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Posted on Jan 22, 2007 - 2:12am by John P. in Fun Stuff, News
WACO, Texas - When Marvin L. “Hub†Northen left Baylor University in 1929, he was one chemistry credit shy of graduating. This fall, the 100-year-old was finally granted his degree.
Northen, who lives in a nursing home in Shreveport, La., did not attend Saturday’s commencement at Baylor. But he was listed among the December 2006 graduates.
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Posted on Jan 19, 2007 - 2:59am by John P. in Fun Stuff, Virtual Earth
This just in from Annanova.com…
The Austrian town of F***ing has erected theft-proof road signs embedded in concrete blocks.
Officials acted because they were fed up with English-speaking tourists stealing them as souvenirs.
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Posted on Jan 10, 2007 - 2:52am by John P. in Fun Stuff, Games
This addictive little game is just too damn cute (all right… and fun) not to share.
But if you tell anyone that I’m sending you off to games with bunny rabbits I’ll give you a thorough beating. 
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Posted on Dec 27, 2006 - 2:17am by John P. in Fun Stuff, Games, Web Links
If you enjoy all sorts of violence such as firing rocket launchers at people and shooting machine guns, then Phosphor is the game for you.
If you prefer to keep all the mayhem between friends, the game does have a multi-player mode which allows you to play either over a LAN (like at the office) or via the Internet.
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Posted on Dec 21, 2006 - 2:01am by John P. in Computing, Fun Stuff, Games, Web Links
Remember when you were a kid and you couldn’t feed quarters into that PacMan machine quick enough? Well, now you can finally play the exact same game for free all day long!
Games that have been faithfully replicated include the following:
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Posted on Dec 18, 2006 - 1:18am by John P. in 10 Best, Fun Stuff, Web Links
This list is hilarious! According to Radar Magazine these are the worst and most dangerous toys of all time, as defined by their ability to kill, maim and generally be hazardous to the well being of the children to which they were given.
Each toy is linked to the complete page on the Radar website that has a more complete description of the mayhem wreaked by the particular weapon toy.
Here goes then:
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Posted on Dec 16, 2006 - 2:08am by John P. in Fun Stuff, Web Links
Call it stupid, I don’t care, but this is totally cool. This guy put a 3,100 gallon 15 foot pool inside his living room because he heard of a place he could order a pet Penguin from! That’s 24,800 pounds, or over 12 tons, of water in the living room folks!
Well, it turns out that the whole penguin thing was a hoax, plus the guy could barely sleep for worrying that the pool would rupture in his house or something, so eventually he drained it and returned it to Costco - because of course they’ll take anything back.
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Posted on Dec 12, 2006 - 1:05am by John P. in Fun Stuff, Videos
For those of you that saw my original post, Animator vs. Animation, this is the sequel - and it’s as good as the first one. I can only imagine how long it takes to actually create these videos…
Posted on Dec 07, 2006 - 1:01am by John P. in Fun Stuff, Must Haves
Do you need to get a little something for that person who already has it all? Well, how about giving them an ice cube shaped diamond? Or better yet, an ice tray that lets them make em’ themselves! (Might even save you a few $$million).
There is a great little gift site called SpoonSisters.com which seems to have a lot of unique items. They bill themselves as a gift giving site, and I can see how that works for them.
Among their items are a few of the frozen variety.
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Posted on Dec 01, 2006 - 2:25am by John P. in Art, Fun Stuff, Web Links
Ever wished you could design and print your own custom shirts and other wearable stuff? Well, thanks to this little invention called the “Internet” now you can!
There are several sites which allow you to upload your own artwork and they will create your clothing in any quantity on demand. Among them:
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Posted on Nov 17, 2006 - 1:18pm by John P. in Art, Fun Stuff
Got a kid that loves to build stuff? And a room large enough for some serious construction? Then what you need is a Spaceframe Sculpture Kit.
The 20pc Set includes:
Ever wanted to have a war with your neighbor in the cube next to you? Well, why settle for simply rearranging the keys on their keyboard when you can launch nerf rockets at them using your computer guided interface instead?!
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