Stupid People
omnibrain | December 12, 2006Lonely at dinner?
Give this new product from a Dutch art company a try, it includes a DVD which "will allow a lonesome dinner to become one full of holiday fun and good cheer with dinner companions eating, drinking, and engaging in conversation.
The DVD will feature actors reading out different scripts in other for people to pick out which type of people they would want best."
-via engadget and some other news site
Of course there isn't a video to help you to not feel like an idiot after having a made up conversation with a TV screen.
omnibrain | December 10, 2006Well since the last ask a science blogger question was something about funny things happening in the lab, I figured I'd post this video off of collegehumor.com (that site where girls write their college name on their breasts for whatever reason)
hmm.. for whatever reason the video doesn't show itself (at least to me), so click on that white void above this text for the video to load.
omnibrain | December 6, 2006
This really doesn't have anything to do with brains or science but you can't help but revel in the incompetence of the government sometimes. I really wonder how much money got spent on this "project."
I'm also glad they are protecting stuffed animals from the 1800's. hah..
From the original article:
Tutone was dismayed when U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officers threatened to seize the bird, and reported she could face a fine or even jail time.
The news was especially shocking because though she purchased the bird at an estate sale some 20 years earlier, the Victorian "objet d'art" had been…