Gravec.at: Blogging Like It's 1999While I may be an opinionated prick by nature, sometimes in lieu of something to say, I’m just going to be throwing out a pile of links to content that I’ve recently found interesting or amusing on the big old series of tubes. Welcome, one and all, to the first of many linkdumps.
- Determine your religion with BACON! — A tongue-in-cheek yet oddly fitting flow-chart to determine what religion you should follow, based on the number of gods, your mental state, and your personal opinion of bacon.
- How to tell if you are being boring — Much like Ronseal, it does exactly what it says on the tin. Essential advice for both boring people everywhere, and more importantly, boring people who think they’re god’s gift to conversation. Yeah, you know who you are.
- Eureqa discovers equations — While likely not of interest to those who don’t find mathematics interesting, this software — which, given a series of data, attempts to reverse-engineer the formula used to create the data in the first place, thereby finding patterns in the numbers — is something that would have made Max Cohen’s life a great deal easier.
- Heroes and sociopaths: Cut from the same cloth? — Both fascinating and slightly unnerving in equal measures, this article points out the curiously similar nature in personalities between extreme altruists, and sociopaths. Two sides of the same coin?
- A thanksgiving intermission — For the sake of us non-Americans — and even those Americans who understand the whole thing wrong! — this comic reveals the truth behind the thanksgiving holiday.
- How a web design goes straight to hell — What happens when a professional web designer is hired by a gibbering idiot?
- World of Warcraft player “beats the game” — A Taiwanese player has achieved the seemingly impossible, and quite literally “beaten the game” by doing everything that it’s possible to do, and he even has the badges to prove it. Extreme dedication, or someone who badly needs a new hobby?
- Cats For Gold — Want to get rid of some unwanted gold, but plain old cash just isn’t good enough? Here’s your alternative!
- Dear Esther — This is old, old news, but I wanted to give it a mention here regardless; a Half-Life 2 mod that removes the combat entirely and replaces it with a semi-randomly-generated narrative through an eerie, unnerving, and deserted (or is it?) island. Words simply cannot describe the experience; I strongly recommend everyone who owns a copy of HL2 to give it a try, it’s like nothing I’ve ever seen before.
And that’s all for now. Stay tuned for more linkdumps in future!
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