Monthly Archives: July 2010

The Three

The Three is a dice game. This is derived from a Chinese banking game called Strung Flowers.  As the name suggests it is played with three dice. It is also known as Four-Five-Six, Sz’ng Luk and See-Low. What You Need to Play 3 dice 2 or more players How to Play the Game Each player [...]

links for 2010-07-23

Professor Cloud Cloud Zoom is a jQuery image zoom plugin, a comparable alternative to products such as Magic Zoom. Compared to the popular jQZoom plugin, Cloud Zoom is smaller, has more features and more robust compatability across browsers. (tags: jquery, jquery-plugins code gallery image images javascript jquery js lightbox photo photos picture plugin)

links for 2010-07-22

Welcome – OpenCV Wiki OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision) is a library of programming functions for real time computer vision. OpenCV is released under a BSD license, it is free for both academic and commercial use. The library has >500 optimized algorithms (see figure below). It is used around the world, has >2M downloads and [...]

links for 2010-07-21

qrtime.com – a QR Code Clock (tags: clock javascript time qr-code qrcode 2dcode) Kleptoparasitism – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kleptoparasitism or cleptoparasitism (literally, parasitism by theft) is a form of feeding in which one animal takes prey or other food from another that has caught, collected, or otherwise prepared the food, including stored food (as [...]

The Movies

The movies is a really simple drinking game and is probably the first one I ever played. Find a movie and come up with reocurring things to look for; when you see these things you drink. The Boondock Saints Every time you see something religious… Drink. Whenever some swears…. Drink. Dazed and Confused Every time [...]

links for 2010-07-14

Caro Emerald on MySpace Music – Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Videos CARO EMERALD is the new kid on the block, but boy does she sound like she's been around! A voice so seductive and sultry you won't believe she just recorded her first album, filled with catchy 40's and 50's type songs, playful [...]

links for 2010-07-13

android-scripting – Project Hosting on Google Code Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A, formerly known as Android Scripting Environment or ASE) brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device. These scripts have access to many of the APIs available to full-fledged Android applications, [...]

Ten Pins

Ten Pins is a dice version of 10 pin bowling. What you need to play 2 dice A sheet of paper for keeping score The Object of the game To have the highest points at the end of 10 rounds or frames. How to play the game Players take turns each rolling the both dice [...]

links for 2010-07-09

Chicago’s New 30 Foot Tall “Eye” Sculpture by Tony Tasset Chicago’s New 30 Foot Tall “Eye” Sculpture by Tony Tasset (tags: eye sculpture art chicago) Skinnydipping for the World Record this Sunday at Wreck Beach Summer's finally here and Wreck Beach is the place to be for arts and culture this weekend, especially if your [...]

links for 2010-07-08

pi% of 1337 – Wolfram|Alpha (tags: pi life epic comedy wtf) How long is it going to take? (tags: fun funny humour joke productivity projectmanagement estimation) Garry Davis – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A former Broadway actor, after serving in the US Air Force during WWII as a B-17 bomber pilot, he renounced his American [...]

links for 2010-07-06

4chan prank means Justin Bieber must tour North Korea – Boing Boing Justin Bieber's "My World Tour" Twitter voting contest asked fans to vote on which country he should tour next, without restriction on which countries could be included in the vote. 4chan smelled opportunity: Anonymous nominated North Korea, then the boards clickswarmed. At the [...]

Swipe

Swipe is a elimination dice game for two to six players made by Fundex Games in 2004. What You Need to Play 3 dice per player, 2 dice each to start and the rest go in the center. 3 Chips per person, 2 chips each to start the rest go in the center. 2 – [...]