23 posts tagged “fun”
Never trust a Hollywood movie trailer. But this one could be funny based on a book bearing the same title...
A reporter, trying to lose himself in the romance of war after his marriage fails, gets more than he bargains for when he meets a special forces agent who reveals the existence of a secret, psychic military unit whose goal is to end war as we know it. The founder of the unit has gone missing and the trail leads to another psychic soldier who has distorted the mission to serve his own ends.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234548/
PS: It just occurred to me that I read previous works from the same person. I can highly recommend the author's previous book Them: Adventures with Extremists (Paperback)
Meet them on the Internets...
http://www.switched.com/2009/09/08/14-annoying-tech-types/
PS: Update. Number 15 Bonus. Corporate Identity theft on a retail level. Creepy. Can't MSFT be a little more creative in countering Apple's retail stores...
Von Bill Gates zahlt für das "Testen" von E-Mails bis zu Steorn. Internet-Hoaxes der letzten Jahre...
http://mashable.com/2009/07/15/internet-hoaxes/
Eine Auswahl ist immer schwierig, aber für eine Grobübersicht interessant.
TakaraTomy is at it again ((they had a simpler device for cats a few years ago)). Somehow the little poodle doesn't look all too convinced ((picture in the link below))...
Ever wished you could, on a Tarzan-like level, communicate with fearsome beasts of the wild to make them do your bidding? Well, for folks who want to know what their dogs are thinking, TakaraTomy has revealed the BowLingual Voice device that is touted to feature a 100-word vocabulary and an LCD display that lets you know just how your pooch is feeling at the moment. Too bad only the Japanese language is supported at the moment, although we're pretty sure it won't take too long before other languages are released for the BowLingual Voice.
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/07/bowlingual_voice_translates_barks.html
PS: We can finally ask dogs how the robot ball trower machine can be improved upon...
Dog Customer Service Quality Circles ahoy :)
Hello Kitty wird bald 35 Jahre alt. Dem Phänomen ((aus einem Land wo Trends meist nur wenige Monate dauern, deshalb ist der Erfolg umso erstaunlicher)) ist auch im Westen ein Buch gewidmet worden...
Nun ist Hello Kitty im Jubiläumsjahr mit drei offiziellen Lizenzen auf dem Apple iPhone gelandet...
Welcome to the Hello Kitty 35th Anniversary!
Hello Kitty has finally come to the iPhone and iPod touch.
Born in 1974, Hello Kitty celebrates her 35th birthday on November 1st, 2009.Hello Kitty is 5 apples tall!
She weighs the same as 3 apples!
Her favorite food is Mama’s apple pie!
Hello Kitty just loves apples!As part of the Hello Kitty 35th Anniversary celebration Hello Kitty now enters the realm of iPhone & iPod touch applications.
We look forward to seeing all of you there!
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=317065151
Die Kamera-Applikation mit Cute-up Funktion wird sicher viele ((weibliche)) Käufer finden....
...gerade einen kleinen Test der Applikation gestartet. Harrison Ford im
PS: Video-Review aller Apps hier...
PPS: Ich warte auf die iPhone Gundam-Lizenz zum 30-jährigen Jubiläum :)
Rickrolled is so yesterday. The Woz on stage...
Ein Crosspost aus dem Tales from the Future-Blog nach einer harten Börsenwoche...
Das mit der gleichnamigen japanischen Stadt war mir bekannt, aber dieser lustige Zusammenhang nicht:
Bekannt ist Obama für seine Stäbchen - 80 Prozent des Bestecks stammen von hier. Jeden 4. August ist "Chopstick-Day" - Tag der Stäbchen. Und nein, nicht Zufall, sondern Schicksal: Baracks Geburtstag ist - der 4. August.
Quelle: http://www3.ndr.de/ndrtv_pages_std/0,3147,OID4721526,00.html
Parker is old-school in Asia...
In Tokyo, wine sellers monitor his weekly pronouncements before adjusting their stocks accordingly. In newer markets like Taiwan and urban China, his recommendations are turning the newly affluent into wine converts. And in Seoul, South Koreans now hold forth on “terroir” and how a bottle “marries” with a particular dish without blinking.
Never mind that Shizuku is a comic-book figure, the hero of a manga series, “The Drops of the Gods,” created and written by a middle-aged Japanese sister-and-brother team. Asian readers who have never heard of Robert M. Parker Jr. scrutinize the comic hero’s every sip, learning about wine in words and images that may seem strange to traditionalists.
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The wines featured in the comic are selected by the Kibayashis, who say they have no sponsor. They do, however, accept free bottles from wine importers, though “our stance is that we won’t necessarily feature them,” the sister said.
In general, French wines have gotten the most attention in the series. The Kibayashis are unabashed Francophiles who say they do not feel American wines have the Old World’s depth.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/dining/22comic.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
PS: And a translated version of the Japanese original made it back to France where manga are quite popular...
