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| Monday, February 6, 2006 03:59 PM |
| Targs and Torque, Volume Three |
 by Fëanor |
- This is just about the coolest thing in the world! Or at least, I thought it was for the first couple minutes. Anyway, it is pretty cool, especially if you were a Super Mario Bros. fan and are jonesing for some nostalgic fun from that direction. (Via Backwards City)
- In case you were curious, Nasa.gov has a detailed examination of what moon dust feels, smells, and even tastes like. Apparently, at least in terms of those last two senses, it's a lot like gunpowder, and nobody really knows for sure why, although they offer some complicated possible explanations in the article. (Via? Digg of course. Only Digg could bring us such fantastically useless, and yet strangely fascinating, information.)
- Yet another clever use of Google technology is this Center of Gravity Calculator. The name is a bit misleading, though; what it actually does is figure out the exact middle point in terms of distance amongst any number of locations, so you and a group of geographically-challenged friends can find the easiest place for you all to meet. Just mark all your locations with placemarks in Google Earth and upload the data to the application as a .kml file. Of course, you don't have to use it for this purpose; you can also use it to find the exact "center of gravity" of all the Starbucks in New York, which was the project that inspired the creation of the thing in the first place. (Via Download Squad)
- Joystiq linked to a wonderful Eurogamer article yesterday about the many incredible fan-created products, websites, performance pieces, and so forth based on the Katamari games. Joystiq picked out some of the best links, and of those my favorites are the beautiful cosplay and the silly graffiti (all links completely safe for work, btw).
- A little puzzled by the overwhelming number of alternate universes that have existed in the history of DC comics? Fear not, nerdlinger! The Atlas of the Multiverse is here to save you, with its incredible description of the many parallel planets in frighteningly exhaustive detail and horrifyingly small text! Go forth and learn! (Via Backwards City)
- 1UP has a great article on video game rip-offs - meaning, games that completely and outrageously ripped off other games, to the point where legal action was really necessary. I'd never heard of Hangly Man, which is so obviously a Pac-Man clone that it's laughable, but I was waiting for the Great Giana Sisters to show up, and then they did, on page 5! And the article discusses plenty more surprising and entertaining clones and copies. Check it out. (Via Backwards City, who have one or two other interesting links in that same post, although not interesting enough to merit another bullet point)
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