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Magic Pen

Evil Overload — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:50:04 +0000

Check out the latest in a long line of flash games you just can’t stop playing! In this one, you draw shapes in an old-school mspaint-style interface, and you use the shapes which acquire gravity and momentum, and use them to collect flags. Screw you, Productivity! Link

Update: CAPTCHA’ed

Evil Overload — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:48:04 +0000

Henceforth, comment spam and the accompanying mistaken deletion of valid comments should not be a problem. Take that, automated marketing scum!

Dolphin Rescues Whales

Evil Overload — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:50:36 +0000

“A dolphin has come to the rescue of two whales which had become stranded on a beach in New Zealand.

Conservation officer Malcolm Smith told the BBC that he and a group of other people had tried in vain for an hour and a half to get the whales to sea.

The pygmy sperm whales had repeatedly beached, and both they and the humans were tired and set to give up, he said.

But then the dolphin appeared, communicated with the whales, and led them to safety.

The bottlenose dolphin, called Moko by local residents, is well known for playing with swimmers off Mahia beach on the east coast of the North Island.”

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(via Warren Ellis)

Garfield minus Garfield equals Funny

Ennui — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:18:53 +0000

Charlie Brown Christmas: Scrubs Style

Ennui — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:13:21 +0000

For those of you who will have nothing better to do on Thanksgiving but watch YouTube videos, here’s one to prepare you for what’s about to come: Christmas. And no Christmas is complete without Charlie Brown and gang.

Happy Birthday to Us!

Evil Overload — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:06:23 +0000

Today is the 4th Anniversary of the first post on Bored Athenians. Here’s to four years of shared malaise!

Red Moon Rising

Evil Overload — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:17:39 +0000

On August 28th, between 5:52 am and 7:22 am EST, there will be a full lunar ecipse, optimally visible from right here in Oconee River City. As an added bonus, the moon will apparently be glowing red for most of those 90 minutes (except for the eclipse part of the eclipse). Sounds like a sight not to be missed. I, for one, plan to sincerely intend not to miss it. Link and More Link.

Old Comments Restored!

Evil Overload — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:52:32 +0000

All 5,848 of them! Attached to just over 1,600 separate blog posts. And all it took was translating from XML to text to Excel to CSV, into a Prolog routine to join them up (mostly) with the appropriate blog posts, then back to excel, then CSV, back to text, then into MySQL.

Thanks again, BackBlog, for using a completely different indexing system than the blogs of your clients.

Anyway, all of our myriad and epic conversations are again there for viewing. A few may be attached to the wrong posts, so just sound off if you see any such.

*dancedancedance*