Second Life: Best quote on what it is

We documented some background information on Second Life a few weeks ago. Now Robert Scoble has provided us with the best definition from an interview he has done last week at LIFT show in Geneva:
He was interviewing Sister Judith Zoebelein, who manages the Vatican’s Web site and asked her:
“… do you think we’ll soon go [...]

Humor: Find your identity at a mexican restaurant

This picture was handed around quite popular on the web the last days. I wonder how the security guards will sort this out…

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Humor: Council extends year to 367 days

A town in the UK will have 367 days this year - at least on their official calendar. They spent almost USD 10,000 on the calendars and provided it to 9,500 homes without having noticed that one day was printed twice and another one invented. Unfortunately only one of the days is on the weekend…

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Fun: The Nihilist Chewing Gum

The Nihilist chewing gum actually has no flavor, but unexpectedly there are real chewing gums in the USD 1.75 box from “Stupid.com”…

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Stupid IT Moments (1): Disjoint Twins

Web log The daily WTF reports on a computer idiocy occurred with the Sun Life Canada insurance.
The software to register children did not allow to enter the same birth date for two children on one cover plan. Ever heard of twins?

…As the recent father of twin babies, Philip B. was relieved to learn that his [...]

CNNMoney: Darwin Award for Businesses

With its great list of “101 Dumbest Moments in Business” CNNMoney provides a good overview on the 2006 “biggest boors, buffoons, and blunderers” in businesses. Some companies even managed to get more then one entry on the list. When you read through the pages…

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Weird: Nicolas Gaudron’s electric bath duck

French artist “Nicolas Gaudron” has created this “Electric bath-duck”
…this bath-duck is a project playing on the paradox between two different notions, the danger of electricity in the bath and the sweetness of a bath-duck living on water…”
Our first impressions were “weird, cynical and suicidal”. And as the artist says himself: “One use only”…

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Fun: The Executive Coloring Book

We found this great piece of 1960s thinking put online by “Add to the Bone” …the legendary… the subversive… the long out of print…The Executive Coloring Book…

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Art: Underground artist Banksy gives away hi-res images of his work for free

UK underground artist Banksy who created quite an uproar with his exhibition in L.A. last autumn, has put up a series of high resolution images of his work for download from “his web site”. Banksy, who’s painting are selling for above USD 100,000 lately, seems to have gotten fed up with all those selling pirated prints of his work on eBay. Looks like pirates don’t like to get pirated themselves…

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Video: Star Wars Holiday Special

For those of you that can never get enough of Star Wars or other Sci-Fi movies the Star Wars Holiday Special has recently been made available online. It’s 2 hours of intergalactic fighting and meeting our heroes and their families. Watch Leia sing…

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