recall the tedious tape loading times, the psychadelic sidebars and that loveable screeching noise? Who can’t relate to the feeling of waiting [...]
Remember the days when you had fun in the sandbox? Well, now you can have Phun!
If you miss those golden days from your youth when you used to spend countless hours delving in the sandbox, ceaselessly experimenting with the objects around you and getting to know life, I’ve got a great advice for you: go out right this moment, take off your shoes and jump around until your cheeks blush, [...]
Hey footbal fan: Need tickets? Get online!
Stop right there dear reader, I’m about to throw my psychic divination skills upon you. Oh, I see you’re a football fan, an you’re surfing the vast interwebs looking for some Pittsburgh Steelers Tickets to quench your thirst for football. Is that right? Then you’ve most definitely come to the right place! You might not [...]
25 pearls of wisdom by Dave Barry
Pearls of Wisdom
“Twenty-Five Things It Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn” by Dave BarryThe badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.
You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight-saving time.
People who feel the need to tell you that [...]
