He wants to beat you to a bloody pulp.
(Credit: NBC)This post has been corrected to provide the correct URL for Red Line Films.
If you thought Kid Nation was pushing the envelope, wait till you hear about this one. Production company Redline Films has just announced that you can now audition for its latest creative masterpiece, Office Fight. It's exactly what you think it is: it'll take co-workers who don't like each other and make them go face-to-face in a boxing ring.
Do you find this as supremely awesome as I do? Of course! To make it even awesomer, getting involved with Office Fight is easy and you can totally be part of it too! Just e-mail Redline, tell them who you want to pummel and why ("Jason smells like rotten cheese," or "Sean totally meant to let his pet python loose in my cube," or the serious stuff, like "Andrew cheated me out of a promotion and then ran off with my wife"), and if you have a valid claim, you're in like Flint.
The production company will then come to your office to shoot some spicy B-roll of how much you and what's-his-name hate each other, and then they'll train you for two weeks. Then you fight. If there's enough space in your office, they'll set it up right there, but otherwise, they'll hold the event in a local gym. The judges, fittingly, will be your other co-workers, and you'll have to wager bets in which the currency is pure unadulterated shame. ("If you lose, you have to wear a chicken suit to the office for the next week.")
Declan, you're on.
(Via Thrillist)
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The Directors' Bureau)
Ever wish you could come up with the next big thing? The Directors' Bureau's Idea Generator can help you out. It's a Flash app that will tell you how to make a million dollars by randomly choosing a set of words that comprise a potential "idea."
Let's overlook the fact that I wound up with "erotic rubber appliance." Then I re-spun and was given "scary paper book." Okay, now I think we're getting somewhere.
(Via Core77)
Does this look like a booze cruise on wheels to you?
(Credit: Amtrak)Riding on a sleeper train for several thousand miles seems a bit silly sometimes when you can just hop a plane for a couple of hours and get to the same destination in a fraction of the time, especially when it's often cheaper to fly anyway. Amtrak, however, is attempting to counter that image by promoting its train service as the landlubber's equivalent of a luxury cruise--a booze cruise, that is. According to an Associated Press article, the passenger rail service is trying to "gin up new business" (Ha, ha! You slay me, AP!) by offering a complimentary $100 worth of alcoholic beverages to passengers who cough up the cash for first-class seating.
Kind of. If you're a member of Amtrak's guest rewards program and you book a ticket that's part of its GrandLuxe offerings (be prepared to pay somewhere between $800 and $1600) between November and January, you'll be given a hundred bucks' worth of credit toward libations en route. Considering a glass of house wine costs $6 and a fine scotch costs about $7, it'll be enough to keep your cheeks nice and pink for the entire journey.
The AP article quotes an Amtrak representative as saying that it's a test move as part of a greater plan to revive rail travel's vintage image as a classy way to get from coast to coast. It could equally, however, turn Amtrak into a hot destination for traveling bachelor parties or fraternity spring break trips. ("Cancun? No way, dude, we're doing the Amtrak thing!")
Unfortunately, the Amtrak party-train service won't extend beyond a few overnight routes: the California Zephyr between Chicago and San Francisco, the Southwest Chief between Chicago and L.A., and the Silver Meteor between the District of Columbia and several Florida cities. That means it won't be valid on my beloved Acela Express that runs from D.C. to Boston, but then again, I don't think the BlackBerry-and-business-casual crowd that rides the Acela needs to be given any top-shelf scotch anyway.
Some advocacy groups have already voiced concern that people will get a little too sloshed on board and then stagger right behind the drivers' seats of their cars upon reaching their final destination. Makes you wonder whether Amtrak will have to breathalyze its passengers when they debark...
It's the guy in the navy blue t-shirt. No offense to him, but he doesn't look like he's my type.
(Credit: Scott Beale/LaughingSquid)A Silicon Valley networking party hosted by TechCrunch last Friday was rife with start-up demonstrations and new product buzz, but it appears to have been a little bit lacking in the scandal department. But, hey, this isn't exactly Perez Hilton's territory. (ASIDE: There was the whole Julia Allison thing, which received the sort of reception as, say, Lindsay Lohan at Coachella.)
There was, however, one minor blog-gossip legacy of the event: a Craiglist "Missed Connection" post called "cute at techcrunch party" in which a shy female partygoer solicited contact with a fellow attendee with whom she wished she'd touched base. Apparently, he was wearing glasses and a blue shirt, and the Craigslist poster was able to point him out in a photo that had been uploaded to the web by Laughing Squid's Scott Beale.
Valleywag's Nick Douglas commented: "Blue shirt and glasses? At a TechCrunch party? She thinks that's enough identifying information?"
The post has since been deleted, which means that perhaps Blue Shirt and Glasses Guy managed to make contact with his potential Squeeze 2.0, or maybe the blog coverage (even TechCrunch's Michael Arrington gave the posting a mention--read the comments, some are hilarious!) caused the Craigslister to go a bit pink in the cheeks.
Maybe you can't has Facebook right now, but you can has a Harry Potter lolcat:
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icanhascheezburger.com)
We'll now return to our regularly scheduled programming--until the next funny cat photo with a grammatically butchered caption shows up.
(Via Webware lab rat Josh Lowensohn, an apologist for both lolcats and Harry Potter)
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Spring Design & Art)
Want a conversation starter? Just toss a pillow that lists off terms like "Orlando Bloom," "podcasting," and "bankruptcy" onto your couch, and your guests du jour will likely be so curious that they won't even notice you forgot to dust the top of your TiVo box.
This is, for the record, the Google News Cushion from Spring Design & Art. Those seemingly mismatched list items are, in fact, the top ten Google News searches of 2006. The company also sells a few other years' worth, too. (What do you want to bet the '07 version will include Ron Paul?)
It will, unfortunately, cost you $120, but consider it a premium for a cure to all awkward silences.
(Via Notcot.org)
This vid's been making the viral rounds in my Twitter friends list and such, accompanied by claims of "greatest prank ever" and what-have-you. Personally, I think it's clever, but I can't seem to believe that people actually fell for it--and the camera angles and quality are suspiciously professional, not hidden-camera caliber. Still good for a few laughs, though.
Nothing, actually. But I think this is pretty funny nonetheless.
Lindsay Lohan's mugshot.
As we've all heard over and over and over again by our faithful news media, troubled actress Lindsay Lohan was arrested on Tuesday night for driving under the influence, driving with a suspended license, and cocaine possession. (Last we heard, she said the coke wasn't hers.) Another day, another celebrity party-girl drug bust--same old, same old. But for those of us who went to the E3 Media and Business Summit in Santa Monica earlier this month, this one was particularly funny because the intersection where Lohan was arrested--Main St. and Pico Boulevard--was right smack in the middle of the gamer-geek blitz two weeks ago.
From what the TMZ.com and Perez Hilton crowd have been saying, Lohan had had an altercation of sorts with either her assistant, her second assistant, or the mother of her assistant (can we keep this all straight?) prior to the "car chase." The tiff in question was allegedly in the parking lot of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, which had been the venue for Nintendo's big press conference at E3 almost exactly two weeks earlier. Nintendo's conference, as you may recall, was where the new Wii Fit Balance Board told CEO Reggie Fils-Aime in front of a large audience that he was overweight.
I think there are probably about, oh, three or four thousand geeks who are wishing the arrest could've been two weeks earlier so that they could've been in such close proximity to Lindsay Lohan--or on the other hand, who are glad they didn't have to deal with the paparazzi traffic jams while attempting to drive from one E3 hotel suite to the next.
Too bad, because it arguably would've been the most newsworthy moment of the conference.
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Dom Perignon)
Larry Ellison aside, those Middle Eastern businessmen sure do put Silicon Valley to shame when it comes to extravagant displays of opulence. Typically, we don't get names to accompany the tales of pimped-out Airbus A380s and the like, but generally the price tags speak for themselves. My favorite new "oh my gosh, I can't believe how much cash that guy spent" story was covered in the British press earlier this week: a band of partiers, led by an anonymous Dubai cash cow, spent a total of $210,000 at the posh London nightclub Crystal last Saturday night. With tax and gratuities, the final bill was more like $218,000.
To put things into perspective, that's the equivalent of about 360 8GB iPhones.
According to representatives from the nightclub (where apparently Prince Harry likes to booze it up on occasion), the evening started off innocently enough. The party of 18 people started with a bottle of pinot grigio that cost a paltry $50, but ultimately went through absurd amounts of champagne and vodka that included a $20,000 bottle of Dom Perignon. Also included in the bill were six Cokes, 17 orders of Red Bull, and eight bottles of the luxury-brand Voss water.
ABC News reports that the tab was closed at 4:24 AM. In other news, the $2 bottles of wine at Trader Joe's still get a thumbs-up from me.
Zoinks!
(Credit: Hanna-Barbera, 1969)Making the viral rounds today, thanks largely in part to a Boing Boing nod, is this groovy Mental Floss quiz: Scooby Doo: Ripped from the Headlines? Your task in the ten-question examination is to read a brief synopsis of a crime and determine whether it actually happened or if it was the plot of a Scooby Doo episode. Surprisingly, none of them involve pot busts.
A few of them are pretty easy. Others, not so much.
Me? I scored 8 out of 10. In both instances where I missed a question, it was a Scooby Doo plot synopsis that I mistook for reality. Take that as you will.
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