Archive for April, 2005

Take the Color Test

Author: robertinseattle

What Friendship Means to Men and Women

Author: robertinseattle

Friendship among women:

A woman doesn’t come home at night. The next day she tells her husband she slept over at a friend’s house. The man calls his wife’s 10 best friends. None of them know about it.

Friendship among men:

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Something you really have to know in case you’re ever stuck in the woods and need to start a fire. With nothing more than an empty Coke can and a chocolate bar, you can get a fire going in short order (but you WILL need sunlight).

Hmmmm….maybe red-light cameras aren’t such a bad thing! Read the story first then watch the video. In this amazing video taken from a Dayton, Ohio traffic camera, a PT Cruiser blows a red light and then T-bones a Subaru Forester. The Subaru then rolls over a pedestrian who didn’t wait for the walk signal. What’s even more amazing is that everyone survived the crash, even the pedestrian.

Dayton Police released the dramatic video that shows the SUV landing on top of a pedestrian after a crash. It happened yesterday at West Third and Edwin C. Moses. There are cameras at the intersection to catch red light runners. They show the victim walking in the cross walk when a car and an SUV crashed. The SUV then rolled over the pedestrian. Police say it all started when the driver of a PT Cruiser ran a red light and slammed into the SUV. At least one passer-by witnessed the crash and called 9-1-1. Police say the drivers got away with minor injuries. But the pedestrian, 43-year-old Scott Tegtmeyer was critically injured.

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New Cloud Photo from a Friend

Author: robertinseattle

Friends of mine are constantly sending me pictures of interesting cloud formations for inspiration!

John Cleese on why you should back up your data.

Guess the Google Game

Author: robertinseattle

So just how good do you REALLY think you are at Google search words? Are you visually-oriented? Try your hand at figuring out the search word used to generate these images.

WARNING TO MEN: Playground Dangers

Author: robertinseattle

Dads — you must be ever so vigilant of the hidden dangers lurking in our modern playgrounds these days! You have been warned!

Small Distractions for the Day

Author: robertinseattle

OK, OK — this might only hold your attention for a few minutes. But maybe a break on Monday morning is just the thing you need. Drop kick members of your punk band, The Faint, into the audience. Best shot? All the way out to the parking lot!

Introducing amaztype from amazon.com

Author: robertinseattle

The folks at amazon.com have kicked up the creative folks a notch and given them more freedom just to have some fun! Their latest creation is a new site called amaztype (it’s currently in Beta) that’s based on their very own home-brewed search metrics. Type in names of books, authors or film directors and you’ll see their name spelled out with pictures of their body of work. For example, when I typed in Truman Capote, every Capote book that comes up in amazon’s database is used to spell out his name. You can click on each of the video, CD or movie covers to enlarge them and get more information on that item (and — of course — buy it from amazon! Slick!). Cool marketing gimmick and hours of distraction for the bored…