Silly Things Archive

  • TED talk: To save the world, we have to play 21 billion hours of video games per week

    TED talk: To save the world, we have to play 21 billion hours of video games per week

    Yes, you read that right. According to Jane McGonigal, we as a people need to play online games for 21 billion hours per week in order to solve the world's problems. Real problems, too, not silly things like making sure Simon Cowell stays on for another season of American Idol. We're talking poverty, having access to clean water and healthy food, climate change, obesity, global conflict, etc. The real deal. Hey, this is McGonigal talking, not me. I'm fine with using World of Warcraft as nothing more than a giant time sink.

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  • Is Wikileaks trying to destroy America? (No.)

    Is Wikileaks trying to destroy America? (No.)

    Just hilarious. Apparently the U.S. intelligence community thought Wikileaks so odious that it labeled it a "potential force protection, counterintelligence, operational security (OPSEC), and information security (INFOSEC) threat to the US Army." Good ol' Wikileaks, bringing down the U.S. government.

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  • Move over Humping USB Dogs. Here comes the Dodobongo USB Dog.

    Move over Humping USB Dogs. Here comes the Dodobongo USB Dog.

    The Humping USB Dogs became so popular 2 or 3 years ago that the maker, Japan-based Cube, not only started selling the silly things internationally but also added a plethora of other animals to the line-up. And now, the same company has another USB-powered gadget ready, the so-called Dodobongo USB dog.

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  • Japan gets another set of those “Crazy Earphones”

    Japan gets another set of those “Crazy Earphones”

    Do you remember the so-called Crazy Earphones Tokyo-based gadget maker Solid Alliance released back in October? Apparently the silly things sold well, otherwise the company probably wouldn't have updated [JP] the series, which consisted of sushi, bananas, cat paws and bolts.

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