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Homebrew text Apple ads: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Three New Mac Ad Ideas.

…he hurls them against the wall behind him, where they smash into a thousand pieces. He then picks up a gas can and dumps the contents over his head.

The Matrix, coming to a webgame near you. Watch your future: Human Computation - Google Video

Tasks like image recognition are trivial for humans, but continue to challenge even the most sophisticated computer programs. This talk introduces a paradigm for utilizing human processing power to solve problems that computers cannot yet solve.

There are a set of games:

• Label it: The ESP Game: Labeling the Web
• A Treasure Hunt: Phetch
• Peekaboom: Not just wasting your time…

More info on Human-based computation.

Drugs. Spiders. Webs. Spiders on drugs and spinning webs. I hate spiders.

I lost: Ganguro Girl 1.5 - 2 Flash Games. Ganguro girls are scary.

The basic look consists of bleached hair, a deep tan, both black and white eyeliners, false eyelashes, platform shoes (usually sandals or boots), and brightly colored outfits. Also typical of the “Ganguro Gal” look are cell phones covered with purikura stickers, tie-dyed sarongs, mini-skirts, hibiscus flower hairpins, and lots of bracelets, rings and necklaces.

Slang:

The Cockney gift to world culture is the phenomenon of Cockney Rhyming Slang - a code of speaking wherein a common word can be replaced by the whole or abbreviated form of a well-known phrase which rhymes with that word.

Visit the dictionary here.