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Calculate the day of the week for any date, in your head.
"The identity of the [band] is shrouded in mystery and in photos they appear with giant panda heads. [They] say this is because they want to avoid interference from the major labels, but it is no doubt a useful gimmick to attract media attention."
"After a month, the Sulawesi crested macaques had only succeeded in partially destroying the machine, using it as a lavatory, and mostly typing the letter 's'."
"There are no missing objects. Only unsystematic searchers."
Another stupid survey which presumably lacked "don't know" options: "15% of 16 to 24-year-olds thought the Orangemen were actually celebrating victory at Helms Deep, the fictional battle that marked the climax of The Two Towers."
Tournament-level Monopoly, bafflingly. "I based my strategy on negotiation and just rolling the dice."
Basically: if you consider the film in terms of some made-up time travel theories (which weren't detailed in the film), then the plot makes boring sense in terms of those theories. Feh. Good to read a plotline, though.
An archive of the rules used to determine which player plays first, for over a thousand board and card games. Er.
A satirical IF programming language that does all the hard work for you. "IF programs should be small -- Snap programs can be as small as one byte!"
"laser printer - leohtwaðumberende bewritere"
More enragingly meaningless survey coverage: Britons tend to think in the context of cliched phobias when asked what their phobias are, rather than considering death or terrorism.
"A pair of artists in Surrey have painted a dead oak tree bright red just for something to do."
Postcode-searchable map of follies within the UK. "The great point of this tower, is that it will be entirely useless."
"We have seen particularly strong development in areas such as Angel Islington, which languished near the bottom of the ladder in the Thirties."
Simple, work-in-progress browser-based MUD that disingenuously presents itself as an amazing-idea text-based MMORPG. (A way for many people to play actual IF games in parallel, and communicate, would be excellent, though.)
Biometric washing machine that can't be used by the same person twice in a row. "Your Turn requires both partners to register their fingerprints on the sensor while it is hooked up to their home computer."
Original text searched-and-replaced with Spivak pronouns. "Off with eir head!"
"Kou has asked several Chinese software companies to develop a system that will stop players' scores from accumulating after a certain point. [...] Those games who do not have the anti-addiction system will not be approved for distribution in China."
"No. Today is Friday, June 17, 2005."