Build your own on line kaleidoscope.

Try it here.

Test this: Send a picture from your cell phone to my blog.

Test of 2 at once, originally uploaded by xeno735.

If you send more than one pic only one makes it. Post a photo to this blog by sending to lure09number2blog@photos.flickr.com. Leave a comment here letting me know if you try it and it doesn’t work.

Test

Test, originally uploaded by xeno735.

From the xeno.

Cool, it works… for me anyway… Post a photo to this blog by sending to lure09number2blog@photos.flickr.com.

Test: Send a cell phone picture to my blog! (Today only?)

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

New: Post a photo to this blog by sending to lure09number2blog@photos.flickr.com.

Give it a try! Send me something random.

Control someone’s Christmas lights from your computer

Control the Show is a unique Christmas display which allows anyone in the world with a computer connection to log on and control the lights. We are currently live each night from 5pm until midnight until New Year’s Day. … Control the Show uses a queuing system to maintain order on the light switches. This means you must line up to control the show. Each person is limited to one minute of control time. During your control time you will be in total control of the system and ONLY YOU will be switching the lights on or off.

Nevertells

“Nevertells, also often called Open-Ended Stories or One Minute Mysteries, are short little stories that create a puzzle or seem illogical until some assumption is removed. There is some quick little answer that once figured out makes everything fit together. While the stories usually only take a minute to tell, they can drive people nuts for hours or days while they try to figure them out. The answer should never be given to someone, though, that’s why they are called Nevertells. …

For a more lively version, you can play in teams. You want to form at least two groups. Then you tell the groups you will read them an open-ended story. You need to read it to them once. Each group will get a chance to answer questions about the story. The group?s task is to figure out the missing part of the story. The catch is they can only ask yes or no questions. The leader of the game can only answer yes, no, or not significant. The groups will take turns asking questions. Then the group to first correctly answer the question will win the point. - campresources

I enjoy these riddles which force lateral thinking. Here are over 120 of them, but it is most fun to make up your own. There are some good ones here.

Here’s one I learned this weekend: If you have only some extra clothes, a box of latex gloves, scouring powder (Ajax) and lots of time on your hands, how would you escape from Alcatraz?

Game to play: Vector Ball

Play here.

Couple calls for global orgasm on Dec. 22

The Global Orgasm for Peace was conceived by Donna Sheehan, 76, and Paul Reffell, 55, whose goal is for everyone in the world to have an orgasm Dec. 22 while focusing on world peace. “The orgasm gives out an incredible feeling of peace during it and after it,” Reffell said Sunday. “Your mind is like a blank. It’s like a meditative state….
And mass meditations have been shown to make a change.”

The couple are no strangers to sex and social activism. Sheehan brought together nearly 50 women in 2002 who stripped naked and spelled out the word “Peace.” The stunt spawned a mini-movement called Baring Witness that led to similar unclothed demonstrations worldwide.

The couple have studied evolutionary psychology and believe war is mainly an outgrowth of men trying to impress potential mates, a case of “my missile is bigger than your missile,” as Reffell put it. By promoting what they hope to be a synchronized global orgasm, they hope to have people channel their sexual energy into something more positive.

The couple said interest appears strong, with 26,000 hits a day to their website, www.globalorgasm.org. “The dream is to have everyone in the world (take part),” Reffell said. “And if that means laying down your gun for a few minutes, then hey, all the better.” - cnews

Public Drawing site: Drawball.com

This is fun. Anyone can create art (or destroy the art of others) at this public drawing web site. (Hint: Be sure to click “DISAGREE” to start, then you have to solve a puzzle to start drawing.) Tricky. I just ran out of ink. How do you get more? Seems you have to connect from different computers… Hmm…

‘Grape guy’ catches 116 grapes in mouth

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - An American man caught 116 tossed grapes in his mouth in three minutes in what he hopes will become a new Guinness World Record, his publicity team said Thursday.

Steve “the Grape Guy” Spalding, 44, of Dallas, Texas also set a personal record for endurance grape catching, using his mouth to catch 1,203 grapes thrown from a distance of 4.5 metres over half an hour, according to publicist Deanna Brown. No Guinness World Records officials were present at Spalding’s grape-gobbling attempt, carried out Thursday in Australia overlooking Sydney’s iconic Opera House.

But Brown said observers had filmed Spalding’s attempt and would be submitting forms to Guinness officials in the hopes of creating a new record for speed grape-catching - the most grapes caught in the mouth over three minutes.

No current speed grape catching record exists, she said.

Guinness World Records has no offices in Australia, and the organization could not immediately be reached for comment.