~The Catch-All Drawer~

Thursday, September 30, 2004

Habbo Hotel
I found an old bookmark in my stuff somewhere for the Habbo Hotel that is a sort of virtual world hotel that is used as a sort of amusement or game for teenagers, I guess.

I remember it as being a Japanese site,
but here it is in an english page
and one especially for the US.
Here are some screenshots of some communities.

I just like the little weeble-like people, layers of interlocking hotel floors. I didn't spend the time navigation it lately, but I remember huge skyscraping hotels with wonderful interlocking floors and buildings. Evidently players buy ($ or ¥) and design their own rooms, have parties with other guests in the virtual world, furnish the rooms, and all that.

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Monday, September 27, 2004

Do-It-Yourself Lawn Chair
Make your own lawn chair. Fill and cover with dirt, spinkle with grass seeds and water. Grass seeds not included.

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Saturday, September 25, 2004

Tickle the Template
Always liked those blogs that the text scrolled independent of the background, so I pulled apart a template to try to do it. Might tweak the background a little more, too.

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Thursday, September 23, 2004

Tracking the Way We Use Language
Now(74) this(23) is(9) a(5) visually(10,280) and(3) intellectually(15017) stimulating(8470) site(1042)! The numbers in the preceding sentence show the word usage rank in English standard usage.

examples: Leah(37548) ; Robert(1307) ; Scott(3032) ; John (266) ; Meredith (7098)
WORDCOUNT / Tracking the Way We Use Language /

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Tuesday, September 21, 2004

HAL
"Open the eBay Pod doors, Dave."

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Monday, September 20, 2004

Use it or lose it?
Culture shock quiz:
Can France still use the guillotine for especially severe cases?

Click here for the answer.

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Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Eye Candy?
One of the optical illusions on this page is labelled: "Caution: The figure shown below might feel you sick! Do not link to this image!"

I found the images stimulating for the Monday after the long Labor Day holiday!

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Habbo Hotel
Do-It-Yourself Lawn Chair
Tickle the Template
Tracking the Way We Use Language
HAL
Use it or lose it?
Eye Candy?