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Humor: Help I’m bored
Another entry to our growing list of “Dada web sites”.
“Help I am bored” provides quick tips and remedies for 16 common situations – from Help – I’m homesick to Help-I feel old and of course Help – I’m bored. Some of the hints are…
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Data-Visualization: Oil prices 1861-2008
If every “close encounter” with a petrol station these days gets you into a bad mood and you slowly start believing these gas prices are from another planet, this diagram might not be helping either.
Forbes Magazine brushed up a chart with data from the Commodity Research Bureau and the US Department of Commerce showing the development of oil prices from 1861 to 2008. Data is charted in real prices (constant 2008 Dollar) and nominal.
When you look at this diagram it shows…
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Schools in Thailand open Transgender Toilets
After a school in rural Thailand discovered that almost 10% of its 2,600 students consider themselves as transsexual it opened a special toilet for its “dual-gender” pupils. And another school in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand had already in 2003 set up a “Pink Lotus Bathroom” for the 15 of its 1,500 students declaring themselves transgender.
Given the seemingly high numbers of transgender students the Thai Education ministry is currently evaluating the county-wide need for…
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Data-Visualization: The Perfect Nap
The “Boston Globe” has published a great info graphic on a topic many people working in offices are at least dreaming about most of the afternoons – why, when and how to best take a nap.
And contrary to common opinion taking a short nap during early afternoon hours is not a sign of laziness, weakness or senility, it will bring back the energy, sharpens your mind and gets you back into the mood to survive long working hours…
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Nazi-Germany Anthem used at European Football championship
One event currently has, during evenings, swept almost half of Europe’s population off the streets (the other half is most likely watching it in so called public viewing zones) – the European Football championship.
Now this Monday, Swiss TV who together with Austrian TV for the two hosting nations Austria and Switzerland is transmitting the TV footage from the games, had a bit of a problem staying up to date with changes in neighboring Germany during the last 60 years. To be more precise it turned back time to the 1940s of Nazi Germany.
When the two teams at the beginning of the match between Germany and Austria were singing their National Anthems, Swiss TV used the verse for the German Anthem in its sub titles that was sung until the fall of the Third Reich.
The TV station mentioned in their apology, that it all happened by mistake. Officially the incident was blamed on two junior members of the TV team that have “copied the wrong text from the Internet“. And while these sub titles…
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Music: Censor bar art
Great video from The Brighton Port Authority demonstrating that black censor bars can also be used in humorous and creative ways.
If the of the voices in the song “Toe Jam” sound familiar to you that’s because it’s David Byrne (Talking Heads) and popular East End rapper Dizze Rascal. The person behind The Brighton Port Authority is Quentin Leo Cook aka Fatboy Slim aka Norman Cook whom you might also know from his band The Housemartins or his solo house music album Pizzamania….
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