Thefuntheory.com is a site dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better. Be it for yourself, for the environment, or something entirely different, the only thing that matters is that it’s change for the better.
Watch The Piano Staircase for ideas on getting [...]
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We’re a team of language enthusiasts and general word nuts who have joined forces to create a new kind of dictionary – a democratic ‘visual dictionary’. A place where anyone with a video, webcam or mobile phone can define the words that matter to them in their life.
So goes the Who are we page at [...]
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“Culturally, we seem obsessed with immediacy. Time is not to be taken but crammed to bursting point.”
Attempting to change this, comes Real Snail Mail, part of a “slow art” project at Bournemouth University in the UK.
Here’s how it works:
Snails, each fitted with a tiny capsule which holds a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip that allows [...]
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This came across via an email forward.
Looks like these Companies that didn’t spend quite enough time considering how their online names might appear .. and be misread. These are not made up. Check them out yourself! Read the web-sites names closely!
1. “Who Represents” is where you can find the name of the agent that represents [...]
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A rather enterprising, probably girlfriend-less, NYU grad student has come up with a solution for loneliness he called InBed says NYMag.
The way it works, is quite simple – using an “infrared sensitive” light projection, which reacts based on an infrared senser, an image of a woman is projected onto the mattress, which in turn responds [...]
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Take Walt Disney World – everyone’s favourite theme park, throw in Twitter, add Microsoft Virtual Earth and what do you get? Twisney.
Twisney allows Disney World visitors to update their status and let everyone know just what they’re up. It works via text message, IM, email as well as Twitter. Users can attach photos with their [...]
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Describing itself as the most revolutionary and most efficient dating service in the world, BuyUCoffee.com is an online dating community where users can actually get paid for going out on dates with other users. I wonder what this implies for the person who gets paid.
The site is for members only with a gold membership making [...]
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Sex and Politics are definitely not strangers, if John F Kennedy and Bill Clinton, etc. are any indication – if anything a sex scandal only serve to boost interest in politics. Combining the two, and hoping that interest in one, would lead to getting information about the other comes SexyPolitics.com
The mission as the About Us [...]
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Taking Digg a step further comes Hubdub, which as the site claims is all about letting a user actively participate in the day’s news, following today’s events, predicting their outcomes and competing with other users to find out who the real news junkies are!
“Hubdub makes a person more of a participant than a consumer. It [...]
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The Twitter phenomenon seems to have no end, with apps continually coming up around it. New on the block, is the Twitter Comic Book which combines the light blogging application with another favorite – Flickr, creating an amusing, comic mashup. Flickr photos are pulled based on the themes of your tweets. What you end up [...]
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