Numbers up the wazoo

Alkulukuja Kakkiva Karhu, The Prime Number Pooping Bear. (Fine in IE6, but didn't seem to work in Firefox 1.0 for me. If that's not a ringing endorsement for Firefox, I don't know what is.)

More numbers, less wazoo at combinationlock.com, where you use mathematical clues to try and open the lock. Hint: the Easy levels are probably a little too easy. If so, click the More Puzzles link to crank up the difficulty factor.

Obsessions

Strange obsessions with:

Urinals - If you've been up nights tossing and turning, burning and yearning to know just what the urinals in the Los Angeles Zoo or in Creative Friends Quilt Shop (Hollister, CA) look like up close and personal-like, now you can rest easier, my obsessive-compulsive friend. Urinal.net shares your thirst for porcelainous urinary collection devices. Um, maybe that's not such a good metaphor, considering the subject matter. But they do have hundreds of pictures of nothin'. But. Urinals. Go figure.

666 - Eli Eshoh is a little overly interested in finding 666's. You know, The Number of the Beast. Also explorations into The Square Root of the Beast, Cube of the Beast, Fraction of the Beast, The Right Triangle of the Beast (no, really... stop giggling!), and how "Windows 95" turns into 666 after you, uh, you know, change it to "Windows 96". Or something. Plus how the end of the world is coming... in 1998.Plus oh-so-much more than you really want to know.

Cats - Pictures of cats. Just pictures of cats. Cute cats, ugly cats, cats in funny hats, you get the idea. The first twenty or so pictures you're saying, "Awwww, look at the cute kitties!". This wears off as you view the next four hundred pictures of cats.

"Back in Aught-Four..."

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture"
-Elvis Costello

Whether you agree or not with the above quote, Jason Gross has compiled his list of some of the best of 2004's music journalism, as well as some of the worst.

(via Scrubbles)

Spanking the Batmobile

...and other nonsensical niceties at The Euphemism Generator

Mission Statement Generator

Get your own custom T-shirts and mugs emblazoned with your mecha-moniker at the Cyborg Name Generator site.

Let it.... oh, you know the rest

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.
-Tyler Durden, "Fight Club"

More pictures of snowflakes than you can shake a stick at. Assuming you would want to shake a stick at a snowflake, that is.

(via del.icio.us)

Nultikle choice

(That's "multiple choice" in ventrilo-speak)

I ask you, which of these is creepier?

A) Mr. Deadguy and Baby Cheezwitz?


B) Scabby Hansen the Leper Boy?


or
C) Generic female ventriloquist doll?



Yeah, I vote for C, too. Why is that?



Fun bonus game! Try and sing along with Gabbo without moving your lips. Need some pointers? Ventriloquism secrets revealed here!

The last word

When you absolutely need to relive the superb dialogue from A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, or if perusing the pilot of Who's The Boss gets you all misty, TV and movie scripts can be had at Simply Scripts, Movie-Page and the granddaddy of them all, Drew's Script-O-Rama.

Nine seasons worth of Puffy Shirts, Close Talkers and other Spongeworthy material at seinfeldscripts.com

Turn over a bower

...Lose for an hour



How to play euchre. Euchre phrases and terminology, strategies, and a "what would you do?" quiz. Oh, plus Peuchre: The Euchre Drinking Game.

Jumpers

Fascinating (if morbid) article in The New Yorker on stories of suicide attempts from The Golden Gate Bridge (all but 26 of the more than 1,200 jumpers were successful in their efforts to end their life).

(via TinyApps.org)

Do you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese at the North Pole?

Hilarious video mash-up of Pulp Fiction and classic Rankin-Bass holiday animation.

(via Boing Boing)

WWSD?

Time to try and luck out again with football pool picks this week. Here is the email I sent to Pete "I'll sell your home, any home for $39.95" Bruinsma:

Pete,

Merry Christmas,

Here are my picks... It being Christmastime, I asked myself, WWSD? (What Would Santa Do?)

Since there are no NFL teams (yet) at the North Pole, I figured Santa would be rooting for the northernmost teams in each of this weekend's lineups.

For my data, I relied on The NFL Stadium Guide for an address of where each team's home stadium actually resides. For example, Buffalo's Ralph Wilson Stadium is actually not in Buffalo, but in Orchard Park, NY. Giants Stadium is in New Jersey, etc.

Once I had a solid location for each team, I Googled for their latitude, which if you recall from Geometry class, tells how far away from the equator you are. The equator would be at 0 degrees latitude, and the more north you go, the higher the latitude. Santa at the North Pole would be at 90 degrees north latitude. Thus he will be cheering for the team with the higher latitude in each of this weekend's matchups.

Okay, here we go!

Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN) is 44 degrees 53 minutes North
Green Bay, WI is 44 degrees 29 minutes North
Pick: Minnesota!

Kansas City is 39 degrees 7 minutes North
Oakland is 37 degrees 49 minutes
Pick: Kansas City!

Denver is 39 degrees 45 minutes North
Tennessee (Nashville, TN) is 36 degrees 7 minutes North
Pick: Denver!

Pittsburgh is 40 degrees 30 minutes North
Baltimore is 39 degrees 11 minutes North
Pick: Pittsburgh!

Detroit is 42 degrees 25 minutes North
Chicago is 41 degrees 50 minutes North
Pick: Detroit!

Cincinnati is 39 degrees 9 minutes North
NY Giants (East Rutherford, NJ) is 40 degrees 49 minutes North
Pick: NY Giants!

Indianapolis is 39 degrees 44 minutes North
San Diego is 32 degrees 44 minutes North
Pick: Indianapolis!

Jacksonville is 30 degrees 30 minutes North
Houston is 29 degrees 58 minutes North
Pick: Jacksonville!

Tampa Bay (Tampa, FL) is 27 degrees 58 minutes North
Carolina (Charlotte, NC) is 35 degrees 13 minutes North
Pick: Carolina!

New Orleans is 29 degrees 59 minutes North
Atlanta is 33 degrees 39 minutes North
Pick: Atlanta!

New England (Foxborough, MA) is 42 degrees 13 minutes North
NY Jets (East Rutherford, NJ) is 40 degrees 49 minutes North
Pick: New England!

Buffalo (Orchard Park, NY) is 42 degrees 56 minutes North
San Francisco is 37 degrees 37 minutes North
Pick: Buffalo!

Washington (Landover, MD) is 38 degrees 56 minutes North
Dallas (Irving, TX) is 32 degrees 51 minutes North
Pick: Washington!

Seattle is 47 degrees 37 minutes North
Arizona (Tempe, AZ) is 33 degrees 32 minutes North
Pick: Seattle!

Miami is 25 degrees 48 minutes North
Cleveland is 41 degrees 24 minutes North
Pick: Cleveland!

St. Louis is 38 degrees 45 minutes North
Philadelphia is 39 degrees 53 minutes North
Pick: Philadelphia!

Tie breaker will be Philly's latitude of 39

OEDILF on NPR update

As previously mentioned, the clever people who contribute limericks to OEDILF (The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form) are being covered on NPRs Weekend Edition Saturday.

Looks like things are happening fast, as the interview is scheduled to be taped tomorrow, Christmas Eve morning and might possibly even air the following day. As they say, check your local listings. NPR also archives the show, so once it airs, I'll post a link to that as well.

The interview will be with Chris J. Stolin, Editor-In-Chief, and will be about four minutes in length after it gets edited down. Check it out while your opening presents (assuming it will air this Saturday... guess it's still a little up in the air).

You better not pout

You better not cry. Gallery of extremely unhappy children visiting Santa.

(via Boing Boing)

This photo wasn't in the gallery, but I thought it was pretty good.

Meat The Beastles

The Beastles is one of the better mash-ups I've heard, fusing Beastie Boys with Beatles. The InfoNation staff's picks are "Watcha Want, Lady?" and "Tripper Trouble" The album is available for download by dj BC. Ch-ch-ch-check it out!

(via Screenhead)

A snake by any other name...

...would be just as hard to get out of the dashboard.

(thanks for the link, Tim!)