Improv Everywhere Mission: Best Buy (from /.) – A pretty hilarious prank. A group of people dressed up in royal blue polo shirts, khakis, belts walks into Best Buy (not at the same time, but a couple at a time every 15 minutes) and as they stand at the end of each aisle. If people come up to them and ask for help, they’ll try their best to help, but if asked if they worked there, their answer would be no. If asked what they were doing, they would say they’re waiting for their significant others. The scene was hilarious as the security gaurds were running around and I quote: Security guards and managers started talking to each other frantically on their walkie-talkies and headsets. “Thomas Crown Affair! Thomas Crown Affair!,” one employee shouted. They were worried that were using our fake uniforms to stage some type of elaborate heist. “I want every available employee out on the floor RIGHT NOW!” Then the manager busted out a funny: There a manager claimed it was “illegal” to film in Best Buy and instructed someone to call 911. She informed him that he had violated her “civil rights” by filming in her store. Agent Nicholson, who had been taking photos at the hip to avoid detection was caught as well, but he was able to leave the store freely.. Do check out the videos because they’re pretty neat.
Also check out their Cell Phone Symphony: The working theory after the first two rings was that one phone was going off first and then triggering the other phones. I think some thought that the “triggering” phone was defective and the whole thing was a coincidence, and others thought that the guilty phone was specifically modified to make others ring. Either way, it was agreed that if they could find the phone that rang first and shut it off, the rest would stop as well.
Random Crap:
A tribute of Mitch Hedberg for the amazing work he’s done (from RayAlome):
When you go to a restaurant on the weekends and it’s busy they start a waiting list. They start calling out names, they say “Dufresne, party of two. Dufresne, party of two.” And if no one answers they’ll say their name again. “Dufresne, party of two, Dufresne, party of two.” But then if no one answers they’ll just go right on to the next name. “Bush, party of three.” Yeah, but what happened to the Dufresnes? No one seems to give a shit. Who can eat at a time like this – people are missing. You fuckers are selfish… the Dufresnes are in someone’s trunk right now, with duct tape over their mouths. And they’re hungry! That’s a double whammy. We need help. Bush, search party of three! You can eat when you find the Dufresnes.
I like to wear a do not disturb sign on my neck so that little kids can’t tell me knock knock jokes. Say “Hey, how ya doin’, nephew?” “Knock knock!” “Read the sign, punk!”
I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I’m gonna put pins into all the locations that I’ve traveled to. But first, I’m gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won’t fall down.
Can’t wait to watch Detective Conan – Movie 10 『名探偵コナン 探偵たちの鎮魂歌（レクイエム）』 (released in theaters in Japan on 4/15/2006). You can watch the trailer here.
Penis reattached after maid cuts it off – Surgeons have reattached the penis of a Saudi man who paid the price for trying to have sex with his Filipina maid and she attacked him with a knife, a hospital source said on Monday.
Wal-Mart seeks smiley face rights (from /.) – Wal-Mart is embroiled in a legal dispute over the smiley face image which it wants to trademark in the US. A Frenchman who claims to have invented the yellow smiley face back in 1968 is opposing the US retail giant’s move. Pretty soon, the 🙂 that you see here would be a copyright infringement.
Bubble Magician (from ChewyDenise) – Awesome video of some guy doing tricks with bubbles by making St. Helen, catepillars, bubble cube, and carousels. Pretty awesome tricks.
$2.73 a Gallon? Not at First Fuel Banks (from AT Forums) – First Fuel Banks bills itself as the only retailer in the country where customers can buy gasoline for the future and hedge against rising prices. It advertises no service charge and no storage charge, just a $1 lifetime membership fee. Pretty interesting business model. I wonder how it manages to stay in business with only $1 lifetime fees. Maybe he charges a small premium when you purchase gas for the future. It doesn’t sound like you actually bring your own gas and store it in their containers, but you get whatever gas they have.
Robot Muscle (from /.) – Usually the only alcohol-powered muscles are the ones in barroom brawls, but one scientist is adding alcohol to artificial muscles to power robots and more. This ScienCentral News video explains. Scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas have developed “artificial muscles” — science’s best attempt at mimicking natural muscles. But they’re not made with the hydraulics or gears that power most of today’s big, strong machines. These muscles are made of an elastic metal called “shape memory wire.” … “On the more humorous side,” he says, “perhaps in a very distant future the humanoid robot who is sitting next to you in a bar might be drinking alcohol in order to work the next day.” Sounds neat and they have a video on it too. It seems that by adding alcohol to the metal, it heats it up and the metal contracts pulling things together.
Welcome to the New Dollhouse (from /.) – As far as we know, children have always played with dolls of one sort or another to act out variations on their own lives, or lives they observe or imagine. Today, a vast and growing number of kids are doing the same thing — but with a very new tool. Instead of dolls, they are using video games. And perhaps most of all, they’re using The Sims. Interesting… Maybe that’s why we play video games instead of sports. ;p
Gadgets now and then – part 1 (from /.) – compares gadgets of yesterday with today’s, like car stereos, removable storage, mobile phones, kitchen tv, and video games.
Kristin Chenoweth – If You Hadn’t But You Did (from FuzzyWuzzy) – a pretty neat musical/skit done by Kristin Chenoweth. The song is called If from Two on the Aisle. The song’s pretty hilarious and the skit’s pretty funny too.
Coach says he drank too much to celebrate – Magath, an avid drinker of green tea, had not had any alcohol at all in the last six months, according to Bayern commercial manager Uli Hoeness. He told German television Magath had three glasses of champagne and beer on the bus to Cologne. Um… 6 months of no alcohol and gets drunk over 3 glasses of champagne and 1 beer? I mean I think even I could beat that…
Four Second Fury (from MS newsgroup) – a series of 4 second flash games tied seemlessly together for those with a short attention span. I think i managed 63 seconds, but I only gave it 3 shots.
Boy Does Homework, Smokes Pot With Mom – A 13-year-old boy told police his mother required him to do his homework first thing when he got off the school bus, then smoked marijuana with him as a reward.
Get a Mac – Watch The TV Ads (from MS newsgroup) – pretty funny ads. Some people were saying how distasteful these were. Others were saying how we could use this for our anti-trust cases, since Apple had a commercial that claims we didn’t bundle anything useful. I watched them, didn’t think too much, it was funny. Enjoy.
lol the four second fury was hard. and that muscle article reminded me of bender. =)