"All those drawings are still sitting there on the same website," says Johnson. "It's fun to spelunk through it. Occasionally, you'll even see a hangman game!"
My first thought Tic-Tac-Toe. I guess Hangman's just as good, but perhaps Pictionary would be more appropriate.
Hmm... Sure Nintendo competitors have a history of failing, but this is Sony we're talking about. It beat Nintendo at game console sales with the Playstation, and it's got a pretty good chance of doing well with the PSP. Analysts seem to indicate that many gamers will be picking up both systems. I, for one, am considering picking up only the PSP.
In it, the Professor uses his invention, the Smelloscope, to locate a huge meteor composed of garbage (produced by New New York and launched into space because the landfills were full) that threatens to destroy the planet (spoofing the movie, Armageddon). This leads to quotes like these:
Fry: Hey, as long as you don't make me smell Uranus. (laughs)
Leela: I don't get it.
Professor: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
Fry: Oh. What's it called now?
Professor: Urectum. Here, let me locate it for you.
Fry: Hehe, no, no, I think I'll just smell around a bit over here.
I forgot to post a link to the Pandora's Cube Website. Just checked with a few buddies, and it looks like these guys are notorious for selling bootlegged anime and merchandise.
It was only a matter of time before something like this happened. The employees worked for Pandora's Cube apparently. This company is very active on the anime convention circuit and sells their wares there. I've never seen them sell these Super X-boxes at conventions. Perhaps the employees were doing this independently of the store?
Q. Will this delay delivery of devices running Palm OS® Cobalt?
A. No. Palm OS Cobalt version 6.1 is already finished, and the software is in the hands of licensees. Samsung has announced they are creating products based on Palm OS Cobalt 6.1, and other licensees are working on Palm OS Cobalt-based products as well. We expect shipment in 2005.
They have more licensees? Things are looking up for PalmOS.
I agree that it's poorly written. I seem to remember a different wording on this card in the actual game without the "securely lodged" phrasing. IIRC, this is a so-called diamond-question which allows the player to ask yes/no questions to determine the answer, which makes this riddle somewhat more forgiving, though still horribly constructed.
Hmm... didn't know about this, but there's actually a second edition of the game called Mindtrap II. Some people say it's better that the first.
Q: Four men sat down to play,
They played all night 'till break of day,
They played for gold and not for fun
With separate scores for everyone.
When they came to square accounts,
They all had made quite fair amounts.
Can you the paradox explain,
If no one lost, how could all gain.
Q: You're alone in a room where the walls, ceiling and floor are made of solid concrete. There's a small hole in the ground with a ping-pong ball securely lodged into it. You only have with you a wooden ruler, a string, a pocket mirror, and a magnet. How would you get the ping-pong ball out?
Q: In 1843, in North Carolina, two sisters married two brothers and they all lived under the same roof. From there, things went bad. Although the two brothers were considered inseparable, the two sisters began to quarrel to such a degree they had to move to separate houses. The two brothers weren't overly pleased with the separate house situation and as a result they quite often couldn't be bothered going home. Neither brother concealed the fact that if he stayed out all night, it was a good bet he spent the night in another woman's bed. Although both sisters were hot tempered and jealous, for some reason they must have put up with their husbands' sleeping around since they never divorced and each bore several children. What could account for these two headstrong sisters turning a blind eye to their husbands' indiscretions?
Here's another:
Picture a bridge four kilometers long and strong enough to hold ten thousand kilograms, but no more. A loaded transport truck weighing exactly ten thousand kilograms drives onto the bridge. At the halfway point, a sparrow weighing 30 grams lands on the truck, yet the bridge doesn't collapse. How could this be?
I'm partial to Mind Trap. It's like Trivial Pursuit with Riddles. Here's a sample question:
A black dog stands in the middle of an intersection in a town painted black. None of the street lights are working due to a power failure caused by a local storm. A car with two broken headlights drives towards the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him. How could the driver have seen the dog in time?
I think those figures are misleading. What about those registrars that automatically generate a home page for you? Are those included in the tally? And what about squatters that just put up a generic search page? There's too many variables for those numbers to be very useful.
There have been several Pokemon movies which have beautiful artwork and ok animation. It's better than the TV show animation, but not quite up to the level of a Studio Ghibli release.
Why the links to "everyotherblog"? Those are not blog sites, just links to blogging software. More appropriate links would have been to
siteslikethese.
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My first thought Tic-Tac-Toe. I guess Hangman's just as good, but perhaps Pictionary would be more appropriate.
Hmm... Sure Nintendo competitors have a history of failing, but this is Sony we're talking about. It beat Nintendo at game console sales with the Playstation, and it's got a pretty good chance of doing well with the PSP. Analysts seem to indicate that many gamers will be picking up both systems. I, for one, am considering picking up only the PSP.
Anyone watch the Futurama episode entitled A Big Piece of Garbage?
In it, the Professor uses his invention, the Smelloscope, to locate a huge meteor composed of garbage (produced by New New York and launched into space because the landfills were full) that threatens to destroy the planet (spoofing the movie, Armageddon). This leads to quotes like these:
Fry: Hey, as long as you don't make me smell Uranus. (laughs)
Leela: I don't get it.
Professor: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
Fry: Oh. What's it called now?
Professor: Urectum. Here, let me locate it for you.
Fry: Hehe, no, no, I think I'll just smell around a bit over here.
Ahh... Futurama, it was ahead of its time.
I forgot to post a link to the Pandora's Cube Website. Just checked with a few buddies, and it looks like these guys are notorious for selling bootlegged anime and merchandise.
It was only a matter of time before something like this happened. The employees worked for Pandora's Cube apparently. This company is very active on the anime convention circuit and sells their wares there. I've never seen them sell these Super X-boxes at conventions. Perhaps the employees were doing this independently of the store?
I thought the headline meant that China recognized Taiwanese Independence by banning a game. That headline could have been phrased a bit better.
Q. Will this delay delivery of devices running Palm OS® Cobalt?
A. No. Palm OS Cobalt version 6.1 is already finished, and the software is in the hands of licensees. Samsung has announced they are creating products based on Palm OS Cobalt 6.1, and other licensees are working on Palm OS Cobalt-based products as well. We expect shipment in 2005.
They have more licensees? Things are looking up for PalmOS.
I agree that it's poorly written. I seem to remember a different wording on this card in the actual game without the "securely lodged" phrasing. IIRC, this is a so-called diamond-question which allows the player to ask yes/no questions to determine the answer, which makes this riddle somewhat more forgiving, though still horribly constructed.
Yep, it was a string quartet.
Correct.
Yeah, I agree that it has its fair share of really dumb questions. But for every one of those, there's one that's really fascinating.
You mean push it further into the hole? How will that get it out?
Q: Four men sat down to play,
They played all night 'till break of day,
They played for gold and not for fun
With separate scores for everyone.
When they came to square accounts,
They all had made quite fair amounts.
Can you the paradox explain,
If no one lost, how could all gain.
Q: You're alone in a room where the walls, ceiling and floor are made of solid concrete. There's a small hole in the ground with a ping-pong ball securely lodged into it. You only have with you a wooden ruler, a string, a pocket mirror, and a magnet. How would you get the ping-pong ball out?
That's right.
Here's another:
Picture a bridge four kilometers long and strong enough to hold ten thousand kilograms, but no more. A loaded transport truck weighing exactly ten thousand kilograms drives onto the bridge. At the halfway point, a sparrow weighing 30 grams lands on the truck, yet the bridge doesn't collapse. How could this be?
A black dog stands in the middle of an intersection in a town painted black. None of the street lights are working due to a power failure caused by a local storm. A car with two broken headlights drives towards the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him. How could the driver have seen the dog in time?
Mod parent up! The article is not newsworthy.
I think those figures are misleading. What about those registrars that automatically generate a home page for you? Are those included in the tally? And what about squatters that just put up a generic search page? There's too many variables for those numbers to be very useful.
There have been several Pokemon movies which have beautiful artwork and ok animation. It's better than the TV show animation, but not quite up to the level of a Studio Ghibli release.
Why the links to "every other blog"? Those are not blog sites, just links to blogging software. More appropriate links would have been to sites like these.
That was the first thing that I thought of as well.
Has any big company ever used a Creative Commons license? Or even a non-"all rights reserved" copyright?