While down in Tennessee, Uncle David showed me the controversial ad campaign that has put Ford UK and its ad agency into damage control mode. Decide for yourself – links to the “approved” pidgeon video and the “unofficial” cat video are on this page
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Izumi was sent an anonymous email with a link to www.albinoblacksheep.com which has got to be the funniest collection of videos and flash movies that I have seen in a long time. Tyler has already found a few favorites such as:
Pokemon Rocks
Shumway [I have no idea what this is about but it's strangely hilarious with [...]
It may be a little cold in the Winter but if we ever find a nice plot of land overlooking the ocean on some tropical island this might do the trick. At $150k you can’t beat the price! Quikhouse via boingboing.net.
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UPDATE: the link is sadly dead – BoingBoing effect for sure.
A charming site that plays back a collection of Japanese Station Melodies.
In Japan, special melodies play when trains pull into or pull out of train stations. These melodies are unique, depending on the station. This website is devoted to these sounds, giving samples of them. [...]
This is pretty rich. Remember the old AI program Eliza?
AOLiza Using a publicly available Perl version of ELIZA, a Mac with nothing better to do than play psychoanalyst, a few applescripts, and an AOL Instant Messenger account that has a high rate of ‘random’ people trying to start conversations, I put ELIZA in touch with [...]
Next time you need to come up with an interesting cast of characters for a short story, try the Kleimo Random Name Generator. Taking publicly available data from the US Census, this little script pulls together first and last names with wonderful consequences. Modesto Loofbourrow?
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A legal brief submitted somewhat tongue-in-cheek by a harried junior paralegal in response to a Partner’s request to research local Manhattan sushi restaurants. This brief has been making the rounds of legal firms all over town and today ended up on the front page of the NY Times.
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Amazing what folks can build in their garage these days. A fellow in New Zealand built a cruise missile which is certainly interesting but not really useful unless you have a serious grudge. I prefer the 100 lbs thrust pulse jet which has links to instructions on how to attachit to your go kart.
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