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| Sunday |
the Fourth of April, 2004 |
"Carve computer-generated ripples in the surface of a
main highway, and when vehicles pass over the surface, mysterious voices
whisper, and distant music plays."
A page of suggested hi-tech
practical jokes, with copious links to tangents and source
materials. Very inspiring.
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| If you had to fight a registration page for the previous link,
you should arm yourself with a can of Bug Me Not;
a public-maintained database of generic logins for all such
registration-demanding news sites, with - ingeniously - a
simple bookmarklet that looks at your browser's URL and tells
you the logins you can use.
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"A paper clip stuck in former Rep. Richard Hayden's "yea"
button accounted for the deciding vote, which led to higher
taxes."
Preposterous Nomic-scam shenanigans in the Philadelphian lower
chamber - ghost
voting is the practice of jamming a coin or a bit of paper into
a voting machine in such a way that it continues to register votes in the
elected representative's absence.
[via Collision Detection]
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| Wednesday |
the Thirty-First of March |
A few good rounds of Kolodny's Game
at the weekend - it's actually a distant and not-very-different precursor
of Zendobun,
just with looser rules and an ingeniously conversational yes/no
structure. A good paperless brain game, and playable whilst
walking, to confuse passers-by.
21st century variant - Spamzendo. One player is the Filter, and
the others are Spammers. The Spammers take turns to send emails to the
Filter (specifying only a thematically-appropriate subject line), and
the Filter accepts or rejects them according to its secret rule.
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