To coincide with the announcement that Google will team up with NASA to aid the space programme, I can exclusively reveal a few other ideas Google are toying with:
As apology for a distinct lack of posts recently, here’s an amusing yet interesting tip from Tricks of the Trade:
If you get up in the middle of the night to grab a glass of water, there’s a simple way to avoid stubbing toes on the way back to bed. Close one eye just before you you turn on the light or open the fridge door, and keep it closed the whole time the light is on.
When you turn the lights off, open both eyes. The eye you kept closed will still be dilated, and allow you to see in the dark.
Apologies for the lack of posts recently, but to tempt you back here’s a list by John Camm of today’s modern rules of advertising, where we apparently live in a world of fictional cliches.
1. Men are obsessed with sex but will forego sex in order to watch football or drink beer.
2. Women are locked in a constant battle with their weight/body shape/hairstyle.
3. Career success is entirely based on your ability to impress your boss.
4. Mums are often harassed but NEVER depressed/unable to cope.
5. Any act of male stupidity (e.g. walking across a clean floor in muddy boots, putting the dog in the dishwasher, etc.) will be met with a wry smile, not genuine annoyance/anger.
6. Married men will flirt with other, younger women but NEVER act upon it.
7. Anyone with a scientific career will have a bad haircut and dreadful clothes.
8. If you work for the emergency services, you are a better person than the general population.
9. Elderly relatives NEVER suffer from senile dementia.
10. Scandinavians are, without exception, blonde and beautiful.
11. Women have jobs they never do in real life, e.g. dockworker (who looks like a model).
12. Children will not eat fruit or vegetables. Ever.
13. Both men and women find driving deeply pleasurable, never boring or stressful.
14. Men are inherently lazy/slobbish; women are the reverse.
15. Chocolate, however, will cause women to immediately fall into the languor of the opium eater.
16. High Street bank staff are (A) friends of the customers, and (B) of slightly above-average attractiveness (only if female).
17. Modern men own a cat.
18. Hot beverages have miraculous rejuvenating effects.
19. Professional people have strangely trivial preoccupations, e.g. a female barrister who is morbidly obsessed with finding a healthy snack bar.
20. All women (except stay-at-home housewives) have interesting and enjoyable careers.
21. Any over-the-counter medical product will work instantly and 100% effectively.
22. Children know more than adults.
23. Women never merely hop in and out of the shower, instead preferring to act out some sort of soapy Dance of the Seven Veils.
24. School is a happy experience for all children.
25. Tortilla chips are the most exciting experience any group of young people can experience.
26. Playing bingo is THE number one pastime among 18-25 year old British women.
Matt Campbell and friends decided to find out the answer to that very question, and last week managed to try it out for real, by putting a tiny camcorder in a model rocket, looking down at Earth.
The results are rather nice - shooting away from Earth, you don’t expect the speed to be quite that.. well, speedy.
Campbell has posted videos of their exploits on the Camcorder Rocket Project homepage, where you can also read about events leading up to the tests. The group also had a second day of launches just two days ago.
The project was also the ‘Video of the Week’ on CamcorderInfo.com, where there’s also an interview with Mr Campbell.
Interesting? Sure. Crazy? Definitely.
CVS Camcorder Rocket Project (cheers to Make Blog)
Looks like ex-Libertines frontman and token idiot Pete Doherty has shamed himself once more. According to an NME exclusive, he headbutted Razorlight lead singer Johnny Borrell in an ‘unprovoked attack’ backstage at the Leeds festival. As much as I detest Razorlight, he doesn’t deserve that. (Much.)
That detest is slowly wearing off though, seeing as Johnny apparently “put Doherty on the floor and left the dressing room”. Somebody needed to, and if it must be a long-haired croaky-voiced pop star, then I might just be able to cut him some slack.
When will Doherty realise that he’s just a, er, how do you put it.. IDIOT? I don’t understand how somebody who openly takes class A drugs, smashes people’s faces in on a regular basis for no apparent reason, and is generally a top class moron, can still manage to hang onto any ‘fans’ whatsoever.
Oh, and he can’t sing. At all.
Kind of shows the state of the human race, in fact.
Here’s a rather interesting article for you. USA Today techie columnist Andrew Kantor takes a half-jestful look at how laws such as theft and copyright will stand up when faced against technology.
People are finding it harder and harder to find where the line is drawn for things like reproducing photographs - especially when it’s something that if mirrored in the offline world would be legal.
With technology, it’s easy to break the law… (via Make Blog)
Can anyone living in the city verify that the New Yorkers really are this bad at parking? Or were the car park attendants just majorly wasted when they marked out the spaces?
I found this example of automobile wizardry while exploring the Empire State on Google Earth, which I’ve referred to many times before on this here part of the Interweb.
I also stumbled upon the Japanese way of bridge building, which to them means turning a small, usually ugly, construction into something surprisingly beautiful. Here’s how to really do roads properly:
Yes, that little park seems to be built into the bridge, with the road travelling underneath. If only everyone was as creative with such small spaces.
I posted a few days ago about the alleged subway pervert that began molesting himself in front of a young woman on a subway in New York.
The victim, as I said, took a photo of the man and forwarded it to police, also uploading it to the Internet.
Now, the picture has gone one step further - to the cover of New York’s Daily News.
Nice going for a camera phone picture, and pretty much what the freak deserves.
NY Daily News (via Boing Boing)
One unlucky Flickr user was violated on a New York subway train last week, when a man exposed and began molesting himself right in front of her. She reported the incident to a nearby police officer, and then as soon as she got home promptly posted the photo she’d taken of him with her camera-phone on the Internet.
The woman, known only to us as friendly_chic407, is now taking the incident as far as she can with the police, who are trying to find the culprit.
They haven’t had much luck so far, so if you know who it is, tell her. Either that, or give him a nice hard smack somewhere where it will hurt.
Flickr pervert (via Boing Boing)
R Todd King is currently blogging about his experiences at the sixth annual Ice & Snow World event in Harbin, China. Some of the pictures he has been taking are quite incredible, and I urge you to take a look if you have a free moment.
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