Okay, this is a fun game courtesy MegDesk. Basically you watch a video of people speaking English and then you have to guess which country you think they are from. You need to have sound (obviously) and it takes a little while to complete because there are 16 of them.
I got 7 correct and a total of 29 points. Like Meg, I will post a comment with spoilers, so don’t read that until you’ve taken the test!
And now that means you can be anything at all! Check this thing out! Download pictures and / or text from the Internet and it will burn them into your toast!
The possibilities are endless!
Link courtesy Ichiban News.
I have this eye thing. I don’t like to touch them, I don’t like to see them touched, I don’t even really like to see a close up picture of them. It just freaks me out and makes my eyes water. Of course, knowing this, some people think it is quite hilarious to send me links and pictures of exactly that sort of thing. So, recently I’ve received a couple of crazy links. The thing is, I don’t doubt for a second that this is real. People do way crazier things all the time!
The first is related to putting tiny diamonds in your contacts. It actually looks kind of cool, if you forget about the fact that diamonds can cut anything, even eyeballs.
The second one is a little bit crazier. I can hardly watch this video. I don’t know why you would want to do this one though because it seems so much more annoying and it doesn’t even really look cool!
I’ve been meaning to post this for quite some time, but I’m finally getting around to it. And I think it works out because the website seems to be very stable and operational at this point. So, without further ado, I give you Ichiban News!
The website is developed by a friend of mine. Basically the concept is similar to Digg or other news aggregating websites. You can submit a story, any story at all! If it strikes your fancy, go ahead and submit it. It could be a serious article that you think people should see, or a funny one. It could be a particularly good post by your favorite blogger (::ahem::). The fun part is that you get to make up your own headline and description of the story. Make it funny, make it serious, make it anything you want. Once it is submitted people can vote a story up or down. Users can also leave comments on a story. The idea is that the more interesting a story is (interesting being a formula calculated from number of votes and number of comments, among other things) the farther up it will bubble until it makes the front page. The less interesting a story is (less timely, more down votes, or nobody voting or commenting on it at all) it will slowly move down the page. If you have enough users, the end result is that the most interesting news is always at the top! So this gives the average person the power to affect what becomes “news”.
Anybody can uses the website, there is no account to sign up for. But, in order to submit stories or vote you must have a Google (i.e. gmail) account (which is free of course if you don’t already have one).
So everybody go over there and participate. The more people that use the site the more useful it becomes (more submissions and more votes means more good news brought to my attention). Become an early adopter and get in on the ground floor! Now is the time to put your fingerprint on the media!
So, after yesterday‘s less-than-stellar trial, today I came armed with several things to try that would be more appropriate to test the properties of the pills. Yesterday I only had my lunch and it was not really geared towards the type of thing that the fruit is supposed to affect. Also, as pointed out in the comments by someone from ThinkGeek, the fats in my cheese and oatmeal cream pie were working against me and breaking down the proteins that make the whole thing work.
Trial II was nothing short of a rousing success! You have to get a hold of these things, it was as amazing as I could have hoped it would be!!
1) A lime – Absolutely delicious! I tried it before hand to make sure it was not some secret delicious sweet variety of limes and I assure you, it was very sour. After letting the tablet dissolve, the lime was just so sweet and delicious and sugary like candy. The weirdest part was that you could feel a feeling of citrus in your mouth but you couldn’t taste it as sour. Very odd.
2) A plum – I had to prove that yesterday’s delicious plum wasn’t a fluke. Sure enough, it was super ripe and sugary tasting.
3) A tangerine – This was crazy. It was so sweet I almost couldn’t eat it.
4) A cherry – Mostly like a cherry still, but definitely sweeter, almost like cherry pie.
We had about 4 people from work trying it and every one agreed it was pretty cool. One person was impatient and chewed his tablet and he didn’t notice any difference. So the lessons learned are:
1) Make sure you dissolve it fully on your tongue.
2) Make sure you have the appropriate items to try (i.e. sour things and fruit).
3) Sweet things don’t really get sweeter, so don’t bother with those.
There are several items I would still like to try such as Tabasco sauce and sour cream. The guy from ThinkGeek also recommended beer. I would absolutely try it again at home when I could gather some more items together.
As a side note, why do people from companies only comment when I bash their products? 🙂
Shane Halbach 