Entertainment
MP3 Experiment
Back on May 23, Over 2,000 people gathered for the Sixth Annual Mp3 Experiment. Everyone had to download the same mp3 and at exactly 4:00 pm press play. Once the opening song finished, Steve (the voice on the mp3) tells you to do some crazy stuff. Too bad I don't live in New York, because this looks like a lot of fun.Improv Everywhere
Posted By: mdb777 - Sun Jun 28, 2009 -
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Category: Entertainment, Games, Recreation, Video
Wouldn’t That Be A Great Band Name?
I know you've had this thought at least once... you and your friends are sitting around, drinking a few brewskis (or shooters or whatever it is you drink). One of your friends says something completely off the wall and you think, "that'd be a great band name." Oddly enough, that is how some of the best known bands get their names. Other bands have their names chosen for them by record producers or managers (how boring). In the end, how a band gets its name seems to be as different from one band to the next as their various playing styles. Here is a comprehensive list, in alphabetical order, of some of the most popular bands in recent history and where their names come from. I admit that the list itself is not particularly weird, but the way some of the bands ended up with their current names definitely is.
Posted By: Nethie - Wed Jun 03, 2009 -
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Category: Art, Entertainment, Music, Odd Names
Sideshow Illusions
Sideshow expert Jon Marshall has created a unique business model: replicating the freak shows of the past as corporate entertainment. Check out his pitch in the video below, then visit his web site.Also, you can see a great "audio slideshow" where he another expert discuss the history of sideshows at the bottom of this page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 26, 2009 -
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Category: Entertainment, Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, Human Marvels
Sharks and Waves
Prof. Music recently sent us a link to this site that allows you to snorkel from your monitor. (Watch out for the shark!)
It reminded me of another site I had seen recently, As If Pulled By a Magnet, which simulates the experience of being a buoy bobbing up and down in the water. (Or maybe you're a piece of debris lying on the beach... It's hard to tell.)Anyone know of similar sites?
Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 10, 2009 -
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Category: Entertainment
Co-ed Pig Wrestling
As Mr. Skip Peterson tells us: "This is an annual fund raiser held in Buffalo, Wyoming, for a local gymnastics team. Contestants have one minute to get the greased hog, butt first into the barrel. The coed team must also dip their hands into a bucket of Crisco before the game begins. The winning time this year was 7.45 seconds. Every team had a freash pig and each pig was only allowed to participate one time. Enjoy!"2008 Coed Pig Wrestling Championships from skip peterson on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 08, 2009 -
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Category: Agriculture, Animals, Education, Entertainment, Exercise and Fitness, Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, Sports, Men, Women
The Slutcracker
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 09, 2008 -
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Category: Entertainment, Holidays, Sexuality
Butlin’s Crazy House
Consider the Crazy House once to be found in Felixstowe, UK.
These old postcard images come from the Flickr set of a fellow who uses the handle Photoaf.
The house was part of a Butlin's Amusement Park. For the history of the founder, Billy Butlin, eventually knighted for his recreational achievements, visit here.
Wouldn't you have loved to experience this park during its heyday, some seventy years ago?
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 25, 2008 -
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Category: Architecture, Buildings and Other Structures, Entertainment, Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, History, Photography and Photographers, Surrealism, Foreign Customs, 1930s
Yma Sumac, RIP
Goodbye, Yma Sumac, one of history's greatest and weirdest singers.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 04, 2008 -
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Category: Celebrities, Eccentrics, Entertainment, Music, Foreign Customs, Obituaries
Follies of the Mad Men #41
"Let's take a screeching unfunny harridan, dress her in Colonial drag, then simulate a hideous war wound using our product as a makeshift sling. Then, let's run the ad in a magazine filled with beautiful naked women for contrast."
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 29, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Entertainment, Fashion, 1970s, Comedians
Bernie und Ert
As long as we've been talking about German humor....First the original, with superior voice-acting, then an English dub, for comprehension.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 28, 2008 -
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Category: Drugs, Entertainment, Puppets and Automatons, Television, Foreign Customs
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