June 05 2008
Suzanne Paul is Shameless and Other Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 1:13 pm
Damn, that Hydroderm is impressive
What our kids have to look forward to: The world’s top thinkers predict what the world will be like in the year 2058. Predictions include: the end of cats, birds and rodents as pets becuase they’re disease spreaders (dogs are safe), handheld devices will reveal when someone is lying and people will need government approval to marry and have children, based on their genetic compatibility (or face a huge tax burden for any sick or disabled children they produce in defiance of a ban).
Publicity whores: Yulia and Glyn approached TV3’s David Farrier to publicise their plight over an internet flame war (i.e abusive comments about them on the web). You can’t do what you like on the road, so you can’t say what you like in ‘teh Internets’, points out Glyn helpfully.
Suzanne Paul has no shame: Before Dancing with the Stars, there was “The Blue Monkey” a dance created and performed by Ms Paul to help
flog her clips and bronzer. Dan News has unearthed a guide to The Blue Monkey dance here, and what appears to be the music video featuring Paul.
Tracking mobile phone users reveals most of us don’t stray far from home or work:
“The whereabouts of more than 100,000 mobile phone users have been tracked in an attempt to build a comprehensive picture of human movements. The study concludes that humans are creatures of habit, mostly visiting the same few spots time and time again. Most people also move less than 10km on a regular basis, according to the study published in the journal Nature.”
Full BBC story here.
Video: Security camera catches some guy losing it in the office; but is it staged?
Alternative footage from a cell phone has surfaced, perhaps little too fast.
June 6th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Total shenanigans, staged, probably viral marketing.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Oh, it’s real. Pity emporiums change their stock constantly by nature, or – I got a CD of Suzanne Paul & the Blue Monkey a few years ago from Geoff’s Emporium for about $3. (Why? It was $3 and had that “WTF” appeal.)
June 6th, 2008 at 10:31 am
The least they could do is plug in the monitors. Fakes like these have been around for a long time, yet people haven’t improved on their technique at all.
June 6th, 2008 at 11:30 am
im not looking forward to what the kids have to look forward to!
an the government won’t even give us any privacy then, and they will try an stop us having kids and shaking hands! lunacy!
June 6th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Looks staged. He happens to be right in the middle, and not one of the people off to the side. I can totally understand someone will low impulse control snapping. But they wouldn’t carry on for nearly that long. They’d be a bit “uh oh, what did I just do?” long before that guy finally stopped.
Still, if it is real, I wouldn’t want to be the one firing him.
June 6th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Staged. if you look at the cell footage all the blinds are down but it is sunny out side. this makes filming better – less contrast.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Strange how all the monitors he threw are all conveniently unplugged…
Makes you wonder how people were working on them before he ’spazzed out’.
June 10th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Confirmed hoax. http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5048&Itemid=99