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I don’t drink alcohol, but if you’re looking to get a free drink in a bar, here are 5 ways to hustle free drinks. One of them is actually physics-based and another is geometry-based.
Just one warning, though: for some of those tricks to work you need to be a charming woman and find some guys that you know won’t get mad once they realize what you’ve done.
Considering that I haven’t had pizza in about 2.5 years, I definitely wouldn’t buy pizza from a vending machine. I mean, if I’m going to get all this fat and cholesterol into my body – it shouldn’t come from a vending machine “wonder pizza”. But if you’re very hungry and low on options… let me know how it tasted. (via Digg)
Some gadgets just make me think that the ideas running around in my head can actually work. I mean, if they got funding I probably can, too. For example, this list of 7 strange gadgets you don’t want to be seen using. My number 1: the finger shaped hair trimmer. It’s so “innovative”. Just makes you say “how didn’t I think of that myself?”
Here’s a great video of a professional thief, who robs people right in front of their (and the crowd’s) eyes in a show. It’s pretty amazing to see what he does, and also very funny. (via Digg)
Here’s a nice collection of software engineering proverbs. Some of them are so true, some are just funny. Most of them are both. (via Digg)
If you’re a heavy sleeper, and when I say heavy I mean as in airport-traffic-sleepy kind of heavy, then you should take a look at the Sonic Bomb Alarm Clock. It not only makes a sound at 113 decibels (adjustable), it also shakes your bed. (via Digg)
Useless Account is one of those places on the Internet where people do a lot of work just to get a joke through. In this website you can get an absolutely useless user account and “…Impress your friends with your ability to tab through form fields and arrow through saved field values!”. What a great value for a useless account. (via TechCrunch)
If you need a good laugh, here’s a 45 minute show of the world’s funniest commercials. (via Digg)
Bill Gates is… you know who it is. Microsoft’s chairman and one of the world’s biggest philanthropists rarely gives interviews to entertainment shows, but I guess Windows Vista needs justifies it. So here’s the video of Bill Gates On The Daily Show. (via Digg)
…for example, the people that create the Ban Comic Sans website, which is dedicated to… well…. banning the font Comic Sans, releases by Microsoft to the world in 1995. They even have a Comic Sans-spotting flickr group.