An ordinary looking guy wakes up one morning feeling the worse for wear and realises he's run out of milk. As he drags himself out of the house to go and buy some, an extraordinary sequence of events draws him into a journey of mayhem on the streets of San Francisco.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
The Butterfly Effect
Phone Thief In Action
Video shot on a subway in Budapest, Hungary, shows the modus operandi of a public transportation phone thief. Wait for it.via
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
The Boardroom PRANK
“For our latest mission, a group of 24 actors between the ages of 48 and 78 staged an unauthorized boardroom meeting in the office chair department of a Staples. The chairs in this particular office supply store were already arranged in a boardroom configuration, making it easy for us to hold a surprise meeting. Actor Will Hines gave a presentation to the board, using a whiteboard and an easel he had bought from the store just minutes prior. Minutes into the meeting, the board was asked to leave by a confused store manager.” — ImprovEverywhere
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Monday, October 29, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
So real, it’s scary!
LG trolls elevator passengers to show how ‘lifelike’ its new IPS monitors are.via
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Who Made That Escape Key?
Life, alas, does not come with an escape key. But your computer keyboard probably does. Why is it there? Pagan Kennedy of the New York Times explains that a computer programmer invented it to interrupt processing:
The key was born in 1960, when an I.B.M. programmer named Bob Bemer was trying to solve a Tower of Babel problem: computers from different manufacturers communicated in a variety of codes. Bemer invented the ESC key as way for programmers to switch from one kind of code to another. Later on, when computer codes were standardized (an effort in which Bemer played a leading role), ESC became a kind of “interrupt” button on the PC — a way to poke the computer and say, “Cut it out.”via
Why “escape”? Bemer could have used another word — say, “interrupt” — but he opted for “ESC,” a tiny monument to his own angst. Bemer was a worrier. In the 1970s, he began warning about the Y2K bug, explaining to Richard Nixon’s advisers the computer disaster that could occur in the year 2000. Today, with our relatively stable computers, few of us need the panic button. But Bob Frankston, a pioneering programmer, says he still uses the ESC key. “There’s something nice about having a get-me-the-hell-out-of-here key.”
Thursday, October 4, 2012
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