The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project

Site:
http://www.rice.edu:80/~gouge/twinkies.html

Category:
Humor

Review (in 1996):

The Twinkie page is the brainwave of a pair of engineering students at prestigious Rice University, who applied standard engineering tests to, well Hostess Twinkies. Their deadpan experimental technique gets funnier and funnier as they try various experiments, from Rapid Oxidation (attempts to set fire to a Twinkie) to our favorite, the utterly moronic Gravitational Response test (Twinkies dropped off high buildings).

Each experiment is replete with technical details and pictures of the ongoing procedure. Be sure to catch the Turning Test, where they use a control subject (a sophomore) to determine whether Twinkies are intelligent. (The conclusion: Twinkies are "not sentient in any way we can understand.")

And, if you're entirely baffled by all the technical Twinkie jargon, you can read the haiku interpretation of the test results.

Intelligent stupid fun.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.


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