When he got frustrated John Hargrave drew a picture of Shamu instead of signing his name on a credit card receipt. The cashier accepted this without even blinking. Surprised, he decided to find out what it would take to have someone refuse to accept his credit card becuase of a mismatched signature.
http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit_card/
It get's pretty ridiculous towards the end, but he finally does manage to get someone to refuse to accept his card.
This site has alternate names for the terror alert level.
Today's level is:
This is the same level as the "real" one, just with a different name.
I watched a funny movie last night, Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle. It's about one night in the life of two twenty-somethings who get a craving for White Castle hamburgers after smoking some weed. It's kind of a combination of a Wayne's World movie, a Cheech & Chong movie, and a Bill & Ted movie. But unlike these movies, the main characters, Harold & Kumar, are very intelligent (Harold works at an investment bank, and Kumar is applying for med school).
An icestorm at Lake Geneva, Switzerland, coats everything in inches of ice:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/icestorm.asp
Rather than freezing rain, it looks as if there was a lot of wind
with sub-freezing temperatures, and waves splashing onto shore coated
nearby structures/boats/vehicles/trees with lots of ice.
Heard these guys on the Tonight Show. From their website:
When you first spy the New York duo's
streetwise style, you may expect them to start rapping, but then you
hear their violins, and an entirely profound and altogether surprising
sound awakens from their souls. Dubbed N.B.S or Nuttin But Stringz, the
talented young musicians play an intense blending of classical music,
jazz, r&b, and yes, hip hop.
They've got a 30-second audio clip available.
I got home one evening, and saw these amazing clouds from the back porch of my house in Seattle.
His name is Livio De Marchi.
Fark.com has competitions for the best fake images for a particular category. This category was: Mate-a-movie. Combine two or more movies into one.
The movie posters are fantastic. They are for movies like:
Dirty Harry Potter
Hulk Fiction
Finding Neo (starring Keaneu Reeves)
Gandhi in 60 Seconds
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comment
The page takes a long time to load cause of all the images. But it's worth it!
Don't look at the words too closely, just read it…
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So there is this Italian company, PowerGen. I'm sure they wanted
powergen.com, but that was already taken by some other site. Being
Italian, they decided to stick "Italia" onto the end of the domain. So
now their web site is: