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[Joseph] Pujol became the first flatulence musician. It was a skill that eventually made him the most well-known and highest paid entertainer in all of France.
Farting out of Context
Motivational Posters
Here are some Motivational Posters for you.
Envy: When you can’t have one, pissing people off who do is the next best thing.
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Inspiration: Sometimes you just have to seize the moment.
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Stereotypes: They’re based on reality
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Birth Control: Because if you aren’t careful, one of these could be yours.
Way way more follow…
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Power Tool Drag Races!
I just received this (wonderful) announcement. Put the PTDR on your calendar!!
Ladies and Gentlemen, please brace yourselves for the following
double-barreled announcement.
You Said It Would Not Happen!
You Said It Was Better Last Year!
You Said There Was No Way You Would Stand In Those Concession Lines Again
BUT IT DID. AND IT WASN’T. AND YOU WILL.
Assorted parties are PROUD to present
The One And Only
POWER TOOL DRAG RACES
TWO WEEKENDS. . eekends. . . eekends. . .eekends
At The Maker Faire. . .aire. . .aire. . aire
Maker Faire Bay Area
May 3rd and 4th 2008
http://makerfaire.com/
And then AGAIN at ACE! International Speedway. . .eedway. . .eedway. .
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Just in case you live in a hole…
… and the only access you have to the world is through a wire connected directly to this website.
This is what’s funny these days:
The whole craze started on January 11th, 2007.
Garfield Minus Garfield Plus a Cat
Humor: Toyota and Ford canoe racing
THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT!
A Japanese company (Toyota) and an American company (General Motors) decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River . Both teams practised long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race.
On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile.
What I want for Christmas
A 2 ton 45 foot animatronic humpback whale
update: it’s not really for sale, just a prank :-(
The Top Ten Wackiest DVDs at Smartflix.com
Ok, this is pretty fun…
I got this in an email from Smartflix.com today
The Top Ten Wackiest DVDs at Smartflix.com
Coworking Spaces
Work at home? Want to work in a cubicle but don’t have one? Want a short term office rental with perks? Consider CitizenSpace in San Francisco.
Citizen Space is a coworking space in San Francisco located at 425 Second St on the third floor. It is generally open from 10am - 6pm weekdays.
The idea of Citizen Space is to take the best elements of a coffee shop (social, energetic, creative) and the best elements of a workspace (productive, functional) and combine them to give indie workers the chance to have their own, affordable space. Citizen Space was built on coworking philosophy.
Day-tripping and casual guests can visit for free and if you want to leave your stuff, we rent out desks for $350/month. We also hold various events at our space and are happy to consider making our facilities available for event hosting.
And there’s HatFactory and NASA CoLab and 2431 Mission and Sandbox Suites.The list goes on!
Humor: Summary of Life
GREAT TRUTHS THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED:
1) No matter how hard you try, you can’t baptize cats.
2) When your Mum is mad at your Dad, don’t let her brush your hair.
3) If your sister hits you, don’t hit her back. They always catch the second person.
4) Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato.
5) You can’t trust dogs to watch your food.
6) Don’t sneeze when someone is cutting your hair.
7) Never hold a Dust-Buster and a cat at the same time.
8) You can’t hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.
9) Don’t wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts.
10) The best place to be when you’re sad is Grandpa’s lap.
GREAT TRUTHS THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED:
1) Raising teenagers is like nailing jelly to a tree.
2) Wrinkles don’t hurt.
3) Families are like fudge…mostly sweet, with a few nu ts.
4) Today’s mig hty oak is just yesterday’s nut that held its ground.
5) Laughing is good exercise. It’s like jogging on the inside.
6) Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.
GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT GROWING OLD
1) Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
2) Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.
3) When you fall down, you wonder what else you can d o while you’re down there.
4) You’re getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster.
5) Its frustrating when you know all the answers but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.
6) Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
7) Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.
THE FOUR STAGES OF LIFE:
1) You believe in Santa Claus.
2) You don’t believe in Santa Cl aus.
3) You are Santa Claus.
4) You look like Santa Claus.
SUCCESS:?
At age 4 success is…not piddling in your pants.
At age 12 success is…having friends.
At age 17 success is…having a drivers license.
At age 35 succes s is…having money.
At age 50 s uccess is..having money.
At age 70 success is…having a drivers license.
At age 75 success is…having friends.
At age 80 success is…not piddling in your pants.
Heavy Ink
Heavy Ink is going to be a better place to buy and trade comics than any currently exist online OR IN PERSON. Doors open in October.
Trav’s “Progress Report #1″ gives you a good primer:
Women in Art video
posted on Youtube.com by eggman913. (he’s got several more similar videos on his Youtube site)
Hype Machine
Search music blogs and upcoming concerts, and hear the music with the click of a button.
Gigapan
Neato
A friend is on this project to use a regular digital camera, a tilting base, and stitching software to make gigapixel cameras.
D&D Laughs
Trav pointed out DM of the Rings. It’s right-on.
This scene had me laugh so unexpectedly, I sputtered out a laugh and spit all over my monitor. I suppose it isn’t really the funniest of them, but it hit a chord.
Spatial Robots and Suicide Bots
http://www.spatialrobots.com is pretty groovy.
http://www.suicidebots.com is pretty cool.
New Sensory Organs
I want new sensory organs for my birthday (via).
For six weird weeks in the fall of 2004, Udo Wächter had an unerring sense of direction. Every morning after he got out of the shower, Wächter, a sysadmin at the University of Osnabrück in Germany, put on a wide beige belt lined with 13 vibrating pads — the same weight-and-gear modules that make a cell phone judder. On the outside of the belt were a power supply and a sensor that detected Earth’s magnetic field. Whichever buzzer was pointing north would go off. Constantly.
“It was slightly strange at first,” Wächter says, “though on the bike, it was great.” He started to become more aware of the peregrinations he had to make while trying to reach a destination. “I finally understood just how much roads actually wind,” he says. Deep into the experiment, Wächter says, “I suddenly realized that my perception had shifted. I had some kind of internal map of the city in my head. I could always find my way home. Eventually, I felt I couldn’t get lost, even in a completely new place.”
On a visit to Hamburg, about 100 miles away, he noticed that he was conscious of the direction of his hometown. Wächter felt the vibration in his dreams, moving around his waist, just like when he was awake. [...]
When the original feelSpace experiment ended, Wächter, the sysadmin who started dreaming in north, says he felt lost; like the people wearing the weird goggles in those Austrian experiments, his brain had remapped in expectation of the new input. “Sometimes I would even get a phantom buzzing.” He bought himself a GPS unit, which today he glances at obsessively. One woman was so dizzy and disoriented for her first two post-feelSpace days that her colleagues wanted to send her home from work. “My living space shrank quickly,” says König. “The world appeared smaller and more chaotic.”
Some brainstorming should be able to come up with other new senses for people… yes?
magnetic compass - as seen above :-)
X-Ray vision - If you can’t turn it off, you’d have to be careful not to walk into walls. And giving all your friends radiation sickness isn’t cool.
Thermal imaging
GPS
eyes in the back of your head
What else?
