Andy Wang's Collection of Fun Links
Humors:
- Odd and weird merchandise:
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Bacon chocolate bar,
kimchi chocolate,
Guinness chocolate,
the world's largest gummy bear,
chocolate pasta,
Sudoku toilet roll,
giant plush microbes,
USB drive?
- Comics:
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Moses,
Oh mine, I'm on someone's mailing list,
It's not worth it...,
That's him...
- Pics:
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Rabbit tiger,
sheepish pigs,
a day in the life of Star Wars characters via LEGO,
police dog in training,
Google holiday logos,
bunny at work,
squirrel,
arrest,
cat eyes,
bodyscapes,
texture mapping of Linux pengiuns,
an O'Reilly publication
- Animated GIFs:
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Dancers,
dancing cat
- Web sites:
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Yoda-speak generator,
Despair, Inc.,
- Short jokes:
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One day...,
the atheist,
Juan comes...
- Long jokes:
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Haiku,
English is tough stuff,
musings about English,
improving English spelling,
on a cruise ship...,
anagram,
oil and water,
is there a Santa Claus?,
Simpsons,
standard disclaimer
- Short multimedia streams:
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Angry Yoga,
Red panda,
matrix ping pong,
Duetto buffo di due gatti aka Duet of the Cats by Lorin and Terry Wey,
BP spills coffee,
Store Wars,
domino,
evil twin,
rowing,
advertisement avenue,
kung fu,
yatta (Windows),
Recent:
- Felix Baumgartner's Sonic Boom Jump, 10/15/2012
- Hummingbirds, 2011
- Cat vs. internet, 2011
- War pigs, 12/7/2011
- List of common misconceptions, 12/7/2011
- How to compute Pi by throwing hot dogs, 11/7/2011
- How Area 51 hid secret craft, 5/20/2011
- Atmosphere above Japan heated rapidly before M9 earthquake, 5/18/2011
- Robots successfully invent their own language, 5/17/2011
- Kitten vs. a scary thing, 5/9/2011
- An apartment transforms into 24 rooms, 5/7/2011
- Nose stylus, 5/4/2011
- Lego style apartment, 4/25/2011
- Navy shows off powerful new laser weapon, 4/9/2011
- Deer protects mother goose, 4/8/2011
- Cure for baldness, 4/2/2011
- Creepy app, 3/30/2011
- Former truck driver deciphers top secrets of first atomic bombs, 3/30/2011
- Authorities in awe of drug runners' jungle-built, kevlar-coated supersubs, 3/29/2011
- Cats with thumbs, 2/28/2011
- Composible sneakers, 2/22/2011
- Chess music, 2/14/2011
- Student attends school as a robot, 2/2/2011
- Everyday looper, 1/24/2011
- 3D food printer, 1/21/2011
- Your lying eyes, 1/19/2011
- Music = dopamine, 1/18/2011
- Man tunnels into GameStops, steals games, 1/17/2011
- Ophiuchus, the 13th zodia sign, 1/14/2011
- The mathematics of beauty, 1/10/2011
- Carbon free city, 1/5/2011
- How to be popular on Facebook, quantified, 12/26/2010
- Top 10 things you can't have for x'mas 2010, 12/22/2010
- 8-year-olds publish scientific bee study, 12/21/2010
- Pythagoras not a math genius by Babylonian standards, 12/17/2010
- Lego Antikythera mechanism, 12/9/2010
- Solar powered hornets, 12/6/2010
- New bacteria redefines 'life', 12/2/2010
- Hundreds of previously unknown Picassos found in France, 11/30/2010
- Being too clean can make people sick, 11/29/2010
- Harvard scientists reverse the ageing process, 11/28/2010
- XM25 Rifle, 11/28/2010
- Crapuccio, 11/26/2010
- Teacher bans students from bringing pencils to school, 11/19/2010
- 4D invisibility cloak, 11/16/2010
- USB--Satan's data connection, 11/15/2010
- The mosquito laser, 11/12/2010
- People spend half their waking hours daydreaming, 11/12/2010
- 3D bioprinter, 11/11/2010
- The waterless washing machine, 11/11/2010
- The seed cathedral, 11/11/2010
- Deep green underwater kite, 11/11/2010
- Spray-on fabric, 11/11/2010
- Power-aware cord, 11/11/2010
- First synthetic cell, 11/11/2010
- The straddling bus, 11/11/2010
- Sony Alpha A55 Camera, 11/11/2010
- Science figures out how cats drink, 11/11/2010
- Green Float concept: a carbon negative city on the ocean, 11/9/2010
- Win 'Wheel of Fortune' with just one letter, 11/8/2010
- Cats playing patty-cake, 11/8/2010
- Scientists convert skin to blood, 11/8/2010
- Queen to launch British Monarchy page on Facebook, 11/7/2010
- Trapped in an elevator, 11/7/2010
- Mobile phone kits to diagnose STDs, 11/5/2010
- Harry Potter blamed for India's owl crisis, 11/3/2010
- Facebook shows why you might get dumped before Xmas, 11/2/2010
- Car produced with a 3D printer, 11/2/2010
- Future technology predictions, 9/14/2010
- LG Optimus hyper facade, 9/8/2010
- No one knows, 2/9/2010
- Pollution perspective: one cargo ship emits as much as 50 million cars, 4/15/2009
- Lego battleship Yamato, 4/13/2009
- Cat massage, 3/2/2009
- Lego tank, 2/27/2009
- Google fighter jet, 10/24/2008
- Riverdancing chimps, 11/1/2007
- FBI Releases Document Confirming Roswell UFO, 3/22/1950
Avant-garde:
- Seaweed, 7/30/2010
- Words, 6/30/2010
- Synesthesia, 6/14/2010
- The Huber experiment, 6/14/2010
- Birds on the wires, 9/6/2009
- Andy Wang's random art gallery
Awesome:
- The new cool cars, 10/17/2010
- Portaledge camping, Redwood Empire, California
- Transformer owl, 3/23/2008
- Plane coming out of water, 3/15/2008
- Sonic boom, 3/13/2008
- Octopus camouflage, 3/12/2006
Not Your Average Toys:
- Lego imperial flagship, 1/4/2011
- Lego printer, 6/2/2010
- Lego Rubik's cube solver, 2/15/2010
- Rubber band machine gun, 2/25/2008
- Flying lawnmower, 8/31/2007
- Lego technic off-roader
- Testors Harley-Davidson Road King
- Mathematical lego sculptures, 7/3/2002
Odd News:
- Things your chef doesn't want you to know, 11/1/2010
- How can you tell when a CEO is lying?, 10/18/2010
- 5 times we almost nuked ourselves, 10/17/2010
- Robbers clean up with vacuum, 9/23/2010
- Eating evidence, 11/22/2009
- The state of humanity, 11/5/2009
- Germans wearing same underwear for 7 days?, 2008
Random Facts:
- Best jobs in America, 10/1/2010
- Collective nouns,
- Etymologically Speaking,
- The origin of words and names,
- The first smiley,
- The English language: words borrowed from other languages,
- General interesting facts
Not Funny:
- Sink hole, 5/31/2010
- Sugar: the bitter truth, 7/30/2009
- The story of stuff
- Peak water
- Investigation casts light on the mysterious flying black triangle, 8/5/2002
- Space rock 'on collision course' 7/24/2002
A World of Wonders:
- Petra, 3/14/2010
- Into the universe with Stephen Hawking, 2010
- Mobius strip
- If we had no moon, 8/11/2009
- Computing beyond turing by Jeff Hawkins, 5/8/2008
- Animal hypnosis and trances, 4/7/2008
- The Rosslyn Stave angel music cipher, 5/1/2007
- An eternal baby, 2007
- Theo Jansen creates new creatures, 2007
- The map of the creator, 6/11/2002
- Latest privacy threat: monitor glow, 5/14/2002
- Space elevator, 3/29/2002
- Noah's Ark, 9/29/2001
- Pharaoh's Obelist, 2/8/2000
Kewl Inventions:
- Driverless van, 10/28/2010
- Robot hands without fingers, 10/25/2010
- YouTube text mode, 4/1/2010
- The 50 worst inventions, 2010
- High-speed robot hand, 8/3/2009
- Hula chair, 11/25/2007
- Plastic made from corn, 8/1/2006
- Lunar power, 3/6/2006
- The museum of unworkable devices, 3/30/2003
- Refrigerators to cool with sound, 12/4/2002
- Using your computer to repel pests, 7/31/2002
- Talk...without speaking, 3/28/2002
- Digital fountain, 3/21/2002
- Power via coastal wave motion, 3/20/2002
- Alan Kay's Squeak, 3/7/2002
- Museum of ancient inventions, 10/1/2001
Tax Dollars Well Spent:
- Allies used math against German tanks, 10/26/2010
- Proving 1 = 0.999..., 10/14/2010
- Chewing gum may make you smarter, 4/22/2009
- The secret you. consciousness
- Cracking the Maya code, 8/11/2008
- Regrowing body parts, 3/22/2008
- RoboStrider, 8/26/2003
- Why are eggs, egg-shaped?, 4/11/2002
- Soldiers snack on 3-year sandwich, 4/11/2002
- Water-only thin films in space, 3/26/2003
- Signals that cause hair follicles to sprout, 3/20/2003
- Solution to the 'spinning egg' problem, 3/29/2002
- Sit. Speak. Good photon!, 3/29/2002
- NASA scienctists create amino acids in deep-space-like environment , 3/27/2002
- Uniform that makes soldiers invisible in the works, 3/14/2002
- LED lights: friend or foe?, 3/6/2002
- Harddisk sound system, 2/16/2002
- The robot sheepdog project, 3/3/2001
Nice to Have:
- World's most expensive home, 10/29/2010
- Self-cleaning glass, 11/27/2007
- PawSense, 4/2/2002
Misc:
- Jumbo hostel--a jet converted to a hostel, 12/31/2008
- Cats gone wild, 12/5/2008
- Corporate anthems, 4/3/2008
- Harder better finger stronger, 1/20/2007
- Laser magician, 1/19/2007
- A collection of famous software bugs, 5/2/2002
- Do felines have instrument preferences?, 4/2/2002
- Wierdest case mod you've ever seen, 3/29/2002
- Google prefers DRAM to hard disks, 2/3/2002
- The great moon hoax, 2001
Places:
- France:
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Louvre,
Musee Rodin,
Notre Dame,
Musee Marmottan Monet,
Musee d'Orsay,
Aix en Provence,
Chateau des Baux,
Saint Paul-de-Vence,
Fragonard
- Spain:
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Sagrada Familia,
Casa Batilo,
Park Guell,
Montserrat
- Italy:
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Accademia Gallery,
St. Peter's Basilica,
Pompeii
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- Ireland:
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Newgrange,
Giant's Causeway,
Blarney Castle
- Germany:
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Schloss Elmau,
Neuschwanstein Castle
- Canada:
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Banff,
Quebec
- Northern California:
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Monterey Bay Aquarium,
Fisherman's Wharf
- Southern California:
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Legoland,
Shoreline Village,
Art Center College of Design,
Crystal Cathedral,
Lost Adventures Corn Maze,
The Cat House
- Florida:
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St. Augustine,
Wakulla Springs State Park,
Florida Caverns State Park,
St. George Island
Restaurants:
- France:
- Cafe de Paris
- Italy:
- Ristorante Buca San Giovanni
- Ireland:
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Bricin,
Queen or Tarts,
Murphys Ice Cream,
McDonaghs
- California:
- Michael's Santa Monica,
The Stinking Rose,
Skates on the Bay
- Florida:
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La Famiglia,
Reangthai,
Georgio's,
La Hacienda II,
Le Cellier Steakhouse,
International House of Food,
Osaka,
Kool Beanz,
Au Peche Mignon,
Movies:
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Destino,
The Secret of Kells,
Toy Story 3,
Iron Man,
Ponyo,
Up,
The Dark Night,
Wall-E,
Ratatouille,
The Bourne Ultimatum,
Batman Begins,
Frida,
The Emperor's New Clothes,
Amelie,
Cast Away,
The Red Violin,
K-PAX,
Princess Mononoke,
The English Patient,
Saving Private Ryan,
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon,
The Matrix,
Titanic,
Sabrina
Music:
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- Pop:
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Happy by William Pharrell,
Can't Stop the Feeling by Justin Timberlake,
Everything at Once by Lenka,
Blank Space by Taylor Swift,
Shake if Off by Taylor Swift,
Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield,
Style by Taylor Swift,
Hey, Soul Sister by Train,
Please Don't Go by Mike Posner,
Teenage Dream by Katy Perry,
Love the Way You Lie by Eminem,
Here without You by 3 Doors Down, Viva La Vida by Coldplay,
Speed of Sound by Coldplay,
Just Breathe by Anna Nalick,
Desert Rose by Sting,
Right Here Right Now by Jesus Jones,
Drops of Jupiter by Train,
Dreaming by OMD,
Secret by OMD,
Leuchtturm,
Si Demain by Bonnie Tyler and Kareen Antonn,
Suddenly I See by KT Tunstall,
Dreams by The Cranberries,
Stop and Stare by OneRepublic,
Apologize by OneRepublic,
The Animal Song by Savage Garden,
I Want You by Savage Garden,
The Fear by Lily Allen,
RockStar by Nickelback,
The Sweet Escape by Gwen Stefani,
Cool by Gwen Stefani,
Hot N Cold by Katy Perry,
Mandolin Rain by Bruce Hornsby,
Clock by Coldplay,
Run by Milk Inc.,
A Different Corner by George Michael,
I Get Weak by Belinda Carlisle,
Breathe Your Name by Sixpence None the Richer,
Forever Young by Alphaville,
You Are Not Alone by Michael Jackson,
Crazy for You by Madonna,
Bette Davis Eyes,
Fantasy by Mariah Carey,
Here with Me by Dido,
Kiss from a Rose by Seal,
I Could Never by Roxette,
Dear Jessie by Madonna,
I Like Chopin by Gazebo,
We Belong by Pat Benatar,
Cherish by Kool & The Gang,
All Night Long by Lionel Richie,
Stuck on You by Lionel Richie,
Time after Time by Cyndi Lauper,
Only in My Dream by Debbie Gibson,
Walking in Memphis by Marc Cohn
Secret Garden by Bruce Springsteen,
Heaven by Bryan Adams,
All I Want by Toad the Wet Sprocket,
California Gurls by Katy Perry,
Not Fair by Lily Allen,
Smile by Lily Allen,
I'd Die Without You by P.M.Dawn,
Wishing I Was There by Natalie Imbruglia,
Torn by Natalie Imbruglia,
Under Pressure by Jedward and Vanilla Ice,
Other Side of the World by KT Tunstall,
Four in the Morning by Gwen Stefani
- Heavy metal:
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Blaze of Glory by Bon Jovi,
Hole Hearted by Extreme
- Techno:
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Fireflies by Owl City,
Like A G6 by Far East Movement,
Heaven by DJ Sammy,
Why by DJ Sammy,
One and One by Robert Miles,
Sunlight by DJ Sammy,
Castle in the Sky by DJ Sammy,
Time after Time by DJ Sammy,
Blue by Eiffel 65,
Crazy Frog,
I Like It by Enrique Iglesias,
Escape by Enrique Iglesias,
Rhythm of the Night by Corona,
Bizzare Love Triangle,
Jealousy by Pet Shop Boys,
What Have I Done to Deserve This by Pet Shop Boys
- New Age:
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Sadeness by Enigma,
Children by Robert Miles,
Return to Innocence,
Rain Man,
The Rivers of Belief,
Age of Loneliness,
Storms in Africa by Enya,
Marbal Halls by Enya
- Love songs:
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All of Me by John Legend,
Liebe ist by Nena,
Lucky by Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat,
I Love You Always Forever by Donna Lewis,
Kiss Me by Sixpence None the Richer,
You Belong with Me by Taylor Swift,
Love Story by Taylor Swift,
Crazy in Love by Kim Carnes,
Kissing a Fool by George Michael,
More than Words by Extreme
- Piano:
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On Golden Pond,
The Velocity of Love by Suzanne Ciani,
For You by Pieces of a Dream,
Small Happiness,
Why by Annie Lennox
The Way It is by Bruce Hornsby
- Fun:
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The Mom Song,
Everyone's Free,
Masochism Tango,
Waxies Dargle
Wisdom:
- The Peter Principle
- The Dilbert Principle
- John Wooden's Pyramid of Success
- Fortnight Milestones, 2008
- John Ousterhout's favorite sayings, 2007
- Things you should never do, 2000
Games:
- Daily Crossword Puzzle
- Yahoo Game Room
- The Way of the Exploding Stick
Events:
- Miramar air show, 10/18/2002-10/20/2002
- RC warship combat , 9/21/2002
- Cirque Du Soleil
awang@cs.fsu.edu