By the numbers

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Hola amigo,

"Stop-motion animation using real people." Well that's how they describe this animated fight and chase scene video made in 2006 for Screen South as part of the UK Film Council's Digital Shorts scheme, anyway. However you describe it, pretty impressive, pespecially the people who had to stand perfectly still for about six months. And not to be a stickler, but it actually took 26,000 pictures to make...

Ten Thousand Pictures of You
http://vimeo.com/2554266


Four Kazoos
Entitled "Enter Kazoo Man", a rendition of Metallica's rousing crowd-pleaser in a novel performance on kazoos with a little beatboxing thrown in. Caution: You might like this more than you should.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC65ufGUvKM


20 Guesstions
Magic genie deduces the character you're thinking of in this online version of the classic guessing game.
http://en.akinator.com/


Sixers
Get a quick read. What else need be said, eh?
http://www.sixwordstories.net/


QuOteD
"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true." -- Robert Wilensky


One hand waters the other
I get by with a little help from my plants.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnlF0ukPscI


50 strange buildings
Nice big chunk of architectural whimsy. Everything in Las Vegas looks pretty government-issue by comparison to this group.
http://villageofjoy.com/50-strange-buildings-of-the-world/


Game break: 99 Bricks
Like Tetris but like in reverse.
http://www.kongregate.com/games/WeirdBeardGames/99-bricks


4th century Greek joke book
A collection of old -- and I mean really old -- jokes. ("An Abderite saw a eunuch talking with a woman and asked him if she was his wife. When he replied that eunuchs can't have wives, the Abderite asked: 'So is she your daughter?'") Even my grandfather would have been overmatched.
http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/quinn_jokes.shtml


Famous last words
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." -- Albert Einstein


Hasta luego,
vW