Chinese people discovering fortune cookies (51)
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Here's a funny short video of Chinese people being exposed to fortune cookies (an American invention) for the first time: Americans find high emotional attachment to the slips inside their cookies, looking to them for winning lottery numbers and becoming upset when the fortunes inside are unfortunate. The Chinese, on the other hand, would often tell me after trying the curved vanilla-flavored wafers, “Americans are so strange, why are they putting pieces of paper in ...
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Sam said:
Hilarious! I think we all know that fortune cookies were invented here, but we never really thought about this sort of interaction.
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Eebs said:
Sorry, not trying to share everything on BoingBoing... just loved this video.
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Adam said:
What is this??
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mcescobar1 said:
Thats awesome
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Vi said:
For Matt: What did I tell you?
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Rui said:
"There's a paper inside!"
Grammar Police Destroy Public Art (1)
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It's a case of what Dave Chappelle would call "keeping it real gone wrong." In their zeal to rid the world of typos, a pair of asshats defaced a 60-year-old sign painted by architect Mary Colter. Jeff Michael Deck of Somerville, and Benjamin Douglas Herson, of Virginia Beach, Va., members of the Typo Eradication Advancement League, or TEAL, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court of defacing the irreplaceable Grand Canyon sign, which had been a ...
"The Clash - the Boston Tapes" available from Red Note Beats (1)
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Red Note Beats, the people responsible for many recent Clash releases including the Joe Strummer / Johnny Cash "Redemption Song" 12", is distributing The Clash - The Boston Tapes. The LP captures a live show at the Orpheum Theater in Boston USA, recorded over the nights of 7th and 8th September 1982. It is available on both standard black and very limited edition translucent red vinyl via Viva Zapata!. You can find more information here.
Carbs kill cells that regulate appetite (42)
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Carbohydrates don't just screw up your blood-sugar: they release free radicals that kill appetite-suppressing cells. The research is from a Nature article by Dr Zane Andrews, a neuroendocrinologist with Monash University's Department of Physiology. "The more carbs and sugars you eat, the more your appetite-control cells are damaged, and potentially you consume more," Dr Andrews said. Dr Andrews said the attack on appetite suppressing cells creates a cellular imbalance between our need to eat and ...
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Jamie said:
Christina, another reason for you to avoid those nasty carbs.
Microsoft enlists Seinfeld, Gates to battle "Get a Mac" ads (72)
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Those Apple "Get a Mac" ads have long been an annoyance to Microsoft and to Bill Gates in particular. No surprise as an emboldened Apple with rising market share has continued to ratchet up the venom with quips like, "fear of switching is the foundation of customer loyalty for PCs," found in its latest TV ad. Now Microsoft is fighting back. Microsoft's new $300 million campaign (one of Redmond's largest ever) ...
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Derick Valadao said:
I can see it now:"Have any of you ever notice that every time I try to send an email I get this _blue screen_. What IS this screen? I keep hitting a button, but the screen stays blue!"--Jerry Seinfeld.His acute powers of observation can only hurt Windows operating systems ;)
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Stevo said:
Rectum? It nearly killed him!
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codefin said:
Very excited to see how this turns out. Competition drives innovation.
Coca-Cola's Probably Regretting Sponsoring Argentina's Women's Soccer Team [Coca-Cola] (6)
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Pictured above are members of Argentina's olympic soccer team, celebrating their trip to the Olympics in Beijing. Although they're not the first Olympic team to strike this tasteless pose, they are the first to do so while wearing their corporate sponsor's name on their jerseys. Oddly enough, one of the other teams that posed for a picture while making the "slanty-eyed" face did so for an actual ad for a Spanish courier company. This time, ...
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Michael H said:
i expect nothing less from spain and argentina
How con-men make their faces look trustworthy (27)
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Drake Bennett of the Boston Globe wrote an article on the various ways con men gain their marks' trust, including body language, verbal language, and facial expressions. When deciding who to trust, the research suggests, people use shortcuts. For example, they look at faces. According to recent work by Nikolaas Oosterhof and Alexander Todorov of Princeton's psychology department, we form our first opinions of someone's trustworthiness through a quick physiognomic snapshot. By studying people's reactions ...
Yes, "Tightwad Bank" Is A Real Bank, And It's FDIC Insured [Tightwad Bank] (8)
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Tightwad, Missouri, population 63, doesn't have much, but it does have a bank. A bank where the most common question people ask isn't "Do you have free checking?" It's: "Is this actually a real bank?" Well, the answer is "yes." From the Washington Post: Tightwad Bank may be quirky and unproven, but it is a genuine bank with a real charter and a real vault and a pair of real bankers in charge. For good ...
Build Your Own PBX with Asterisk [Telephony] (68)
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If you've ever wanted more control over incoming phone calls at home or at the office, setting up a PBX system could be the solution, and Geek.com's John Rogers has a tutorial for you. He explains what a PBX is: A PBX or "Private Branch Exchange" is like a miniature phone company/switch in your own office/house. The PBX is responsible for making sure calls are routed properly. Situation: when Joe wants to dial Suzy in ...
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Matt said:
this seems cool. Should we try it?
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digiSal said:
i would love to do this.
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David Ebaugh said:
We will be watching this with great interest.
Vintage auto emblem gallery (3)
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Murilee Martin's come back from the Monterey Historic Automobile Races with a sweet gallery of the automobile emblems and ornaments of yesteryear, when cars were wonderful. Not Just Engines At Monterey: Emblems, Chrome, And Shiny Baubles! (Thanks, Murilee!)
Get Me Out of Here Schedules Phone Calls, Excuses [Cell Phones] (73)
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Schedule phone calls to any phone with web site getmooh (get me out of here). The idea behind this webapp, as the name suggests, is that you can schedule a call to give yourself an excuse to get out of an awkward situation or mind-numbing meeting. You can choose from one of dozens of pre-recorded messages to play when you answer, from an angry Alec Baldwin to an absurd but probably effective instructional message that ...
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Michael said:
I love this! Great idea.
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nonameplayer said:
worth bookmarking
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shanusmagnus said:
The internet has thought of everything.
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Kluzter said:
XD excelente para cuando tienes una cita y quieres que termine pronto o apantallar para que dure más :P
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Cornerhouse said:
ok, this is cool. you schedule a call to yourself, to get you out of whatever lame thing you're stuck in.
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David said:
haha!!! This is awesome!
Donald Trump Saves Ed McMahon From Foreclosure! [Countrywide] (1)
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Donald Trump doesn't know Ed McMahon, but he "grew up watching him on tv," so he'd like to be his new landlord. McMahon is currently facing foreclosure from Countrywide, and had 2 weeks to sell his house before the bank repossessed it. Mr. Trump has agreed to buy the house and lease it to McMahon, says the LA Times. "I don't know the man, but I grew up watching him on TV," Trump told The ...
Hot Wire Your Car [How To] (35)
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Kevin Purdy via Lifehacker shared by 7 people Wired's How-To Wiki details how the bane of many an unlucky car-owner's existence, the ability to start a car without a key, can be mastered and used for good, particularly if you find yourself stuck somewhere without a key or an ignition that just won't cooperate. It starts out with a low-tech screwdriver hack and moves onto the electrical disembowelment of the steering column you've seen in ...
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Elliot Tucker said:
You never know.
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Jake said:
I totally drove around my 87 GTi by hotwiring it for about 3 months. Great thing to know I guess. :)
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David Ebaugh said:
Always a useful skill.
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thr33 said:
شغل سيارتك بدون مفتاح
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Polina said:
I've ALWAYS thought that hot wiring your car should be a life skill taught in school.
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BillDeys said:
I like how they say "Hot Wire YOUR Car"
Bike helmets that look like hats (29)
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Yakkay's bike-helmets look like hats -- just slip a cover on (they come in beanie, sunhat, peaked cap and a couple other varieties, and in many colors) and pedal your way to sartorial splendour. Yakkay (via A Whole Lotta Nothing)
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Kells Nollenberger said:
I have been thinking about getting a new bike helmet now that my bike it all souped up. These look cool. I don't know about the covers but helmets look cool.
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Nicolás said:
Quiero uno!!!
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Cassie Wallender said:
I totally want one of these... but alas, the retailers are all in Europe!
