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At the intersection of “geeky” and “culinarily handy” you’ll find these little gems: cookies-based pixels formed into an homage to the 8-bit glory that is Tetris.
Flickr user Eva Funderburgh has posted pictures along with instructions on how to make your own pixel cookies. Turns out the real secret is in standard Play Doh tools…
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Sometimes I think people have too much time on their hands. Luckily they seem to find interesting things to do with that time.
NOTsoNOISY, a Swiss design company, used their time to create stop-motion videos of old school video games, using humans as the pixels. The description doesn’t do it justice, so just watch:
Tetris
Oddly captivating, isn’t it? I love the fact that someone’s doing the music a capella. Need more? NOTsoNOISY has done other games:
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This is probably the most random of the Random Covers. It’s a manualist named Gerry Phillips performing the theme from Super Mario Brothers. What’s a manualist? It’s a person who makes music by squeezing their hands together, forcing air out in the process. It sounds kind of like farting in tune…
If you’ve got some time to kill I highly recommend checking out Gerry’s full YouTube page. He has 62 videos up there, ranging from covers of Britney Spears, Journey, and Ozzy Osbourne to his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel performing “Bohemian Rhapsody”. I’m gobsmacked.
I love watching Gordon Ramsay on TV. I get some kind of sadistic pleasure watching him rip into aspiring chefs on Hell’s Kitchen, and I like seeing his less ferocious side on both the British and American versions of Kitchen Nightmares. But I really don’t see how a video game adaptation of Hell’s Kitchen could possibly be entertaining.
Canadian video game developer Ludia is out to prove me wrong however, as they’ve announced they’re developing games based on the show for platforms ranging from PCs to mobile phones.
How’s this going to work? You somehow use a keyboard to try and cook, and if you fail Gordon calls you a wanker? Hmm. On second thought that could be entertaining…
Usually Wii comes AFTER beer pong, but it seems that Midway is bringing the popular drinking game to the Wii over a year after the console’s launch. Technically they’re actually releasing a game called Game Party, a collection of bar and party games that will take advantage of the Wii’s unique controls. Besides beer pong the collection also includes air hockey, darts, tabletop shuffleboard, basketball, and SKEEBALL! Where do I sign up for Wii skeeball?
Ah, good old German ingenuity. Problem: people go to bars and drive home drunk. Solution: create a video game that will let the player know they are too drunk to drive. But how do you make sure people play it? Put it in the pisser of course. (Insert Wii joke here…)
The twisted geniuses at SAATCHI & SAATCHI in Frankfurt have created a system called the Piss Screen which allows men to play a car racing game by pissing on buttons installed in a urinal. If you crash the car a message appears on the screen asking if you’re too drunk to drive. Then the phone number of a local cab company comes up. These folks officially qualify as ad wizards for this one.
What’s the game like? Apparently it’s a knock off of the Need for Speed series. Their blog sums it up:
The Game Design is pretty simple, you can only drive to the left an the right by pissing on the corresponding sensor. If your reaction is too slow, the car will crash in the oncoming trafic and a video sequence of an accident is displayed.
Pictures and video after the jump.
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On the surface this Pac-Man hat is a little odd. I mean it might look cute on a little kid in an ironic sort of way, right? Then you read the product description and realize it’s for adults. Yikes. Further reading reveals it’s imported from Japan. Ah, now it makes sense.
But wait. Why can’t you ship it to Massachusetts, Ohio, or Pennsylvania? Are there statutes on the books there that outlaw the transfer of Pac-Man hats across state lines? Are those states cracking down on gangs that use Pac-Man hats to signal their allegiances? Or are they just pro-ghost states? I’m confused.
via BoingBoing
Some asshat team of Canadians has written a computer program that cannot lose at checkers. Aside from the fact that this ruins a decent game, it apparently took an average of 50 computers EIGHTEEN YEARS to figure it out. Is this really where we need our resources? Not curing cancer? Or AIDS? Or mapping the human genome? But solving checkers? Oy.
Also disturbing about the BBC’s article is that the guy that wrote the program consulted with champion checker players. Um, what? There are checker champions? Are they the guys the chess club beats up?
Watch as Little Macauly Culkin tries to defend himself from The King of Pop…
Ever wonder what would happen if you masturbated to the fairy in the legend of Zelda. Why, you get sucked into the game of course!
