Wednesday, August 20, 2008

(Failure to) communicate

All contents reprinted from elsewhere without permission.

Konichiwa,

Idol fail
Reality -- it does bite sometimes. And it made me wonder whether I'd enjoy the genre if I watched foreign shows. (Thanks Young)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNQLmHKlmiE


eBay dirty laundry in public...
...literally and figuratively. Scorned wife puts up an auction purely for the purpose of telling the world of her husband's cheating ways. A+musing read, though probably would not buy again.
http://cgi.ebay.com/EMPTY-CONDOM-PACKET-A-PHOTO-OF-THE-TARTS-KNICKERS


Barack Roll
A surprising amount of work has gone into chopping Obama footage to make a newfangled Rickroll, which only emphasizes the remarkable pool of misapplied talent out there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65I0HNvTDH4


Call me a Lyre
Softly-spoken wildlife MC David Attenborough introduces us to the vocal stylings of Australia's lyrebird. Simultaneously relaxing and amusing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOFy8QkNWWs


QuOteD
"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come." -- Matt Groening, "Life in Hell"


2008 Fjord Echo
Project your voice across a fjord, a valley and the village of Dale, Norway.
http://www.unsworn.org/telemegaphone/


So you wanna job?
A top-five sampling of the best job interview questions from Microsoft, Google...and IKEA.
http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=338


Quick pic: The Geek Stereotype
http://theinternetisterrible.com/wp-content/things/engineer.jpg


Game break: Guess the accent
http://www.languagetrainersgroup.com/accent_game.html


Get Me Out of Here
And finally, a nifty service that lets you schedule a call to your own phone for times when you need to manufacture an excuse to bail out.
http://www.getmooh.com/


Famous last words
"Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so." -- Lord Chesterfield
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish." -- Euripides


Mahalo,
vW

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