Great video and song – Dan le Sac

Media-crat-y

Ok so we have bureaucracy, democracy, aristocracy… but what do you call the upper echelons of the media? A mediacracy. Personally, I find that funny.

Forgotten a tune?

Just sing it to your computer and it will match it. http://www.midomi.com

Innovation at its very best

Every cell phone user has done it: forgot to lock their phone’s keypad and accidentally called the first person in the contact list. Usually some unlucky person by the name of Aaron or Abigail. Belgian ad agency Duval Guillaume came up with a clever campaign that turns accidental calls into accidental donations to the Belgian ...

My teddy bear is called Jesus

Sigh. More stupidity as the world keeps turning. I don’t mean to be intolerant, but I am, so given that there are too many people anyway can we just take a leaf out of the Sudanese book and get genocidal on these people and save waiting for (the cultural r)evolution to kick in? Actually let’s ...

Symbols

It had never occurred to me before how mathematical symbols are more iconographic than symbolic. Take for example the symbol for ‘more or less’. When representing this by hand, you waggle your outstretched fingers from side to side. Expressed over time, this is exactly the same as the symbol ‘ ~ ‘. The divide symbol ...

Planks and specks

Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 600 employees and has the following statistics? 29 have been accused of spouse abuse 7 have been arrested for fraud 19 have been accused of writing bad cheques 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses 3 have done time ...

You cant win if you do / dont play by the rules

http://cectic.com/comics/069.png

Ask 500 people

Nice idea. I might have to borrow this one day..  www.ask500people.com

How to get things done

Get a wife Get a house Until you have these two things sorted, your focus will be on these and no other major goals. Probably something to do with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

New iPod video / Fiest

It’s by Fiest, and it’s brilliant http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1156010133/bclid756025629/bctid751384420

Down the tubes

If you are a tube worker: DO YOUR JOB OR QUIT YOUR JOB. Don’t dick around with the rest of us.

Comedowns

Come downs. Fuck. I have to do this crap for the next 20 years? FUCK THIS SHIT. For the LOVE OF GOD / ME will SOMEONE please give me something worthwhile and FUN to do. Is that too much to ask?

Meaning of life

http://www.freshminds.com/animation/alan_watts_life.html

Acupuncture

I was lucky enough to have some acupuncture treatment form a friend a few nights ago. I had an unbelievably knotted muscle that was in permanent pain and incapacitating movement. 15 mins after sticking some needles in, and re-pushing them in since the muscle was forcing them out, the difference was amazing. During the process ...

Gang membership

Someone should put out some psyops about how being in gangs is totally gay and an expression of latent homoerotic desires. That’d put an end to it quite quickly, I suspect. Mind you with those bandanas they’d probably be glad to be summoned from the closet…

Talking

“Why is it always the people who want to talk about it who win?” Peep Show, Series 3.

Happiness

Here’s a thought: Misery is always visceral, whereas happiness can take (at least) 2 forms: the visceral (the funktionslust of mind and body working in invigorating and focused harmony), and the intellectual. It’s a bit annoying to realise that the intellectual form is both the most common for most of us, and can be swept ...

Democrat vs Republican ad

Very nice variation on a very good theme

Nothing is the new something

A great polemic from a great show. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2007/1854261.htm