Youth Zone Fun has a gallery of artful and imaginative snowmen. This one is a star on his own video iPod! Link -via Dump Trumpet
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Youth Zone Fun has a gallery of artful and imaginative snowmen. This one is a star on his own video iPod! Link -via Dump Trumpet
With Visual Acoustics you can paint a musical composition on your screen! Choose an instrument for your brush, set the volume and delay, and move your mouse over the surface to create a pattern both visual and acoustical. Link -via Dump Trumpet
Three-year-old Maadhu Krishnan of Sunnyvale, California can name all the United States capitols, plus the capitol cities of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas! He is also learning multiple languages, including Spanish. Hit play or go to YouTube. You can find the complete collection of Maadhu videos on YouTube, including a television news report. -via Arbroath
On Christmas Eve 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission, Astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, Jr, and William A. Anders, beamed home this holiday message as they orbited the moon (appoximately 240,000 miles above the earth). As profound and inspiring as the Christmas greeting was, the controllers in Houston found a way to lighten the mood by responding with a humorous poem. Hit play or go to YouTube.
On July 2, 1982, 33-year-old Larry Walters attached over 40 helium-filled weather balloons to a lawn chair and took off into the skies over Los Angeles. A startled airline pilot reported seeing him at an altitude of 16,000 feet! Walters had taken a portable CB radio and a BB gun to shoot balloons in order to descend. After shooting several balloons, he dropped the gun. He traveled 45 minutes and descended into some power lines in Long Beach, alighting uninjured. Now the audio file of the CB transmissions during Walters’ flight is available for your listening pleasure, along with lots more information on this odd stunt, at the official site of The Lawnchair Pilot. Link -via Metafilter
Think your boss is cheap? Slate Magazine asked its readers to submit reports of horrible office Christmas parties, gifts, and bonuses. Of nearly 200 submissions, they’ve chosen quite a few tales for The Corporate Scrooge Contest Results. From the story:
A contract consultant sends word that the company to which he is currently assigned recently sent out an e-mail to some 2,000-odd consultants. The company would give away two $100 gift cards—to two of the brave souls who would commit to work 80 hours between Dec. 18 and Dec. 31. As our correspondent noted: "Hey, if you work Christmas, we'll put you in a pool of 2,000 other folks to maybe win a hundred bucks."
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Gifter.org is an online experiment in social giving. Gifter will donate a dollar to charity for every comment you leave expressing your wish for the world at The Million Dollar Blog Post. They are also looking for donors to sponsor the million wishes. Donate and get a link to your website.
What if ideas could really change the world simply by people expressing their voice and sharing the idea? The million dollar home page works because someone told you about it, and enough people shared the idea that Alex Tew made a reported million dollars.
What if we shared similar ideas that benefit each other and the world?
We (the Ojibwe team) are going to host a series of experiments in the power of community and generosity in the coming weeks and months. We’ve setup the Gifter.org blog for these experiments.
Each will be an idea that could make the world a better place, but each requires your voice. With each experiment we’ll ask the Internet community to collectively express their support for the idea in simple ways; a link, a comment, or just include the idea in an email to a friend or during a dinner.
http://www.gifter.org/index.php/million-dollar-blog-post/ -via Grow-A-Brain
I had a craving for french fries one day, so I pulled up to the drive-thru of McDonald's.
* Me: "I'd like a large french fries please."
* Clerk: "Would you like fries with that?"
I got sort of confused at this one and told him no. He told me to pull ahead, so I did, and then he asked me why I was sitting there.
* Clerk: "I thought you didn't want fries."
* Me: "No, I ordered a large french fries."
* Clerk: "Ok. Do you want fries with that?"
Since saying no the last time had gotten me nothing, I figured I'd better say yes this time.
He gave me two large fries.
Things People Said in Restaurants has a large and entertaining collection of anecdotes like this one, as well as ambiguously worded menus and signs that don’t quite make sense. Link -via Cynical-C
You've seen it before, but its a treat every holiday season. Here's the Drifters' classic version of White Christmas, with the on-its-way-to-being-a-classic flash animation by Joshua Held featuring Santa and his reindeer.
A timeline is a device to make history easier to understand. At least, that’s the way it’s supposed to work! This Wikipedia entry plots a timeline to explain the three Back to the Future movies. Now I’m more confused than when I watched them. Link
What can you do with typewriters now that no one uses them for documents? Play music on them! The Boston Typewriter Orchestra has CDs, concerts, and television appearances behind them, but they haven’t let it go to their heads.
BTO is a collective endeavor which engages in rhythmic typewriter manipulation combined with elements of performance, comedy and satire.
BTO aims to entertain the masses while providing a creative outlet for the creative urges of its members.
BTO promises to protect customer confidentiality with the utmost vigilance while remaining irreverent at all times.
You can hear several songs and watch a video at their website. Link -via Mystic Chords
The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky, performed entirely on bicycle parts! You can download this and/or send it as a holiday greeting. Link -via Ursi’s Blog
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