Prank Letters Offer Condoms at Dance (AP)
Grok Headline matches for Prank Letters Offer Condoms at Dance (AP)
Letters of Marque: Sauron: Offer and
acceptance
Letters of Marque: Sauron: Offer and
acceptance
12/21/2003 07:18 AMLord of the Rings and the Law of Contracts .. Middle Earth contract
negotiations .. Sauron: Offer and acceptance .. an amusing
hypothetical .. What contract law .. legal
scrutiny
blog.qiken.org/archives/000196.html
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"Letters of Marque: Sauron: Offer and
acceptance"
"Letters of Marque: Sauron: Offer and
acceptance"
12/23/2003 09:30 AMLet Her Dance, Let Her Dance, Ket Her
Dance All Night Long....
Let Her Dance, Let Her Dance, Ket Her
Dance All Night Long....
05/07/2004 11:27 PM
Bobby
Fuller<
/a> was a Texas based rock and roll singer best known for the immortal
rebel anthem "I
Fought The Law,". Considered by many to be the heir to
Buddy Holly as the king of Texas Rock, he built on Holly's style with
songs like the aforementioned "...Law,"
"Jenny Lee," "Love's Made A Fool Of
You," and the 2 1/2 minute masterpiece "Let Her
Dance." And then it ended,
at age
22, in very
weird circumstances. Over the years, interest in Fuller and his work
has ebbed and flowed, and plenty of
archival material surfaced, but the mystery of his death
remains unsolved, although many have
speculated. Ann odd end for a footnote character in rick history, but who was
bound for more
Health insurers to fat kids: Go play
Dance Dance Revolution
Health insurers to fat kids: Go play
Dance Dance Revolution
04/04/2005 01:18 PMCory Doctorow:
American health insurers are working with obesity researchers to
encourage children to play Dance Dance Revolution on home consoles
with dance-mats as a way of reversing childhood obesity and the
concomitant health costs later in life.
Jones is one of 85 children in an at-home study trying the popular
Dance Dance Revolution video game to boost their activity. The study
is being done by West Virginia's public employees insurance group in
hopes it will lead to better health and lower costs.
Jones lost about 10 pounds by changing his diet. Now, after two weeks
playing the game, he has lost another 10.
Link
Kickass Kung Fu: Like Dance Dance
Revolution for martial artists
Kickass Kung Fu: Like Dance Dance
Revolution for martial artists
06/24/2005 06:25 PMCory Doctorow:
Kickass Kung Fu is a video-game in which you use real martial-arts
moves to control an on-screen kung-fu fighter in order to best both
human and AI opponents.
The game takes place on a 5 meter cushioned playfield suitable for
martial arts and acrobatics training. Using custom computer vision
technology, you are taken inside an artificial reality where the
normal laws of physics no longer apply. Your movements are exaggerated
so that you can easily dodge your opponent's bullets by jumping five
meters in the air and landing behind his back. Using the dual
projected screens, one at each end of the playfield, you can also
continue by counter-attacking your stupefied enemy from the behind.
Link
Play Dance Dance Revolution... Save On
Insurance
Play Dance Dance Revolution... Save On
Insurance
04/04/2005 01:54 PMThere have been discussions over the past few years about the problem
of childhood obesity and how
video
games that force kids to be active may be at least part of the
solution. While going outside and doing something is probably better,
if they must be staring at a screen, they might as well be active
about it. It appears that one insurance company has decided to test
this out and is
running a study by giving Dance, Dance Revolution to kids
in an effort to make them lose some weight. While others have noted
the aerobic nature of the game (and the game apparently has a calorie
burning counter as an option), this appears to be the first insurance
company promoting the game. Next thing you know, your car insurance
rates will rise if you play Grand Theft Auto...
DJ Format meets Dance Dance Revolution
DJ Format meets Dance Dance Revolution
04/03/2005 07:50 PM
DJ Format
meets Dance Dance Revolution Director Keith Schofield turns out a
blazing video for British DJ Format and his top notch crew of pasty
Canadian rappers, turning their song "3 Feet Deep" into a
high adrenaline arcade hi-score smashing rampage.
Dance Dance Revolution as teen
weightloss aid
Dance Dance Revolution as teen
weightloss aid
05/24/2004 06:59 PMThis CNN piece follows the tales of formerly supersized boy and girl
geeks who shed *lots* of unwanted weight playing the wacky Japanese
electronic game "Dance Dance Revolution." In DDR, players stomp around
on a grid of brightly lit squares while hyperfast techno music blares
at them from a video display unit. There's also a home version, which
sells for under US$50.
As she cooled herself in front of a fan at a video arcade, two teenage
boys danced on a machine nearby. Their sneakers pounded out a staccato
rhythm at a pace so fast that "Lord of the Dance"'s Michael Flatley
would be envious.
Not everyone sees dramatic results. Seventeen-year-old Justin Meeks
says his body is more toned, but his weight hasn't changed. He's
pleased to point out, though, that his dancing skills have helped him
get girls. "Two. I'm guilty of that," Justin said with a grin as he
watched friends play DDR.
LinkLife on the pro Dance Dance Revolution
circuit
Life on the pro Dance Dance Revolution
circuit
01/25/2004 04:09 AMYoz has posted a great account of his encounter with a touring clade
of pan-European Dance Dance Revolution obsessives:
"We're a group of DDR players in Norway." Do they play other bemani
games? "No, just DDR." He points to the guy he was playing with, now
off the machine and chatting to his girlfriend. "He's from Sweden, he
has a DDR group there too." The machine is now in the control of the
third chap, a large-ish bloke with shoulder-length hair. "He has a
group in France, but they play all kinds of music games." Do you guys
play competitively? "Sometimes... like tomorrow. It's why we're all
here - there's a big contest at the Namco arcade in Westminster.
There'll be players from four different countries. It's pretty big."
LinkDance, White Boy, Dance (glumbert.com)
Dance, White Boy, Dance (glumbert.com)
04/08/2005 05:05 AMborn
glumbert.com/media/dancewhiteboy.html
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Dance Voldo Dance
Dance Voldo Dance
07/18/2004 03:34 PM
Dance, Voldo,
Dance (embedded quicktime .mov) Two people controlling two Voldos
(the #1 freak from Soul Caliber). Quite possibly the most amazing
synchronized video game dancing you'll ever see.
Dance, familiar. Dance...
Dance, familiar. Dance...
12/11/2003 02:34 PMAn interesting line about the selves manufactured by spies (that
seems to me to have currency for all people who have cause to
narrativise their lives in one way or another) from John Le
Carré's rather blandly-titled (but also rather good) new novel
Absolute
Friends:
But who is Mundy Three, when Mundys One and Two have gone
to bed? Who is this third person who is neither one of the other two,
who lies awake while they sleep, and listens for the chimes of country
bells he doesn't hear? He is the silent spectator. he is the one
member of the audience who doesn't applaud the performances of his two
familiars. He is made up of all the odd bits of his life that are left
over after he has given the rest away.
Dance dance revolution
Dance dance revolution
10/28/2003 11:07 PMHoly cow!! They just had the guy from the Kollaboration 2000 talent
contest perform in between talks. Fucking amazing.
Dance, Voldo, Dance
Dance, Voldo, Dance
07/19/2004 04:26 AMSoul Calibur's Voldo choreographed to music .. 11.2 MB Quicktime Link
.. Dance, Voldo, Dance
bainst.com/madness/voldo.html
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Dance Dance Resurrection
Dance Dance Resurrection
05/28/2004 04:51 PM
Jesus-themed variant of DDR (shut up, don't go pointing me to snopes
-- of *course* it's a hoax).
Link; other
recent BoingBoing posts on DDR
1,
2,
3. (
millegrazie, mi piccolo
snoodilio, also on India
Only 25% of condoms used "properly" in
India
08/15/2004 07:51 AM
India's government began distributing free condoms in the '60s to stem
population growth, and they're made available today for HIV/AIDS
prevention. But according to a recently-released report, only a
quarter of the 1.5 billion condoms manufactured each year in India are
"properly utilised":
According to two university reports, rural villagers have used them as
disposable water containers to wash, after relieving themselves in the
fields. India's military have covered gun and tank barrels with
condoms as protection against dust.
Of the 891 million condoms meant to be handed out free, a considerable
proportion were acquired by road-building contractors who mixed them
with concrete and tar and used the mixture to construct roads,
rendering road surfaces smooth and resistant to cracks. Builders
spread a bed of condoms beneath cement plastering on roofs,
ingeniously preventing water seepage during the monsoon rains.
Weavers in Varanasi used around 200,000 condoms a day to lubricate
their looms and to polish the gold and silver thread used to embroider
the saris they produced. Sari maker Yusuf Bhai said they purchased the
condoms from agents, who reportedly acquired them from agencies
involved in family planning and AIDS prevention schemes.
Above, a Thai model wears a condom couture cap. Link to registration-threatening news article
(Thanks, Darren)
Swedish Group to Deliver Condoms by Car
(AP)
Swedish Group to Deliver Condoms by Car
(AP)
05/27/2004 05:00 PM
AP - Hoping to increase the awareness of contraception and stem the
spread of sexually transmitted disease, the Swedish Organization for
Sexual Education, or RFSU, said Thursday it plans to deliver condoms
by car in a hurry for when the mood strikes would-be whoopee makers.
Oddly flavored condoms in Shanghai
Oddly flavored condoms in Shanghai
03/24/2005 02:22 PM
Xeni Jardin:
BB Reader Dan Washburn in
Shanghai says:
While Bliss paid our bills recently during a trip to a typically
unfriendly neighborhood KEDI market — many bills get paid at 24-hour
shops here in Shanghai — I perused the condom display rack, always
good for a laugh. Always, indeed. Flavored condoms. Ice Cream. Green
Tea. And, my personal favorite, Ordinary.
I find the concept of flavored condoms humorous to begin with, but
I’ve also never had to taste a condom. So I guess they serve
their purpose. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, right?
(Or, in this case, it actually prevents it from going down.) Ice
cream? OK, I guess I can undertand this one. But there are
many flavors of ice cream out there. Let’s hope
it’s not Mississippi Mud Pie or Moose Tracks or
Brownie Batter or anything that ends in
“nut crunch.” Something like Karamel Sutra seems appropriate. But, hell,
it’s probably Green Tea Ice Cream.
Link
Pretty iPod Mini condoms
Pretty iPod Mini condoms
06/18/2004 09:26 AM
Tunewear makes these sexy Icewear cases for the iPod mini out of
transparent ribbed silicon -- the same stuff used in diving masks.
Link
Olympic Athletes to Be Given Free
Condoms (Reuters)
Olympic Athletes to Be Given Free
Condoms (Reuters)
07/27/2004 09:06 AMReuters - Athletes at next month's Athens Olympics
are expected to go for gold in the bedroom as well as on the
field, with 130,000 free condoms being made available
throughout the Games.
"Mall patrons allegedly slimed with used
condoms"
"Mall patrons allegedly slimed with used
condoms"
04/18/2005 03:11 PMAthens athletes get free condoms
(Reuters)
Athens athletes get free condoms
(Reuters)
07/26/2004 10:44 AMReuters - Athletes at next month's
Athens Olympics are expected to go for gold in the
bedroom as well as on the field, with 130,000 free
condoms being made available throughout the Games.
Handing Out Condoms for Carnival Safe
Sex (Reuters)
Handing Out Condoms for Carnival Safe
Sex (Reuters)
02/10/2004 09:13 AMReuters - Brazil Monday began handing
out a record 10 million contraceptives to stop the spread of
AIDS during Carnival when casual sex rises.
Man Admits Tossing Condoms at Tony Blair
(AP)
Man Admits Tossing Condoms at Tony Blair
(AP)
05/26/2004 06:26 PMAP - An activist was fined more than $1,000 on Wednesday after he
pleaded guilty to throwing condoms filled with purple corn starch at
Tony Blair as the prime minister spoke in the House of Commons.
Another man denied the same charge.
South African Government Launches
Colorful Condoms (Reuters)
South African Government Launches
Colorful Condoms (Reuters)
06/15/2004 07:04 AMReuters - The South African
government, criticized for its slow response to the AIDS
pandemic, launched a brand of brightly wrapped condoms Monday
in a bid to enhance their appeal in the battle against
HIV/AIDS.
State, County May Require Condoms in
Adult Films (Los Angeles Times)
State, County May Require Condoms in
Adult Films (Los Angeles Times)
04/20/2004 04:43 AMLos Angeles Times - After almost a year of urging the adult-film
industry to require actors to wear condoms during sex scenes, state
and county officials say the recent HIV infection of two porn stars
has given them the leverage they need to force change.
Web Zen: Prank Zen
Web Zen: Prank Zen
04/08/2005 12:19 PMXeni Jardin:
quit staring at my pranks
college pranks
harvard sucks
starbucks emails
the jim thompson letters
incoming pizza calls
project
foil
anti-gravity room
post office experiments
the credit
card prank
improv
everywhere
web zen home, web zen store,
(Thanks, Frank).
Prank Emails
Prank Emails
01/05/2005 06:56 AM
Some
are a bit silly but this particular prank email is transcendant.
Batman and Robin could not find as just a cause. Finally a modern
corporate warrior get what he deserves.
Man Sends Prank Terrorism SMS
Man Sends Prank Terrorism SMS
12/24/2004 12:16 PM
Maybe this is sort of obvious, but if you're sitting on a
plane and think, "You know, it would be hilarious if I were to
send some text messages claiming we've been hijacked by terrorists,"
it really isn't that hilarious. Well, okay, I take that
back—it's sort of giggle-worthy when they arrest you when you
hit the ground. Italian tourist Antonio Casale apparently hadn't ever
heard this chestnut of wisdom, and neither had his wife, who contacted
authorities upon receiving prank messages from her husband. What a
fun-filled marriage they must share.
Hijacking message a prank [TheAdvertiser
via MobileBurn]
Prank Call Manager
Prank Call Manager
08/17/2004 09:10 AMPrank Call Manager 1.1 RC2 - Coming Soon!
Starbucks email prank
Starbucks email prank
12/24/2004 12:29 PM
Mark Frauenfelder:
Read what happens when a new Starbucks corporate office employee gets
into a bizarre email exchange with a prankster pretending to be the
CEO / president.
I know this may seem petty, but Ms. Crisholm should have
told you how we feel about goatees or facial hair in our corporate
offices. While I realize they may be considered stylish and acceptable
in our Starbucks outlets, we ask that men refrain from wearing them in
our corporate offices as we are trying to uphold a certain image. That
includes earrings and other piercings on men, which I do not tolerate
at all. Unfortunately, there's little we can do about the appearance
of our counter people no matter how much we try. I certainly wish this
weren't the case, because most of them have absolutely no loyalty to
our brand, and they have done nothing but tarnish our image. I hope
you understand our position. Please have it removed by
Monday.
Link
(Thanks, Scott!)
The Credit Card Prank II
The Credit Card Prank II
03/22/2005 03:18 PMcredit card receipts with fake names .. The Credit Card Prank II ..
signature verification
zug.com/pranks/credit_card
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zug.com's prank song
zug.com's prank song
02/19/2004 06:14 PM
This week's featured content is a protest song at zug.com.
Zug.com has been producing humorous articles for almost ten years
online and this protest song is part of a larger set of RIAA pranks
they pulled last summer. The song has been remixed as well and they
actively encourage others to share the song online to get their
message across, in a humorous way.
Kerry's Yale GOP Membership Likely a
Prank (AP)
Kerry's Yale GOP Membership Likely a
Prank (AP)
04/14/2004 09:13 AMAP - John Kerry, Young Republican? Among the many activities listed
under Kerry's photo in the Yale University yearbook of 1966 is
membership in Yale Young Republicans. Both the Democratic presidential
candidate's campaign and the club's president at the time think the
listing is a mistake, if not a prank.
MIT students pull prank on conference
MIT students pull prank on conference
04/16/2005 02:26 AM"CNN.com - MIT students pull prank on
conference - Apr 14, 200..."
"CNN.com - MIT students pull prank on
conference - Apr 14, 200..."
04/15/2005 11:40 PMDrunken prank led to death fall
Drunken prank led to death fall
04/13/2005 02:21 PMA 22-year-old rugby player was impaled on railings after plunging from
his flat window during a drunken prank, an inquest hears.
Bellevue Man Behind Bush Google Prank
Bellevue Man Behind Bush Google Prank
01/22/2004 07:26 PMThe 'Google bomb', as it's called, leads searchers of the phrase
"miserable failure" on Google.com to an unexpected result: the
official White House biography ...
Manure Spread Around Ind. School in
Prank (AP)
Manure Spread Around Ind. School in
Prank (AP)
05/26/2004 06:26 PMAP - High school officials say a senior prank became a health hazard
when someone spread hundreds of pounds of manure on school doors and
around the building and put dead animals, animal blood and stolen "for
sale" signs outside the school.
Grok Description matches for Prank Letters Offer Condoms at Dance (AP)
GrokA matches for Prank Letters Offer Condoms at Dance (AP)
Mochary Foundation Announces Filmmaking
Program for North Miami Beach Senior
High School
Mochary Foundation Announces Filmmaking
Program for North Miami Beach Senior
High School
04/06/2005 02:15 AMSeven Aspiring Filmmakers Selected to Attend Free After-school Digital
Filmmaking Program [PRWEB Apr 6, 2005]
"A high school student in Las Vegas was
transferred to a new school because of
an online journal in which he wrote,
"Kill Alaina." "
"A high school student in Las Vegas was
transferred to a new school because of
an online journal in which he wrote,
"Kill Alaina." "
11/12/2003 02:57 PMHigh School Student A No-Show, But Still
Makes A-List
High School Student A No-Show, But Still
Makes A-List
11/13/2003 10:09 AMbeyond ordinary grade inflation .. she doesn't
attend
washtimes.com/metro/20031111-113140-7934r.htm
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German high-school student busted for
creating Sasser computer worm
German high-school student busted for
creating Sasser computer worm
05/08/2004 08:09 PMNational Post May 9 2004 0:38AM GMT
German Police Arrest High School Student
Suspected of Creating 'Sasser' Computer
Virus
German Police Arrest High School Student
Suspected of Creating 'Sasser' Computer
Virus
05/08/2004 05:11 AMXposed May 8 2004 9:18AM GMT
High-tech play analyzing technology
giving high school football an edge
High-tech play analyzing technology
giving high school football an edge
12/05/2003 07:47 PMAP via New Jersey Online Dec 5 2003 6:33PM ET
Some Possible Office Pranks
Some Possible Office Pranks
06/17/2005 06:17 PM
As a public
service, we're bringing you a list of interesting and topical office
pranks from Pocket-Lint. I think my favorite, which appears above,
involves clover seeds (?), a keyboard, board chow, and a bit of water.
The resulting chia keyboard made me pee a little.
If you would like to amuse me today, please send your images of
office pranks to tips at giz. We'll post the best few.
Office
pranks on the increase [Pocket-Lint]
Office pranks
Office pranks
06/17/2005 03:35 PMDavid Pescovitz:
Pocket-lint has a small photo gallery of hysterical office pranks.
Gizmodo, where I saw this post, is
seeking reader submissions of other office
prank photos and will post the best few.
Link
(via Gizmodo)Office Pranks Update
Office Pranks Update
06/17/2005 06:14 PM
We're getting lots of
fun office pranks, and we might just have a winner. Please keep the
pranks coming, though, and please remember that it's not a prank if
you just stuff your boss in a fridge—this means you R.J. of
Chicago. That's what they call manslaughter.
Keep 'em coming. We'll post the best ones tomorrow.
Truly Unbelievable Credit Card Pranks
Truly Unbelievable Credit Card Pranks
06/22/2005 02:41 AMHere’s a series of real life pranks by a guy from Zug.com who
wanted to see just how important credit security was when he used his
card at various stores and restaurants. He starts out slow - signing
names other than his own, advances to wacky names like Beethoven, and
even devolved into drawing ducks, hieroglyphics, and a little grid
picture. None of it mattered. (The photos are hilarious.) Eventually
he started signing blatant theft…
Direct and Related Links for
'Truly Unbelievable Credit Card Pranks'
Media Pranks Start When You're Young
Media Pranks Start When You're Young
06/17/2005 03:38 PMNational Spelling Bee entrant Dominic Ranz Ebarle Errazo had
apparently slipped in a Napoleon Dynamite reference during his brief
appearance on TV, and then he showed up in the comments on Romenesko's
Obscure Store blog on TypePad to talk about it. Well done, Ranz!...
"credit card signature pranks"
"credit card signature pranks"
03/27/2005 04:45 AMApril Fool's Day Computer Pranks
April Fool's Day Computer Pranks
03/31/2005 05:36 PMAbout Mar 31 2005 9:39PM GMT
Caltech Pranks MIT's Prefrosh Weekend
Caltech Pranks MIT's Prefrosh Weekend
04/11/2005 02:45 AMRE/Search Pranks Festival in San
Francisco on Saturday!
RE/Search Pranks Festival in San
Francisco on Saturday!
12/02/2003 01:39 AM"Fifteen years after it first hit shelves, PRANKS! remains one of the
most important and relevant books ever to emerge from
RE/Search's outre publishing
house. In today's current surreal political landscape, a well-executed
prank can do much more than yelling theater in a crowded fire!
In that spirit, RE/Search and The Lab present The Pranks! Festival
(Saturday, 12/6). The Pranks! Festival will celebrate ten Bay Area
artists who appeared in PRANKS! Through art exhibits, panel
discussions, and chaotic socialization, we will fete the fearless
Situationist spirit that San Francisco's pranksters embody. This is a
rare opportunity to engage with prankster pioneers Mark Pauline of
Survival Research Laboratories (SRL), Monte Cazazza, Bruce Conner,
Paul Mavrides, Mark McCloud, Mal Sharpe (yes, of Coyle & Sharpe),
Fluxus anti-artist Robert Delford Brown, John Trubee, tattoo guru Don
Ed Hardy and Jello Biafra (tent.)."
Update: Milton Rand Kalman, Chief Scientist of the
Billboard Liberation
Front, tells us that the BLF will also be making an appearance!
LinkOffice Pranks - The Silver Medal
Finalists
Office Pranks - The Silver Medal
Finalists
06/17/2005 06:11 PM
Some of the mid-level attacks
include:
GADC's demonic Mac Scripting: "Make a Shutdown script and save
it as an applet with a name that in no way implies its true nature.
Then set it up to run on startup or on login. Now whenever the victim
starts up or logs into the computer, it'll shut down. This one is
killer for obvious reasons."
Tim's Birthday Chair:
Disassemble a musical birthday card and carefully tape it
underneath a coworkers chair so that when the chair is leaned back,
the card activates. It took more than four hours for one coworker to
discover the source of the intermittent noise!
And Brendan's Word hack:
Subtle in execution, but so hot when it yields results.
Change the AutoCorrect on a coworker's Word settings such that when he
types in, say "facilitate," it gets auto-corrected to "faliatiate".
Don't have the patience to wait for him to type facilitate? Change
"the" to "teet", and so on.
And the Silver Medal goes to Anthony and his ’84 Westfalia
van cubicle mod. The van cost $400, but the joy it gives is
priceless.
Office Pranks - Bronze Medal Finalists
Office Pranks - Bronze Medal Finalists
06/17/2005 06:13 PM
Well, I received quite
a few pranks these past few days. Some good ones, some bad
ones—mice in the blender? Come on Emeril!—and here's the
best of the worst. The Bronze Medalists dealt almost exclusively with
computerized mayhem, which is kind of a cop-out. But you're all
special in your own ways.
The most basic prank came to us from just about everyone. It's
good and important, don't get me wrong, but it's been played.
Essentially, you take a screenshot of someone's desktop and make that
the wallpaper. Hee hee.
Brendan Colby writes:
We took a co-worker's monitor power cable and ran it
through the wall into a separate power strip/surge protector so we
could turn his monitor on/off at our leisure.
Rubin sent us an entire list of possible pranks including, but not
limited to:
Taping up the microphone of someone's phone, causing
them to speak louder.
Put a piece of clear tape on the glass of the photocopier. This is
fun, but it has a second part to it. If the sheer frustration of
someone having to make 100 copies all over again isn't enough, you
could try making 100 copies of the piece of tape, and then load the
paper into the paper feed. Funny to see people go crazy trying to
figure out why the copy is coming up with this square on every
page.
Post a For Sale on the lunchroom posterboard with your co-workers
extension, offering to sell "One size adult XL outfit of baby
clothing, including pacifier, bottle, bib and diaper."
James suggested using BoinkMail which allows you to send embarrassing things to your coworkers. Or
just send embarrassing things to your co-workers.
And the winner of the Bronze Medal is the big, pink office created
by Dan. The performance and planning were quite ambitious, though the
ultimate delivery could have been improved by a hit of Hello Kitty.
Stay tuned for the Silver and Gold medalists later today.
April Fool's Day prompts Google, Apple,
Bush pranks
April Fool's Day prompts Google, Apple,
Bush pranks
04/01/2005 12:12 PM
Blog: April Fool's day is here, and pranksters worldwide are making
merry.
Probably the best roundup of jokes this year...
iBook Goes To High School
iBook Goes To High School
06/02/2004 08:56 AM
Arthur Philip High School in Parramatta has taken posession of 100
Apple iBook laptops to gain the sort of Internet access its better
resourced peers take for granted.
By Julian Bajkowski, Computerworld Australia (via MyAppleMenu)
High School Reunion
High School Reunion
04/07/2005 12:00 AM
After reading Heather’s post about high school photos, I turned to a
photo that I keep on my desk at work. In this picture, Ben and I are
17 and a couple weeks shy of our first date. At this...
Robots in High School
Robots in High School
12/19/2004 03:41 PM
A San
Francisco Chronicle article describes an unusual class at San Ramon
Valley High
School where there are no desks and no lectures. It's a class that
students actually want to attend, even though it means staying at
school
as late as 8pm and coming in on Saturdays. It's a robotics class where
the students work on a robot for the annual FIRST competition. Last
year the
student's entry placed second out of the 46 teams competing in their
region.
Purse Ban Rescinded at Wis. High School
(AP)
Purse Ban Rescinded at Wis. High School
(AP)
08/18/2004 10:40 AM
AP - After a flurry of objections from female students, Franklin High
School's new principal says a policy that would have required them to
store purses in their lockers during the school day will not be
enforced.
Prosser High School wee bit touchy
Prosser High School wee bit touchy
04/26/2004 06:57 PM
Prosser High School teacher sees 15 year old student's war
artwork depicting President Bush as a devil and another decapitated.
Captions include calling an end to the war, and support for Ralph
Nadar. Teacher hands artwork over to school administrators, who in
turn bring in the Secret Service. Because that's what
you do when you've handed out an assignment to kids "to keep
a notebook of drawings depicting the war in Iraq".
High School Procession at the Draft
High School Procession at the Draft
06/25/2004 02:16 AM
Orlando, faced with the choice between defense and immediacy or
versatility and potential, chose the latter with the top pick in
Thursday's N.B.A. draft.
HP high-tech IT for Egyptian school
HP high-tech IT for Egyptian school
06/23/2004 01:13 AM
AME Info Jun 23 2004 5:25AM GMT
Ga. High School to Pay Student
Informants (AP)
Ga. High School to Pay Student
Informants (AP)
04/11/2005 10:31 AM
AP - A high school is looking for a few good snitches. Using revenue
from its candy and soda sales, Model High School plans to pay up to
$100 for information about thefts and drug or gun possession on
campus.
Apple Laptops Could Revolutionaize High
School
Apple Laptops Could Revolutionaize High
School
07/01/2004 03:53 AM
By Scott Kleinberg, Pittsburg Tribune-Review (via MyAppleMenu)
Police raid US high school at gunpoint
Police raid US high school at gunpoint
08/21/2004 01:09 AM
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teach your children well, at gunpoint
ap via abc news, august 20,
2004
Justice Says
Guns-Drawn School Raid Legal
A guns-drawn raid at a high school last year did not violate civil
rights laws and the case is closed, the U.S. Justice Department
said.
...
Fifteen officers entered Stratford High School's main hallway and
ordered 130 students to the floor Nov. 5 of last year. They used
plastic ties to handcuff 18 students and school officials opened and
searched 17 book bags using a drug dog.
Police found no drugs or weapons, but the raid frightened children,
provoked marches and lawsuits and brought national media attention and
the resignation of the school's longtime principal.
the
original story is covered here with video. the memory hole has mor
e, including an unidentified person in what appears to be a
military uniform.
This is one incident that I can't
imagine happening in Japan... at least not yet. I wonder what this
sort of "police state" behavior does to children.
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