Hypercubed

Welcome to the all new Link Dump from Hypercubed.  This randomly periodic postings will highlight interesting links I discovered while on one of my many Internet addiction binges. Posting won't be weekly.. I'll dump just enough to avoid impaction.  Enjoy.

• The Simpsonzu by *spacecoyote on deviantART - What if the Simpsons were draw as anime characters?  [via http://digg.com/]
• Futurama: Super Happy Fun Show by *spacecoyote on deviantART - Or how about Futurama characters?  [via http://digg.com/]
• chaparyan.com: Unnecessary Censorship - I often wonder about the effectively of bleeping profanity on TV.  I remember even as a young kid I could mentally fill in the missing curse word.  As this link shows sometimes the word you fill in is worse the original.  [via http://www.chaparyan.com/blog.php]
• Howstuffworks "How Hangovers Work" - I thought everyone knew that hang-overs were dehydration.  After drinking water is your best friend and the porcelain god is your worse enemy.  [via http://digg.com/]
• Sayings and Phrases - meanings and origins - Ever wonder about the origin of Head over heels and Shake a leg?  Well now you know.[via http://digg.com/]
• Friday the 13th, 2029 - On April 13, 2029 an asteroid will fly past earth at ~19,000 miles above ground.  That sounds like a nice safe distance but realize that the XM and Sirius radio satellites are at ~22,000 miles and the moon is ~240,000 miles above the earth.  Sounds like a close shave to me.  [via http://digg.com/]
• Windows screwup forces Ubuntu shift - I love MS products!  I just hate their OS licensing scheme.  This day and age you can but computers for 2 - 3 hundred dollars. Why would you want to pay nearly that much for the operating system?  Plus you need to by a new licence for every machine in your home.  Buy a new computer and you need to buy a new OS.  The one you installed on the old computer is useless.  Many people are just giving up on windows altogether!  I hope MS realizes that they need to give us a reasonable system or we are leaving.  [via http://digg.com/]
• RubyTooth - Submachine 1: The Basement - Short little puzzle game.  Reminds me of the old Apple IIe games.  [via http://digg.com/]
• Bizarre Boiling - Ever wonder what water boiling looks like in microgravity?  Me neither but here you go.  [via http://digg.com/]
• WeddingDepot's Nonresponsive, Passive Aggressive, Customer Service - Consumerist - This article details an exchange between a customer and a customer assistants rep from the website WeddingDepot.com.  The article implies that the WeddingDepot customer service rep is in the wrong.  I don't know... the customer service rep sounds reasonable to me.  The customer on the other hand sounds off.  Anyone that believes that customer is always right crap is full of it.  [via http://www.consumerist.com/]
• Techcrunch - Blog Archive - Thank You, Akismet - Akismet is a life saver.  It has caught 31,792 spam messages on my site.  Can you image deleting them by hand?  [via http://digg.com/]
• Play 3rd World Farmer Game Online - Arcade Town .com - I assume that this game has an agenda to show how difficult it is to get out of poverty in the 3rd world.  But when I played it after a few turns I was doing pretty well.  After 24 turns I had built a school, roads, a medical clinic, and even political representative.  Based on this I think I'm going to cancel my sponsor a child donations.  [via http://digg.com/]