Shrek Gets a New Donkey and Dragon is Redefined
via HappyNews - Top Stories on 1 October
brand tags
via Phil Bradley's weblog 7 October
This is just really interesting. It’s a site that displays brands on the screen for you (like Canon, Google, Costco and so on) and you add in a word or a phrase to describe what it means to you. Almost entirely pointless, yet engaging at the same time. Some companies need to be concerned – “Capital One” had as some seriously large/common/popular tags “annoying”, “barbarians”, “crooks”, “debt” and so on. There's also a pit one brand against another game, which is great if you're feeling annoyed and want a release of tension!
Thanks for that, Phil.
Reading Books Can Help Kids Lose Weight
via Gimundo.com on 6 October
When a child is overweight, laying off the sugary snack foods and spending more time on the jungle gym may be good ways to drop a few points. But new research shows that there’s another effective weight loss method that you’ve probably never considered: reading a book.
Baconator: fantasy vs reality
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on 1 October
An advertisement for the Baconator sandwich lured Timbotron of Blogadilla into a Wendy's restaurant. But the real thing didn't look much like the advertisement.
It was like when I found out that Santa Claus wasn't real.
All the ingredients were there, but they didn't look like the advertisement photos and they tasted like greasy sadness.
The "real" Mordor is...Transylvania (duh)
via TechRepublic Blogs by Jay Garmon on 13 October
The intricately described geography of the world of Lord of the Rings borrows liberally from the geography of Europe. How much so? Well, UCLA cartographer and geologist Peter Bird has mapped out much of Middle Earth as it would appear on actual Earth.
Where does he find them?
Cory Doctorow found this perfectly sick-making short promotional film for the London Transport service made in 1950.
If you can bear it you can watch eight minutes of the most patronising piece of film you are ever likely to come across (even for 1950).
Journey by a London Bus (1950)
A 1969 perspective on computers in the future
via TechRepublic Blogs by John Sheesley on 21 October
This 1969 video shows the convenience of online shopping, banking, and an electronic correspondence machine. It shows a future with a passable resemblance to today.
Giant Bat Swoops Back from Brink of Extinction
via Gimundo.com on 4 November
You’d better duck – a giant bat species is swooping back after a near-brush with extinction.
King Solomon’s Copper Mines Found?
via HappyNews - Top Stories on 30 October
The Mighty Potato
via Doing Business Blog - The World Bank Group by Simeon Djankov on 5 November
A new paper by Nathan Nunn (Harvard University) and Nancy Qian (Brown University) comes up with a startling conclusion: the adoption of potatoes in the Old World (meaning Europe) explains 17% of the post-1700 increase in population growth and 37% of the increase in urbanization growth.
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