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You have been directed here thinking that this post has something to do with what you searched for.  Perhaps it was cool tennis balls, crazy trampoline sports, or the hottest gophers.  I’m just going out on a limb to say you did not type cool, crazy, or hottest in the search box alone.  Chances are, though, that your descriptor is a word on the left of this post.

I am conducting a test to see what sorts of words follow those adjectives.  It is in the world of the Internet that a blog post listing just “birds” does not keep the average user’s attention.  It is only by calling it the “coolest bird ever caught on video” does it seem to be worth a net surfer’s time.  I will post a follow up to this later.

Thanks to learnenglish.de for all the adjectives

Recently I came into contact with a college friend of mine in the journalism business.  He said that there is an article in the works about a video game named Spore.  He says that he’s spent hours fiddling with it, and this is surprising to me because I never knew him to be a gamer at all.  When I saw it and what it was about I was… amused.  Here are a few things that amuse me about it.

Creatures as Objects…or is it Vice Versa?

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Yes, that’s right.  A sofa animal.  I think of it as a kind of odd reversal of the concept of personification.  Whatever the case, this is some really weird stuff!  Let’s continue…

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Now you can have your animal and eat it too (wait… ah, never mind)

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Yikes.  Some pretty dangerous crap you can make!  Speaking of dangerous…

Rip-offs
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This little fellow looks familiar (electrifying depiction).

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So does this one.

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Ok, this one’s a stretch, but it is supposed to be Brian Griffin from The Family Guy television show.  All of these creatures made in the likeness of popular symbols of pop culture.  I guess it is not fair to call it a rip-off, maybe “intellectually inspired” is the appropriate phrase here.

Unreal
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It is pretty remarkable that anything you can imagine can be made real.  I can understand why it appeals to my friend so much, who has a very creative and artistic mind.  I am not one of those people who can create monsters like this, but I can appreciate it.

Yes, that is a sperm cell on the right