Beware of Pac-Man amigurumi (or just wonder what it is)

Greetings.

Jewish date:  18 Tammuz 5770 (Parashath Pineḥas).

Today’s quasi-holiday:  Leap Second Adjustment Time.

Worthy causes of the day:  “Save dairy farms from big agribusiness”, “Alliance for Justice:  Tell Congress: Repair the Damage Caused by the Corporate Court”, and “Make Sale of Crush Videos Illegal Again!”.

Today’s news and commentary:

• “What happens when coal is gone?”:  This is a very serious question which needs to be dealt with.  There is only a finite amount of coal on this planet, and unless it is being created a lot faster than anyone seems to be suggesting these days, we will run out of it sooner or later.  This is regardless of such issues as global warming and pollution.
• “Climate Change May Exacerbate Hot Cities”:  Also a big problem.  Last I heard, more than half of all humans on the planet live in cities.
• “Strength in naughty or nice”
• “Too Much Salt Eaten by Almost Everyone”
• “What McChrystal’s Firing Says about American Values”
• “Shifty Science: Programmable Matter Takes Shape with Self-Folding Origami Sheets”

Image of something like today’s weird thing, only with a different subject matter, via Wikipedia

Today’s weird thing is “Pac Man Amigurumi!”, which is knitted or crocheted stuffed Pac-Man and ghosts.  Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron

Beware of Pac-Man’s father’s ghost

Image via Wikipedia

Greetings.

Jewish date:  16 Tammuz 5770 (Parashath Pineḥas).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  Paul Bunyan Day, Please Take My Children to Work Day.

Worthy cause of the day:  “BP is burning endangered sea turtles alive.”

Today’s news and commentary:

• “Raytheon turns swords into plowshares”

Today’s weird thing is what may be the only Pac-Man-Shakespeare crossover ever, “Pac Man Hamlet”.

Enjoy, share the weirdness, and do not come back as a ghost.

Aaron

Beware of ghosts (again!)

Greetings.

Jewish date:  13 Tammuz 5770 (Parashath Balaq).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  Take Your Dog to Work Day, Log Cabin Day.

Worthy cause of the day:  “Obama: Keep Your Promises to End Hunger! - The Petition Site”, “JCRC-NY Write to Gilad Shalit”, “Join financial titans in telling Congress: Crack down on Wall Street abuses. | Progressive Change Campaign Committee”, “Save the Internet: Take Action!:  Stop the Secret Meetings at the FCC”, “Tell Hillary Clinton: Stand up to Blackwater”, “Health Care for America NOW! | Stand Up for Your New Rights”, “Repower America | Tell Our Leaders: Clean Energy Now!”, “Take Action: Call on BP to pay for all cleanup costs and fines”, “action.firedoglake.com | Tell BP to Protect Gulf Cleanup Workers”, “"Drill, Baby, Drill" comes to Discovery?”, and “Less than 10 Days before a Yeshiva Will Be Destroyed”.

Today’s news and commentary:

• “A wizard's words finally set free”
• “Make-A-Wish turns one child's backyard into the Millennium Falcon”
• “Experto Crede: Climate Expertise Lacking among Global Warming Contrarians: Scientific American”
• “Little Man, What Now?: Peanuts and the Existential Crisis”
• “Finding the "Weapons" of Persuasion to Save Energy”
• “7th-Graders Discover Mysterious Cave on Mars”

Today’s weird thing is “PAC-MAN The Movie trailer”:

(I’ve got a whole bunch of Pac-Man things, and you're going to have to suffer through all of them.)  Enjoy, share the weirdness, and Shabbath shalom.

Aaron

Beware of Pac-Man cornering the cherry market

Image via Wikipedia

Greetings.

Jewish date:  8 Tammuz 5770 (Parashath Balaq).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  Father’s Day, World Refugee Day (UN), Ice Cream Soda Day.

Worthy causes of the day:  “End Violence Against Women - The Petition Site”, “Friends of the Earth U.S.”, “Action at Oil Change”, “Obama, Say No To Commercial Whaling! - The Petition Site”, “ONE | 3.5 Million Healthworkers Needed”, “Support Women's Health with the Global MOMS Act - The Petition Site”, “Please Include the Temple Mount in the Heritage Plan - אנא הוסף את הר הבית לרשימת אתרי המורשת Petition”, “Working Families » Take Action!”, and “What President Obama should have said.”

Today’s news and commentary:

• “The Living Matrix: A Movie Promoting Energy Medicine Beliefs”
• “How We Fool Ourselves Over and Over”
• “White rice raises risk of type 2 diabetes”
• “Real names of 23 fictional characters”
• “10 Things the Internet has Ruined and Five Things it Hasn't”
• “WickedLasers Unveils "Lightsaber" Powerful Enough to Set People on Fire”
• “The Real Science Gap”, which is described as “It’s not insufficient schooling or a shortage of scientists. It’s a lack of job opportunities. Americans need the reasonable hope that spending their youth preparing to do science will provide a satisfactory career.”
• “Fact or Fiction: The Days (and Nights) Are Getting Longer”
• “Solar Powered Shrub Car is Not Your "Garden Variety" EV”
• “Climate already helping disease spread north: study”
• “The brain thinks hands are wider and stubbier than they actually are”
• “Were some gigantic Jurassic sea creatures warm-blooded?”

Today’s weird thing is “Pac Man Movie”, which deals with the lives of ghosts and their war on Pac-Man.

Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron

Beware of Pac-Dog

Greetings.

Jewish date:  1 Tammuz 5770 (Parashath Ḥuqqath).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  National Juggling Day, International Puzzle Day.

Worthy causes of the day:  “Tell Boehner: No BP Bailout”, “Take Action: Support ECEA - Hold Big Oil Accountable!”, “A victory for the Clean Air Act... for now.”, “JCRC-NY State Dept Petition:  Urge State Dept to Investigate Flotilla Passengers”, “Make Alzheimer's a National Priority! - The Petition Site”, and “Take Action: Urge your Senators to support the Appalachia Restoration Act | Rainforest Action Network”.

Today’s news and commentary:

• “Eyeborg Bionic Eye Camera Shows Winks and All”
• “Astronomers see exoplanet orbiting its parent star!”:  We live in an age of wonders.  Never forget that.
• “Back in style: An ancient shoe from 3500 B.C. looks like moccasins worn in the 1950s”
• “Farmer fires home-made cannon to defend land”

Today’s weird thing, still on the Pac-Man theme, is “Pac-Dog”.

Pac-Man is extremely difficult to recast in terms of our universe or ones like it, but this is an interesting attempt.  Enjoy, share the weirdness, and happy new month.

Aaron

Beware of robotic vacuum cleaners

Greetings.

Jewish date:  26 Siwan 5770 (Parashath Qoraḥ).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  National Taco Day, World Ocean Day, World Brain Tumour Day, Upsy Daisy Day.

Image of Roomba via Wikipedia

Today’s weird thing is Roomba Pac-Man, in which Pac-Man is implemented using robotic vacuum cleaners.  Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron

Beware of Pac-Man the Superhero

Greetings.

Jewish date:  25 Siwan 5770 (Parashath Qoraḥ).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  International Clothesline Week, Daniel Boone Day.

Worthy causes of the day:  “Save BioGems: Take Action: Stop the Pebble Mine”, “74 Democrats sold you out to AT&T, Verizon and Comcast”, “Stop Shell Oil's Offshore Drilling Plans in the Arctic - Take Action Today @ The Rainforest Site”, “Congress: close the hedge fund loophole”, “DCCC | Oil Spill is 'not an environmental disaster'? Sign our petition to set GOP Rep Young straight”, and “Save the International Affairs Budget - The Petition Site”.

Today’s news and commentary:

• “Obese Sydney bird sent to birdy bootcamp”
• “Restaurant tells diners to eat up or else”
• “Peak Wood: Nature Does Impose Limits”
• “Jedi Mind Tricks: Scientists Probe the Psychology of Darth Vader”׃  I find your lack of faith that this is a real article disturbing.
• “How The U.S. Government Killed The Safest Car Ever Built”
• “Quick tips to foil Mac break-in attempts”
• “Windows, Mac, or Linux: It's Not the OS, It's the User”
• “Go veggie, cut fossil fuels to aid planet: study”

Image of the wrong Pac-Man via Wikipedia

Today’s weird thing is “Pac Man: The Movie” (actually a trailer for a non-existent movie):

Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron

Beware of Pac-Man

Greetings.

Jewish date:  22 Siwan 5770 (Parashath Shelaḥ).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  Emancipation Day (Tonga), International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression (UN), Clean Air Day, Mary Church Terrell Day.

Worthy causes of the day:  “Support Israel In Gaza Flotilla Incident Petition”, “Take Action: Letter to Vice President Biden | Save Darfur”, “End Corporate Control of Our Food Supply - The Petition Site”.

Today’s news and commentary:

• “Best astronomy-related college prank ever”
• “Chicken death foul reflection of crime wave”:  I do not make stuff up like this up.  I just report it.

Image via Wikipedia

Today’s weird thing, again in the theme of Pac-Man, is “Pac-Man: The Movie”, the tale of ghosts caught in a maze and hunted by a yellow, spherical, psychopathic killer.  Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron

Beware of ghosts near Washington Square Park

Greetings.

Jewish date:  20 Siwan 5770 (Parashath Shelaḥ).

Worthy cause of the day:  “Take Action: Tell Your U.S. Senators: Senate Leadership Must Act!”

Today’s news and commentary:

• “Is Organic Food More Healthful?”:  The answer is:  not really.  Note that the author explicitly does not consider the ecological benefits, which are another matter entirely.
• “Construction: Don't Hold the Rice”:  I cannot make up something like this.

It looks a lot better than this image from Wikipedia

Today’s weird thing is Pac Manhattan, a game in which Pac-Man is played on city streets.  Enjoy, share the weirdness, and feel free to confuse people by implementing this where you live.

Aaron

You, too, can eat a ghost (sort of)

Greetings.

Jewish date:  19 Siwan 5770 (Parashath Shelaḥ).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  National Go Barefoot Day, International Children’s Day, Doughnut Day.

Worthy causes of the day:  “Too extreme even for FOX.”, “Take Action: Take action for human rights!”, “Demand transparency in Wall Street reform negotiations.”, “Working Families » Take Action!”, “PETITION TO CONGRESS: Save Net Neutrality! | Progressive Change Campaign Committee”, “Repower America | Tell BP: Spill the Truth!”, and “Tell EPA: Take away BP's billions in federal contracts”.

Today’s news and commentary:

• “The hidden health power of spices and herbs is revealed in recent studies”
• “Herbal Supplement Sellers Dispense Dangerous Advice, False Claims”
• “Archaeo-alcohology”
• “Toyota’s Robot Violinist Wows Crowd At Shanghai Expo 2010 (Video)”
• “Red Meat: Is It Hazardous to Health?”
• “Sacking Plastic: Are Restrictions on Plastic Bags an Effective Way to Slow Landfill Growth and Save Petroleum?”
• “Nearby planetary system is seriously screwed up”

Today’s weird thing, still on the Pac-Man theme, is “Pac-Man Candy”, which makes some sense since one of the goals of the game is to eat stuff.  Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron