This is amazing. You’d have to really know the ins-and-outs of the entire Super Mario Bros. game to be able to do something like this! [via]
Of course, this insane video came out of Japan. Oh, those crazy Japanese!
This is the best 11 minutes you’ll spend all day. I promise.
Be sure to check out the video info on YouTube for links to other videos like this. Here’s one 11-minute masterpiece!
File this one under ‘weird’.
For some reason, when you visit “doobybrain.com/herman“, you are redirected to the post above from November 2007.
I swear I didn’t set this up.
UPDATE: Ok, I just found out that if you type “doobybrain.com/[any_word_here]“, you are redirected to a page related to what you typed in that space. Hmm, interesting…
My previous post about the time it would take to travel between two places on the globe got me wondering about what exactly would be on the other side of any given location on Earth.
It turns out that zefrank has a Google Maps mashup that can answer this question.
Sorry to break it to ya, but if you dig a hole directly straight down at any location within the United States, you would be taking in lots of water because you’re likely to end up in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
There’s another similar Google Maps mashup here showing where you’d be if you dug a hole into the ground and came out on the other side of the Earth.
If I dug a hole from Melbourne straight to the other side of the world, I’d be in the Atlantic Ocean.
Hypothetically, if there was a way to travel through the Earth to other parts of the world, the effect of gravity on our traveling speed would allow us to get from one place to the other in exactly 42 minutes. [via]
It wouldn’t matter where you are going or how far the physical land distance between the two points is, the fact remains that it would take you 42 minutes to get there. Also, the Earth’s gravity would prevent you from being shot straight into space, in case you were wondering. Nice, eh?
There’s a small percentage of you who read Doobybrain.com that would appreciate this. It’s Goosh.org, a command-line interface for searching Google.
The interface is all text-based (excluding search results) and it works like a Unix shell. This certainly brings me back to my days on IRC chat rooms, downloading all sorts of music, games, and movies.
Anyway, give it a go if you can understand it. 
If you’ve seen the movie, you’ll know why this comic is funny. Seriously, what was the point of all of those CG gophers popping up out of nowhere? [via]
George Lucas must be bored…
