May 2009
A Joke.
thedailywhat:
Q: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Three. Two to fill the bathtub with clocks, and one to set the giraffe on fire.
A Brief History of Time Travel: Star Trek Edition →
[This weekend’s second guest article comes from Chris Richards. How could we resist—he takes up one of our favorite topics for overtinking: time travel. Let us know what you think in the…
where do babies come from? - Wolfram|Alpha →
humm…
reblog with how you came up with your tumblr URL
It’s my name.
Watchdanhacker:
The first teaser trailer for Pixar’s ’Toy Story 3’
While all this teaser really does is show us the title of the movie, it’s good to see that all of the toys we’ve come to know and love from the ‘Toy Story’ films will be back for the third movie of the series.
Directing ‘Toy Story 3’ is Lee Unkrich, who previously co-directed such Pixar films as ‘Toy Story 2’, ‘Monsters, Inc.’, and...
Bank Nationalisation Sucks →
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:-)
The Irish government has announced that is will need to put €4 Billion into Anglo Irish Banks to recapitalise the bank. The bank has lost €4.1Bn for the six months to the…
Watchiammattjordan:
The Fresh Prince Of Daft Punk
It’s exactly what it sounds like.
Countries that are Least Affected by Recession →
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Ireland 24? Bullcrap!
This world map shows a list of countries that are considered least affected by the global economic crisis.
See: Financial Crisis in Plain…
Watchomnialx:
streeter:
Luigi Snaps
I had this idea a long time ago, I think around the same time I did Bowser’s Suggestion box (which became Bowser’s Minions in video form). I needed help writing this and who better to share the pen with than Jeff Rubin? NOBODY, that’s who. Anyway, hope you like it and, if you do, mind tossing a digg our way?
love it!
Poor Luigi
Energy Secretary's White-Paint Proposal Puzzles... →
davereed:
hilker:
“Energy Secretary Steven Chu stunned the audience at a London scientific conference Tuesday with a radical but simple proposal to combat global warming: Paint all the roofs of all the buildings in the world white.
If we did so, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist said, and if we also made sure the world’s roads and sidewalks were light-colored, it would have the same effect...
The Ideal Amazon Site Would Not Show a Search... →
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Never going to happen!
Greg Linden writes: Long ago, when I was at Amazon working on personalization, we used to joke that the ideal Amazon site would not show a search…
Applying Game Design to Email →
erickd:
woody:
jingc:
Every employee is given virtual tokens — say, 100 a week, — that they can attach to e-mail they write. If you really want someone to read a message now, you attach a lot of tokens, and the message pops up higher in your correspondent’s Outlook inbox. Reeves figured this would encourage people to send less e-mail: Those who are parsimonious would wind up with lots of...
Watchkbkarma:
Zero Punctuation : Duke Nukem Forever. Yes, you read that right.
Well Done again…
386 – My Kingdom for a Beer? Heineken’s... →
Freddy Heineken (1923-2002), the Dutch tycoon who made his beer into a global brand, also was a dedicated Europhile. Towards the end of his life, he proposed reshuffling Europe’s…
Tumblarity
davereed:
georgiegirlnyc:
My blog is hosted by tumblr. So far I haven’t had much reason to dislike it. However, they have introduced this thing called tumblarity which is basically a popularity contest for all the people who have blogs hosted by tumblr.
I personally think it is a cheap ploy to incentivize people (who care about such idiotic things) to post more. Methinks Tumlbr is trying...
