Wednesday, October 31, 2012

The Butterfly Effect

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.

Time To Party

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Lucky accident-surviver of the day

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It’s all in your perception…

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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.
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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 via

Why Are Things Cute?

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Monday, October 29, 2012

Pull Don’t Push

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Tupperware!

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Face

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How Big Is Microsoft?

Just How Big Is Microsoft?
Just How Big Is Microsoft? by Microsoft Training via

Cupidon

Playing Cupid is a tough job, especially if your aim is a little bit off.
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Love Potion

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700 Petabytes

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The Moon Illusion

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Haybob

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Around the neighborhood

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

55 Years Of Space Exploration, 1957 - 2012

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New Way Of Learning Alphabet

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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.”
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.”
 
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