It’s six of one, half a dozen of the other really. But either way – this is an udderly cool idea from Fred and Friends – and they’ll moove like crazy.
Category: Curiosities
YouTube Twosday: Classics in one minute
So the dog video was not the best video ever posted on YouTube – these may be close. Classics movies presented in one minute… Kill Bill 1 and 2, and Forrest Gump…shot in one take. Brilliant.
‘Snow joke
Fancy billboards with real time content are all the rage – the Fitness First board with built in scales made waves on the web – there’s a great billboard near the airport in Brisbane with a population counter updated in real time.
As toasters that print the day’s weather forecast are the future of breakfast – so billboards that present the snow report on your favourite ski field are the future of billboard advertising.
See it in action:
Tryvann – The Snowing Billboard from Martin on Vimeo.
Pen(t) up aggression
Sick of people stealing your pen? Me too. I hate it. My pens go missing from my desk at an alarming rate. The worst bit is when you see the aforementioned writing device in someone else’s mouth. get the pen back complete with fresh teeth marks. Your troubles will be a distant memory if you invest the $US1.69 to purchase this pen.
Found here. I can’t believe someone made this – and worse, I can’t believe I posted it… or maybe I can.
Geriatric ninjas
These old people are being taught cane-fu. The ultimate in “aged care”. Found here.
“In the two-hour session, participants are taught a sampling of moves to use in different situations. The cane can simply be swung in circles, used to grab a foot or neck, and fashioned into a bat or poker. Advanced techniques even show a senior how to use a cane to ward off someone with a gun or knife.”
“You just don’t realize how much pain you could put on somebody really quick,” said 61-year-old Ed Smoak of Pinellas Park. “Nobody thinks of a cane as being any kind of an impressive weapon but even a person like me — I’m disabled, like I said I don’t move real well — and even me, I could do this.”
A bunch of links – March 24, 2009
- Not So Fast: A Lesson For the New Calvinists
- Letter to a Young Traveller: 10 Reasons *not* to travel.
- Hanson: we#39;re not perfect, says News chief | smh.com.au
- Why Do People Clap in Movie Theatres?
- Some answers to the disappearing honeybee problem
- Jack Cafferty to Parents: Your Kids Aren’t Special
- Better Gmail for Google Chrome [Lifehacker Code]
- 5 essential tools to learn a language
- Hasler#39;s happy to be #39;down#39;
- How to Repair Your Electronics Yourself
- Will this Car Destroy the World?
- Hate Facebook’s new look? You’ll like it soon enough.
- Conversation with an Atheist Friend 01
- perseverance
- pirate
Interesting article that talks a bit about a proposed “right to privacy”…
And so, extensions for Chrome begin in earnest.
Under the radar. Clearly we lost the first two games of the season on purpose.
Farmyard waffle
Tired of people waffling on about life on the farm* now you can shut up said waffling with an appropriately shaped waffle… mmm, waffle.
Located by Foolish Gadgets – available on Amazon.
*To my wife or inlaws reading this post – no, I’m not. It’s just an intro.
Did you know: running a competition
If you are running a competition in Queensland you are not permitted to offer the following as a prize(PDF)…
Something to think about…
Prohibited Prizes
Prohibited prizes in a promotional game are:
- a tobacco product;
- surgery;
- a weapon or ammunition;
- any other item the sale or acquisition of which is restricted by legislation of the State or Commonwealth;
- a ticket or other chance in a game that is not approved under a gaming act.
When naming competitions go a wry
User generated content based competitions are all the rage. They encourage better consumer engagement and produce content and ideas a corporation may not have the budget to produce by itself. But they’re open for abuse. They can be hijacked – particularly if someone with a big enough following turns on you.
I like Stephen Colbert a lot. So I’m hoping NASA goes through with its promise to name a new space module after the most popular response to a recent competition.
“NASA’s mistake was allowing write-ins. Colbert urged viewers of his Comedy Central show, “The Colbert Report” to write in his name. And they complied, with 230,539 votes. That clobbered Serenity, one of the NASA choices, by more than 40,000 votes. Nearly 1.2 million votes were cast by the time the contest ended Friday.
NASA reserves the right to choose an appropriate name. Agency spokesman John Yembrick said NASA will decide in April, but will give top vote-getters “the most consideration.””
Let that be a lesson to anybody running user generated popularity contests – it means you have no control over the outcome. And if you do choose to exercise your right to disregard the competition it will be terrible PR. Unless you’re the people who put people into space – your coolarity is already so high that you can get away with just about anything.
Garfield: Lost in translation
A couple of weeks ago I posted a link to garfield minus garfield a few weeks back. It’s a great existential journey through Jon Arbuckle’s head… you should check it out if you didn’t see it then.
This week Garfield has been lost in translation – translated out of English into Japanese and then literally back into English again. With the following effect:
Important news
Threadless has extended the $5 sale until the end of March.
Three posts ago I hit 1,000 posts. I’ll do some sort of best of those 1,000 posts to celebrate in the next day or so. To me, every one of them is like a wicket for Glenn McGrath – I remember them all. Maybe.
Speaking of Cricket. Australia has an all rounder. A bowling all rounder. Mitchell Johnson. He’s from Townsville you know.
Here’s Roebuck’s view on Johnson’s all round credentials:
“Several of the batsman had fallen foul of Harris’s Disease, the name nowadays given to batsmen who suddenly play boneheaded shots against apparently innocuous spinners. Hereabouts the main topic on spectators’ tongues concerned the tourists’ ability to take the match into a fifth day.
The next hour was startling as the Australian’s launched a two-pronged attack. Johnson’s innings is etched in the memory. After a quite start, he hurried to 50 in 51 balls whereupon he raised the tempo sufficiently to reach three figures in 86 balls. He did not swipe. He did not depend on luck. Instead he produced a stream of swashbuckling strokes all around the wicket, executed with a free and full swing of the bat.
Some of his strokes stirred the cricketing soul. Johnson took the ball on the rise and dispatched it through extra-cover or he stayed still and smote lifters into the 10th row at deep mid-wicket. Without exception his pulls and hooks went forward of square. Some of them dashed past mid-on. Moving in for the kill, the South Africans tossed the ball to Makhaya Ntini and Dale Steyn. Even Jacques Kallis had a crack and he, too, was swiftly swamped.”
UrbanTrends: Wake up cross
Here’s a clock that’ll keep you alarmed but probably not alert. First of all it sings Amazing Grace to you. Then it will read you a random bible verse.
It’s also tastefully printed with “The Prayer of St Francis”.
Our daily Fred: Coaster to coaster
These coasters are a sure way to make dinner party guests feel comfortable – hopefully not too comfortable or you’ll be cleaning up after their spills for days.
This bad boy’s even got a built in bottle opener.
