Via GeekPress, a couple of pages featuring 3-D models of some of Escher's "impossible" objects.

Of course, each 3-D model only works when rotated so that the 2-D cross-section looks like the Escher drawing. From other angles, they look nothing like Escher's drawings.

Very cool stuff.

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My pimp name is "Vicious D.J. Slim."

Funky.

(Tip o' the velvet cowboy hat to Macktastic R. Tickle and Professor Truth Steve Gates).

Update: Rusty "Darth Sidious" Shackleford is starting a Blog Pimp Alliance. Check it out.

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All I can say is:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Which Fantasy/SciFi Character Are You?

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Take the What High School Stereotype Are You? quiz.

Pinched from the Llamabutchers.

This also explains why I can laugh at these 11 great geek pickup lines (from, appropriately, GeekPress).

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I think Ted's universe overlaps a bit with mine. In Ted's universe,

"Fire Engines would be about twice as big, have 4-foot wide tracks instead of wheels and a big honkin' snowplow blade on front. If you can't hear the sirens over your freakin' stereo, then they'll either move you themselves or go right over the top. I'd pay money to see that.

I think I'll put the boys to work on a LEGO model of such a fire truck.

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