DEFENDER of the favicon was done in 3 nights, from start to finish. Each frame of the game is generated on the fly in JavaScript into a 16?16 canvas element, then converted to a 32bits PNG image and used in place of the favicon. The core of the game act as a state machine. Notice a few details such as the pause when this window is not focused, and the resuming and game over transitions.

One of the pages on the miniusa.com site will load a Flash animation showing a car trying to parallel park (link). When the driver finds there isn’t enough room (and bashes the bumper of the truck behind him) he lets out a string of curse words — or rather characters — that includes the Windows logo.

Now that’s funny!

via Jalopnik

via neatorama

What’s interesting are the comments. The commentors are a highly educated bunch, and they’re fixated on the teleportation angle, and they returned to the same point we’ve discussed: are you (1) transported whole, or (2) destroyed and recreated?

This is important, because if you’re destroyed and recreated, what happens to your soul? What happens to any non-physical aspects of your…being?

Without an assumption that thoughts are not bult on a physical base, we are still left with the problem of how to transport this no physical entity (someones soul?), something that I am not aware has been tackled by science.

The real question is …. Would you be happy to destroy yourself on the understanding that some new entity will be recreated at some time in the future that thinks it is you, and thinks exactly like you do?

Read the comments — it’s interesting how something straight out of science fiction like teleportation brings up some solidly religious and spiritual questions.

This is from a comment I made on my own post in 2005:

Being a Christian, I believe we have a spirit apart from the body and the physical brain. So I guess there’s a religious aspect. I don’t think you can “create” life, so you can’t just duplicate me in another spot. I may be a correct biological creature, but I would never be Deane.

Unlike your dinky little six-shooter, this model boasts a 288-band capacity and 40-round-per-second firing capability, making it one of the most dangerous weapons to remain unbanned by the TSA.

You have to watch the video.

Yesterday, she pulled a slip of paper out of the pocket — it’s scanned and re-produced above (click here for a larger version). It looked like it was ripped from a notebook, and the letter was hand-written in ballpoint pen.

In short, it looks like more than your average “Inspected by #8” note.

We’re trying to harness the power of the Internets and all its tubes to try and translate the note above. What does it say? We don’t even know what language it’s in and there’s a 50% chance it’s upside down in the image.

We here at memelabs spend quite a bit of time on the internet and one of our favorite things to do is pass around funny memes that we come across. We thought it would be fun to put a list of some of our favorites.

This lent itself perfectly to a quick pop quiz. So take a look at the list below and see how many you recognize

Well, one day he smoked some crack and got the idea to strap jet engines to his legs, just to see it he could maintain altitude given sufficient thrust. Turns out, he could.

[…] after attaining normal bird-man flight, Visa requested full power from the engines, which responded smoothly in horizontal acceleration. After checking the altimeter several times, it was apparent that there was no appreciable loss in altitude for this period of time.

Visa next changed his angle of attack by redirected the thrust and changing his body position to attain vertical climb. This caused a loss in horizontal speed, and stalled (the body?). Recovering from the stall was made easy because of the agility of the human body to change flight profile easily. A few more attempts at this exercise yielded the same result.

Here’s the video, though the jet-powered guy takes off (literally) from the camera guy pretty quickly once the jets are turned on. I imagine the U.S. military probably watched this video with some interest.

Next thing you know, someone’s going to strap jet engines to a bike. Oh, wait…

The ball does pretty much what I thought it would — it falls to the pavement. No rips in the space-time continuum, no vacuum vortex sucking the contents of the vehicle out the back, or anything else my brother thought would happen. Just a tad disappointing. I half hoped he was right.

But after seeing that video, what I really want to know now is why the driver was wearing a helmet but the guy riding in the back of the truck wasn’t. Hmmm…

from haha.nu

The Japanese have taken Tetris to an all new level of awesomeness using real people and cut out silhouettes in moving walls. It makes sense when you see the video.

Yeah, I know. It has very little to do with Tetris.

I loved her ad. It was hysterical. Well, she's in her first year of college now, and she made a movie last year. This is a good interview with her to catch up on what all happened since that ad hit the Internet.

Macenstein: So, that "beep, beep, beep" story was 100% true? How soon after your dad's PC "ate" your paper did you force him to get you a Mac?

Ellen: The story is true, the 15-page paper was about the history of Chinatowns in America and I wrote it for my 8th grade history class. My parents bought my sister and I the G4 to share the next year.

This part is interesting:

Macenstein: I read that after the Apple ads aired, Apple sort of advised you to not try to capitalize on your celebrity, and sort of fade away. Why do you think that was?

Ellen: A multinational company obviously doesn't want to be associated with weed. Their instructions made me want to capitalize on it though.

A T9onym is a word that shows up on mobile phones that have T9 text entry that is equivalent through T9 to other words. T9onyms appear by pressing number keys while in T9 mode. For example, Bus and Cup are T9onyms.

Indirectly via Kottke.

Sadly, there's no hard answer, I guess.

There is no uniform way to pronounce "pwn" as it is most often encountered in text. The two most common pronunciations are (p??n) (rhymes with "soon") which comes from pronouncing the "w" as in Welsh ,and(p?n) (rhymes with "moan")

Ryhmes with "moaned" is my official declaration. Thank goodness -- I can take Cory's class now.

I tend to leave my computer on all the time. It's a combination of laziness and need. I sit on line quite a bit, and the kids use it as well. I don't think I'm unique here.

The article gives some good tips (and even code) on how to hook in to the parallel port on your PC. I'd recommend using a USB parallel port out on a powered USB hub (not plugged directly in to your PC) for an extra margin of safety. But only because I don't like buying new computers.

Via Hackaday.

Or not. After all, it's your keyboard.