Stuffis

Still "Brent's pile o' stuff" but at least now there are sections.

Fun Stuffis

• Analog Synthesizer — this is what "synthesizers" were like when I was a kid, except there was no magic "preset" loader — you twiddled all the knobs and "patched" the stages together in a line using actual patch cords
• Akiyoshi's illusion pages — I find these fascinating
• Baroque.me: visual representation of Bach Cello Suites No. 1, Prelude — keep the pointer away from the balls and give it a few seconds to get rolling — then you can grab the balls and throw it off track
• Boston Dynamics' AlphaDog robot goes outdoors (AlphaDog is an update to their BigDog model)
• Boston Dynamics is also working on the Sand Flea which can jump pretty high!
• Meanwhile, DARPA's Cheetah bot is faster than Usain Bolt
• Draw a Stickman — second time through, try drawing a snake or a paperclip or something...
• Impasse
• Classical music animations
  • Debussy Arabesque #1
  • Bach Brandenburg #6, 1st mvt.
  • Debussy Claire de Lune
• Jumping Glass
• Liquid Particles
• Lightsabre Badminton and Lightsabre Princess Bride
• The Scale of the Universe
• ToneMatrix
• instrumental video nine (this is not your father's tokyoplastic drum machine)
• Pipe Dream from Animusic.com
• The Checkershadow Illusion
• 8 foot 11 — scruuuunch!
• Rotate & Roll (fun little physics-based game)
• What's Inside Head & Shoulders?
• First-Person Tetris
• Stubborn "nail houses"
• In search of the click track
• Amazing Tetris play — keep watching and being more amazed — special level at the end
• Straight Up Chess — "playing with fine art"
• Fantastic Contraption (another physics game)
• Poke the Penguin (with new defenses)
• Auditorium
• The eyeballing game
• Oktapodi HQ — for those who like Pixar-style short films
• People Bucket — a physics-based adventure
• Sunny Day Sky — a happy little bear-with-umbrella game; great music
• Tower Bloxx: build your own (teeterin') city!
• If Star Wars had come out two decades earlier (and Saul Bass had done the credits...)
• Squirrel Obstacle Course
• Human Tetris (Japan game show)
• Cat Alarm Clock
• Bloxorz
• Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Vuvuzela
• They're Taking The Hobbits to Isengard! (I think the cheezy Casio music is the funniest part — well, that and the look on "Stareagorn's" face)
• Quiz sites like Sporcle
• Real-life Space Invaders
• Singing Tesla Coil
• Circlo
• Tim Fort's Kinetic Art (not your father's dominoes); worth watching all the way through
• Castle Smasher (catapult)
• Line Rider
• Merry Christmas
• Goggles: The Google Maps flight-sim
  • Fly over Bethel University, St. Paul, MN
  • Fly over the Mississippi River Dam at Coon Rapids, MN
• Can you exercise both hemispheres of your brain at once? (Flash; click "JOUER" (play) to start the "JEU" (game))
• Amazing 3D chalk drawings
• The mouse pointer game (Flash)
• Rubik's cube: two-handed in 10.48 sec or one-handed (!) in 20.09 sec or while lip-syncing; also proving the maximum moves required to solve any cube (currently 26)
• Optical Illusion: Big Spanish Castle
• Lemmings (original)
• Bilbana (race cars)
• Goldburger to go (Rube Goldberg game)
• Homemade
• Websites as graphs, one of the coolest visualizations I've seen in a while
• The case of the 500-mile email
• Katapult
• Animator vs Animation and Animator vs Animation 2
• giraffe, chase me (Hexstatic's "Master-View" album is cool), clive the frog, kenya, hos, badgers, footy, badgerphone
• Amateur (very clever) — Lasse Gjertsen — who had previously done Hyperactive, and a Flash version so you can try yourself
• Quartet on one instrument (a viola de gamba)
• Guitar, a la hammered dulcimer (simply amazing)
• Rad Monkey electric cowbells (they have a pickup)
• Top 10 Most Curious States of Equilibrium
• Drum Machine (you'll have to click a few places to get it going)
• Stomp
• Yeti Sports - Yeti-Penguin baseball, Orca Slap, etc.
• Throw Paper
• Benford's Law: in a set of multi-digit numbers, numbers with "1" as the first digit occur more frequently — can be used as a way to detect fraud
• craymachine
• Warthog Launch - 40 levels
• sodaconstructor
• Credit Card Prank and Credit Card Prank II
• Virtools
• LEGO logic gates
• Guide to Roguelike Games and BALROG
• Animated Engines
• Google Image Labeler, the ESP Game, and Human-Computer Symbiosis

Odd Stuffis

• The Boston Molasses Disaster
• Centralia, PA (ghost town due to decades-long mine fire)

Memes

"The contact lens of Sauron" — apparently this gag was done on a "Family Guy" episode. I first heard the joke when reading these two comments on this Schneier Blog page on border security:

So, will Boeing's "Eye O' Sauron" system designed for the Mexican border fail for the same reasons? — Sean

@Sean: No... as long as he's got his contact lens in, we're okay. — Anonymous

"Thanks, but snow thanks" — this sums up my feelings about further further frozen precipitation this year.

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