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To summarise (in English): this is the special ‘geek’ edition of the funpack. I’ll tell you upfront – there won’t be as many people falling over, dancing badly or accidentally disembowelling themselves with plastic spoons as usual, but it should be interesting, if you’re remotely geeky. Or even if you’re not, perhaps you could embrace your inner-geek. Give him a hug. That’ll scare the pants off him (human physical contact and geeks do not mix – it’s like feeding a mogwai after midnight). I’m not ashamed to admit – I’m a bit of a geek. Not a fully-fledged-World-of-Warcraft -level-47-Warlock kind of geek, but pretty geeky nonetheless. I work with computers, which is always a dead giveaway, and I wrote my wedding vows in Klingon.
That’s not true.
Anyway… on with the good stuff. Firstly there’s a couple of websites that go hand in hand. First up is this one. Makes you feel pretty tiny and insignificant, huh? Well, worry no longer. You’re not tiny and insignificant. A carbon atom. THAT’S small and … uh…well… it’s just really weeny, alright? Don’t believe me? Check out this website. Use the slidey bar a the bottom to zoom in. Who’s tiny now, huh? I’d like to see a mashup up of the two sites, allowing you to zoom from one extreme to the other. I reckon it might require quite a long sliding bar. Quite long indeed. It’d also be good to see it replicated with popular figures. I think Verne Troyer is likely to be a carbon atom, to Vanessa Feltz’s Antares. “Vanessa Feltz’s Antares” isn’t a phrase you get to write every day, let me tell you. Or maybe one ranging from ‘Jordan’s intellect’ to ‘P Diddy’s ego’. The possiblities are endless. Kind of.
A little while back, someone sent me a link to this website and told me to have a look at the code. We all laughed at how riduculously it had been coded (I’m not HTML expert, but this was nuts). It looked like a madman had done it. Go and check it out – for the less technical of you – go to the website, right click somewhere other than on a picutre and select ‘view source’, or ‘view page source’. Have a scroll down. Then, some bright spark on b3ta.com (possibly the greatest website in the world) noticed something kind of weird…
If you zoom right out of the code for the website, and then flip it on it’s side, it looks like this:
Which looks kinda cool…but… why?
Here’s why. This, dear readers, is the view from the Funjinon headquarters, looking towards Mount Fuji – courtesy of Google earth:
And this is the two of them overlaid:
It reminded me of the Aphex Twin video with ‘the face’. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Have a watch of this – it’s Aphex Twin’s song ‘Equation’ (well it’s not strictly called that, but I wouldn’t know how to type the full, mental name of the song here). It’s being run through a Spectrogram, which is in itself, pretty cool. But skip to 5:30 if you want to see why I posted it here.
He’s one clever/scary mo fo.
Now – another freaky-but-kinda-groovy face. Check out what Eric Testroete did for his halloween costume this year. It’s a bit better than a scream mask and a plastic pumpkin full of sweeties. Have a look here to see what he got up to.
Very geeky, but very, very cool, I’m sure you’d agree.
Last, and certainly least, is this guy – I mean – I know I said you ssaid embrace your inner geek and all – but for God’s sake – do it in private. Not in a photo that ends up posted on the internet. You think you’re a geek? You’re not a geek. THIS guy is a geek:
On that note, I bid you adieu. Or, as we say in Klingon, naDevvo’ peghoS.
That means ‘go away’.









