The Gimcrack Miscellany

I can’t help it, I am intrigued by things that may seem pointless or boring to you. For instance I love telling people that there are more possible chess game outcomes than atoms in the universe. I usually get one of two responses to that:

1. “Your life saddens me.”
2. “That’s impossible. Your life saddens me.”

It only follows that this video intrigued me. It’s another video about the relative size of things, specifically using the power of 10 scale. If you liked my previous posts regarding this sort of thing (Big Ol’ Numbers and Our Sun Is Tiny) then you will undoubtedly enjoy this video. If not, here is the web page you should be reading instead.

BONUS VIDEOS!

Here’s my way of saying thanks to you for somehow having enough of an attention span to still be reading this scatter-brained blog. I like to sprinkle a little miscellany everywhere I can, especially if it’s gimcrack miscellany. If you read Digg everyday you’ve already seen these. Sorry.

Lightning strike right on the beach! (Audio is NSFW)

Chuck Norris in training! BOOM HEADSHOT

Here are some office graphs that some people have sent me in response to the ones I posted.

by Phil

by Phil

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by Phil

by Phil

by Jonathan

by Jonathan

by Chris

Tell them what you think in the comments. I really like “How Princess Leia And I Are Different”.

My fourth attempt.

*UPDATE*

Check it out, this graph made it to the front page of Graph Jam:

My third attempt.

My second attempt.