Some sites featured in .net this month - to save you having to read the mag! (but have a look in the Jan 2007 issue if you want more info on them). It's all so international:
www.paranoidprojects.com/popup.php?id=49
Stunning video featuring some mind bending compositing few could get their head around and some home made clockwork cameras. I get the feeling that something truly amazing could be done with better subject matter - but inspiring none the less.
Found by: Shadi
Source: Men's Health (one instance anyhow)
The Washington Post's Mensa
Invitational once again asked
readers to take any word from the dictionary,
alter it by
adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a
new
definition.
are this year's winners:
1. Intaxication:
Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your
money to start with.
2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a
hillbilly
3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that
stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer,
unfortunately, shows
little sign of breaking down in the near future.
4. Foreploy: Any
misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
5.
Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject
financially impotent for an indefinite
period.
6. Giraffiti: Vandalism
spray-painted very, very high.
7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author
of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
8. Inoculatte: To
take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
9. Hipatitis:
Terminal coolness.
10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one
got extra credit.)
11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is
sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the
Earth
explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
12. Decafalon (n.): The
grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good
for you.
13. Glibido: All talk and no action.
14. Dopeler effect:
The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you
rapidly.
15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just
after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
16. Beelzebug
(n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three
in the morning and cannot
be cast out.
17. Caterpallor (n.): The color
you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
18.
Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an
@sshole.
The Washington Post has also
published the winning
submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers
are
asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. And
the winners
are:
1. coffee, n. the person upon whom one coughs.
2.
flabbergasted, adj. appalled by discovering how much weight one has
gained.
3. abdicate, v. to give up all hope of ever having a
flat stomach again.
4. esplanade, v. to attempt an explanation while
drunk.
5. willy-nilly, adj. impotent.
6. negligent, adj.
absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.
7.
lymph, v. to walk with a lisp.
8. gargoyle, n. olive-flavored
mouthwash.
9 flatulence, n. emergency vehicle that picks up
someone who has been run over by a steamroller.
10. balderdash, n. a
rapidly receding hairline.
11. testicle, n. a humorous question on an
exam.
12. rectitude, n. the formal, dignified bearing adopted
by proctologists.
13. pokemon, n. a Rastafarian
proctologist.
14. oyster, n. a person who sprinkles his conversation
with Yiddishisms.
15. circumvent, n. an opening in the front of boxer
shorts worn by Jewish men.
A gold mind for the strategy PowerPoint scribbler, I nearly always prefer these things when they are nonsense, but this one does seem to contain real content. How do they (a) come up with the categories and (b) position the methods within the table? Can anyone to tell me how the pop-up stuff works?
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