Link Roundup: Friday Diversions

All of these items entertained me in some small way:

• Craziest
  is an 8-minute Flash-based short story about the prescient powers of Scrabble.
  Though the voice-over work could be stronger, the visuals are strangely beautiful.
• Florida has deservedly suffered
  God’s wrath.
• Yet another new application for PowerPoint (thanks, Tom). UPDATE: Wow, that link has been goatse’d. Is that a verb? Regardless, I removed it.
• A deeply-obsessive examination of the differences in the various editions
  of the three Star Wars movies: Star
  Wars, Empire
  and Jedi
  (thanks, filmgoerjuan).
• Man makes enormous
  sandwich and uses spreadsheet to calculate calories. Contains the disturbing
  British product ‘brown sauce’. Hey, soccer fans, what team does
  he support?
• Photos of eight
  of those damn whale sculptures around the city, including the
  Elvis whale and my favourite, the
  Book whale. Actually, my favourite is this cool tiled whale in Victoria,
  but I don’t have any photos, so I’m going with the library’s for now.
• A new landmark in gaming is reached: In Sims 2, you can have your
  Sim play
  Sims 1 (thanks, BoingBoing).
• A chubby naked guy painted with head-to-toe (and all the bits in-between)
  as
  Spiderman. Technically unsafe for work, but practically inoffensive.
• The serendipity of the
  Google image search.
• A really cool online clock
  and time zone thingy. Unfortunately, if you compare it with this
  popular site, it appears to be wrong. It’s reporting that there’s currently
  only seven hours difference between Vancouver and London.
• From James C. Liu, the Geekification
  of the Wife: "She’s only beginning to grock all this and optimize
  the use of my interfaces."
• Why, it’s a
  reverse case-mod!

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