always good for a larf: this year's winners of the ig nobel prize.
e.g. the coca cola company in chemistry (source: the guardian): "take Thames Water from the tap in your factory in Sidcup, Kent; put it through a purification process, call it 'pure' and give it a mark-up from 0.03p to 95p per half litre; in the process, add a batch of calcium chloride, containing bromide, for 'taste profile'; then pump ozone through it, oxidising the bromide – which is not a problem – into bromate – which is. Finally, dispatch to the shops bottles of water containing up to twice the legal limit for bromate (10 micrograms per litre)."
or in economics: The Vatican, for outsourcing prayers to India.
the "made with antville calendar". nice, nice, very nice.
the work of director michel gondry. c'est fantastique!
my current favourite is "tiny".
Scientists watching unusual events near volcano.
clouds of horror? attack of the killer bug? an almost sunny day? or even a nightly alien assault?
no, in fact, a Series of earthquakes which "could culminate in an eruption" of Mount St. Helens.
well fed with swallows susu provides some vietnamese hardrock mp3s.
We've never ever moved together yet so beautiful.
I'm moving fast like clouds in the sky You can see my tears are dry You're staying there higher in the sky 7 layers of the air.
mkt does india. thanks for the pictures, so a coward like me can enjoy your trip, too. and welcome back.
precise statement, frolic conclusion.
"The identity of the computer as it's own medium is threatened by lots of designers and artists. A whole generation of people that do not know about the tradition of computers and data and that also have no interest in gaining knowledge, destroy this cultural memory in the drunkenness of soon to be forgotten hypes like 'websurfing' or 'e-commerce'." introduction to rules for bodenstandig screen design.