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  • Jousting on Segways [video]

    I’ve always been fascinated by stuff from medieval times, so when you combine something like medieval jousting with modern technology like Segways, you have my complete attention.  The video below is a commercial for the Washington Lottery showing a couple of guys in your average medieval knight armor doing some jousting but on Segways instead…

  • Mall floor ad campaign stops working [pics]

    As somebody who spends a good bit of my free time coding, I have a great love for the site known as The Daily WTF.  If you haven’t heard of the site, it highlights the boneheaded mistakes of programmers that don’t really know what they are doing and the results tend to be hilarious.  Every…

  • Congress passes CALM Act, loud TV commercials to die

    Image via Wikipedia People have been complaining about the volume of TV commercials since the 1960s and something is finally being done about it.  Congress has passed the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act which finally gives the FCC the power to make advertisers stop trying to shock us into paying attention to their commercials…

  • Scary prank or Windows 7 viral ad? You decide! [video]

    There is a new video going around that there seems to be a bit of controversy over.  Some people say it is real while others think it is just viral marking for Windows 7.  Normally I would think it is real but the Windows 7 reference in there does make me wonder.  The YouTube description…

  • Amazon: Like $6800 audio cables? Buy fake testicles too! [PIC]

    The awesome folks over at Geeks Are Sexy were apparently looking for the most expensive audio cables ever made when Amazon made a rather strange recommendation to them.  Apparently Amazon thought that because they were looking to buy $6,800 audio cables that they might be interested in a male testicular model as well. Of course…