Puzzles in public

TomZ · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:41 pm

Shua wrote:

TomZ wrote:

There's a Rubik's cube at 14:50 of the latest south park episode.

trakof wrote:

there was a cube in the new southpark episode. the full show can be seen at http://www.southparkspot.net/season-13/1302-the-coon/ the first cube is around 15 minutes in

>.< Shame on me.

reeeech · **Joined:** Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:19 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... nsion.html

Someone else with a pretty big collection.

SaiyanKirby · **Joined:** Sun Nov 16, 2008 5:18 pm **Location:** MA, USA

reeeech wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1162943/Q-What-puzzle-fanatic-collection-10-000-brainteasers-A-Spend-30-000-house-new-extension.html

Someone else with a pretty big collection.

That's amazing. I see a few Meffert's puzzles in one of the picture. He should join TwistyPuzzles!

darryl · **Posted:** Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:45 pm

I think he's a regular at the IPP's, I've probably met him. If I remember correctly, most of his puzzles are the non twisty type.

-d

Danny Devitt · **Posted:** Sat Mar 21, 2009 2:44 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tEmuy1g ... re=related

watch around 2:30 up until about 2:50

Cubicle · **Posted:** Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:28 pm

This is an interesting video..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBjLW5_d ... re=related

ihatefrauwahlgren · **Joined:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 4:15 pm

Cubicle wrote:

This is an interesting video..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBjLW5_d ... re=related

This has already been posted a few pages back. :wink:

-Grant

Danny Devitt · **Posted:** Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:46 pm

Just a couple minutes ago on Important Things with Demetri Martin, he was doing a segment called "greater than or equal to" where he compared things. He said, "A rubiks cube is equal to a drag queen... because it's really colorful but I don't wanna do it."

Caphits · **Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:18 am

Ahhh... beat me to the punch!

My favorite was the whale watching one though. :wink:

Fractangle · **Joined:** Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:41 am **Location:** Earth

Found this while Googling around:

Rubik's cube art

There's a lot of creative art with cubes there.

reeeech · **Joined:** Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:19 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipa6CGwr ... r_embedded

This maybe NSFW... delete if need be. (it is blurred out)

But I found it hilarious.

ihatefrauwahlgren · **Joined:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 4:15 pm

I've had this one for a while now, but my scanner has been on the fritz. It seems that President Obama thinks the U.S. economy is as difficult to solve as a Rubik's Cube. If that was true this place would be a freakin' paradise by now.

-Grant

trakof · **Joined:** Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:44 am

the angry video game nerd had a cube sitting on top of his TV in one of his latest episdoes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1IH6U2V ... annel_page
it has a little bit of foul language

grigr · **Joined:** Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:38 pm **Location:** Russia

Bronze cube

http://www.marshallastor.com/projects-art-stuff/the-cube/

Caphits · **Posted:** Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:40 pm

That thing is awesome. It looks like stone. (yes, I know you said it is bronze.)

PaulWozniak · **Joined:** Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:02 pm

Quote:

After being cast in bronze, and assembled, it was treated by being buried in a mixture of dirt, various acids and salts, inside of a hand made birch box designed to keep the environment moist, but also to allow some passage of air and water, for about a year.

How interesting! It's been "fossilized"

Quote:

I’m still not satisfied with the cube as a project. I’ve been toying with the idea of launching it into the ocean using a siege engine of some kind, most likely a trebuchet or catapult. I rather like the idea of someone, hundreds of years from now, finding this object and having to puzzle out its origins.

Imagine that!

I bet Georges would love to get his hands on that cube!

Caphits · **Posted:** Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:25 pm

Lol, I think it would be easier to go out on a boat and just drop it somewhere.

coastercrazy10 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:30 pm

But trebuchets are so much cooler!

-CC10

Hendrik Haak · **Joined:** Mon Feb 07, 2000 3:29 pm **Location:** Germany

Interesting found...

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juanan · **Posted:** Fri Apr 03, 2009 5:36 am

Hendrik

Is your car?

Hendrik Haak · **Joined:** Mon Feb 07, 2000 3:29 pm **Location:** Germany

No, from my wife. My car is a "little" bit bigger.

theVDude · **Posted:** Fri Apr 03, 2009 10:11 am

Caleb in "Knowing" with the Nick Cage has a Sudoku Cube.

Andreas Nortmann · **Posted:** Sat Apr 04, 2009 1:48 am

@Hendrik:
Nicely found! :lol:

grigr · **Joined:** Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:38 pm **Location:** Russia

Rubik's competition in Skype!
http://www.skype.com/go/4-video-demo/

and more CubePictures ...
http://speedcubing.ru/forum/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1237867195

Celia · **Posted:** Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:26 pm

TV commercial for the Commerzbank in Germany:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fexWisSENY

Unknown_soul · **Posted:** Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:24 pm

"56" in 1 1x1x3 card reader (56? Lies, it supports 7. Also, it's not a true 1x1x3, each layer can only turn 270 degrees)

http://www.gizfever.com/product_info.ph ... cts_id=708

Caphits · **Posted:** Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:46 pm

56? Isnt that a bit over the top?

Jeffery Mewtamer · **Joined:** Sun Nov 23, 2008 2:18 am

Caphits wrote:

56? Isnt that a bit over the top?

Apparently, there are even more unneeded proprietary memory card formats than I thought.

VeryWetPaint · **Posted:** Wed Apr 15, 2009 7:13 pm

Jeffery Mewtamer wrote:

Caphits wrote:

56? Isnt that a bit over the top?

Apparently, there are even more unneeded proprietary memory card formats than I thought.

It doesn't read any more formats than any other typical reader; they just counted the formats in an exaggerated way. I've got a "Macsense" 78-in-1 reader on my desk that counts Sony Memory Stick 18 times. Sorry I didn't get them all, but I lost my place while typing them in.

78-in-1 box wrote:

Sony Memory Stick with MagicGate
Sony Memory Stick Pro Duo Magic Gate
Sony Memory Stick (pink colored)
Sony Memory Stick PRO
Sony Memory Stick Select
Sony Memory Stick ROM
Sony Memory Stick Pro MG Extreme
Memory Stick Pro MG Ultra II
MS Pro MagicGate HIGH SPEED
Sony Memory Stick Pro MG Extreme III
Sony Memory Stick Duo
Sony Memory Stick Duo in Sony Memory Stick adapter
Sony Memory Stick PRO Duo
Sony Memory Stick PRO Duo in Sony Memory Stick adapter
Sony Memory Stick Micro

Yes, there's even a separate line for pink colored memory sticks. Evidently that's to reassure AIBO owners!

Unknown_soul · **Posted:** Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:35 pm

Yeah, I forgot to point that out. :oops:

Oogyboogawa · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2009 12:15 pm

VeryWetPaint wrote:

Jeffery Mewtamer wrote:

Caphits wrote:

56? Isnt that a bit over the top?

Apparently, there are even more unneeded proprietary memory card formats than I thought.

It doesn't read any more formats than any other typical reader; they just counted the formats in an exaggerated way. I've got a "Macsense" 78-in-1 reader on my desk that counts Sony Memory Stick 18 times. Sorry I didn't get them all, but I lost my place while typing them in.

78-in-1 box wrote:

Sony Memory Stick with MagicGate
Sony Memory Stick Pro Duo Magic Gate
Sony Memory Stick (pink colored)
Sony Memory Stick PRO
Sony Memory Stick Select
Sony Memory Stick ROM
Sony Memory Stick Pro MG Extreme
Memory Stick Pro MG Ultra II
MS Pro MagicGate HIGH SPEED
Sony Memory Stick Pro MG Extreme III
Sony Memory Stick Duo
Sony Memory Stick Duo in Sony Memory Stick adapter
Sony Memory Stick PRO Duo
Sony Memory Stick PRO Duo in Sony Memory Stick adapter
Sony Memory Stick Micro

Yes, there's even a separate line for pink colored memory sticks. Evidently that's to reassure AIBO owners!

While I agree that they count it in an exaggerated way, those definitely aren't all the same thing.

For example, the regular Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO Duo, and Memory Stick Micro are very obviously different just by looking at them. Sony, is just really good at spitting out proprietary formats... BetaMax anyone?

Caphits · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:20 pm

Mythbusters had a cube sitting around on their last episode. Its not really featured, but its still there. :wink:

Jeffery Mewtamer · **Joined:** Sun Nov 23, 2008 2:18 am

Oogyboogawa wrote:

Sony, is just really good at spitting out proprietary formats... BetaMax anyone?

Do not forget Mini-Disc or Atrac. On the other hand, Sony is really bad at getting their formats accepted by the mainstream. Other than Blu-Ray, I cannot think of a single Sony-developed format that did not lose to the competition.

Cubicle · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:01 pm

Uhm, wasn't VHS developed by sony? and DVD?

reeeech · **Joined:** Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:19 pm

It wasn't Sony.... It was the PORN industry that chose Blu-Ray over HD Discs.

Cubicle · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:09 pm

Actually, the porn industry chose HDDVD (because they write the same way, no new equipment needeed)...

The gaming industry chose BRD's.

reeeech · **Joined:** Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:19 pm

Cubicle wrote:

Actually, the porn industry chose HDDVD (because they write the same way, no new equipment needeed)...

The gaming industry chose BRD's.

http://www.macworld.com/article/50627/2 ... ornhd.html

http://gizmodo.com/344655/porn-studio-d ... ay-in-2008

Cubicle · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:22 pm

Aye, but how can it be decided to which was more influential?

Sony basically put its format in thousands of homes, and why would you buy HDDVD if you already have BRD?
IMO, more "regular" viewers want HD then porn viewers.... if that makes sense.

reeeech · **Joined:** Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:19 pm

Maybe because people didn't want to buy a 360 to watch porn? Instead, they can get a Blu Ray player? Which also is part of the PS3.

I dunno.... but well, there's more people watching porn than you'd probably like to think. Just bear in mind - for god knows how long - porn was the number 1 searched thing on the internet.

Jeffery Mewtamer · **Joined:** Sun Nov 23, 2008 2:18 am

Consulting Wikipedia, VHS was developed by JVC.

As for DVD:

[quote=Wikipedia]In 1993, two high-density optical storage formats were being developed; one was the MultiMedia Compact Disc (MMCD), backed by Philips and Sony, and the other was the Super Density (SD) disc, supported by Toshiba, Time Warner, [Censored. Please be nice!] Electric, Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric, Pioneer, Thomson, and JVC.[/quote]

DVD is more closely related to the SD Disc, and Sony was involved in DVD's development AFTER abandoning MMCD.

theVDude · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:52 pm

reeeech wrote:

It wasn't Sony.... It was the PORN industry that chose Blu-Ray over HD Discs.

Anybody read "Snuff" by Chuck Palahnuik? This is pretty much a direct quote.

Danny Devitt · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:46 pm

Why is that word censored? I went to look at the wiki article to see what it is and there's no reason it should be.

ejisfun · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:49 pm

Danny Devitt wrote:

Why is that word censored? I went to look at the wiki article to see what it is and there's no reason it should be.

I'm guessing it's because it has profanity in the middle of the word, and it flags that.

Vadim · **Posted:** Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:26 am

Here's one took part in London marathon!

Vadim

Danny Devitt · **Posted:** Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:22 am

grigr · **Joined:** Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:38 pm **Location:** Russia

Crazzzzy Rubik's Fun
http://rutube.ru/tracks/1645340.html?v=ac595e6cbfa9bd3db30a9d41025abc7f

Caphits · **Posted:** Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:06 pm

Wow! A russian (?) KO of youtube!

I really liked the video. It has really really low ratings for some reason though.

JasonSmith · **Posted:** Sun May 03, 2009 2:12 pm

The Black Eyed Peas' video for their new song "Boom Boom Pow", features beats going "boom boom" in a Rotating Rubik's Cube room from 2:16-2:27.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIK-U6ZfyYE

Cubicle · **Posted:** Sun May 03, 2009 6:13 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RouXygRc ... re=related

1:32 Looks like a Rubik's 5x5.

I could be wrong.

grigr · **Joined:** Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:38 pm **Location:** Russia

grigr wrote:

Crazzzzy Rubik's Fun
http://rutube.ru/tracks/1645340.html?v=ac595e6cbfa9bd3db30a9d41025abc7f

Extrimal Cubing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0ySyvEZHWo

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