Sweet. It's like a video game.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
Triumph the insult dog @ Michael Jackson Trial
I know this is old news, but i ran into the video the other day. Totally hilarious.
The Wiimote Body suit.
Excellent, now the hackers have been able to wear the wiimote controllers and make music with them. Too Cool. :)
Here's a video.
And a link
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Bugatti Veyron..
Top Speed.
253 mph = 407.164032 km/h
V16 / 10 Radiators.
Price.
853 000 British pounds = 1.7235839 million Canadian dollars
Water Dowsing - Sixth Sense.
What a weird way to find water..
Diane & I were watching National Geographic last night and were watching some weird show about water dousing..
Not the kind where you take a bunch of water and throw it on people to get them wet. The kind where you find well source water using 2 brass rods.
Basically, you walk out into a field with the two rods facing forward and when you find a water source, the rods will crossover and make an X. Apparently this works every time.
There are some theories behind why it works. For example:
1 - Your subconcious knows where the water is and when it can sense it near by it will cross the sticks over.
2 - The earth's magnetic field is doing it.
3 - We are made out of majority water, when we sense it our body knows. Finding energy.
I can believe #1, but 2 and 3 are kinda weird.
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Need to buy some dowsing gear?
Link
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
AutoStitch your photographs.
Ever wonder, how the hell am i going to get a picture of that whole building? Or scene.. Well, you can pay for crap ass software that only half does the job or get the good stuff for free. This was developed at UBC and is free for non-commercial use. It's damn amazing!
It was so easy to use.
So here's the jist. Take multiple photos of that large building.. like 30.. Make sure that there is overlap that exists between the photos. upload the pics to your machine.. I would sort them into the folders that i would like AutoStitch to create new pics with. Run the software and point it to that folder. Crop your picture out and that's all and it.
Check out the uploaded images.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
"WE SUCK" prank.
Well since this is a day of pranks and even I got burned. I thought that i would share this with everyone.
Too Funny. If you look in the past... This is a fairly common prank.
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January 2, 1961: 100,000 spectators filled Pasadena’s Rose Bowl stadium to watch the Minnesota Golden Gophers take on the Washington Huskies in the New Year’s Day game (played that year on January 2 because the 1st fell on a Sunday). Millions more watched around the nation, crowded in front of tv sets in living rooms, restaurants, and bars.
NBC was providing live coverage of the game. At the end of the first half the Huskies led 17 to 0, and the audience settled in to watch the half-time show for which the Washington marching band had prepared an elaborate flip-card routine.
Sets of variously colored flip cards and an instruction sheet had been left on seats in the section of the stadium where the Washington students were located. When the students heard the signal from the cheerleaders, they were each supposed to hold up the appropriate flip card (as designated by the instruction sheet) over their head. In this way different gigantic images would be formed that would be visible to the rest of the stadium, as well as to those viewing at home. The Washington band planned on displaying a series of fifteen flip-card images in total.
The flip-card show got off to a well-coordinated start. Everything went smoothly, and the crowd marvelled at the colorful images forming, as if by magic, at the command of the cheerleaders. It wasn’t until the 12th image that things began to go a little wrong. This image was supposed to depict a husky, Washington’s mascot. But instead a creature appeared that had buck teeth and round ears. It looked almost like a beaver.
The next image was even worse. The word ‘HUSKIES’ was supposed to unfurl from left to right. But for some reason the word was reversed, so that it now read ‘SEIKSUH’.
These strange glitches rattled the Washington cheerleaders. They wondered if they might have made some careless mistakes when designing the complex stunt. But there was nothing for them to do about it now except continue on, and so they gave the signal for the next image.
What happened next has lived on in popular memory long after the rest of the 1961 Rose Bowl has been forgotten. It was one of those classic moments when a prank comes together instantly, perfectly, and dramatically.
The word ‘CALTECH’ appeared, held aloft by hundreds of Washington students. The name towered above the field in bold, black letters and was broadcast to millions of viewers nationwide.
For a few seconds the stadium was plunged into a baffled silence. Everyone knew what Caltech was. It was that little Pasadena technical college down the road from the Rose Bowl stadium. What no one could figure out was what its name was doing in the middle of Washington’s flip-card show. Throughout the United States, a million minds simultaneously struggled to comprehend this enigma.
In fact, only a handful of people watching the game understood the full significance of what had just happened, and these were the Caltech students who had labored for the past month to secretly alter Washington’s flip-card show.
The mechanics of the prank
Details of how the prank was pulled off were first revealed a few weeks after the game in an article written by Lance Taylor, Caltech class of 1962. The article appeared in the Caltech magazine Engineering and Science.
The idea for the prank had apparently arisen out of the indignation that a group of Caltech students (who would come to be known as the “Fiendish Fourteen") felt at Caltech’s lack of representation at the Rose Bowl’s famous New Year’s Day game. After all, the Rose Bowl stadium was right in Caltech’s backyard, and the Caltech team often played there. But every year the technical college, despite its many merits, was entirely ignored in the hype building up to the game. This group of students decided to rectify the situation. They determined to make sure that Caltech got some recognition at the upcoming game. Washington’s flip-card show seemed to be the perfect vehicle for achieving their goal.
Pulling off the prank required obtaining a detailed knowledge of how Washington’s flip-card system worked. This knowledge was acquired by one of them posing as a curious reporter from a local Los Angeles high school, and asking Washington’s head cheerleader to explain it to them. The cheerleader happily shared all the details.
What the Fiendish Fourteen discovered was that to alter the show it would simply be necessary to change what was written on the instruction sheets that would be left on the seats—all 2,232 of them—blocked off for the Washington fans. This was a daunting task, but the Fiendish Fourteen were up to it.
They staked out the hotel where the Washington cheerleaders were staying. When the cheerleaders were away they broke into their rooms and removed a single instruction sheet. This they took to a printer and had him print up 2,232 exact duplicates, at a cost of $30. A moment of panic occurred when it was realized that the new sheets looked conspicuously less worn than the old ones. But it was decided that since the sheets would be replaced en masse, this lack of aging might not be noticed.
Then each sheet had to be individually marked up by hand according to Caltech’s new master plan, so that the seat numbers and card designations would be correct. This was done all in one marathon session on New Year’s Eve at Lloyd House, the home of the Fiendish Fourteen. When the task was done, three students were dispatched back to the hotel of the Washington cheerleaders to switch the old sheets with the new, altered ones. The cheerleaders, as was known beforehand, were away from their rooms visiting Disneyland. The switch completed successfully, the Fiendish Fourteen sat back and nervously waited for their scheme to come to fruition.
The Plan Unfolds
Luck was on the fiendish fourteen’s side. All the elements of the plan came together better than they had imagined possible. The first eleven images of the flip-card show had been left basically unaltered, to allay suspicion. The first real alteration occurred with the 12th image, which had been changed from a husky to a beaver, Caltech’s mascot. This change was subtle enough that it escaped the attention of most of the game’s audience. The 13th image had been flipped so that it read ‘SEIKSUH’ instead of ‘HUSKIES’. The Fiendish Fourteen knew that viewers would chalk this up to simple error. But these changes were a mere build-up to the 14th image, the unveiling of ‘CALTECH’ itself.
At the moment when Caltech’s name unfurled across the stadium, NBC’s cameras were focused directly on the flip-card show, providing the best possible vantage point for viewers across the nation to watch the ensuing drama. Washington’s band, upon seeing the gigantic rogue name leering down at them from the stands, immediately stopped playing, and silence descended on the stadium. Even the television announcers were momentarily speechless. For a few seconds silent tension enveloped the entire stadium. Finally the significance of what had just happened began to sink in, and then the laughter began.
Infuriated, the Washington band marched off the field, refusing to give the signal for the 15th, and final, image (which unbeknownst to them had been left unaltered). Gradually the laughter died down and the game continued. The Washington team managed to maintain its lead during the second half but didn’t score any more points. The final score was 17-7.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Top 100 Hoaxes of all time!
These are great.
Check out this link.
My two favourite are definately, the spaghetti harvest (#1) and Taco liberty bell (#4).
Here's the short list:
#1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
spaghetti harvest In 1957 the respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in. Many called the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this the BBC diplomatically replied that they should "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best."
#2: Sidd Finch
Sidd Finch In its April 1985 edition, Sports Illustrated published a story about a new rookie pitcher who planned to play for the Mets. His name was Sidd Finch, and he could reportedly throw a baseball at 168 mph with pinpoint accuracy. This was 65 mph faster than the previous record. Surprisingly, Sidd Finch had never even played the game before. Instead, he had mastered the "art of the pitch" in a Tibetan monastery under the guidance of the "great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa." Mets fans celebrated their teams' amazing luck at having found such a gifted player, and Sports Illustrated was flooded with requests for more information. But in reality this legendary player only existed in the imagination of the author of the article, George Plimpton.
#3: Instant Color TV
image In 1962 there was only one tv channel in Sweden, and it broadcast in black and white. The station's technical expert, Kjell Stensson, appeared on the news to announce that, thanks to a new technology, viewers could convert their existing sets to display color reception. All they had to do was pull a nylon stocking over their tv screen. Stensson proceeded to demonstrate the process. Thousands of people were taken in. Regular color broadcasts only commenced in Sweden on April 1, 1970.
#4: The Taco Liberty Bell
Taco Liberty BellIn 1996 the Taco Bell Corporation announced that it had bought the Liberty Bell and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. Hundreds of outraged citizens called the National Historic Park in Philadelphia where the bell was housed to express their anger. Their nerves were only calmed when Taco Bell revealed, a few hours later, that it was all a practical joke. The best line of the day came when White House press secretary Mike McCurry was asked about the sale. Thinking on his feet, he responded that the Lincoln Memorial had also been sold. It would now be known as the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial.
#5: San Serriffe
image In 1977 the British newspaper The Guardian published a special seven-page supplement devoted to San Serriffe, a small republic located in the Indian Ocean consisting of several semi-colon-shaped islands. A series of articles affectionately described the geography and culture of this obscure nation. Its two main islands were named Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse. Its capital was Bodoni, and its leader was General Pica. The Guardian's phones rang all day as readers sought more information about the idyllic holiday spot. Few noticed that everything about the island was named after printer's terminology. The success of this hoax is widely credited with launching the enthusiasm for April Foolery that gripped the British tabloids in subsequent decades.
Post 100 - Yay! Packing Peanuts Prank...
Alright, the many 10's of people that read my ramblings. Here's some encouragement for April Fool's day. :)
Who ever inhabits that office is going to be pissed.
LOL.
Happy April Fool's day.
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Solar Powered Amplifier.
Perfect for jammin' with the Hippies.
Go Green or go home.
Neat application, guaranteed every has an old bookshelf speaker or something like that at home. You could plug in acoustic instruments, or go to the beach and play your ipod mp3's and not have to worry about a power source for your speaker.
If you need a speaker, I can probably help you out. Kinda neat.
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The Youtube awards.
I haven't watched them all yet, but the tetris one is wicked.
Laughing baby is adorable too. Too funny.
Here's a page to all of last years winners: YouTube_Awards
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Greasemonkey & a Hammond with a Leslie...
No idea who greaemonkey is, but they are funky sick.
Hammond with a Leslie. mm mmm good.
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