Niftiness on the Web

[mithriltabby]

The NPA-NXX Geolocator is pretty handy for looking up the locations of phone numbers in the US. It’s not always accurate; it puts obsessivewoman’s day job in San Francisco.

And in the spirit of Rock Scissors Paper Spock Lizard, someone came up with a 25-gesture version of rock-paper-scissors called RPS-25 which has some really hilarious ways of describing the outcomes (“alien vaporizes dragon”). I should figure out a way of breaking up the big 5×5 table into something that can fit on a Palm screen...

Comments

[devonapple.livejournal.com]

You could fit each of the outcomes (http://www.umop.com/images/rps25_outcomes.jpg) on their own screen, as text or JPG.

[mithriltabby]

As an image, I think; it’d be too difficult to remember all the gestures otherwise.

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

According to the area-code map, I live and work in a golfcourse. Maybe I'm one of the frogs that live in the water hazard.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

It nailed my landline within a few blocks, but my cell phone was placed way outside of even its area code.