Weird
The Millenium Elephant Foundation and Maximus, a Sri Lankan company, have a relatively nice project:
...a little dung goes a long, long way, as elephant waste is recycled and turned into sheets of paper. A factory on-site produces hand-made paper to any thickness and a variety of colors...
I was talking with JD, Mirweis and Fab about the concept of useless knowledge: the specific knowledge in a targeted area every individual has. For instance: football players from 80s (Fab), merging companies (me), nuclear submarine (Emmanuel)... I can personaly draw a topic map of Napalm Death former members and their connection with various undeground music scenes (electro, doom,...).
Maps converted into cool arty drawings. This is japanese.
An interesting trend: porn picture with figures removed.
Some morons left the windows open during the week end and it sadly rained. Consequently my PC did not appreciate this wet flood of water (nor my phone which emits odd farts). Somebody came and I am left with this:
At the Papercraft Factory, you can find foldable paper stuff like this cool Nintendo Famicom:
EUROBAD '74, an exhibition of Europe's worst interiors of 1974.
Found on Craiglist:
Major Responsibilities: * Daily care of gorillas Koko, Ndume, et al, and their facilities * Research in interspecies communication (via sign-language) Minimum Qualifications: * Undergraduate degree in a field relevant to above responsibilities (e.g., linguistics, anthropology, zoology) * 2+ years work experience in animal care preferably with primates * Knowledge of American Sign Language must become fluent * Excellent and Creative Written and Verbal Communication skills * Highly Computer Literate (Mac and/or PC)
Read here: three would-be artists: a painting pig called Malevitch, a crafty crow named Rembrandt and a furious gang of snails:
Some people put 1500sq ft of Aluminum Foil, 5 rolls of double sided tape on their boss' office when he was on vacation:
I like the pills seen as button of the future. Pressing a pill on a tablet offer a great feedback, a cool haptic feeling. Well it's not april fool day but I am still in the "joke"mode.
I am still in the process of learning how to correctly draw planes. At the moment, I do suck a lot, judging from these crappy drawings made this morning in the train:
Libération à propos des notices mal écrites, mal traduites et mal pensées:
...rédigées en Corée, elles seront d'abord traduites en japonais, puis en anglais avant de l'être enfin en français. Avec le risque de perdre en exactitude à chaque étape... - un sirop contre la toux pour enfants, prévient : «Ne pas conduire ou opérer de la machinerie lourde.» - guirlandes de Noël fabriquées en Chine «pour intérieur et extérieur seulement» - fers à repasser Rowenta: «ne pas repasser directement sur le corps» - déguisement de Superman: «Ce costume ne permet pas de voler.» - sèche-cheveux : «Ne pas utiliser pendant que vous dormez» ? - Sur un paquet de cacahuètes : «Avertissement : contient des cacahuètes» ? - Sur une tronçonneuse suédoise : «Ne pas essayer d'arrêter la chaîne avec les mains ou les parties génitales» ?
Plus ici.
A new spam poem entitle "budgetary casework toronto", the author is tylaaofhevn@263.net:
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I was wondering of potential anthropologist, unaware of spam culture: how could they analyze the spam discourse without knowing stuff about extreme capitalism (mortage business), diploma competition (university of roma?) or bayesian filter?
Green blast as we always see on CNN is a sign of war and terror. For people far from the combat field, this is one of the war representation. I was impressed in 1991 by those iraq's blast.
Incredible website about a toilet travelguide. You can learn how to use french toilets. It seems a bit not so up to date :)
1. Close the door and look for a dry place to put your toilet paper. 2. Drop your pants just far enough, keep them up as high as possible. The floor is mostly filthy and wet. 3. Take a seat with your face towards the door. In the floor you'll find two steps to put your feets on. 4. Squat! That means: knees and upper body to the front, and put your bottom backwards. Sometimes there are 'stirrups' to grab with your hands, to help keep your balance. 5. just for the gentlemen: use a hand to point Percy at the porcelain. Let's not be too shy to talk about this - you don't want to wet your trousers and shoes. 6. Do what you have to do and clean your bottom. 7. Put on your clothes again and take your time to let that fade grimace from your face. 8. Don't flush just yet. These toilets have the habit of spraying lots of water over a much larger area than just the toilet to make it clean (mm, clean, anyway, the floor is getting wet). You risk wet feet. So, open the door and flush while you step out.
L'Academie Francaise explains how to become immortal on their website:
L mort d’un académicien entraîne la déclaration de vacance du fauteuil dont il était titulaire. Toute personne peut se porter candidat à ce fauteuil. Si les gens de lettres sont nombreux dans la Compagnie, il n’est pas indispensable d’appartenir aux professions littéraires pour être élu. Des hommes d’État, des ecclésiastiques, des philosophes, des juristes, des savants, des médecins, des historiens, etc., siègent aux côtés des écrivains. L’acte de candidature se fait par simple lettre adressée au Secrétaire perpétuel.
Wanna be a soldier of fortune in Cote d'Ivoire? I got this in my email box:
AGENCE DE RECRUTEMENT "BON SECOURS" Rue. jardins 2 ptx Cocody-Abidjan Cote d'ivoireNous recrutons et plaçons en Cote d'ivoire pour le compte de la cellule officieuse de campagne d'un grand parti politique ivoirien des experts actuellement hors de Cote d'ivoire.Cette cellule très secrète aura pour tache de coordonner dans l'ombre les actions necessaires à l'election de ce parti aux presidentielles d'octobre 2005.La plupart des domaines d'activités sont concernés; toutefois pour avoir la chance d'etre retenu, le candidat doit etre un expert dans son domaine d'activité et d'une discrètion inebranlable. IMPORTANT: - Les salaires sont très interessants à cause des differentes primes et peuvent atteindre dans certains cas 7000 euros par mois. - Billet d'avion et prime d'installation prevus. Pour recevoir plus de détails, prière de nous contacter de toute urgence par cette adresse Email:...
The Gaming Geek Culture is a paper about nerd ethnography by Diana Dinh written in 2002. She describes geek behavior toward gaming. Here is the situation...
Conner laughs offhandedly, and replies: “Yeah, people think we’re weird. They come in, and we’re loud and everything. But we don’t care. Whatever.”