Bob Hayes Online

Hilarious.

Damn. I remember a lot of these ancient video games - not usually from having them, but from seeing them in stores, in Sears catalogues, and such like. I had the advantage of a father with an electronics background; he wasn’t averse to getting us these kinds of games, but he also pushed me in the direction of computers. Not that it took much of a push!

Via TwentySided.

This blog site has the coolest design I have ever seen. I yearn for it. I want to kill its owner and steal it. No, more than that - I want to kidnap its owner, assimilate their living brain into my own to appropriate all their stylish glory, and then steal it.

OK, just kidding about the creepy snuff part. But it is a darn fine design.

Via ResurrectionSong, whose blogroll I was trawling when I spotted it.

And other cool natural phenomena.

This is quite the Rube Goldberg contraption - rendered lovingly in HTML. Mouse over the cup to get things rolling.

(Via Evangelical Outpost.)

…and the Mormons, the Baptists, the Jews, and everyone else. Fascinating map of religion in the US.

(H/T David Thompson.)

Some of them are lame, others are awesome. All are fictional, alas.

(H/T Evangelical Outpost)

This is a great idea, and it’s interesting how strong the correlations are. It’s also interesting to note that Christian books have a wide span of associated intellectualism, with people listing “The Holy Bible” at one end and “Mere Christianity” at the other end - and just “The Bible” in the middle.

(H/T Marginal Revolution.)

No, really. They’re getting bored in orbit.

It’s starting with the paper airplanes. It’ll progress to pennies, then bricks. Eventually it won’t be safe to go outside for fear some thrill-seeking Asian cosmonaut is going to go Thor’s Hammer on your ass.

At least, according to a fascinating map showing the United States, and the country which each state’s GDP (roughly) equates to. Where do you live?

(H/T Marginal Revolution.)