Have you ever dreamed that you too could be a mysterious super-awesome political street artist like Banksy? Here is your chance, no matter how lame it might be. The iBanksyMachine is basically a vending machine which doles out instant Banksy stenciling kits (seen in London).
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Category: Graffiti, Weird news, Weird product
Do you remember this guy? Pierre Hashash, my favorite lebanese politician, is now running for parliament in Tripoli. Lucky I am not registered in Achrafieh so I don’t have to choose between him and Jad Sawaya.
Hashash was seen in tripoli lately, where he was hanging his posters all over the city by h imself.
By the way, Pierre is also a talented rapper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs5IxgoKHZE
Also, check out his facebook page and group:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pierre-Hashash
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5797709642
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Category: Announcement, Funny, Politics, Weird news
Flickr user jpegsrock found that someone was hanging up portraits of Steve Jobs on every available surface in his desk cube when he returned from a few days out of the office vacation.
Flickr user jpegsrock is kind of the unofficial Apple spokeperson at his office and his colleagues found the idea to be a nice joke. (via tuaw.com)
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Category: Weird news
There is a new trend to mess up with ads, in subways in general, and on the streets. We already covered the Pop-Down project in an earlier post, where people are sticking a “close window” sticker on public “space pollution” areas.
Lately, something really awesome is happening in Berlin. Someone has been photoshopping the ads with some photoshop interface stickers. Looks totally cool! I just can’t wait to see this happening in other cities around the glob. (via i.gizmodo.com)
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Category: Funny, Parody, Prank, Weird news
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Category: Funny, Weird news
boston.com published this guide on how to hack your brain. The cool charts show how you can mess with your mind’s perceptions, naturally.
I didn’t try them yet, but I believe that if the first one works, I will be buying lots of ping pong balls.
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Category: Link, Misc, Tutorial, Weird news
In 1984, Apple reinvented the Personal Computer. Then Apple reinvented how operating systems work, and reinvented music with the iPod, and reinvented the phone with the Iphone… It’s time to reinvent the wheel!!
I never knew how much I hated keyboard until I saw this new laptop! the Mac Wheel Rocks!!
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Category: Funny, Parody, Prank, Weird news, Weird product
Research by medical sociologist Nicholas Christakis and colleague at the Harvard Medical School in Boston revealed how oher people’s happiness, depression, and obesity can affect you:
Recent research shows that our moods are far more strongly influenced by those around us than we tend to think. Not only that, we are also beholden to the moods of friends of friends, and of friends of friends of friends - people three degrees of separation away from us who we have never met, but whose disposition can pass through our social network like a virus.
Indeed, it is becoming clear that a whole range of phenomena are transmitted through networks of friends in ways that are not entirely understood: happiness and depression, obesity, drinking and smoking habits, ill-health, the inclination to turn out and vote in elections, a taste for certain music or food, a preference for online privacy, even the tendency to attempt or think about suicide. They ripple through networks “like pebbles thrown into a pond”, says Nicholas Christakis, a medical sociologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, who has pioneered much of the new work.
At first sight, the idea that we can catch the moods, habits and state of health not only of those around us, but also those we do not even know seems alarming. It implies that rather than being in charge of where we are going in life, we are little more than back-seat drivers, since most social influence operates at a subconscious level.
Read the complete article.(via neatorama)
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Category: Misc, Weird news
I always wanted to be a superhero!! since I was seven, in fact.
I mean, wouldn’t it be cool to have superpowers, always getting the hottie, and to save the UNIVERSE!!
It seems that some people took themselves real serious, and became “real life superheros”, basically vigilantes in spandex with names like Terrifica, Mr. Invisible, Master Legend, and The Ace… That what was published lately in two articles in the Rolling Stone and The Sunday Times.
From Rolling Stone:
Although Master Legend was one of the first to call himself a Real Life Superhero, in recent years a growing network of similarly homespun caped crusaders has emerged across the country. Some were inspired by 9/11. If malevolent individuals can threaten the world, the argument goes, why can’t other individuals step up to save it? “What is Osama bin Laden if not a supervillain, off in his cave, scheming to destroy us?” asks Green Scorpion, a masked avenger in Arizona. True to comic-book tradition, each superhero has his own aesthetic. Green Scorpion’s name is derived from his desert home, from which he recently issued a proclamation to “the criminals of Arizona and beyond,” warning that to continue illegal activities is to risk the “Sting of the Green Scorpion!
From The Sunday Times:
In recent weeks, prompted by heady buzz words such as “active citizenry” during the Barack Obama campaign, the pace of enrolment has speeded up. Up to 20 new “Reals”, as they call themselves, have materialised in the past month.
The Real rules are simple. They must stand for unambiguous and unsponsored good. They must create their own Spandex and rubber costumes without infringing Marvel or DC Comics copyrights, but match them with exotic names – Green Scorpion in Arizona, Terrifica in New York, Mr Xtreme in San Diego and Mr Silent in Indianapolis.
They must shun guns or knives to avoid being arrested as vigilantes, even if their nemeses may be armed. Their best weapon is not muscle but the internet – an essential tool in their war on crime is a homepage stating the message of doom for super-villains.
(via boingboing, image via wiseacre)
Everyone has the opportunity to awaken and become who they always wanted to be.
—Green Scorpion
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Category: Funny, Link, Profile, Weird news