Friday, September 23, 2011

Color-blind Super Grover forgets his ATM pin

- Bill Belichick wants the extra-point to die in the NFL.  So do I.  Complete waste of time.  Give the fans what they want.  More action:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Bill-Belichick-wants-the-extra-point-to-die?urn=nfl-wp5693


- Super Grover!
http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Grover


- Ten myths about TV:
http://io9.com/5834269/10-myths-about-television-that-fans-and-viewers-buy-into


- Geeky PIN numbers:
http://spikedmath.com/285.html


- How to quickly chill a canned or bottled beverage:
http://lifehacker.com/221974/chill-a-coke-in-2-minutes?tag=softwarehousehold


- Guide to living in ten fictional worlds:
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/08/pl_fictionalworlds/


- How televisions have changed over the past ten years:
http://mashable.com/2011/09/07/television-birth-infographic/


- Online color challenge.  Test how accurately you see colors.  0 is a perfect score, 100 means you lack the ability to see any shades of color (which makes you functionally blind.)  I scored a 5.
http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77&Lang=en


- Which college football teams are the most popular?  This season if the #2 team on this list beats the #1 team on this list, I suspect the #2 team will leap-frog the #1 team in popularity:
http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/the-geography-of-college-football-fans-and-realignment-chaos/?src=twrhp


- Six movie plot holes you never noticed due to editing.  I am a firm believer in the stupidity of the Dark Knight plot hole and the Indiana Jones plot hole.  I will argue to my dying days that both those plot holes are perfectly awful and should have never made it into either movie:
http://www.cracked.com/article_19435_6-movie-plot-holes-you-never-noticed-thanks-to-editing.html