Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Three person chess and rules

When CBS's "The Big Bang Theory" recently joked about nerds coming up with complicated new rules to the age old game chess, they probably had no idea that nerdom had already thought about that.



the rules

and another variation

Monday, May 16, 2011

Unedited Youtube Videos

I've noticed a few nicely unedited youtube videos. Actually to be honest they are edited to look unedited, but the punchline ends up being something completely unexpected, which is nice. I've seen far to many youtube videos that start with a guy on a roof, or with a chainsaw beside a tree, we know how these are going to end, we've seen it a million times before. Here's two examples of what I mean,

Monday, May 2, 2011

Retro iPohone

I will never understand the appeal of a home phone, but I know I need it, it's like a warm fuzzy blanket. Technology like this has been around for a while, but it's never really taken off, maybe there is too much of a void between celular and home phones.