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Epic Prank

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Wow.  Just…wow. This is super-nerdy and everything, but the amount of energy expended on it was just staggering.

Basically, a couple of guys found someone at random on the Internet and then found out everything about him they could, including photos, cell phone number, information from instant messages, etc. Then they put together a scrapbook and showed up at his house, telling him they were from the future and he was going to save the world from robots ala Terminator, and giving him the scrapbook.

Now if they had ended it right there, it would have been an awesome prank. But it goes on and on from there, from sending him a plane ticket to another city and sending him on a scavenger hunt, to an art gallery exhibition all about him, and finally, after several years, culminating in an elaborate stage show in front of 300 people in which this random guy is the star.

As you can imagine, the whole thing is quite a long read, but it is amazing the meticulous attention to detail that went into planning the whole thing. In some cases, they set clues in place months before they knew if the guy was even going to show up, like the message written in black light sensitive ink on the picture in the art gallery. The storyline is kind of cheesy and everything, especially during the stage show, but the whole project was amazing in scope.

Link via UrbanPrankster.

Pirate Defense

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If you would have asked me, I would have said, “Nothing makes me happier than a good tower defense flash game.” Well, now I have to amend that statement to, “Nothing makes me happier than a good PIRATE RELATED tower defense flash game!” 

The game actually has nothing to do with pirates. I mean, the bad guys are pirates, but they could easily have been anything, even little green dots. But this is still a different take on the tower defense idea because instead of just towers, you have traps. So you have to build triggers for the traps so that they go off whenever a pirate steps on a trigger. You get bonus points for combos, for example, the pirate might step on a trigger next to a catapult, launching him through a bees nest and finally landing him next to some good old fashioned dynamite which would then blow up. Combo!

For the record though, I do not condone the killing of pirates in such a sneaky fashion; they should be killed in honest swashbuckling combat or by walking the plank, as god intended.

Have you seen this cat?

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Because it is awesome

Because it is awesome

Link courtesy Urban Prankster.

In other news, go ahead and mark your calendar for the Chicago Zombie March on June 13th!

You’ve been waiting a whole year to dress up like a zombie and hit up the city… so let’s do it again!

You know the deal… meet up at the field at Millennium Park at 2:00 pm on June 13th in your best zombie get-ups.

Remember: Haunted House Rules apply! No touching strangers, don’t make a mess, mind your own business. Just use your common sense — every zombie-style event this city’s seen has gone well, and the police have noticed — let’s keep up the good rapport!

Contact us at brains@chicagozombie.com with questions/comments/concerns, and keep watch on http://www.chicagozombie.com andhttp://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=74192873814 for all your braingnoshing updates.

Bacolicio

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Newsflash, everything is better with bacon. Everything. And that includes web pages. Thus, I give you bacolicio.

All you need to do is prepend http://bacolicio.us/ in front of any URL, to have that page served with a side of bacon. For example, check out:
http://bacolicio.us/https://erith1.wordpress.com

Or you can try bacolicio’s excellent example:
http://bacolicio.us/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism

Link courtesy Joe Maffey.

It’s the wave of the future, dude

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Check this out:

This demo — from Pattie Maes’ lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry — was the buzz of TED. It’s a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine “Minority Report” and then some.

How cool is that? And the thing is, it’s not some crazy idea from way out there. It’s just a camera, projector, some finger tip things, and boom! Obviously it will get smaller / more useful over time, but the future is here! I thought iPhones were crazy…