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Contestant Sucks On Star Wars LEGO Toys To Win Surreal German...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:12:18 -0500

Contestant Sucks On Star Wars LEGO Toys To Win Surreal German Game Show - Star Wars - io9

On the wildly popular German game show Wetten, dass..? (“Wanna Bet…?”), this contestant had to recognize Stars Wars LEGO figurines using her mouth alone. Marvel at this bizarre Teutonic spectacle from a country far, far away!

If you’ve ever wanted to watch a German citizen eat plastic Star Wars figurines in front of a live studio audience, well, today is your lucky day.

To the contestant’s credit, she does an awesome job recognizing the figurines. I wouldn’t have got the Hoth Snowtrooper either - I would’ve guessed Bib Fortuna or 4-LOM or something. Also, I really hope the grand prize is that sweet set of droid goggles she’s sporting. Karl Lagerfeld, get on it!

[via Laughing Squid]

"Honest Movie Titles: Oscars 2010" by Tom Philip on CollegeHumor

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:44:36 -0500

"Honest Movie Titles: Oscars 2010" by Tom Philip on CollegeHumor

Warm weather in Columbus, but meanwhile in Finand… :)

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:13:08 -0500

Warm weather in Columbus, but meanwhile in Finand… :)

How to use bacon to make your life incredible and amazing - Recipe Star

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:55:04 -0500

How to use bacon to make your life incredible and amazing - Recipe Star

Canon White Lens Coffee Mug

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:04:00 -0500

Canon White Lens Coffee Mug:

I wish this were real!

Water Powered Jet Pack Now this looks really fun. Jetski’s...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:19:05 -0500

Water Powered Jet Pack

Now this looks really fun. Jetski’s are so 20th century. I can fly!

A blog about Iceland

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:54:13 -0500

A blog about Iceland:

A great new blog from the country of Iceland. No really, it’s the country of Iceland, blogging.

Internet heroes help blind gamer beat Zelda: Ocarina of Time...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:18:48 -0500

Internet heroes help blind gamer beat Zelda: Ocarina of Time — Joystiq

Bravo! Kid Shreds on Accordion

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:44:45 -0500

Bravo!

Kid Shreds on Accordion

Building Of The Year - Mountain Dwellings - Copenhagen, Denmark

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:12:21 -0500

Building Of The Year - Mountain Dwellings - Copenhagen, Denmark:

This looks amazing. I remember seeing them talk about the designs, and its so amazing to see the actual finished product.

The Ancient, Distant, and Dead - SEED Magazine - Katie Paterson

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:08:17 -0500

The Ancient, Distant, and Dead - SEED Magazine - Katie Paterson

Media portrayal of women is focus of panel

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:06:20 -0500

Media portrayal of women is focus of panel:

I couldn’t agree more.

loveyourchaos: letsgobananas:cookieeline:(via...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:43:47 -0500

loveyourchaos:

letsgobananas:cookieeline:(via dirtyprettything)

Amazing on so, so many different levels. Nerdtastic and...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:38:00 -0500

Amazing on so, so many different levels. Nerdtastic and awesome.

OMG Threepio! This makes me laugh in so many ways.

When Did Science Rock Your World? - io9.com

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:42:31 -0500

When Did Science Rock Your World? - io9.com:

I don´t know about the 1st time, but my most recent experience with the constant amazement at science, would be the recent batches of Hubble deep feild images. Amazing.

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Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:55:00 -0500

From Ryan North, creator of this puzzle:

I present his latest clues:

March 3rd, 2010: I thought I’d made up “head-explosion disease” in yesterday’s comic, but Paul wrote in to let me know that not only does it exist (what??), it’s curable! PHEW.
Okay, so the anagram from Monday’s comic has still not been solved, so I thought I’d give a few clues before letting it stand for ALL ETERNITY:

All words in the solution are dictionary words.

What’s more, all words in the solution are in the Jadrian’s awesome Qwantz Corpus!

The solution is natural-sounding, reasonably-grammatical dialogue that T-Rex would say, using phrasing that T-Rex would use.

The punctuation :,!! is in the solution, in that order!

The longest word in the solution is 11 characters long.

The solution does not refer to anagrams or puzzles or winning t-shirts.

The letters given are case-sensitive!

The first word of the solution is “I”.

I tested out Joel’s puzzle-solving tool and it does let you know that the correct answer works!

Also linked on Joel’s page are some brute-force scripts and even a branch-and-bound solver (awesome!), but the solution is long enough to make pure brute force not really feasable. You’ll have to use your head.

I think that’s pretty much it! Some of these clues I’d posted on Twitter or hinted at, but now they are explicit! And there’s a few new pieces of information there too.

Since this puzzle has gone unsolved for three days, the prize is now two t-shirts AND an adorable T-Rex Squishable!

NASA - Chilean Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:11:59 -0500

NASA - Chilean Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days:

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - RGM version (via OkGo)

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:05:27 -0500

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - RGM version (via OkGo)

Light at the End of the Pier - Hanalei, Kauai (via...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:12:09 -0500

Light at the End of the Pier - Hanalei, Kauai (via PatrickSmithPhotography)

Its really cool what they’ve done with this on the actual...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:07:00 -0500

Its really cool what they’ve done with this on the actual Vimeo website. Amazing.

“And Then There Was Salsa” on Vimeo (via Vimeo)