May 2010
1 post
April 2010
1 post
March 2010
2 posts
copycats:
Home remixed by RAC originally by...
copycats:
Such Great Height by Streetlight...
January 2010
1 post
December 2009
24 posts
Sunset Rubdown - ‘Silver Moons’
The Psychology Behind Wrapping Paper
What does gift-wrapping do for the recipient? Is all this effort worth it for the recipient? For example, do recipients actually like gift-wrapped presents more than unwrapped gifts?
According to a study that was published 15 years ago by Daniel Howard, professor of marketing at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, it appears so. To test this question, Howard designed a series of...
tracks:
Kurtis Blow - Christmas Rappin’
(thanks...
tracks:
Chris Isaac — Wicked Game
(thanks to...
Sham Sham - ‘99 Hearts’ (Jay Z vs...
Honestly, It's the 'Again' That Makes This
newsweek:
“Man Accused of Crawling in Outhouse Pit, Again”, and 19 other Headlines of the Year.
I think this one is my favourite, mostly for the byline:
“Dead deer in clown suit left on Iowa porch: Officers suspect it was a prank, considering Halloween is approaching”
November 2009
22 posts
All good things must come to an end.
Originally...
“It’s not innate gender differences that hold women back (just look at this...”
– Janeen Interlandi has some interesting thoughts on the whole “why aren’t there more women scientists” thing. (via newsweek)
Her sneezing is not contagious. →
Lauren Johnson is a typical 12-year-old girl - except that she can’t stop sneezing.
It is so bad that she sneezes up to 20 times a minute, or 12,000 times a day.
The non-stop sneezing began two weeks ago when Lauren from Virginia in the U.S. caught a cold.
Lauren can’t go to school and is even struggling to eat.
The only relief she gets is when she falls asleep each night. Her...
“I have tried to minimise the situation by having sex in the morning - not at...”
– Caroline Cartwright, 48, of Tyne and Wear in the UK, who says she is unable to stop the loud shouting and screaming she makes during lovemaking with her husband Steve. She has been given a noise abatement notice.
Space Elevator →
A laser-powered robotic climber has won $900,000 in a competition designed to spur technology for a future elevator to space.
Though building a space elevator might require an initial investment of billions of dollars, proponents say once constructed, it would make for cheaper trips into space than is possible using rockets. But huge technological hurdles must first be overcome, including how...
“The council will always try to help people behave responsibly by offering...”
– UK Council Official Stuart Bodsworth, defending a £700 fine issued to a mother for “putting out her rubbish on the wrong day”
(via telegraph)
Manufacturing Emotion →
An interview with the man that designed the soundscape at Disney World:
In the mid 1990’s, the park started researching the problem. It would eventually find no existing solution, so the engineers had to design and construct, on their own, one of the most complex and advanced audio systems ever built. The work paid off: today, as you walk through Disney World, the volume of the ambient music...
The Bad Livers - ‘Lust for Life’
Folk...
Cheaters be damned →
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - Frustrated over cheating allegations, one professor at Middle Tennessee State University took the idea of a traditional honor code in a controversial direction.
Suspecting that one of his MBA candidates had just cheated on an exam, Professor Thomas Tang had each of them sign a pledge that said if they had cheated, they’d be condemned to an eternity in Hell.
The...
“The picture of Rick Astley is believed to be a nod to the internet phenomenon...”
– BBC News, on the first iPhone worm.
“[Android is] the desktop Linux of mobile phones — a solution in search of a...”
– Dan Lyons, aka Fake Steve Jobs
(via Contact Sheet)
“BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG”
– @big_ben_clock
