Internet Fun

I loved rebuses as a kid. There are hundreds of them at Rozie’s puzzle site, along with some other games and puzzles. The off-site Enigma Puzzle is a fun implementation of a one-level letter substitution code where you use letter swaps to resolve in on a decoding.

Also via PCJM, nothing brightens up a lunch-break like The UNH! Project, assuming you don’t choke yourself laughing. The project collects and comments on panels from comics featuring “gutteral moans”. It’s classic out-of-context humor, allowing observations like this from the first panel in the collection in which a henchwoman utters “UKH!” while being slapped with a book: “It’s completely gratuitous; her butt has accidentally wandered into the perfect position for it to be hit with a book.” Then there’s my personal favorite from the collection…

If you’re one of the last people on the internet to have noticed that Brunching Shuttlecocks officially shut themselves down, you also might have been as slow as I was to notice that you can still read the best part of their site, the Ratings, at The Book of Ratings. I’ll probably stop by the Self-Made Critic site occassionally, too, because I generally only read movie reviews after I’ve already seen the movie. This allows me to play the “were the women cute enough to warrant an extra star from Ebert” game, and to snort at lines like this from … Continue reading Brunching Reloaded

I like tessellations, I’m a fan of the Escher gradient tessellations, and I just love these Tessllating Animations. Check out the crouching black cat and the fish on the black backgound in particular. [via The View From Here]

A crazy productive week “in real life”, culminating in checking a major item off my to-do list but very little weblogging. Still, I think we should all celebrate by stopping by the Snoopydance page. Doo do do doo do do dooo dooo….

I amused a friend of mine today with periodic e-mails of weird and wonderfulness on the web. Now y’all can enjoy too! Here’s some happy silliness to start your day off right: Cats in Hats Whee – very cool scrap metal sculptures of science fiction robot and alien favorites. [via Boing Boing] If you’ve got Flash installed, go check out this Honda ad of an amazing “Rube Goldberg” machine.[via Dave Barry’s Blog] I was pleased that I could place all but a handful of the countries on this map of the Middle East within off-by-one or two of their true … Continue reading 16 Fun Links

Kick off your shoes and revel in the pure geeky goodness that is Starship Dimensions. Marvel at how much smaller Cloud City is than the Whale Probe. Find out which buildings are taller than the Mothership in “Close Encounters” and notice that the space shuttle is about the same size and shape as a Romulan science ship. You’re encouraged to view the page using IE so that you can enjoy dragging the ships around the page for comparison and cross-genre battle fantasies.[via Anita’s LOL]

Since I am already a “bad weblogger”, what with the lack of RSS feeds and my distasteful link-and-comment format, I might as well jump on the linking bandwagon and recommend my non-blogger readers read The Horror of Blimps, which had me laughing way too hard for the office. [via Anita’s LOL] It reminds me of the bar-none funniest thing I’ve ever read on the internet: Dogs in Elk.

The key to a good personality quiz is to make the questions as entertaining as the potential results. The always funny BBspot offers up Which OS Are You?, and I’ll admit that my enjoyment of it doubled when they were on-the-ball enough to peg me as HP-UX, the only old-time unix variant included. Wheee! [via PCJM] If that isn’t enough fun for you, go scan the features archive for their reviews of movie trailers – one of my favorite parts of their site.

Icon War – a cute little animation which probably violates all kinds of trademarks. [via eatonweb]