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November 14, 2009

Gulls eating starfish, a gallery on flickr

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Modular origami uses multiple sheets of paper to create a larger and more complex structure than a single-piece origami

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"In einem kühlen Grunde" sung Cappella style by The Comedian Harmonists. (Thank you, Patrick)

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December 25, 2008

Monopoly Repackaging

Monopoly Repackaging by Andy Mangold. (Soon to be a major motion picture)

8 Old School Toys That Got Badass Makeovers

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...Domino Day is a world record attempt for the highest number of toppling domino stones, organised each year by Endemol Netherlands. Together with Robin Paul Weijers, also known as Mr. Domino, parties team up to set a new world record.

On 15 November 2008 the team of Weijers Domino Productions tried to break the world record domino toppling. They did set up 4.5 million dominoes in the WTC Expo Center in Leeuwarden to try topping the previous record of 2 years ago, which was at 4,079,381 dominoes toppled.

Although one Builder Challenge failed, the record was broken with 4,345,027 dominoes toppled. [1] Also, 9 additional world records were attempted and successfully broken...

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September 25, 2008

The illuminati games

Illuminati Card Game was invented in 1990 by Steven Jackson. The ‘game’ he had created ruffled quite a few feathers as he was promptly visited by the Secret Service who tried to shut him down and prevent the cards from being released. (From Anarchaia)

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Computer games invented by Jon Stewart for the 2008 election

Update: See comment by Allen Varney about Steve Jackson below.

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August 19, 2008

People Bucket

People Bucket, a physics-based adventure. Created by Dominik Hofmann. The purpose of the adventure is to get people into buckets. (From Michel Vuijlsteke’s weblog)

Dress-up Doggie - 3 seconds of YouTube

Zoom Service - If you know someone who claims to have been in Yankee Stadium on July 4, you just might be able to check for yourself. (From Poor Clio)

Rich's Incredible Pyro has added an "explosive" dimension to modern military and World War II simulated attacks at air shows throughout the United States and in fact the world. Hi-Res Pyrotechnics

The Best of Kermit Shafer - For Those Who Have Everything record cover

From Carl Zimmer's Tattoo Emporium, The Double Helix Torch Is Passed

Hotel door hangers collected by my grandfather

Hungry for love on flickr

Delta’s new ad. (From Cartoon Brew)

(.gif above from Kid Douche)

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August 19, 2008 in Games | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack

July 13, 2008

Which gaming die are you?

Dioramas by winners of the national Swedish IPMS modeling competition

Roman Glass Gaming Die. Circa 2nd Century A.D. Deep blue-green in color, the large twenty-sided die incised with a distinct symbol on each of its faces 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm.) wide. Price $17,925

Tetris wiki, compiling every Tetris detail known to mankind, including for example, strategies for clearing over four lines

This is How We Roll in India. (YT)

From today's wikipedia: The Garden of Earthly Delights. (Click to biggify)

(Photo above by photographer Andy Reynolds)

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June 10, 2008

The Game with One Rule

By entering a specific code on some Canon calculators you can play a very simple form of Tetris on them. (From Unique daily)

Rugby on rabies. In the small English town of Ashbourne during 2 days a year the people divide to play a sport with the purpose of scoring the “toughest goal”. Imagine thousands of people, divided by a river, with 2 days to get a ball across town with one simple rule: No Murder

"Perdoname por mi vida loca" - Gangster life figurines by local artist Abel "OG Abel" Izaguirre, depicting friends & foes he knew in urban Los Angeles

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May 11, 2008

Go fly a kite

...Last Sunday was beautiful, here in Seattle. So I purchased a cheap kite at the local drugstore and went to a nearby field to fly it.

It was the first time I'd done so since childhood, and had forgotten the intensity and purity of emotions a $5 kite can evoke. Foremost amongst them: FRUSTRATION and RAGE...

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Tetes a cliques un petit jeu viral. (From Surfez Avec Moi)

The making of StarSlide, a children’s slide that is also a work of art

Everything You Do is a Balloon Canadian bike safety rules from the 60's

220 flash games for a rainy day

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April 15, 2008

Players Wanted

Art Toys by Wilfrid Wood. (From a blog about Polymer Clay Art)

The finalists of the Papal Skateboard Art Design Contest

A Paper Toy that is easy to make. (I must have blogged it before. See many more under ‘Recommended’ links on the page)

4D Mathematical Model Construction, by pupils of Prof. George Hart

The first few minutes of the movie The Game (1997) with Michael Douglas and Sean Penn. (From Art of the Title Sequence)

“He’s dead, Jim”. A lot of people died on the original "Star Trek"

Everybody Dance Now! (Music on!)

Pope Print!

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March 23, 2008

Rapunzel

Crocheted Rapunzel doll set, by Lis Chaong. Her many other Amigurumi sets

Also, The Fellowship of the Ring, amigurumi style. (From Chaos theory)

Hanns-Martin Wagner’s Rolling Ball Room 2005

Automata operated by keys, cranks, weights or wind-up motors, designed by Tom Haney

Czech Marionettes

An audio-kinetic cuckoo clock, a limited edition of 50, numbered and signed by George Rhoads. The clock mechanism is constructed of steel, brass and plasitc. It is 29 1/2" long by 15" high by 7" deep. It weighs 17 lbs. More here

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March 18, 2008

Why is FreeCell so popular?

“Freecell Ruined My Life…it frequently kept me up until 1.30 in the morning. Sometimes I was going to bed and I could hardly see"

FreeCell is a solitaire 52-card game with “no stunning graphics, no sound and a workmanlike game engine”. But for sheer addictive compulsion and appeal, it deserves a place in the hall of fame.

FreeCell’s origins may date back to 1945 and a Scandinavian game called “Napoleon in St. Helena”. Various versions of the game were developed between 1968 and 1977 but the game remained relatively obscure until it was made a part of Windows 95 and has been included with every version of Windows since.

So why did FreeCell become so addictive? The original Help file remains through modern Microsoft versions: "It is believed (although not proven) that every game is winnable."…Most solitaires (including the most popular ones like Klondike, Spider, Pyramid, Forty Thieves, and Miss Milligan) can be won less than half of the time even with perfect play. Almost every FreeCell deal can be won if played correctly; it has one of the highest win rates of any solitaire.

The original Microsoft FreeCell package includes 32,000 games, known as the "Microsoft 32,000". When FreeCell became very popular during the 1990s it was not clear which of the 32,000 deals in the program were solvable. To clarify the situation, Dave Ring started The Internet FreeCell Project, took on the problem to try to solve all the deals using human solvers.

The project was finished in October 1995, and only one game defied every human player's attempt: #11,982, which has been shown to be unsolvable by several exhaustive-search software solvers.

Lists of difficult deals

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Video Computer System - Reinterpreting old Atari games into a MTV Brazil Video, by Golden Shower

Cubeecraft paper craft toys, free to download

3-Way Chess

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February 18, 2008

Deep Blue

Deep Blue was a chess-playing computer developed by IBM. On 11 May 1997, the machine won a six-game match by two wins to one with three draws against Garry Kasparov

I think it's wrong only one company makes the game Monopoly

Re-post: A classic Ze Frank sketch about The rules of Scrabble

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February 18, 2008 in Games | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

February 08, 2008

Toy Secrets

Mini Organ - Rare and vintage musical electronic toys. This is the first museum of lost organs, damned keyboards, childish synthesizers, dusty voice transformers and singing calculators. Most of them are from the 70ies and 80ies

Peter Hirschberg’s Dream Home Arcade

Advanced Light Weaponry props. (From Hot Links)

The Secrets Behind Your Favorite Toys

(.gif above from Andrew Lipson)

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February 8, 2008 in Games | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

February 03, 2008

Mass Games

The Mass Games 2007 at the May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Here’s the slide show)

Harry, USBC's Robotic Bowling Ball Thrower. (From Make)

Arcade at the Movies

Chinese Chess, or xiangqi, is perhaps the most popular board game in the world, played by millions of people in China, other parts of Asia, and wherever Chinese have settled

(Graphic above from Rodpunk. Thank you, Craig)

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