Amplified Projects

Its Tax Day, and for all those of you who haven’t yet done their taxes, Shame, Shame, Shame! Get on it!
And now for some fun links…

First, here’s some food for thought as far as money goes…

Second, I have a fun flash video of a percussive stomp-like routine. This guy did an awesome job on this!

Finally, an excerpt from Looking For Group, where the group does the Discovery Channel song, this is hilarious. If you haven’t heard of the DIscovery Channel song, you can view it here.

And now for another 3 links….

First we have a comic I read on digital unrest. I always love the Mario comics.

Second we have how to keep an idiot busy. Yet another way to amuse your not so smart friends. Give it a try.

Finally, another new game. This one is called The Great Sperm Race. Its pretty much what it sounds like, you are a sperm trying to fertilize an egg, except it is really, really, really far away and hard to get to. This game is pretty fun, makes me glad I’m not a sperm .

Three more links today.

My first is to a wood case for iPods and iPhones, called iWood.First is first, the name is hilarious, let me just whip out my iWood. You will get some strange looks. I mean yes, it will protect your apple device, but do you really want to be whipping that thing out all day and having to flip it open to use your iPod. The iPhone version makes slightly more sense, except that now your iPhone is quite a bit thicker. I thought the whole point of the iPod and iPhone was that is was so slick and thin. So overall this is the perfect product for those of you obsessed with wood, and don’t care that its going to double the thickness of your device. Also not to forget, its freaking expensive. You’ll pay as much for the cover as you did for the device.

My second link is to a chocolate that makes you fell bad for eating it. Its called Fat Pig Chocolate. The name is just starters, the package design has a giant snout on the front of it, so that you can even look like a pig if you hold it up to your face. On the back of each bar it says, “Get your snout in this. Shove every single square in your face right now. And do it quick. Or some other fat pig might as you for a piece. Oink, Oink!” Obviously they are not going for the diet or lo cal approach here. This organic chocolate boast being 3 oz of delicious chocolate. Compare this to the generic Hershey’s bar which weighs 1.55 oz. Its double the size! With all things considered, I still want some.

My final link for the day is to yet another awesome game. This one is called Winterbells. I love the music in this game! Its a nice combo of long flowing strings and bouncy pizzicato strings in the background. Basically in the game you are a little bunny rabbit that has to jump up on these bells that disappear after you jump on them, the goal is to see how high you can get before falling back to the ground. Luckily the little rabbit can withstand falls from great heights, otherwise I’d feel terrible after racking up 2000 points and just barely missing that next bell. This game is pretty addictive, try it for yourself.

I wanted to give out some ideas for pranks today. So here are some links so some of the best April Fools Pranks.

April Fool Zone
Office Pranks
Computer Pranks

I hope you enjoy pulling some great pranks today.

Also, I’m really interested to know how many of you actually got the April Fools Virus. My computers came out clean at home with the Symantec virus checker.

Ok my first link is to a bunch of pictures of people doing really stupid stuff. Here’s an example to get you going:

My second link are to the 9 words women use with alternate meanings. Now I realize there are way more than 9 words women use that have alternate meanings, in fact you can pretty much assume every word that comes out of her mouth and your mouth, means something other that what was intended.

My final link to to a pretty fun game called Powerpool 2. Basically just have fun hitting the pool balls for all their worth, and along the way maybe try and get them in a few holes. Its a pretty casual way to play pool, I like it.

My first link is to my new wallpaper for my laptop at home. Now I know I’m not a guy, but I think this is a universal guy truth, I’ll put a mini of it below, clock to get the full size image.

My second link is to some mock motivational posters of Homer Simpson. These are hilarious. Here are a couple of my favorites.

My third link is The Sand Game. I’ve played with this so many times. Its fun to build some plants up, cover them in oil and light the whole thing on fire and watch the plants burn away. Ok so I know that sounded a little like a pyromaniac, but try it and tell me I’m wrong.

Time for another stumble!

My first link is a game called Guess-the-Google. It displays images and you guess what was googled to get these images. I’m still waiting for it to show pictures of some naughty search. That would be interesing.

My second link is to another crafting project, I suggest this one for my friend Mary. I think she would enjoy doing this. It is step by step instructions on how to make a sock monkey. I think the sock monkey in the example turned out pretty cute.

My final link is a personal movie scheduler. Its basically a way to see as many movies as possible in a row, so that you only have to pay for 1 movie but see a whole bunch. I tried this out and came up with a nice 4 movie run that I liked for next Saturday. If only I could get it past my conscience to do it.

At long last, I have finally been able to bring you another stumbleupon update!

My first link for you is about a giant painting a guy did in a car park. The distorted letters, when viewed from the appropriate angle, indicated the entrance, exit, way up, and way down, inside the carpark. From any other angle, it just looks like random pain on the wall and ground. This is pretty sweet!

My second link is instructions on how to tie your shoes, in 15 awesome, different ways. Like this one for example:

My final link is to a website that has given me no ends of entertainment. Though I’m told by some guys that I’ve shown this link to, that its just too painful to watch. This one is great for huddling a bunch of people around and seeing the crowd wince as they see just how many ways a guy can bang his crotch into something. Here is just an example of one of my favorites:
Guys Takes Pole to Groin

For today I have a webpage full of some humorous analogies that were submitted by English teachers from all over England. Here is just a sample:

Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

Be sure to check out the rest!

My second page for today is a graphical data display page. It takes various statistics and displays them in the most easily understood way. I thought it was pretty cool to be able to actually see the statistics, instead of it just being a number.

The blue line represents the number of children named John per million babies.
The green line represents the number of children named Jacob per million babies.
I was pretty surprised to the name John have such a downfall in popularity.

And finally, for today I have a game called Bloxors. Its a puzzle game where you try to move the block in such a way that is can fall in a small hole on the other side of the playing field. I’ll have to admit this game is pretty hard.

Oh and interesting side note. Apparently iPhone version 3.0, they are currently on version 2.2.1, will be able to be used as a vibrator.

I wish I knew how to reprogram these things.

I’m not quite sure what this is, but its fun! Its like a radar kaleidoscope.

If you are looking for a new webcomic to read, try looking here. This is what someone believes to be the top 20 webcomics. Try them out, you’ll probably find a new one to love.