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SligoBrewer

Craguls wrote: »

Biology ain't a science though.

Fad

First time I ever took one of those interest/personality tests I was told to be a midwife.......entry under that was marine biologist

The next time I took it, I was told to become an obstetrician.

Perverted program.....How it extracted that career from my inputted info I do not know, I deliberately stated I have no interest in anything to do with working with children/babies......

The next entry under that was psychiatrist and then surgeon and so on. All careers I have no real interest in. I also go an amusingly high score for car park attendant and taxidermist (Both of those were listed as careers in this )

It also told my friend who was in pass Irish to become an Irish teacher......

Aoibheann

Pygmalion wrote: »

Won't say it's not accurate (in most cases at least), but I dunno if I'd call it amazing.
You answer a bunch of questions which clearly directly relate to one of the 4 groups and it tells you which end of the spectrum you fall on in each one.

Then for career recommendations and personality descriptions they just point out obvious stuff, such as the fact that those who tend to think things through rationally instead of acting on impulse tend to make better mathematicians/engineers than those who don't like to plan ahead and always act on impulse.

EDIT: Also INTJ, AKA the Mastermind, description seems pretty much perfect tbh, and I'm not just saying that due to the cool name, it captures my complete failure in social situations too.

I'm going to +1 all of this - but then again, I would, because I got exactly the same personality type.. We're meant to think like that, they're on to us.. *narrows eyes* *breaks out tinfoil hat* IT'S A CONSPIRACY I TELLS YA!

Jay P

I was told I could be a PR Specialist, despite the fact I'm borderline useless at talking to people. I also got Fitness & Nutrition, Fashion Designer (), and Early Childhood Education. I wouldn't like any of those.

Bobalicious93

Just stumbled across this gem of an article about an obscure Irish footballer named Ronnie O'Brien. I've been laughing at it for a good 10 minutes...

This article by Mark Wrafter of VISION first appeared in the Sunday Business Post, Ireland on April 6th 2003.

It started with a simple e-mail, but ended up catapulting an obscure Irish footballer into a competition to name the most influential person of the century.

In early July 1999, a bored office worker in Ireland sent an e-mail to his friends. He had visited the website of Juventus, the Italian football club, and saw it was conducting an online poll to select the most promising newcomer to the team.

"Hey if you've never heard of Ronnie O'Brien, he's a young Irish footballer who, after being let go by Middlesborough, was unbelievably signed by Juventus a couple of months back. He needs your help. Go on, vote for Ronnie, it's your duty as a patriot. Please send this to bored Irish people. Thanks, Eoin."

Little did Eoin, whose identity is still not known, know what he had started. By the following week O'Brien was one of the most famous footballers on the planet.

Like a chain letter, people forwarded the e-mail to friends; within hours it ended up on the computer screens of the Irish all around the world. O'Brien shot up from last to first on the poll, with 32% of the total vote.

In one 24-hour period, Ireland's relationship with the Internet had changed utterly. It was revolutionary. It had done for us something no other media had ever been able to do. The web grew us an instant community. It did so because the Internet is the only media that allows its users to communicate with each other directly, publicly and instantly, be that one-to-one or one-to-many.

The O'Brien success prompted his fans to set their sights even higher. In August 1999, Time magazine in the United States conducted an Internet poll to find the Person of the Century. Why not Ronnie O'Brien, they thought? A new volley of e-mails was sent out.

Ronnie vaulted his way to the top of the standings, beating out such notables as Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King and Yitzhak Rabin. O'Brien was unaware of the fuss. The former supermarket shelf stacker from Bray found out from his agent a few days later that he was jostling Mother Teresa for greatness. Then, mysteriously, there was a computer crash, a result Time said, of too many people voting online at once.

Instead of being named Person of the Century, O'Brien was taken out of the running, because Time officials said not enough people had heard of him. The official rules stated, "whimsical candidates will not be counted." The US magazine didn't welcome the prospect of having O'Brien on the cover of their Person of the Century issue.

The reaction at the time to O'Brien's demotion was heated. The Irish set about plotting how to dupe the publication again by getting another Irish person to the top of the list.

Ireland's office staff hit back, voting in their thousands for Dustin the Turkey, proclaiming him a great visionary. Within hours the e-mails where again winging their way to Time's US headquarters.

The stuffed ex-presidential candidate polled over 1,000 more votes than Adolf Hitler.

Time eventually realised something was amiss and restricted the nomination to a pre-selected 100 candidates, with Albert Einstein eventually winning.

It was a defining moment for online polls. Never again would a site, unless it was its expressed wish, leave open their voting criteria in such a fashion. It's only the very naïve that do so today, but having to protect against it pre-99 was unheard of.

jefreywithonef

Reminds me of this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2591357.stm

ohthebaby

TheCardHolder

Pretty Interesting:

http://www.worldometers.info/

A Neurotic

D4RK ONION

Projection reaches whole new gigantic levels of awesome. If you do not click this link, you will regret it and your parents will love you less.

http://vimeo.com/11160666

Jamie Starr

This may be of interest to the mathsy blokes amongst you:

http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/

They basically use mathematical and theoretical debates to refute the idea that the Earth is round, and I'm led to believe the maths are actually pretty solid. My brother finds it greatly entertaining anyway, and he's not even good at maths.

Jay P

Agnostic Mantis wrote: »

This may be of interest to the mathsy blokes amongst you:

http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/

They basically use mathematical and theoretical debates to refute the idea that the Earth is round, and I'm led to believe the maths are actually pretty solid. My brother finds it greatly entertaining anyway, and he's not even good at maths.

Wasn't he an admin or something on that site?

jefreywithonef

This is pretty class. A day in the life of New York City. Looks like models but it's not.

http://www.wimp.com/newyork/

SligoBrewer

http://media2.guzer.com/animations/100_people.swf

Konata

SligoBrewer wrote: »

http://media2.guzer.com/animations/100_people.swf

Wow. That was pretty fascinating.

"If you have a bank account, you are part of 8% of the wealthiest people in the world"

o_O

jefreywithonef

D4RK ONION

That's my favourite image on the internet. Sceptical is excellent

Bobalicious93

Monzo wrote: »

Seagal image

Reminded me of



Oh Dimitar...how you divide us...

TheCardHolder

The guy who created Kate's party is actually a comedian. Check out his stuff:

http://www.27bslash6.com/matthewsparty.html

I've just spent the past 5 minutes sitting by myself crying with laughter.

Ginja Ninja

this picture:

I like angels anyway,but there's something about this picture I really like.it made it into my pretty picture folder on my hard drive and I've it stuck in some other things as well.

A Neurotic

Up remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2yt1ooLQGo

SligoBrewer

http://truelad.com

Thank me later.

Fad

SligoBrewer wrote: »

http://truelad.com

Thank me later.

Lads from my year had it in fb statuses a couple of weeks ago, initially assumed it'd be a blue waffle type thing.......it's amazing though

Arcade Panda

One of the best examples of stop-motion I've ever seen.

And the music is wonderful.

SligoBrewer

Arcade Panda wrote: »

One of the best examples of stop-motion I've ever seen.

And the music is wonderful.

And you'd give her one

SligoBrewer

How to build a time machine

Ginja Ninja

stop motion eh?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKRmnvzshkQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r1WasN5JFQ

Ginja Ninja

eww,double posting but this deserves a thread by itself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWJHSyjVMY8

David belle is one of my heroes,For the little time I spend doing parkour,I admire his "flow" and sheer athleticism.How many people can claim to be the progenitors of a sport?

Konata

Stop motion \o/ A few guys I know from home made this video a few years ago. It's actually pretty good and won an award at something. Make sure you watch the credits starting at about 4.00 in Part 2 - they're really creative!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT6bTkRc5F8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkWQxU-Y3Hw

TheCardHolder

Yet another stop motion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtHQ4C4v4q0

Ginja Ninja

I can't believe I didn't think of this before:
Mysteryguitarman probably the most creative stop motion director on youtube:

start here

Jay P

11 Amazing Fake 'Harry Potter' Books Written In China.
To be fair, that entire site is priceless, especially when he talks about DMX.

And credit where it's due, I found it on this tumblr page. If the person who owns it is here, it's class and I love it!

bevan619

The same thing I'm scared of... females...

D4RK ONION

Fake Dog Films latest video, and to be honest it's already in my favourite. So well done, so well scripted, so well made

http://vimeo.com/11484792



Sounds like spam, but actual love going on right now from me for those guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BzT5OpiSpw

jefreywithonef

Ha, "Ah no, I'm low on petrol". That song was obviously inspired by the Stooges' Search And Destroy, another plus point.

D4RK ONION

will you sign up on the forums here, go to the thread in the fake dog film forum and say of you liked it or not please? It'd mean a lot to them. Thanks guys.

(promise this is the last mention of them mods, they could use the traffic )

syncosised

Thanks everyone for the kind words on our new video! I swear I didn't ask D4RK to post it on here, he's just a big fanboy!

TheCardHolder wrote: »

The guy who created Kate's party is actually a comedian. Check out his stuff:

http://www.27bslash6.com/matthewsparty.html

I've just spent the past 5 minutes sitting by myself crying with laughter.

I haven't been on here in a while, but I felt the need to post this as what is by far the best article on that site!

jefreywithonef

Clearasil & Hormones was much more fun back in the glory days of the 1990s when it was run by Geocities.

(Page might work slightly slow.)

D4RK ONION

That is truly horrifying...

jefreywithonef

D4RK ONION wrote: »

That is truly horrifying...

Even contains that silly Blue Da Ba Da song. :P

phlegms

Monzo wrote: »

Clearasil & Hormones was much more fun back in the glory days of the 1990s when it was run by Geocities.

(Page might work slightly slow.)

Geocities is clearly the future of the internet. Y'all just be hating..

SligoBrewer

The name of the final candidate in the Leeds Central election

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/election2010/results/constituency/c50.stm

Pygmalion

Iran before the Islamic revolution.
Note how the women are showing not only their faces, but their legs too.
In one picture it appears they're even being thought Chemistry.

Amazing how much fairer some places in the middle-east were decades ago.

Something I found on reddit earlier...

http://www.bathsheba.com/math/klein/klein_x1.html

MavisDavis

Yes, it's from the Daily Mail, but it's still fascinating. Babies have morals!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1275574/Babies-know-difference-good-evil-months-study-reveals.html#

Pygmalion

MavisDavis wrote: »

Yes, it's from the Daily Mail, but it's still fascinating. Babies have morals!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1275574/Babies-know-difference-good-evil-months-study-reveals.html#

The Article wrote:

An astonishing series of experiments is challenging the views of many psychologists and social scientists that human beings are born as 'blank slates' - and that our morality is shaped by our parents and experiences.

Also filling this role is this test, I think this guy was the first to get some good evidence that people all over the world, regardless of their upbringing, religion (or lack of one) or age (as long as they're old enough to answer) will agree in like 90+% of cases about lots of stuff.

Obviously if it's black and white that's to be expected, but a couple of the questions have the same outcome but worded differently and people will consistently, across all groups, make the opposite choices depending how they're worded :P.

EDIT: Ok that's only two questions which are fairly obviously the same one worded differently, there's lectures by him on Youtube which he goes into far more details, changes the situations, etc.

D4RK ONION

This image never gets old

bevan619

Probably fake but still interesting...

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100510/tod-starving-yogi-astounds-indian-scient-451ab4f.html

TheCardHolder

Very cool photos of the volcano and effects:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html

Jackobyte

Thought I'd post this for anyone who hasn't seen it. It is the facedown thingy that was mentioned in the Den.