Friday, August 25, 2006

Improv Everywhere hits Home Depot

Hilarious and awesome, as Improv Everywhere invades a Home Depot.

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A few years back we executed a mission that involved repeating time. Ever since then I've wanted to try something that stopped or slowed down time. How would people react if they found themselves surrounded by people moving forward at a different rate or time (or not moving at all)? I decided the Home Depot on 23rd Street in Manhattan was the perfect place to try this out for two reasons. 1) The assonance in "Slo-Mo Home Depot" sounds funny. 2) The mere existence of a Home Depot, an enormous behemoth of a store, on our tiny island is hilarious. It also helped that the store is located on the exact same block as the Best Buy we invaded earlier this year.


What's always great about these stunts is how they mildly warp reality for everyone around them, even for the briefest period of time. All the actors are seemingly very professional, and never seem to get in anyone's way.

This one is especially good because the staff at the Home Depot are pretty mild mannered, and don't seem to panic (unlike the staff at Best Buy).

  • The Improv Everywhere site.
  • The Improv Everywhere Wikipedia entry.
  • A Wikipedia entry on Flash Mobbing.

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  • Tuesday, August 15, 2006

    Last To Know: PocketMod Maker

    So apparently everyone knows about the PocketMod Maker. Everyone but me :) So the idea is you format your pocket mod, and then you print it on to an 8.5" x 11" paper and fold it accordingly, and you've got a one or two page organizer.



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  • PocketMod Site.

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  • Monday, August 14, 2006

    Top 5 Wackiest Toys from the Tokyo Toy show

    Newlaunches.com has posted their top 5 wachiest toys from the TokyoToy Show ...

    My personal favorite is below (favorite as in I gotta buy one!)






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    Friday, August 4, 2006

    Java Programmers are the Erotic Furries of Programming

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    From Luke Welling: Java Programmers are the Erotic Furries of Programming.

    Hilarious and awesome. I'm not disparaging Java programmers, or Erotic Furries, but c'mon, that is one of the funniest headlines I've read in a long time.

    From his comments;

    Inspired by the Brunching Shuttlecocks’ Geek Hierarchy and Penguin Pete’s How to totally fake being a geek, I thought the hierarchy of programmers needed documenting.


    From the PDF;

    * Note: Ruby programmers consider
    themselves superior to everybody, but
    are not aware of the existence of non-
    web languages so on this chart come in
    above Perl Programmers




    Make sure to check out the PDF as well, illustrating the hierarchy...

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    Thursday, August 3, 2006

    Burn The Extra 1%

    Interesting thought from Robin Sharma's blog: Burn The Extra 1%...

    Reading British GQ on a flight from Rome to Home (Rome's fantastic. As an Aussie friend said to me recently: “you can take any turn and discover a history lesson”). The Biggest Idea I came across comes from Chris Carmichael, the coach of seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong who said: “The last one percent most people keep in reserve is the extra per cent champions have the courage to burn.” Magnificent thought.


    I'll have the chance to try this tomorrow on my ride to work :)

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    Tuesday, August 1, 2006

    Fixed-gear bikes illegal in Portland

    Via BoingBoing: Fixed-gear bikes illegal in Portland:

    Cory Doctorow:

    An Oregon judge has ruled that fixed-gear bicycles -- which use the rider's leg-power to brake them -- are illegal, and must be outfitted with traditional lever/caliper brakes.


    Check out the above link for more detail. I hope this isn't a trend.

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    Wii Promo Image

    From Kotaku, a (possibly leaked) (and awesome) Wii promotional image.




    Virtual Console Promo-1

    Click for larger image.








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    StarLogo TNG: 3D playground

    Do you want to fool around with 3D animation? Check out StarLogo TNG. It features an easy programming interface and a pretty powerful 3D modeling engine.





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  • StarLogo TNG Download page (Registration Required)
  • StarLogo at Wikipedia
  • World eBook Fair neatness...

    SuicideGirls > News > Culture > Last Week of the World eBook Fair

    So I am the last to know, apparently, that there has been an eBook fair going on for the last couple of weeks.   I've already picked up my eCopy of Neuromancer, which replaces my long-lost version until I can pick up another hard copy. 



  • World eBook Fair

  • eBook at Wikipedia
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