February 04 2010
Bucketful of Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 12:52 pm
Media: Dyslexic designer.
TV: This must be the worst reality TV show of them all. Hotter Than My Daughter.
Read it: In Popular Mechanics a story entitled How to Fall 35,000 Feet – And Survive the author says a plane crash doesn’t necessarily mean death:
“Granted, the odds of surviving a 6-mile plummet are extra¬ordinarily slim, but at this point you’ve got nothing to lose by understanding your situation. There are two ways to fall out of a plane. The first is to free-fall, or drop from the sky with absolutely no protection or means of slowing your descent. The second is to become a wreckage rider, a term coined by Massachusetts-based amateur historian Jim Hamilton, who developed the Free Fall Research Page–an online database of nearly every imaginable human plummet. That classification means you have the advantage of being attached to a chunk of the plane.”
A line of nail polish called Hong Kong, names it’s colours using every cultural stereotype they could think of. One colour is called “A Good Man-darin is Hard to Find”. Sheesh.
Wall Street 2: Gordon Gecko is getting out of jail…The Money Never Sleeps trailer is here.
Video Link: Tight squeeze at a hairpin bend in Trollstigen, Norway.
Amusing: Great picture and caption.
Video: How to wreck your car with one bucket of water.
February 5th, 2010 at 10:21 am
As the comments in Soc Images say, OPI have done this for years. Note the Aussie range from a few years back, that included “Didgeridoo Your Nails?” and “Don’t Melbourne the Toast”. It’s cheesy, absolutely, but their nail polish also tends to have more range than many other brands, and wears quite well. For that, I forgive them.