Tim Danner

A sports bloopers video reel. Except this one is made with snippets of classic Nintendo games. Not Game Cube, not Nintendo 64, not Super Nintendo – the actual 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System.

A complete walkthrough of IKEA.

“If you speak like the Swedish Chef you may be able to fool the employee into thinking you are the IKEA regional manager.”

IF NASA FINDS CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE OF AN OCEAN ON MARS, AMERICA EATS FREE GIANT SHRIMP

“In the letter, Davis also officially registered interest in Long John Silver’s becoming the first seafood restaurant on Mars.”

This one requires a bit of background. Many Mac users occasionally have need of Windows software. Since Microsoft won’t port Windows to the G3/G4/G5, they have two options: keep a PC around for such needs or use a PC emulator. Actually, they have a third option (chuck the Mac).

Anyway, the king of PC emulators for the Mac is (was) VirtualPC by Connectix. Recently, Microsoft bought Connectix. And killed the Mac version of VirtualPC. Whoops.

Enter FWB, a relatively obscure company that was working on “RealPC,” a PC emulator for the Mac that was supposed to be much faster than (slow) VirtualPC – in other words, just like a “real PC” (clever, eh?).

FWB just came in #6 on Wired magazines list of the top 10 vaporware products for 2003. (“Vaporware” is a term for products that are announced and then repeatedly delayed.)

In July, one Marko Kostyrko took over as CEO of FWB. Naturally, one of the first things he would want to check up on was the status of the RealPC project. He discovered that despite the fact that the company had told the media that RealPC “was in late beta and about to be released,” “not a single line of code has been written.” He then cancelled the (non-)project.

Han Solo frozen in Lego carbonite

When can I get one of these for all my cutting needs?

Lore rates Aspects of Final Fantasy Games.

This is Broken lists UI disasters. Some of them are pretty funny, too! My favorite is the one at the top from PeopleSoft.

It says here that the rotating European Union presidency is expensive. This isn’t too suprising – the American presidency is pretty expensive too, and we can’t even get rid of it six months later. The weird part is the second half of the article, with says that the Dutch government, which is next in line, is having trouble finding corporate sponsors for the office.

Holy cow! Corporate sponsors for a continent wide office? Do they get naming rights? “The Shell EU Presidency?” “Jan Peter Balkenende, Philips President of the EU?” I guess that sounds kind of like an endowed chair at a university. Funky.

It’s over. You’re trying too hard, and it shows.