Put your pimp hat on with this interactive hot tub girl choose-your-own-adventure game on YouTube. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Qn8-w12p0&fmt=18]
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My fashionable roommate Sarah purchased these boots (size 7.5) online, but discovered that they were too small for her. She's trying to sell them so if anyone's interested, drop me a line!
This is a thousand times better than the actual Super Bowl half time show that featured a gyrating Bruce Springsteen. Watch with sound for full effect:
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See, better than this, right? Springsteen's crotch flying at your TV set. Disturbing.
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New Yorker's Sasha Frere-Jones breaks down who uses Twitter. A sample:
- people who are just back from a really awesome run
- people who have forgotten how to use email
- people who have forgotten how to text
- people who are involved in "social networking" and optimizing the power of re-Tweeting and "computers"
- people who are hungry
- people who are back from an OK run
- Shaquille O'Neal
- people who have never seen snow
- people who like Battlestar Galactica
- people who are about to go for a run
Also, NamOf.
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TV viewers in Tucson, Arizona watching this year's Super Bowl not only witnessed the crushing defeat of their team, but also had the unfortunate additional punishment of seeing porn star Evan Stone swinging his moneymaker around for 30 seconds when the network's video feed of the game unexpectedly switched positions to porn channel Club Jenna (a channel I'm not familiar with, of course). Gizmodo has the obviously not-safe-for-work video capture here. The average cost of a 30 second commercial spot this year during the Super Bowl cost approximately $3 million.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK27aknWVI4&fmt=18] Created by by Nicolas Deveaux.
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In addition to $5,000 for lost luggage and belongings, US Airways is providing the 150 passengers on Flight 1549, which crashing in the Hudson River, the following compensation:
CEO Doug Parker wrote that passengers would get "coveted" Chairman's Preferred status - but only until March 2010. The membership gives each passenger and a companion first-class domestic travel when seats are available, one upgrade to Europe or Hawaii, choice seats and priority check-in.
Just an upgrade? Seems weak sauce to me.
As a follow up to his recent column on belatedly introducing Twitter, a communication and social media vehicle that I've become infatuated with, David Pogue (the New York Times tech guru) shares the anecdotal results of an experiment he ran demonstrating the immediacy of Twitter.
Yesterday, I spoke at a conference in Las Vegas. The topic was Web 2.0, with all of its free-speech, global-collaboration ramifications. At one point, I figured that the best way to explain Twitter was to demonstrate it, live, on the big screen at the front of the ballroom.So I flipped out of PowerPoint and typed this to my Twitter followers: “I need a cure for hiccups… RIGHT NOW! Help?”
I hit Enter. I told the audience that we would start getting replies in 15 seconds, but it didn’t even take that long. Here are some of the replies that began scrolling up the screen:
* florian: Put a cold spoon on your back - that’s what my grandfather would do for hiccups.
* megs_pvd: Put your head between your knees and swallow hard.
* bethbellor: Packets of sugar.
* jfraga: BOOOOOOOOOOO! (How many of those did you get?)
[Answer: about 20.]
Read rest here.
You can follow my Twitter at twitter.com/mattrod.
The attempted prison break of two New Zealand inmates handcuffed to one another ends in a hilarious failure thanks to the efforts of Deputy Pole. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3SwaOAW3BE&fmt=18]
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If you aren't an Asian math genius like me (Only I can make that joke, asshole) and can't figure out the equations on this clock, click 
"My Uzi Weighs a Ton" by Oliver Schulze
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Stephen Sprouse collection at Louis Vuitton. Each skateboard comes with trunks sells for $8,250. What recession?
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Defend yourself with this nightstand that transforms into a bat and shield. Sometimes you need more than just kung fu fighting skills.
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