February 2009
49 posts
LOLBOOK.nu: collective fashun lulz. →
Reality: Clean coal TV ad →
Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.
From Collection: Jacob’s favourite videos
Added By: Jacob J Tags: environment, politics, humour
“a guy in an antique car is always faster than the internet when transferring 500...”
– Low-tech Magazine: Truckloads of hard disks
Imagining the Tenth Dimension →
From Collection: Jacob’s favourite videos
Added By: Jacob J Tags: science, knowledge, philosophy
“there are […] 800,000 professional [snake] charmers living and entertaining in...”
– That’s more people than work in many sectors in western nations! (via TreeHugger)
“You don’t get to customize your environment like you would in your home country...”
– ‘Anger, control, and finding the zone’ by Alanna Shaikh
Brumby Pumps →
A maintenance-free compressed-air powered water pump with no moving parts.
Fortylove.tv: Baby, You Can Pimp My Shaw →
“Take an Indian auto-rickshaw. Put foreigner inside. Make foreigner drive 1000 kilometres to the southernmost tip of India in it.”
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“the A-Team was a guy show, and if it were remade today, it’d be a lot more...”
– Dirk Benedict (via Wikipedia)
New York 2008 →
From Collection: Jacob’s favourite videos
Added By: Jacob J Tags: nyc, film
The Crisis of Credit Visualized →
From Collection: Jacob’s favourite videos
Added By: Jacob J Tags: economics
“M&S […] it’s the only place on the high street where you can get a jam...”
– Katy Patino, M&S sandwich specialist (from The Register)
TED Talks: Joseph Pine on what consumers want →
From Collection: Jacob’s favourite videos
Added By: Jacob J Tags: business, branding
TED Talks: David Carson on design, discovery and... →
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Added By: Jacob J Tags: design, humour
“if it’s in the news, don’t worry about it. The very definition of...”
– Bruce Schneier
“The moment I saw the way your itunes was organized, I knew you had to be on...”
– verseguru’s Music Profile – Users at Last.fm
“The risk is that India could face social conflicts that would dwarf those in...”
– When Population Growth and Resource Availability Collide (Earth Policy Institute)
“Is it considered more virtuous to create conditions of wholesale starvation, to...”
– Perspective on Ahimsa [Peace] Silk
“We’ve scientifically determined the maximum amount of time that you should...”
– Give Up and Use Tables
“I just knew on Gossip Girl I could probably be even better than I am in real...”
– Adam Green (from Daily Intel — New York Magazine)
“These new items [under $100] may not be crème de la crème, but they’re very...”
– Freakoutonomics—What Will It Take for Small Businesses, Shops, and Restaurants to Survive? (from New York Magazine)
“Armadillos are, if anything, even less aerodynamic than turtles, yet planes...”
– Feedback - New Scientist
“evidence comes from experiments carried out on children”
– Born believers: How your brain creates God (via New Scientist)
“It’s absolutely bizarre. We now have trains that can’t let the...”
– East Croydon commuters delayed by sat nav error (From This Is Local London)
Eddie Izzard about italians →
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Added By: Jacob J Tags: humour
“may be impassable […] due to drifted snow and people building snowmen”
– Snow disruption in Britain - live | News | guardian.co.uk
