Archive for September 4th, 2009

How Devilish is Your State? Mapping the 7 Deadly Sins Across the U.S. Per Capita

A team at Kansas State have plotted the 7 deadly sins per capita. How devilish is your state?

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@shitmydadsays Lands a Book Deal

I recently posted an article on @shitmydadsays, the 73-year-old dad, Sam, who has taken the Twitter community by storm with his funny quotes, which his 28-year-old son, Justin, then tweets, gaining the pair 250k followers in less than a month. Well now, Justin has landed himself a book deal for his efforts.

Until last week, Sam had no idea his youngest son had been broadcasting his anecdotes for the world to read. But you could write a book about Sam. Indeed, Justin has already signed with an agent and is considering offers from book publishers.

If you haven’t already, I urge you to check out @shitmydadsays. Please note though, it does contain some strong language.

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Visual Effects: 100 Years of Inspiration

Here is a collection of clips from notable visual effects films, showing the advances that have been made in special effect technology over the past century.

1900 – The Enchanted Drawing
1903 – The Great Train Robbery
1923 – The Ten Commandments (Silent)
1927 – Sunrise
1933 – King Kong
1939 – The Wizard of Oz
1940 – The Thief of Bagdad
1954 – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1956 – Forbidden Planet
1963 – Jason and the Argonauts
1964 – Mary Poppins
1977 – Star Wars
1982 – Tron
1985 – Back to the Future
1988 – Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989 – The Abyss
1991 – Terminator 2: Judgement Day
1992 – The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1993 – Jurassic Park
2004 – Spider-Man 2
2005 – King Kong
2006 – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
2007 – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
2007 – The Golden Compass
2008 – The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008 – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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Pears Grown in the Shape of Baby Buddha

Chinese farmer, Gao Xianzhang, grows pears in the shape of the Buddha. He simply grows them inside a plastic, Buddha-shaped container and voila! I could really see this catching on. I mean we could have pears growing in the shape of anything – animals, wildlife or even moulds of ourselves.

Man Dials 911 Twice A Day To Tell Cops He’s Hungry

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. – A man has been arrested for calling 911 twice in a day to ask for a ride because he was hungry.

Benjamin Dewer, 26, was charged early Wednesday with making false 911 calls, say police.

The police report notes Dewer was sitting on the sidewalk, drunk. When police drove by he asked them for a ride to a park and told them he was hungry. When police refused, Dewer walked away and called 911 a second time for a ride.

Dewer is now behind bars at the Palm Beach County on a $1000 bond. That’s one expensive lunch!