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Archive for September, 2009

QUICK: Is It Candy or Medicine?

The University of Rochester Strong Memorial Hospital and the Finger Lakes Regional Poison & Drug Information Center have created this awesome chart to help you differentiate between popular candy and potentially harmful medicine. Print it out. Post it if you like. Have a study. Then take their online quiz to test your skills. How fun – and potentially life-saving – is that?

LINK: Fingerlakespoison via Laughingsquid.

PLAY: Hash

It’s shaky. It’s frantic. It’s fun. The arrows control the engines. The goal is to collect points, avoid stuff, and end up at the diamond. And you, of course, are a hash tag. Click the pic to jump to the game.

LINK: Armor.

FUN VIDEO: The Marshmallow Test

I’d fail this one every time… I almost ate the screen just watching.

LINK: via Buzzfeed.

HONORARY DOGGLER: Haywan

Check out Link from Legend Of Zelda. He’s life-sized. And made of paper! (What the crap?). Papercrafter Haywan got ambitious, invented the template, printed it out, cut, folded and — BOOM — there you have it. How fun is that? Loads more pictures after the jump, also a step-by-step video guide should you wish to follow in his giant, papery, foot-steps. Be warned though, I once tried to go big-time with paper-folding. It’s not nearly as easy as it looks. And it doesn’t look all that easy to begin with.

LINK: Papercraftmuseum via Geekologie.

GET: Seksi Spam Buttons

Show of hands if you’ve been wondering where Floyd has been lately. Me too. Turns out the answer is three fold:

1. He’s been dreaming up some of the smartest marketing plays the world has ever seen (work).
2. He’s been in Europe (vacation).
3. He’s been deep in thought, watching spam pile-up in his in-box, and wondering if there’s not some better use for it (side project).

At last, those countless hours spent pondering penis pills have finally paid off:

Explains Floyd, “Seksi Spam Buttons are wearable pinbacks featuring the comically mangled subject lines from porn-site spam.” A pack of 5 costs just $5. But here’s the kicker, a fair bit goes to charity, so in addition to raising eyebrows you’ll be raising funds for sexual health programs. Well done Floyd!

LINK: Seksispambuttons.

PLAY: Fig. 8

Bike through an architectural drawing avoiding obstacles to rack up points. Tons of fun in a 0% stressful way. BONUS: Every now and then your wheel gets locks and you draw neat kaleidoscope patterns. Click the pic and check it out for yourself (NOTE: There’s a jump involved. It happens).

LINK:Newgrounds.

FUN VIDEO: 365 Days of Working Out

So many changes. So many underwear. So much fun. Play it backwards to see something more like I do in the morning.

LINK: via Buzzfeed.

BEAT THIS RECORD: Most Items In A Barack Obama Shrine


>Christopher Singlemann has 15 items in his Barack Obama shrine. In his collection are four magazines specifically about Obama, newspapers from his election victory, a book of his inaugural speech, and an Amazing Spiderman comic book that features Obama.

EDITORS NOTE: Got a few hours and some cardboard? First one to beat this, record it and submit to URDB, wins a free set of Buckyballs.

FUN VIDEO: Slow-mo Food Fight

Amazingly fun or bizarrely disturbing? Either way, you gotta admit, it’s one hell of a pants commercial.

LINK: via Presurfer.

QUICK: Cheese Or Font

Here’s how this works: They throw a name at you. Cheese or font? You make the call. You have no idea how hard this is… give it a go. I’m 1 in 10. So far, the only one I’ve recognized is Frumunda.

LINK: Cheeseorfont. Thanks for the tip Buddy Bud.