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This mockup documentary video about geek role-playing gamers is very funny, but also a little disturbing (if there are, actually, such people out there).
After watching this I sincerely hope to never hear the terms LARP or PLP (Platonic Life Partners) again.
(via The Old New Thing – Raymond Chen’s blog)
If Gizmodo calls the Sahara Dry Ear, which is supposed to dry your ears for $100, a “useless piece of shit”, then this one must enter my endless list of stupid gadgets.
Apparently shirt folding is a hot subject these days. This time – build your own shirt folding machine. Check it out on this website (or download the movie directly).
(Thanks to Hadas)
fastr is a very cool game, not unlike Guess-the-google. It shows you 10 images (from flickr) that have a common tag. You’re supposed to guess the tag before all 10 images appear. The faster you guess the tag, the more points you get.
The nice thing about this game is that it is round-based (all online users of the game play at the same time) so you can see how other users are doing with the same challenges and compete with them.
This video has been around for a while. It shows how to fold a T-shirt fast.
If you’re into office pranks, check these out. Some of them are pretty good.
Hamachi is free software to create secure (mediated) instant peer-to-peer VPNs. From the Hamachi website: “With Hamachi you can organize two or more computers with an Internet connection into their own virtual network for direct secure communication. Hamachi is fast, secure and simple. It is also free.”
I haven’t used it yet as I had no need for it so far, but this tutorial on how to set up VNC with Hamachi may be useful.
Reading with one hand holding the book open can be tough, especially if it contains over 500 pages and you’re in the middle of it. Thumbthing is a low-tech gadget, which elegantly solves this problem.
(via Gizmodo)
The website Where’s George lets people enter their dollar bills and see where bills have traveled. I always thought it was an interesting idea. For example, check out this example of a dollar bill trace. You can even see a map where the bill has been.
Lately, however, a surprising use was found for Where’s George. From this article: “…scientists have unveiled statistical laws of human travel in the United States, and developed a mathematical description that can be used to model the spread of infectious disease in this country.”
(via Slashdot)