Get Cynical

Enough of this Ashcroftian Newspeak. I got rid of the terror alert level and replaced it with the Moon Phases Calendar. An improvement I think.

You have seen most of these before but they are still worth another look. (I hadn’t seen a couple)

This is pretty cool. The National Puzzler’s League had a convention on Boston earlier this summer which included a boggle game played from the 10th through 14th floors with humans as the boggle pieces. Full Circling the Globe has some great pictures of it.
(via Bernie DeKoven’s Funlog)

This is Flo. Her job is testing our image recognition algorithms, although she might not be aware of this. She goes in and out of the house through a cat door.

She also has a habit of catching various animals, dragging them inside through the cat door, and letting them loose so they can be chased for hours. Very cruel. To put an end to this we have built a computer-controlled device that visually determines if Flo is carrying anything in her mouth when she enters, and if she does, it simply does not let her in.

(via Burp)

These are cool but always scary looking.

Some remarkable art by Paul Smith who uses a typewriter to create his work.
(via Metafilter)

I especially like the toys they used to give away.

From the looks of my hit counter, I am guessing the majority of people visiting my blog are doing it from the office. So you might want to take a look at what offices looked like from the 1830s to the 1880s.

Yikes.

Update:
Boing Boing has a post about this with the Wikipedia entry for those who don’t know what goatse is. I only wish I had read the explanation before finding the site for myself.

Here is a good idea for a site.

Most of the time, you punch what you want to know into Google, and you instantly get what you’re looking for. But have you ever had that experience, where you try query after query and no matter how hard you try, you just can’t find what you’re looking for? That’s what this site is for — because the things Google can’t find is more interesting than the stuff Google can find.

(via The Presurfer)