The Cabbage Patch

Merry Christmas and a happy explosion.

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It’s nearly Christmas time! *Yay!*

And so, on this day, the Eve of Christmas, I bestow upon the world the grand gift that is Christmas Attack!

Let’s start a war. Start a nuclear war.

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Ever wondered what it would be like to see George Bush and Tony Blair sing Electric Six’s song Gay Bar? Well wonder no more!

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The [portable] Cabbage Patch

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Yesterday, I got a Sony PSP. For free.

There are only three things I would like to say about the PSP:

1. It’s great.
2. It’s great.
3. You cannot begin to imagine the greatness of it.

This thing is absolutely amazing. The games are PS2 standard, the video is akin to DVD quality, and you can surf the web on it (as long as you are within range of a wireless network).

Here are a couple of photos of this very website as viewed on the fantastic screen of the PSP (oooohhhh…. postmodern self-reflexivity, what will he think of next?). Marvel and be awed by the uber geek-chic.

For when you have that urge to throw a giant pencil.

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Ever dreamt you were a robot throwing a giant, rocket-powered pencil? I certainly know I have, and that’s why I love Throwing Pencil!

The game is in Korean (or Japanese, or Chinese, or Klingon for all I know), but I’ve managed to decipher the (very simple) controls:

1. Click the second button from the top to begin.
2. Press “space” on your keyboard when the little coloured bar in the corner reaches the top.
3. Press “space” again when the bar reaches the red line.
4. The robot will start running. Press and hold “space” when he reaches the yellow finish line.
5. Press “space” repeatedly to propel the pencil through the air.

Make sense? It’s really not that hard, and actually addictively fun.

Because I like a little friendly competition, as of this writing my best score is 681,000. Beat that.

Don’t care who you are, or what you do.

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Somewhere, in a university in China, two boys are confusing their Counter-Strike playing dorm-mate by miming Backstreet Boys songs into a camera behind him. They then dub the song onto the video, and become The Back Dormitory Boys!

They have recorded many pop video clips this way, and have become quite famous the world over (they are currently promoting mobile phones for Motorola China), all the while unbeknownst to their computer obsessed friend in the background.

Here is one clip of them, doing the Backstreet Boys’ classic, As Long As You Love Me.

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More of their videos, and some further information, can be found here.

You killed ‘Orrible Cabbage! You bastard!

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More make-it-yourself fun today, with South Park Studio. This site allows you to make a South Park version of yourself (or anyone else, for that matter).

Unfortunately, the only way to save the picture you make is to take a screenshot and save it in another program (press Print Screen on your keyboard, then “Paste” into Paint, Photoshop, Word, etc).

So if you can, upload them somewhere (Flickr, perhaps, or Imageshack) and put the link in the comments so we can all see.

UPDATE (15/12/05): Here is reader Tom’s self portrait.

Come on kids, it’s crafts time! Get out your Clag paste!

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I’ve been making things. And now you can too! (yay!)

With this site full of fun tools, you too can be an artist. It integrates with Flickr (a photo site I have mentioned here before) or you can upload your photos independently to work on them.

This site will allow you to make motivational postcards:

Magazine covers:

Or billboards:

And much more.

Please go create your own and I’ll share them with the world. The easiest thing to do would be to create a Flickr account, add me as a contact and then I can link directly to the photos here. Otherwise, email me your creations, or upload them to wherever you want and provide a link in the comments. Have fun.

More brain melting.

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As a follow-up to yesterday’s post of the A and B optical illusion, I have another.

This one was sent in a while back by reader James, and it’s one I hadn’t seen before (which is saying something).

*Hint, if all you can see is Chinese, pull the corners of your eyes down.

This post designed solely to mess with your mind.

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I have seen this before, and I believe I may have posted it before also (although I can’t find it), but reader Oskar requested that I post it, so here it is.

If only they were doughnuts… mmm… doughnuts…

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Ringmania is a simple game where you match different coloured rings which fly in from 360 degrees. It’s very much like the TriplePop game on some Nokia mobile phones.