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Back in November last year (2007), Greenpeace decided to hold an online poll to decide on a name for a Humpback whale as promotion for their campaign to save a bunch of whales from being killed.
Some of the top names included Aiko, Libertad, Mira, Kaimana, Aurora, Shanti, Amal and Manami, but they only got one percent of the vote each. 2nd place went to Humphrey with 3%. But the winner, with over 78% of the votes, and proof of the incredible power of the internet to do very silly things, was Mr Spashy Pants.
You can find the full story on wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Splashy_Pants
And you can also find a fantastic list of other internet phenomena here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_phenomena
This is Cassie, SassyCassie86, and she wants to be Paris Hilton’s new best friend.
Luckily for her, it seems that MTV is running a competition where the person with the most votes from their website will see that special dream come true. And they’ll make some telly about it, which would be very good telly if our Cassie won, I’m sure you agree.
B3ta have got a sort of campaign going, and they got some clout on the interwebs, so join in:
Click Cassie’s picture above to go vote, Go Cassie!
I had a sat nav disaster of my own yesterday. The little blighter has sent me down narrow roads before, but never onto uphill 6 foot wide mud tracks with trees on them; which is what happened.
Stupidly, as I was only 0.5 miles from my destination, I decided to persevere. I ignored a dead-end sign, I ignored a hand-written sign which said “abandon hope all ye who enter here” or something similar, I even got out of the car and moved the tree out of the way. But another couple of hundred yards on I was thwarted by a man-made bollard constructed of boulders and scaffolding poles. I had to back up and go the long way round (0.2 miles longer).
So today I’ve been looking for other unfortunate stories, and here’s what I’ve found:
The UK’s Top Sat Nav Disasters
and this:
Yep, this is the website for The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, Or VHEMT for short, or Vehement, for slighty less short.
Why, you may wonder, is anyone advocating the extinction of the human race? Because its good for planet Earth of course! As they say in their introduction: ” Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth’s biosphere to return to good health”
They claim to have millions of supporters, but as they are a movement not an organisation they can’t back this up with any names or numbers, although they do link to a supporters site with over 1400 subscribers!
Incidentally, they do also link to a cool short video which shows what would happen to New York if all the people vanished; Sort of a poor man’s “I am Legend”, no sign of Will Smith though.
Link to the video is Here.
My brother told me about this down the pub one night: If you accidentally lock your keys in your car, you can ring someone with your spare key and unlock the car through the mobile phone. Needless to say, nobody believed him; but he swore that it had actually worked for him.
Me and Mrs KFK decided to try it out yesterday in a big car park: She wandered off until the key fob was out of range and wouldn’t open the car any more, then she phoned me. I held my phone by the car door, and she held the key fob by her phone. She pressed the button, and viola: car unlocked!
So is the unlocking signal somehow being sent down the phone? Or is the phone somehow amplifying the key fob’s signal? I don’t know yet, as we haven’t had time to try it over a larger distance, but this is what Snopes has to say:
What a brilliant idea! There are many rich westerners who need organs but have love and support to give: And there are many poor eastern european orphans who need parental love and have organs to spare.
And that’s where the Medical Adoptions site comes in
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It’s a bit like a dating site, but instead of matching you to your ideal lover you get matched to a kid who needs adopting (with the guarantee that their tissue type will match yours)
The heart-rending orphan picture I have featured here is of Natia Budzianowski, 15, from Georgia.
Her profile says: “An orphan whose parents whereabouts have never been known, she spent six years working in the underage sex-trade, several more years in foster homes, and now needs a new home. She’s since discovered our Lord Jesus Christ, pledged a vow of chastity, and has been free of the sins of physical flesh for more than six-months, though suggests that this may be open to negotiation.”
How can you resist a story like that?
Sweding is where you take something that you like, such as a movie, and remake it yourself using whatever comes to hand.
Above is a brilliant example (I especially like the x-wing fighter attack on the death star sequence)
The phrase “sweding” was invented by the writers of the upcoming film ‘Be Kind Rewind’ starring Jack Black & Mos Def, where a video store owner decides to remake classic films, after all of his tapes are wiped by magnetism, for the benefit of the store’s one regular customer. The length of time it takes for the movies to arrive is explained to the customer, a little old lady played by Mia Farrow, by the tapes having come from Sweden. Hence: When the 2 guys are making the films, they are ’sweding’ them.
Search on youtube for swede, you’ll find loads of great clips like the one above; and for more info on the film some google ads should have popped up over there on the left, heh heh.
update: Except they haven’t, heh heh
I’m so pleased I found this site to share with you, it qualifies for almost every category I have including mad, crazy, daft, brilliant and haha; and even gets its own new category - ‘cute’.
It does "exactly what it says on the tin" too, although in this case the tin is of course a url. Yes, it’s a website where people can upload and share photos of cats that look like the late great Adolf Hitler. So goose-step on over there and enjoy!
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I have often mentioned that you can find anything on the internet. Google-whacking is becoming obsolete as we have surely now reached a point of saturation where there is a website for EVERYTHING.
Today’s offering is a case in point. Click the picture above to go and see tamponcrafts.com, whose url says it all.
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I don’t think I’ve come across Maddox’s website before today, but I’m enjoying it. He writes very amusing articles about everything - Including womens’ fashion; Which is where the link cunningly embedded in the above picture will take you: So why not allow yourself to be taken?