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Improv Everywhere – The High Five Escalator

Those wacky dudes over at Improv Everywhere are up to their tricks again. This time they managed to get one guy 2000 ‘high-fives’ in one morning. Here’s how they did it… First, they chose a very busy public escalator in a tube station. They lined a bunch of people up with signs that prepared the [...]

Inhibit your self-control

Relinquishing power over oneself appears to thwart over-thinking and “liberate” people for more authentic relationships – study.

“Celebrate” Cube Farm Day – 13 March 2009

Those of you who work in an open plan office or cubicle farm, this is the day for you to vent your frustration! All you need in order to participate is to own a cellphone and know your office desk direct line number. Here’s how it works. At 10am sharp (in your timezone), simply use [...]

Great moments in presidential speeches

Baptazia Part 3

Whenever I’m feeling a bit down and need a lift at work, I have two specific videos I use as therapy. The one is called funnycats and is a compilation of loads of cats doing stupid or cute stuff. The other is this (definitely only watch it with sound)… Holy Ghost VS Andy C & [...]

Mikaeel Jackson?

OMFG! Yes, seriously… Michael Jackson has decided to ride the peace train along with Cat Abdullah Ibrahim Stevens and has placed his life and eternal soul in the hands of Allah. He got to know details about the Islamic beliefs through some music friends and became interested enough to read some books one of them [...]

What’s the Big Issue?

Does anyone read the Big Issue? I don’t mean buy it. I mean actually read the thing. It’s a serious question. I buy a copy once a month from ‘my guy’ – you know, the one who finally gets through to you by smiling, being persistent, looking sad, selling in the rain, or whatever else [...]

Congrats dude.

I know he’s being dying to hear from us folks at StalkingVenus, so I’d better hurry up and get on with it. I’m sure that he’s distracted enough already without having to deal with the emotional turmoil of not knowing whether or not he has StalkingVenus’ support… Congratulations President Obama! On behalf of the intelligent [...]

The Technium

Very interesting post over at Kevin Kelly’s blog. It basically sums up much of the thought surrounding the idea of a ‘global megasupercomputer’ that is theorised to be developing naturally as a result of all the computers and processors becoming attached to each other via the internet. From the article: “My hypothesis is this: The [...]

BMW for teh lose!

The other day I was cruising along as usual coming onto one of my motorways, which was very busy with inferior cars. First off, I couldn’t believe that the volume of traffic DIDN’T slow down for me AT ALL as I came off the slip road! I had to squeeze into a barely big enough [...]

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