Big Pickles

With over 5000 pieces, the Ultimate Collector's Millennium Falcon is the largest Lego set ever produced.

Just $500. (That's less than $.10 per piece!)

Labels: fun

According to this article, there is a 1 in 30,000 chance that an asteroid will collide with earth in 2036.

Considering that the odds of a person dying in a terrorist attack are 1 in 88,000, I think this justifies a War on Asteroids. Or two or three.

And since the impending attack is scheduled to occur at least ten years before Social Security goes bankrupt, and fixing that was such a priority in 2005, well, you can see that we should have begun worrying about this years ago.

Labels: politics, science

The Homophoner takes you text and converts as many words as possible into homophones.

So,

"There are many things I would like to see and do before I die"

becomes

"Their are many things I wood like too sea and dew before I dye."

Mildly entertaining.

Labels: words

Wikipedia is great with these lists. Plenty of magic tricks, including several exposures.

Labels: wikipedia

Another oldie but goodie from the vast archive of tech support horror stories of the early 90s. Remember when computers were new and people were idiots?

"I'm not a technical person, I just want to go places in my car."

Labels: fun, tech

I saw this a while ago, but came across it again today. It's an attempt to find some unique fact about every number between 0 and 10,000.

Labels: math

Some, like this pocketknife, are obvious errors.

But others, like this antique paperweight, are for reals. $85 large. Wow.

SenseList has a whole list of them. That's what they have. Whole lists of things.

Labels: general, shopping

There was some chatter yesterday about how Google had messed up their Valentine's Day Google Doodle.

Everyone was all, "What's a Googe?"

A few people found answers in obscure references, such as Barnabe Googe, a 16th Century poet, and Debbie Googe of My Bloody Valentine.

But in the end, Google wants these people to know that they just don't get it. The extra long stem on the strawberry is the L. Case closed.

Labels: general, internet

Not much else to say. It's just the worst commercial ever.

Labels: fun, video

I'm sure you've all heard about the terror scare that shut down Boston a couple of weeks ago.

This video that describes what kind of diabolical mind could be behind something so sinister.

Labels: fun, video

Piggybacking on Clark here.

The first time I heard of Regina Spektor was in January 2006, when her video for 'Us' appeared at number 21 on Good Weather for Airstrikes' list of the Top 65 Videos of 2005.

GWFA is a top-notch blog for indie music, if you're into that kind of thing.

Anyway, that list introduced me to a lot of new bands, notably Hot Hot Heat, Sigur Ros, The Decemberists, and Bloc Party, among many others. I highly recommend it. The number one video, Glosoli by Sigur Ros is particularly good.

I can't find a way to link to the post, so here's what you do. Go to the Good Weather for Airstrikes homepage, and search for "Spektor." The last result should be a link to the top 65 videos of 2005.

Then head over to the Top 50 videos of 2006 and get current.

Labels: music, video

This flash game measures your reflexes by timing how long it takes you to shoot a tranquilizer dart at runaway sheep. (Because that's the most obvious method that springs to mind, right?)

After several attempts my best average is 0.1772 seconds--a Rocketing Rabbit!

Labels: fun, games