Great geek out fun with microscopic size comparisons

Here is a link to the University of Utah "Cell size and scale" teaching illustration tool. It's great fun for geeks and nerds alike. Give it a shot.

Below is just a picture of the the flash tool, use the link above to actually use the thing.



Enjoy geeking out in the privacy of your own home,

Bp

[via my ex-pat Canukistani Uncle Ted]

Street Wars -- San Francisco edition

Two videos from KRON news talking about a live-time assassination game played with squirt guns. These folks are SERIOUS.

In High School, my friends and I organized exactly this type of game and created all kinds of trouble in the school. It got down to threats from the administration to transfer folks they thought were leaders if they didn't divulge information about how it was organized.

As the editor of the school paper, this became great material for me to write about. The standoff diffused, if I remember correctly, once the threat of the abuse of power article surfaced and the players agreed not to make kills inside working classrooms.





Enjoy the sight of adults geeking out -- hard.

Bp

Colbert outed (as a gamer geek)

Who knew -- the second half of the interview shows just how deeply Colbert is in gamer geekdom.

Colbert on Obrian
Uploaded by Fedquip

Enjoy finding more out about your favorite stars,

Bp

[via my Canukistani operative "Yuri"]

The Book Quote Game

Just ran into this, thought it would be fun for the blog:

Rules:

*Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
*Turn to page 56.
*Find the fifth sentence.
*Post that sentence and the book author/title in the comments below.

"The Skagit River, which formed the valley, begins up in British Columbia, leaps and splashes southwestward through the High Cascade wilderness, absorbing glaciers and sipping alpine lakes, running two hundred miles in total before all fish-green, driftwood-cluttered and silty, it spreads its double mouth like suckers against the upper body of Puget Sound."

-Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction

Enjoy interactive media on the intartubes,

Bp

[via Monica]