Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is Urn.

See the original image here.

Activity Corner

• Speak Klingon but don't have an anti-virus program for your computer? Then you may want the Sophos Klingon Anti-Virus.


• I dig this coin bank.


• Record your underwater adventures with this waterproof rechargeable USB camera.


• Set the alarm and "hit" snooze by talking to the iTalk Clock. (Note: Not an iPhone app.)


• Solar-powered wireless headphones.


• Bring peace to the bathroom war with the AutoClose Toilet.


• From the WTF department comes the potato USB hub.


• Turn any flat surface, like a table or a window, into a speaker with the K-box.


• Not only does tritium sound badass, it glows in the dark. Which means I need to get my geeky paws on the tritium-powered Nite Glowring.


• If you go out to movies but have trouble holding in that giant Coke through the whole flick, then you need to know when during the movie you can jog to the bathroom. You need RunPee.com.


• What do you do when you run a gaming site whose games require dice rolls, and you don't like random number generators? You do what any good geek does: you build a dice rolling machine.


• If you don't like carrying a purse or keeping stuff in your pockets, then you need a Cap Sac. It's a fanny pack for your head!


• A fun stop-motion animation called Sorry I'm Late.


• How to use Twitter for marketing and PR.


• How NOT to pour molten aluminum.


• 10 bizarre anti-drug PSAs.


• Pictures of stranger's refrigerators: you are what you eat.


• Now that nights are getting warmer, sleeping with covers on can make you too hot. But why go through all the hassle of just kicking them off when you can use the Bedfan?


• How well do you know your internet memes? See if you can identify heavily-played internet videos by their backgrounds alone at meme scenery. (And no, I didn't get them all; I missed 4. There's one I'd never seen.)


• Save time and money by not watching Hollywood blockbusters and going instead to explosions and boobs dot com.


• Hastily made Cleveland tourism video.


• Spiderman versus pigeons.


• Popular (and unique) soft drinks from around the world.


• 15 most alien-looking caterpillars on Earth.


• Fast food of Central and South America.


• School lunches from around the world.


• The Jewish origin of the Vulcan salute. Bonus: Star Trek gloves that do it for you!

Friday Game

This one is an explorey platformy type of game, but the characters and animation are pretty awesome. You'll soon get sucked in trying to collect all the items and move on to the next level. Who knows, you may even solve the mystery of Scary Girl.

Short Bridge, Tall Boats

The weather was nice this weekend, which meant lots of boats on the lakes, which meant, in this case, a workout for the Montlake Bridge.

Sizing Up the Sugar

How much sugar is in the food you eat and the beverages you drink? With the internet and all, of course someone has decided to get all visual and show you exactly, using sugar cubes, how much sugar you consume. You can find the sweet truth at Sugar Stacks.

Totem Pole

We have many of these around Seattle. Some were appropriated from native communities, while others (like this one) were commissioned works. This pole holds its silent vigil in East Montlake Park.

Memorial Day

Remembering those that have served.

Caption Contest

Easy ways to tell when your local fire safety officer is just calling it in...

Cheap Meals

These days people are looking for ways to save money, but during the Great Depression, being frugal was a way of life. Recounting some of those hard times, and serving up inexpensive meals, is Depression Cooking with Clara.

Go to Clara's YouTube channel to watch her episodes.

Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is Andy.

See the original image here.

Activity Corner

• Cool videos captured by high-speed cameras.


• Japanese astronaut and his flying carpet.


• As a huge Frank Lloyd Wright fan, the next best thing to living in Falling Water is to own it in LEGO.


• 25 logos with hidden messages.


• My Little Pony: The Movie.


• How do kids today learn how to conduct a proper witch hunt? By watching this commercial for WitchFinders!


• Handmade beef jerky underpants.


• Virtual tour (actually floorplans) of The White House.


• 10 failed toy lines from "blockbuster" movies.


• The grilled cheesecake sandwich. I'ma hafta try this, since cheesecake is my favorite food.


• Fauxtoshop: 15 images that look altered but aren't.


• I've previously posted the cat yodeling how-to video. Here's the follow-up, advanced cat yodeling.


• Potatohead people.


• How long do animals live?


• 10 people who gave their name to food.


• Awesome shark attack hat!


• 12 geeky license plates.


• Recreated images in photographs. Navigation arrows under the photos. First you see Marcus' image, then the back of a postcard with the original. Check out die macht der bilder.

Friday Game

This isn't a game so much as sort of a music generator. The fun comes in when you quickly realize how it works, and then try to make pixel-based images (like a smiley face or a robot) to see how they sound.

Give Tone Matrix a try.

Gateway to the Orient

Gateway to the Chinatown area of Seattle's International District.

Driving You Crazy

Sometimes other people do bad things. Not kill people bad things, but take 20 items in the 15 items or fewer line at the store bad things, or cut you off in traffic bad things. The problem is, there's usually nothing you can do about it. What you need is a place to vent.

I can't help you with the grocery store, but I can help you with other drivers. Post your incident and the driver's license plate at Zapatag.

Will anything come of your report? Probably not, but isn't just getting it off your chest enough? Besides, it can be fun reading through others' reports.

Retro Gaming

This is just part of the Wall of Nintendo Cartridges at Pink Godzilla in Seattle's International District.

Caption Contest

...and the tonsils have been extracted as shown heaahh

Family Matters

We've all been to reunions or get-togethers or trips with family. And nothing says family fun like a group photo. Schadenfreude rears its ugly head at Awkward Family Photos.

Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is Aaron.

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Type R

We're sitting in a meeting and our Development Director said, "We've contracted some Type R programmers."

I had never heard this term before, so I jotted it down on my notepad, so I could inquire about it later.

Just then our Lead Engineer asks, "What is Type R?"

Our Dev Director looked stumped. "What do you mean?"

"You said 'Type R Programmers'," said the Lead Engineer.

"No, I said 'High Powered'," said the Dev Director.

"No you didn't. You said 'Type R.' See I wrote it down," I said, and showed him my notepad that said, "Type R?"

So now, everything high powered and awesome in the office is "Type R".

I am now on a crusade to get it used outside our offices. I should add it to urban dictionary or something.

~Matt "Positron" Miller, Lead Designer, Paragon Studios

Activity Corner

• A German commercial for a financial company shows what they can do with your money: BonTrust Finance. WARNING: Origami sex acts. Yes, you read that right.


• It's called the Martin Jetpack, but it's more a strap-on engine.


• Star Wars chipmunk.


• Denny's is a favorite late-night destination (probably because you can order from the menu by pointing at a picture). Here's their latest commercial for Denny's Allnighter.


• We all get spam emails, but one cartoonist turned the subject lines (hint: weiners) into pictures. Elliott Burford's Spam.


• Many geeks (myself included) have a Roomba. One guy took a time-lapse photograph of his Roomba at work.


• You've probably seen those iPhone "There's an app for that" commercials. Check out this parody.


• Got kids? Having a hard time making them finish their homework? Then you need the Study Ball.


• The Japanese marriage hunting bra.


• The video goes on way too long, but you'll get the idea early on with the bride's light-up dress.


• Re-live the 80s with this totally awesome brick-style mobile phone holder.


• The title says it all: Goths in Hot Weather.


• What do you do when traffic's bad and you want to drive in the HOV lane? You hire a carpool jockey.


• WackyStuff's 100 most interesting images as voted by his readers. They are amazing.


• The 10 most disturbing books of all time.


• Tough times, indeed. Cemetery foreclosure.


• Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, Florida provides this awesome video of big cats and pumpkins.


• When it comes to European music videos, here are 2009's silliest.


• Impromptu piano duet.


• Neverending sun.


• Hammy the daredevil hamster.


• Fads of the Fifties.


• You know Pandora, the internet radio station? One guy made a custom station consisting solely of bands with food names. It's Food Radio.


• Summer's coming. See how hard the blinding, burning orb is trying to kill you with the UV Monkey.


• Lars has a rather large Christmas sweater collection.


• Old school gamers know the Konami code. Turns out, some web designers do too. So much so that entering it on their site unlocks something. There's a list at Konami Code Sites.


• The 10 most pitiful pieces of Mr. T merchandise.


• The awesome ventriloquist and his singing dummies.

Friday Game

Do you like Scrabble? Are you any good at Boggle? If you can quickly form words from the letter tiles provided, then you may have fun with the frantic word game DeepLeap.

Quality is Job One

Spotted on a whiteboard in a developer's office.

Searching for the Right Words

Now I know that this is a teachers' resource, but it's too cool not to share. Two words: Word search.

Yes! With this handy web tool, you can create your own word search puzzles. There are tons of options. See if you can grab a random list of words and make a puzzle for yourself! Or impress your friends at your next social gathering. Either way, you'll have fun with the Word Search Generator.

Scouting for Cookies

Seen in the hall at work: one (unopened) sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies. And it stayed there for two days.

1. How long has it been since the Girl Scout cookie sales have ended?
2. How many times did someone pass these cookies before deciding to yoink them?

Caption Contest

Exhibit A in why Mesh shirts really aren't that bad.

Boys Will Be Boys

Guys can sometimes have a certain biological response. And if it's in public, it can be really embarrassing. And if it's captured on film, it can be on Awkward Boners.

Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is Seayjay.

See the original image here.

Activity Corner

• A brief history of geeks.


• Things our grandkids will never understand.


• YouTube/internet classics with a new twist: Play him off, Keyboard Cat.
  Bonus: Use the Auto Keyboard Cat to Keyboard Cat any YouTube video.


• Talented geeks using the graphics engine from the game Crysis to recreate a scene from a movie.


• Shadow chair.


• The Star Wars Admiral "It's a trap!" Ackbar outtakes.


• No more camel toe with the Cuchini.


• Do you have swine flu?


• 90 minutes of rally car crashes. I learned two things from this hour and a half: Finn rallies are surprisingly homegrown, and cars can spin or tip much easier than you might expect. Bonus: they have lots of shit inside to scatter when they wreck.


• It starts out with a kitschy song, but quickly turns into OMG how'd they do that? It's Solid Potato Salad.


• Bigfoot caught on tape. Amazing footage.


• The Simpsons theme a cappella.


• The awesome Cthulhu ski mask.


• How to make your own booger ball.


• FONT FIGHT!


• Many places in the US have native American names. But what do those names mean?


• Proof that people will do most anything on the internet: poets ranked by beard weight.


• How can you not laugh at Frosty shaking his tailfeathers?


• Last week we saw her being tickled; this week Sonya the slow loris eats her favorite food.


• If a famous movie (Star Wars, The Princess Bride) were your life, where would you be in that movie?


• "If it piles up, we post it" at MMMMound. I like how they're grouped in categories.


• For the misogynists in the crowd, being successful with the ladies appears to be based on keeping your kitchen well-stocked. WARNING: Bad language.


• Fire alarm jam session.

Friday Game

I've linked a few rotating-type games before, but none have been this simple and involved as much trial and error as RotatSpin.

Texts From... Whenever

Since I'm totally addicted to Texts From Last Night, I went through my recent text history to see what I could find. They may not be of TFLN quality, but some of 'em are pretty good.

• This spell check is awesome.


• don't know how to tell you this... your gloves didn't make it.


• Metermaid on segway. Oh the humiliation.


• Wooooooo hooooooo! Kawf kawf. Good ride.


• Woman just caught bus with baguette sticking out of her backpack. No celery apparent.


• Ok. So if i start at 2 i can go to bed at some point today?


• Filled up two 8-ton trucks. Tell me I don't know how to do PR now, beeyatches!


• Watching serenity. Surprisingly violent, given the name. Still want to be Zoe. Maybe Mal.


• Let me know if you dont get the pics i texted.


• To boldly flare where no lens has flared before. Woof. Great movie, though.

Plum Blossomed Out

Curb near a plum tree that, thanks to a wind- and rainstorm, has lost most of its awesome blossoms.

Show Me The Signs

There's really not much to say about this site. It's just a collection of pictures of signs from around the world. And they can be pretty funny.

It's Signspotting.

Priorities

Spotted on outdoor stairs at the main ferry terminal.

The peppy font almost masks the controversial mandate.

Caption Contest

Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto... now POSE!

Healthcare Cuisine

Anybody that's been in a hospital has horror stories about their meals. So, of course, along comes the intertubes and hosts a place that pictorially captures what can only be seen to be believed.

It's a collection of submitted pictures at Hospital Food.

Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is DK again!

See the original image here.

Activity Corner

• Demonstrating face recognition software, or facemining, with Star Trek (the original series).


• 64 things every geek should know. Ok, if you say so.


• Amazing pictures of nature. Well, mostly clouds.


• 4 things to consider before you try to join the Amish.


• Flash animation and timeline of the assembly of the International Space Station.


• Top 11 geek defenses for the swine flu.


• You know what I really want on my iPhone? The iPhone LCARS interface from Star Trek: The Next Generation. I'm such a huge geek, you have no idea.


• All I can say is, no-wash underwear.


• Stupid people tricks: world record attempts for spinning from a power drill.


• You heard it here first (I hope): bacon cures hangovers. Even, apparently, if you've been drinking bacon vodka.


• Cat stalks pigeon. The reaction is pure cat.


• The 10 most celebrated TV show hangouts.


• Chinese fakeaway: copycat products.


• 10 greatest grilled cheese sammiches.


• Check out the graphics accompanying the article One nation, seven sins to see a comparison of the Biblical seven deadly sins. Very interesting.


• How to brew beer on a boat (or almost anywhere).


• Have you heard of the American Stonehenge?


• If you need a trademark look for pictures, there's always smoochie face.


• Funny Japanese commercial.


• The 7 types of bad bosses according to Star Trek.


• The internet is home to all sorts of fetishes, including people who cover themselves with wool from head to toe. Woolies. (Warning: One picture of wool genitalia. Woolitalia?)


• 10 famous people and their unusual collections.


• Looking for cats that live in public libraries? Then click on over to the Library Cats Map.


• I might actually read books if more of them were like Shatnerquake.


• 6 famous characters you didn't know were shameless rip-offs.


• Entertaining true story of a man and a parasite: The Worm Within. Not for the squeamish.


• The baby squirrel and the wall.

Pac-Man Re-Imagined

Take the original Pac-Man game, but cut everything inside the game "board" loose. And by "loose", I mean "crazy-ass gravity physics, man!"

You start out going, "Ok, I get it." Then you're like, "Ok, I =get= it. Booooooring!" But, ultimately, you're determined to try to make it work. If you can.

It's Pac-Man Physics. (Yes, this is an exe file, but it tested clean for me.)