When I went to a PowerPoint workshop, lo these many years ago, we were supposed to make a final project kind of slide show showing what we had learned. I made a Top Ten-style list of Things Your Professor Doesn't Want to Hear. If I can find it, I'll post the original ten items, but here is a new addition:
Things Your Professor Doesn't Want to Hear:
October 1, 2009 12:31 AM
Rules I have found helpful in the workplace...
This crapping robot toilet-paper holder manages to signal your literacy, robophilia, and deep commitment to bowel evacuation, all in one simple package. Bravo!
Newspaper reader - toilet paperholder (Thanks, Alice !)
Boing Boing:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/19/crapping-robot-toile.html
The Fright Catalog's Dead Fred runs on two 12V battery and sports four separate motors that allow it to sense passers-by, rise up out of the earth and chase them, howling and growling and dragging its entrails behind it. It's $2650, so it's a little pricey for Hallowe'en, but that sum does compare favorably with the total cost of ownership for a pet dog or cat, so when the kids start complaining that they need a companion who'll follow them around and do tricks, this might be a good choice. Dead Fred Zombie Chaser (via DVice)
<p>A Chicago-based coffee chain called Intelligentsia is doing away with 20-ounce coffee drinks. The company's Chief Executive Doug Zell tells the <em>Chicago Tribune</em>, "Drinking our coffee is not like drinking jug wine."</p><p><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92398779#email">» E-Mail This</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Ftemplates%2Fstory%2Fstory.php%3FstoryId%3D92398779">» Add to Del.icio.us</a></p>
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Several months ago, I posted about the capture of 13 "penis thieves" in the Congo who allegedly stole, or shrank, their victims' members. In the June issue of Harper's Magazine, Frank Bures tells of his travels to Africa in search of the penis thieves. During his quest, he riffs on the idea of "culture-bound syndromes" and "the interplay among culture, mind, and disease." From Harper's Magazine: Wasiu, Bad Teeth told me, had gotten on the bus and sat down next to this woman. He didn't have a watch, so he asked her what time it was. She didn't know. Then the conductor came around and asked her for her fare. She didn't have that either. As she stood up to get out of the bus, she bumped into Wasiu.
"Then," he said, "Wasiu Karimu felt something happen in his body. Something not right. And he checked and his thing was gone."
"Was it gone," I asked, "or was it shrinking?"
"Shrinking! Shrinking! It was getting smaller."
And as he felt his penis shrink, Wasiu Karimu screamed and demanded the woman put his penis back. The conductor told them both to get off the bus, and a crowd closed in on the accused, not doubting for an instant that the woman could do such a thing. But as soon as she saw trouble coming, Bad Teeth said, she replaced Wasiu's manhood, so when the police took him down to the station, they thought he was lying and arrested him instead. Penis thieves (Harper's Magazine, thanks Vann Hall!)
Previously on BB:
• Accused penis thieves captured
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/332180791/in-search-of-the-pen.html
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DeviantArt's FilthyLuker produced this fantastic be-tentacled building installation somewhere in France with collaborator Pedro Estrellas. FilthyLuker's terse description: "Octo-pied Building: a house with tentacular cancer." Link (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/330919582/building-festooned-w.html
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Date: July 8, 2008 8:52:30 AM CDTSubject: Lawn zombie sculptureSource: Boing BoingAuthor: Cory Doctorow
Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John's dug up this magnificent zombie lawn-sculpture by Alan Dickenson, available for a mere $90 -- think of the savings you'll realize by no longer having to pay someone to keep the kids off your lawn! Link, Discuss on Boing Boing Gadgets
Date: July 8, 2008 1:28:56 PM CDTSubject: Octopuses play with Rubik's CubesSource: Boing BoingAuthor: David PescovitzResearchers from the Weymouth Sea Life Centre are providing octopuses with Rubik's cubes to determine whether the animals prefer one tentacle over another, or another, or another, etc. I bet they secretly hope that one of the animals will solve the puzzle. From Nature's The Great Beyond:"Uniquely, octopuses have more than half their nerves in their arms and have been shown to partially think with their arms," says Claire Little, of the Weymouth Sea Life Centre. "Many animals have been shown to favour a certain arm so we will see if octopuses can be added to that list."Octupus and Rubik's Cube (Nature)
According to Little, the findings could help make life in captivity more pleasant for these intelligent, (and occasionally shark eating), animals. "They are very susceptible to stress, so if they do have a favourite side to be fed on, it could reduce risk to them," she says.
Date: July 8, 2008 12:37:44 PM CDTSubject: Teen discovers bat hiding in her braSource: Boing BoingAuthor: David PescovitzAbbie Hawkins, 19, spent a half-day at work before noticing that a baby bat was hiding inside her bra. From The Telegraph:Miss Hawkins said she got dressed at 7.30am and arrived for work at the Holiday Inn Norwich North, near Norwich International Airport without noticing anything unusual.Bat in bra (The Telegraph, via Fortean Times)
"When I was driving to work I felt a slight vibration but I thought it was just my mobile phone in my jacket pocket," she said.
It was not until her lunch break, at midday when she felt a strange movement inside her bra, which had been hanging on her washing line the previous night.
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<p>Gallery of photos of a giant plucked chicken sculpture.</p>
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Attention Chicken! is a three dimensional version of the collage that goes by the same title.
<p>Nicolas Lampert and Micaela O'Herlihy created a ten-foot rotisserie chicken out of polystyrene foam, hard coated, and then painted with latex paint and final coat of high gloss varnish.</p>
<p>In October, 2006 Attention Chicken! made a number of unannounced public interventions throughout Milwaukee at Bradford Beach, the woods, Walmart, National Ave, and other locations throughout the city. Reactions ranged from laughter to attacks directed at the chicken (three in one day!)</p>
</blockquote><a href="http://machineanimalcollages.com/Pages/Installations/AttentionChicken.html">Attention Chicken</a> <em>(via</em> <a href="http://wtbw.net/"><em>wtbw</em></a><em>)</em>
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Voyeur hid cell phone in rear - Boing Boing
Can't touch this.
Or, as my daughters would say,
Peace, punch, Captain Crunch,
I got something you can't touch.
Japundit shot a video of a gadget called "The Magical Water Princess," which is installed in women's public restrooms to mask sounds of using the toilet. [A] device called Oto-hime ... makes a chirping sound when ladies use the toilet, because Japanese women hate the idea of anyone being able to hear any sounds they make while they go. Before the device was introduced in the 1980s, it seems that female patrons in restraunts would flush the toilet multiple times to mask the sounds, which wasted an incredible amount of water...
Here's a video of how they work. Just wave your hand over the button and the sound of water will come out of the device, allowing you to do whatever you need to do with without nervousness of people listening to the sounds you make. Link
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/303914343/gadget-in-japanese-p.html
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Health officials in New York are cautioning people to avoid a "street aphrodisiac" made from the excretions of a poisonous toad, after a man consumed the illegal concoction and died. The city's poison control center issued the warning Friday after receiving a hospital report that a 35-year-old man who ingested the hard, brown substance died earlier this month. The product is sold under names including Piedra, Love Stone, Jamaican Stone, Black Stone and Chinese Rock at sex shops and neighborhood stores. It is banned by the Food and Drug Administration.
City health officials said the victim, whose identity was not released, was admitted to the hospital complaining of chest and abdominal pain. He died two days later. Health officials said the hardened resin, made with venom from toads of the Bufo genus, contains chemicals that can disrupt heart rhythms.Link to AP item, more on a NYT blog here.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/298837776/terror-in-nyc-after.html
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