"I want to show that people are indeed both repelled and fascinated
by the disgusting transformation of the switches."
well done. Thanks www.nextnature.net, what would I do without you?
Great idea and execution by http://www.garvin.it/ - thanks Gentry for pointing me there.
Thank you, thank you @spreeblick: "Listen to her story for two minutes and your day is saved..."
watch at least until 1:07 - lol - what a poser...
Fan I am of this great Observer and Storyteller.
great one!
Reminds me of the fun we had with IDEO’s Global Chain Reaction two years ago. Eight worldwide locations, six time zones, and roughly fifty people involved. It looked more like a blueprint for possible points of failure than a functioning Rube Goldberg machine designed to run sequentially across three continents:
http://labs.ideo.com/2008/10/28/the-incredible-ideo-global-chain-reaction-exp...
"Ever the realist, he built his table for one."
Thank you @annepascual for these gems! Made my day...
yep, the future is now - brought to you by German authorities...
well that's 1st a great Ad and 2nd a great software...
Thank you boingboing (as always): ".. If this really is the work of time-traveling Higgs boson particles, however, they're demonstrating a lot of creativity, but not a lot of competence. The Bird Incident won't delay the reactivation of the facility, which is still scheduled for later this month. ..."
Opening up my new category "Mann jagt Stier".
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is ticked off.
He’s tired of signing bills that don’t address the pet causes he deems important. So when another unworthy bill crossed his desk recently for signing — addressing funding issues for the Port of San Francisco — the guv vetoed it and sent lawmakers a little note saying why. Only the note said a little more than lawmakers were expecting.
Buried in the text was a hidden message directed at State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, author of the bill, according to the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Ammiano had strongly criticized the governor in early October and reportedly told Schwarzenegger at the time to “kiss my gay ass.” Schwarzenegger’s veto letter, issued a couple of days later, reads:
Missed the hidden code? The Bay Guardian has helpfully picked it out:
When asked by the Guardian if the message was intentional, Schwarzenegger’s spokesman said only, “what a strange coincidence.” The paper noted that he was “clearly being sarcastic.”
A spokesman for the governor told Threat Level that he’d been receiving a number of calls about the letter and hadn’t yet decided whether they were going to release a statement about it.
UPDATE 6:15 PST: The governor’s office decided it would make a statement, of sorts, after all. Spokesman Aaron McLear told Threat Level the hidden message was just “a strange coincidence,” repeating the response given to the Bay Guardian. He added that the governor’s office had written other letters that also had hidden words spelled out in them. When asked for examples of what was spelled out in those letters, he replied “soap,” “poet,” “ear.”
“When you do so many veto messages that’s bound to happen,” he said.
He promised to send examples of those other letters.
that's what I call style...
