No.
446 - March 27, 2008 How
to Meet Beautiful (Drunk) Women
A
BEAUTIFUL SCAM
How do you find the most beautiful woman in Italy? A Japanese film
crew went to Italy to test the supposedly foolproof method created
by a Japanese “expert” (they didn’t say what he was
an expert in): 1. Find a random woman on the street; 2. Ask that
woman to introduce the film crew to a more beautiful friend; 3.
Have that more beautiful friend introduce the film crew to an even
more beautiful friend; 4. Repeat until one meets the 12th woman
- she will be the most beautiful woman in Italy. While the results
aren’t exactly scientific, it sure is an excellent way to meet
hot chicks, as you can see for yourself in this video from JapanProbe.com
BECAUSE MEN LOVE THIN DRUNK WOMEN
Speaking of hot chicks, this week’s new word to pry into your
conversation is “drunkorexia,” the act of skipping a meal
in order to get drunk without consuming too many calories. Trend
watchers claim that weight-conscious young women are increasingly
drinking a few glasses of wine instead of eating dinner in order
to stay slim but not pass up the alcohol. Predictably, buzzkill
dietitians don’t approve: “What you should do is eat a
healthy balanced diet and choose low calorie mixers and non-alcohol
low calorie soft drinks,” said one bland (but slim) nutritionist.
(The
Telegraph)
AND THE WINNER IS... “NO COUNTRY FOR HAPPY MOTHERS”
Aspiring film makers pay attention: a computer model based on something
called Latent Semantic Indexing has crunched the numbers and found
the most popular words in the titles of films which end up winning
lots of awards at film festivals. The top 10 words shake down like
this: war; country; love; mother; happy; son; blue; broken; now;
princess. Check out the full top 50 words at Lathrios.com/blog.
YOU’RE NOT A HEARTLESS KILLING MACHINE AFTER ALL
An interesting but inconclusive study (is there any other kind?)
has found that people playing first-person-shooter games experience
negative emotional reactions when they are killing their enemies
and feel relief when they are killed. The experiment tracked the
players’ facial expressions and physiological activity via
electrodes and other monitoring equipment and discovered that “wounding
and killing the opponent elicited anxiety, anger, or both,”
while "the death of the player's own character... appears to
increase some aspects of positive emotion.” (GameCritics.com)
THE
TIME OF YOUR LIFE
Some morbid French artist (is there any other kind?) has created
a cool clock which I wish someone would knock off and start selling.
It’s the Lifetime Clock, which measures out the years of your
life rather than the minutes of your day. The hands of the clock
move at 1/61320th the speed of regular a normal clock, covering
seven years of your life as they pass each of the 12 numbers on
its face. If you’re really lucky, you can keep this clock until
your 84th birthday, at which point I assume you will drop dead.
(Gearfuse.com)
WHERE YOU LIVE, WHEN YOU DIE
Before you buy the aforementioned clock you might want to make sure
that you’ll live long enough to enjoy it. For that purpose
you can hit the “Life Expectancy for Countries” chart
at InfoPlease.com,
where you can find your average life expectancy based on the country
you live in. This list is topped by Andorra, with an average life
expectancy of 83.52 years followed by Antigua and Barbuda (82.3),
Macau (82.27), and Japan (82.02). Not surprisingly, the entire bottom
50 of this list is dominated by African nations, with Zambia (38.44),
Angola (37.63) and Swaziland (32.23) coming in dead last.
EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS USELESS
Before you pick those college courses or sign up for that night-school
class you’d be wise to make sure that what you’re about
to learn isn’t on the massive list of skills nobody will ever
pay you for at ObsoleteSkills.com.
Among the many long-lost skills on this list are adjusting rabbit
ears on top of a TV, calling a phone sex line; cranking up or down
a car-window, loading film into a 35 mm camera (and developing that
film), drafting with pencils and a T-square, switching from TV mode
to Game mode on the box behind the tv, using a pay telephone, programming
a VCR. spelling, handwriting, filing cards in a library card catalog,
navigating using a compass , popping corn in a pot with oil, remembering
telephone numbers, reading a dictionary or encyclopedia, and, last
but not least, getting to know your neighbors.
TAKING THE LUG OUT OF LUGGAGE
A company called Flylite has come up with a pretty good idea for
frequent travellers. You send your suitcase and must-have travel
items to their storage facilities where they will pack your stuff
and send it to your destination hotel so that you don’t have
to deal with all the b.s. of checking and retrieving your luggage
during your trip. When you’re done, they pick up your luggage,
clean it up for you and store your stuff until next time. Check
out the online demo at Flylite.com.
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