Wednesday, September 29, 2010

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National Coffee Day 2010 News Video

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 10:47 AM PDT

Today is National Coffee Day. An invented holiday if ever I heard of one. Still, if it means there is a chance of bagging a free coffee somewhere then I’m all in favor of it.

I didn’t know there was such a thing as National Coffee Day until this morning. And I don’t really understand why there is, because coffee is just coffee. Sure, it’s a great drink, but worth having a whole day dedicated to it every year?

Coffee as a drink has been with us since the 9th century when, so the story goes, an Ethiopian goat herder called Kaldi noticed his goats eating coffee berries and acting strangely afterwards. They were effectively caffeined up to their eyeballs.

And so to present day when 600 billion cups of the stuff are consumed every year. And it gets its own day dedicated to it in the U.S.

Cool Metal Pen Video | New Writing Technology Lasts Forever

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 02:15 AM PDT

I must admit, I was pretty happy with pencils. Sure they smudged a bit, but I grew up with these writing implements and accepted them without question … until now. After watching this video, I have to rush out and get myself a metal pen.

These nifty pens are guaranteed to never need replacing, and never smudge. They even write under water. You probably don’t need them to, but they do and that’s pretty fantastic.

If they get blunt, you just need to rub them with a bit of sandpaper and they’re as good as new. Surely that’s better than wrestling with sharpeners, and those teeny tiny pencils that inevitably result.

This may be a bit of a novelty, but it’s a very cool one.

Watch Funny BBC Top Gear TV Commercial | The Stig is Lightning Fast

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 12:17 AM PDT

Short, to the point and lightning fast.

Haha. You never could have convinced me five years ago that I would in any way like – nay, love – a show that had only to do with cars, I would have called you a liar.

Alas, then I found Top Gear.

(The UK version, thank you very much. Sorry Australian version, but you just don’t cut it for me or my husband.)

Speaking of the Stig, however, do they now have a new one? I heard that since the previous one revealed his identity for a book deal, they sacked him. I’m not sure if this is true or not, though…

Watch ABC’s New ‘No Ordinary Family’ TV Show Trailer Video

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 11:45 PM PDT

One of ABC’s newest shows, No Ordinary Family, a family involved in a plane crash comes home to find they now have extraordinary abilities.

The Incredibles meets any number of superhero television shows out there. Not exactly original, but it looks like the network is at least trying to give a variety of new things a go.

According to polls around the net, it looks like opinions are split between people who think the show will be a hit and people who either don’t care for it or won’t watch it. Or both.

I think it is just a little too predictable to come to anything major.

Strange Hippos Licking Crocodiles Video | Bizarre Wild Animal Behavior

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 06:59 PM PDT

Some things just can’t be explained, like why we yawn, why we blush when we're embarrassed, and why hippos like to lick crocodiles.

The latter wasn’t something I knew about either, but this video brings this strange behavior to life.

It seems that while crocodiles are a-feeding, there’s nothing that hippos like more than giving them a great big lick. Personally I wouldn’t go near a croc with snapping jaws if my life depended on it (and it probably would!), but I don’t have a hippo’s physique.

It seems that crocodiles are too intimidated by the hippos to tell them to stop, and so the licking continues. And you thought humans were kinky!

Cheesy Wendy’s Training Music Video | The 90’s Were Pretty Embarrasing

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:11 PM PDT

Lame. Cheesy. Catchy.

Those are just a few words that might come to mind after viewing this old 90’s training video. Don’t get caught tapping your foot.

Having worked for a handful of minimum wage jobs, I thought I saw every type of training video there was. Little did I know Wendy’s actually had a musical one! While the singer isn’t half-bad, I’m sure he’s embarrassed that this video went viral.

It’s hard to believe now, but once upon a time it was cool to be like Michael Jackson. The 90’s seem like such a different world.
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