Amazing video of people on giant steel spring-stilts
by Vinay Gupta • March 30, 2007 • Trivia and Media • 0 Comments
You could totally break your everything on these!
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The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution
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OH MY GOD
by Vinay Gupta • March 28, 2007 • Trivia and Media • 1 Comment
Kermit the Frog sings Hurt by Nine Inch Nails
Read more →Cute – the Evolution of Homer Simpson
by Vinay Gupta • March 27, 2007 • Trivia and Media • 0 Comments
http://www.devilducky.com/media/59679/
Read more →Bruce Sterling on social change and the hazards of being an early adopter and incidentally on Ning
by Vinay Gupta • March 26, 2007 • Personal, Trivia and Media • 0 Comments
Bruce Sterling on Ning How many &&^$$@%^&$ times in my life have I been through this early-adapter shuffle? The opportunity costs, the cognitive loading… the *pain* of all that…. I just now bothered to blog-embed a *&^%&%$ youtube video, and now look at THIS. Pesky Scoble! He’s like one geek with a damn camera! There [...]
Read more →Wardrobe Infrastructure
by Vinay Gupta • March 21, 2007 • Trivia and Media • 0 Comments
Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour agreed with Kors. “Developing nations lack the basic wardrobe infrastructure to appreciate a designer scent,” Wintour said. “[Designer John] Galliano is going in a much more sensible direction with his cotton evening gown for Darfur refugees, though he’s having trouble getting the cost below $1,100. It’s a noble effort and a [...]
Read more →UFOS?
by Vinay Gupta • March 15, 2007 • Trivia and Media • 0 Comments
New Delhi – with Air Traffic Control video footage etc. That’s rather a lot of documentation for a fake. Doesn’t mean little green men… surveillance drones?
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by Vinay Gupta • March 14, 2007 • Trivia and Media • 0 Comments
Air Traffic Controller Humor Tower: “Eastern 702, cleared for takeoff, contact Departure on frequency 124.7″ Eastern 702: “Tower, Eastern 702 switching to Departure. By the way, after we lifted off we saw some kind of dead animal on the far end of the runway.” Tower: “Continental 635, cleared for takeoff behind Eastern 702, contact Departure [...]
Read more →The Great Global Warming Swindle
by Vinay Gupta • March 13, 2007 • Science, The Global Picture, Trivia and Media • 0 Comments
I just watched the extremely controversial Channel 4 British TV program on Global Warming. It’s interesting to me for two reasons. Firstly, my own hunch has always been that our understanding of climate is way, way to primitive to be making the kind of political decisions that are being made. Yes, it might be wise [...]
Read more →The Sims… they have their own “language”?
by Vinay Gupta • March 11, 2007 • Trivia and Media • 0 Comments
All about Simlish Turns out that The Sims game characters speak in a nonlanguage so that the company didn’t have to do 200 internationalizations of the game. Turns out there is music in these languages, including covers by original artists. At that link you’ll find a link to the Pussycat Dolls singing “Doncha” in Simlish. [...]
Read more →Cat fits into a tiny glass fishbowl
by Vinay Gupta • February 28, 2007 • Trivia and Media • 0 Comments
More support for my thesis that cats are a fur covered liquid!
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