quick game to pass the time.

Here is a cool little flash based brain teaser type game.

I read on some other sites that this game is given to people on a job interview. They said that the average applicant finished in 15 minutes.

Have fun.

Ridley Scott on Blade Runner

Wired has an interview with Ridley Scott about Blade Runner: The Final Cut [full transcript]. Warning: it contains major spoilers, so if you have never seen the film, put down your internet right now and go watch it.

And when Roy Batty came out of the phone booth, for some bizarre reason we never noticed that somebody's thumb was in the bottom left-hand corner. The phone booth had an automatic door and I couldn't de-automate it, and I was getting really beaten up 'cause we were up against the gun, so I just shot. And there was the bloody thumb in the frame. It's little mistakes like that that you're tempted to leave in. It's a signature that says, yes, it is fiction, it is moviemaking.

Update: Greencine Daily links to more articles on The Final Cut.

Top Execs Leave Nintendo

You have to wonder what Nintendo is going to do from now on with their marketing with George Harrison and Beth Llewelyn leaving.

Turkey Soda Anyone?

Being a former shareholder of Jones Soda I still sometimes keep up with articles about the company. Here is a cool interview with CEO Peter van Stolk. I don't normally follow Motley Fool but an interview is an interview.

Memorable quote:

The silliest thing that people do, in my opinion ... is they market before the product is on the shelf. It feels good and everybody gets excited, so I do a marketing campaign before I am on the shelf. I spend a lot of money, get people all buzzed about it, and then consumers go to find it, and they can't see it. And then I don't have any revenues to justify doing it again, and I look like a complete moron. That is real.

Flashblock

If you use Firefox, you should be using Flashblock.

That's all I got to say about that.

Dominos - Moustache

Those crazy Perlorian Brothers are at it again ...

(perhaps old to some, but new to me)



[QuickTime link]

Tennis Court Surfaces

The NY Times' concise graphical explanation of how clay, hard, and grass tennis courts differ, and why Rafael Nadal fares better on one versus the others. [via Kottke]

Schadendouche

built-in iSight + app to automatically upload Photo Booth images to Flickr + stolen iMac + unwitting (alleged) thief = this Flickr photo = schadendouche

See also: Orbicule's Undercover software

Simpsons and the Movies

A collection of Simpsons homages to films, brought to you by the hundreds of times we've heard — now that he's famous — that Brad Bird influenced the Simpsons early on to bring movie-like cinematography to animated television.

Update: Cinematical identifies the films and provides the images' source. [NSFW until you scroll down a bit, O my brothers]

AP: Space Flight Makes Germs Deadlier

Well, we're screwed:

It sounds like the plot for a scary B-movie: Germs go into space on a rocket and come back stronger and deadlier than ever. Except, it really happened.

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