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rofl n then she sed dbl dbl toil n trbl fire burn n cldrn bubbl n i wuz like wutever
The Scotsman reports that a Scottish firm has secured £40,000 for a project that amounts to “Macbeth: The Text Message.” Cameron Taylor, a partner in the firm, said: “You will be able to text Macbeth, the character, and interact with that body of content. It will tell you where to go to get another part…
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Geekiest. Crossword. Ever.
Kevin Kosbab of Mental_Floss became fluent in several synthetic languages in order to put together this crossword puzzle. In order to solve this crossword puzzle, you’ll need to know a bit of Klingon, Elvish, Furbish, Esperanto and a handful of other constructed languages. In fact, all of the solutions are in constructed languages. They helpfully…
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Ads in Spaaaace
This is just silly. JP Aerospace is currently lining up customers for their next flight in April. Your advertisement will be carried aloft to 100,000 feet – and photographed against the boundary between the Earth and outer space. So you can pay an aerospace concern to fly a small advertisement midway up into the stratosphere…
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Joke
function Cthulhu() { print “Gadzooks! Tentacles!”; return 1; } $eldritch = Cthulhu(); // the call of Cthulhu (This suddenly occurred to me after an overlong coding run. I cracked myself up. It’s time to seek professional help.)
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Oh No I Am Not Either
Which Science Fiction Writer Are You?This quiz, which is clearly broken, thinks I’m William Gibson.Who are you?
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Wear Your Addiction on Your Ears
Made With Molecules jewelry offers earrings and necklaces in the shape of chemical molecules such as caffeine, theobromine (chocolate), serotonin, and estrogen, not to mention testosterone boxer shorts and oxytocin baby onesies. Wish I’d known about the onesies when Shadowboy was smaller. Link (via Making Light)
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Logic Goats–Uh, Gates…No, Goats
Here’s a papercraft project that I find much more amusing than it probably ought to be. Teach kids how logic gates work by way of goats. The central processing unit lies at the heart of every computer, a vast collection of microscopically small switches and logic-gates. Now, through the power of paper we bring you…
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The Thing That’s Wrong
I had a sort of unpleasant “A-ha!” yesterday at work. I’m a government contractor who works on-site, and unfortunately this means that I have to attend a lot of the meetings usually reserved for federal employees or souls in the First Circle of Hell. I had to go listen to one of the new Undersecretaries…
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Okay, This Doesn’t Have Anything to Do with Science Fiction
…but it’s one of the most wonderful openings for a news article I’ve ever encountered. ANKARA, Turkey – Over a thousand Turks spent the first day of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha in emergency wards on Sunday after stabbing themselves or suffering other injuries while sacrificing startled animals. That’s comedy gold, baby. (The rest…
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New Look! Wheee!!!
New year, new look. The O*W*C site has just undergone Phase I of a massive makeover. The site isn’t fully functional yet, but I wanted to get the skeleton out there. The things that get the most traffic–chat room, boards, and blog–are all up and running, and the rest of the site will come online…