Ewwww! – Iggy Pop’s Insurance Peddling Antics

My only reaction every single time this idiotic ad for swiftcover, the UK Insurance company came on was “What the F@&*?!?!?”  This has got to be the worst ad I’ve ever seen, very worthy of the switch-the-channel-everytime-it-comes-on habit.  Yech.  And Iggy Pop… what the hell were you thinking?

The first comment on the Youtube Video site sums it up pretty well.

Oh Iggy what have you done?
You were THAT desperate for cash?
‘Get a life’?
This sort of life? Not exactly the same as Lust for Life is it Iggy?
Any other lifestyle recommedations Iggy, like McDonalds or Starbuck?

Indeed.

Technorati Tags: Iggy Pop, Swift Cover, Advertising, Bad

Now this is Wrestling… not that WWE crap.

Talk about Dynamite in small packages. it probably was all rehearsed but damn this is the best I’ve seen! :)

Crazy French Guys – Pull-ups… on a Crane!

This is insane. Fear of heights anyone? One slip and this video would’ve ended up on Rotten.com

Craziest/Scariest/Coolest Jack-o-Lantern Pumpkin, Ever.

This guy has skill to carve out a Halloween pumpkin to resemble the “Alien”.  Freakin Creepy.  Damn that’s skill.  I don’t want to look at it… but I do.

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Moustache Squid Roast What???

This will fall under “Engrish” I suppose but it looks like it comes from Thailand… I don’t think many tourists would stop to eat at a place like this… well the normal one’s anyway.

Mr. Green Genes, the Glow-in-the-Dark Cat!

What kind of freaks think up this stuff, I’m against all this genetic testing and playing God even if they do have the best intentions.  I did notice the article fail to mention how many times they failed before they came up with this cat.

“Mr. Green Genes is the first fluorescent cat in the United States and probably the world, said Betsy Dresser, the centre’s director.

The researchers made him so they could learn whether a gene could be introduced harmlessly into the feline’s genetic sequence to create what is formally known as a transgenic cat.

If so, it would be the first step in a process that could lead to the development of ways to combat diseases via gene therapy.”

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They’ve done much the same with a Goldfish as well, I’m wondering when we’ll see the next glow-in-the-dark humanoid. Fiction can’t beat reality, eh?

The Ultimate Scratch: You Can’t Beat This

This from the New Yorker…

“Scratching is one of the sweetest gratifications of nature, and as ready at hand as any,” Montaigne wrote. “But repentance follows too annoyingly close at its heels.” For M., certainly, it did: the itching was so torturous, and the area so numb, that her scratching began to go through the skin. At a later office visit, her doctor found a silver-dollar-size patch of scalp where skin had been replaced by scab. M. tried bandaging her head, wearing caps to bed. But her fingernails would always find a way to her flesh, especially while she slept.

One morning, after she was awakened by her bedside alarm, she sat up and, she recalled, “this fluid came down my face, this greenish liquid.” She pressed a square of gauze to her head and went to see her doctor again. M. showed the doctor the fluid on the dressing. The doctor looked closely at the wound. She shined a light on it and in M.’s eyes. Then she walked out of the room and called an ambulance. Only in the Emergency Department at Massachusetts General Hospital, after the doctors started swarming, and one told her she needed surgery now, did M. learn what had happened. She had scratched through her skull during the night—and all the way into her brain.“

That’s unbelievable… I can’t imagine having an itch that bad that I’d scratch right through bone? I’m skeptical as to whether this story is even true, seems extremely bizarre and also very scary.

Watch your fingers.

: Weird, Scratching, Science, Itch

Twitter vs. Plurk

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With Twitter going down every so often, (reminding me of Eskom’s load-shedding), lots of people, including me, have been searching for an alternative. Well, we found it with Plurk. So after a few days of using it here’s my comparison of the two micro-blogging platforms.

Twitter, has amazing functionality and given that it’s API is freely available it’s very malleable and we can use it to do a million and one things. The only thing wrong with it is its periodic shut-downs and general irritability with some of its functions (like device updates via IM) working only on random occasions.

Plurk on the other hand looks very cool and puts all your “updates” on a time line so you can track who said what when (if you check the everyone list, this timeline is split by the second.) They have some other function a like a widget and gaining points called “karma”, which I’m not really sure how that works yet. I do like the reply function which is really easy and targeted towards various posts on plurk. The ease with putting up videos and photo’s is also a plus. You’ll find the little icons which you can represent yourself with are also a bit weird, cthulu-like thingies, with tentacles and spots and bones sticking out. Weird. Plurk’s downfall is it doesn’t share it’s API… so you get what they give you and that’s it. Their widget is only editable vertically which irritates me as it doesn’t fit on my blog sidebar and overall I just can’t seem to like it.

Twitter, however, could learn from Plurk’s visual standards, quirky nature and easier video and photo micro-blogging. It would also help if Twitter didn’t drop the ball so often.

Overall opinion… Plurk is very limiting compared to Twitter. If twitter sorts itself out, that’s where you’ll find me.

UPDATE: >Plurk is releasing their API! – Let the Micro-Blogging Wars begin! This will sway my opinion of which micro-blogging platform to use :)

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Only Those Who Believe in Rebirth…

LOL.

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8 Months old and 17kg’s!

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