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Day December 12, 2003

Gender Genie

Enter in about 500 or more words and Gender Genie will take a guess if a male or female wrote it.
(via Begging to Differ)

Open Source Barbie

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Making a bid for a piece of the emerging desktop Linux market, Mattel, Inc. announced the immediate availability of downloadable beta ISOs for BarbieOS 0.99, and said it hoped the final 1.0 retail version would be on store shelves in time for Christmas. The new OS was created by Mattel to power the upcoming revision of its popular B-Book line of laptops for girls between the ages of four and eleven.

Sand Sculptures

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These sand sculptures might even be more impressive than the snow sculptures I just linked to.
(Thanks again Paul)

Snow Sculptures

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Pictured is the first place winner for the 2003 International Snow Sculpture Championship. Most of these are amazing. Here are some of the past entries.
(via Boing Boing)

Uncensored Celebrity Outtakes

I have heard these played before on the Howard Stern Show and they are really funny. This site has various outtakes from stars such as William Shatner, Casey Kasem and Marlon Brando and gives you an idea of what they can be like when the cameras are off.
(via J-Walk)

Obfuscated C Code

This is for code junkies and is an oldie but a goodie. Compile this and it will output the lyrics to The Twelve Days of Christmas.

include “stdio.h”

main(t,_,a)

char *a;

{

return!0<t?t<3?main(-79,-13,a+main(-87,1-_,main(-86,0,a+1)+a)):

1,t<_?main(t+1,_,a):3,main(-94,-27+t,a)&&t==2?_<13?

main(2,_+1,”%s %d %d\n”):9:16:t<0?t<-72?main(_,t,

“@n’+,#’/*{}w+/w#cdnr/+,{}r/*de}+,/*{*+,/w{%+,/w#q#n+,/#{l+,/n{n+,/+#n+,/#\

;#q#n+,/+k#;*+,/’r :’d*’3,}{w+K w’K:’+}e#’;dq#’l
\

q#’+d’K#!/+k#;q#’r}eKK#}w’r}eKK{nl]’/#;#q#n’){)#}w’){){nl]’/+#n’;d}rw’
i;# \

){nl]!/n{n#’; r{#w’r nc{nl]’/#{l,+’K {rw’ iK{;[{nl]‘/w#q#n’wk
nw’ \

iwk{KK{nl]!/w{%’l##w#’ i; :{nl]’/*{q#’ld;r’}{nlwb!/*de}’c
\

;;{nl’-{}rw]’/+,}##’*}#nc,’,#nw]’/+kd’+e}+;#’rdq#w!
nr’/ ‘) }+}{rl#’{n’ ‘)# \

}’+}##(!!/”)

:t<-50?_==*a?putchar(31[a]):main(-65,_,a+1):main((*a==’/')+t,_,a+1)

:0<t?main(2,2,”%s”):*a==’/'||main(0,main(-61,*a,

“!ek;dc i@bK’(q)-[w]*%n+r3#l,{}:\nuwloca-O;m
.vpbks,fxntdCeghiry”),a+1);

}

It was a winner in the International Obfuscated C Code Contest. There is a nice breakdown of the code here.

Strawberry Pop-Tart Blowtorches

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Abstract
Strawberry Pop Tarts may be a cheap and inexpensive source of incendiary devices. Toasters which fail to eject Pop Tarts cause the Pop Tarts to emit flames 10-18 inches in height.

Assassinations Foretold in Moby Dick

Did you know that the Assassinations of Leon Trotsky, Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy and others were prophesied in Moby Dick? Me neither. And after reading this website, I still don’t!

Bad Side Burns

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A website dedicated to bad sideburns


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