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I’d totally just play this like hockey instead of hitting the ball ahead.

A cheesy Valentine’s.

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Graphic designer Michael Allen appreciates facial hair. In fact, you could say that he’s somewhat of an expert in the art of the chin whiskers. Building on years of studying everything that makes beards cool, Allen created his own unique beard-y alphabet–called Alphabeard Beardface–as an homage to… all things beard? Anyway, in order to create the alphabet, Allen had to photograph beards at various stages of growth to make each letter. “Many beards have been sacrificed for this project,” said Allen. But in the end, I have to say, it was totally worth it.

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This is way more fun that regular Flappy Bird.

Would love to see a realtime graph of the distribution of scores for the last 1000 players or so. (My current high: 3 4! [Also, the second I put this post up, the server went down. :( ] I'm the guy repeatedly dying at the first pipe.)

Gonna make this a quickie.

Unlike the many powdery coatings that've prettified NYC this winter, today's storm is dumping perfect-packing, weapons-grade snow across the city. Really good stuff, the kind you barely need to compact in order to nail someone.

Clearly, there was a need for someone to calculate the snowball yield.

Since it would be excruciating to account for trees, roofs, and other inaccessible spots on a city-wide basis, I've narrowed it down to Central Park, which also happens to be the mecca for local meteorologists.

The park's 843 acres are composed of:

• 150 acres in 7 waterbodies
• 250 acres of lawns
• 80 acres of woodlands

843 minus 150 water and 80 woodland = 613 acres. 250 are open lawn with the remaining 363 consisting of roads, paths, promenades, fountains and terrain that's neither lawn nor woodland...but exposed enough for snow accumulation.

At 43,560 ft²  per acre, 631 acres is 27.48 million square feet.

"Seven inches of snow have fallen on Central Park. We’re on our way to 8 to 14 inches in the city."  - NYTimes.com, an hour ago.

So call it 12 inches, which super-conveniently works out to 27.48 million cubic feet of raw material.

But how many snowballs are in a cubic foot? Strangely enough, the internet provides no authority on the matter and, like meatballs and matzoh balls, there's no such thing as a standard. My preference is for a medium-size, medium-density snow ball that's got enough mass to be thrown pretty far and explode entertainingly on impact. Facial detonation should embarrass, not bruise.

Based on utterly unscientific trials, I was able to produce 6 grenades of the above specifications from one cubic foot of snow. 27.48 ft³ x 6 per yields 164.88 million snowballs.

If all 1.1 million NYC public school students came down to the park, the arsenal would arm them with 150 snowballs a piece. 
 

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Set yourself apart from other Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle fans with one amazing belt buckle: Krang! Etsy seller Christopher Genovese’s hand sculpted and painted piece is the sort of accessory that will get noticed. First of all, it’s giant. Second of all, it’s a pink and wrinkly supervillain! Wear it to conventions or rock it as an everyday cosplay option. Pretty soon it will take over your entire wardrobe (and possibly your mind). Any weird looks you receive while donning the fabulous piece are really just jealous stares.

Manufacturing time takes 1-3 weeks, and if you don’t want a giant Krang on your belly, you can order it as a display to hang on your wall.

Check out a couple more beauty shots of the buckle after the break.

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Ryan North, Anthony Clark and I have teamed up to make a new webcomic based on the classic arcade game, Dig Dug! Ryan and I wrote it, and Anthony and I are doing the arts! You can read an interview about it on Comics Alliance, or just go read the comic! (We make Galaga too, if you want some o’ dat.)

Dig Dug! is a post from: The Adventures of Dr. McNinja

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