How to pass the time on a unexpected 10 hour layover

The girl featured in this video was stranded in the Pittsburgh International Airport for 10 hours during Snowpocalypse ’09. She passed the time by video taping herself. Well done!
Via Boing Boing

DIY: Turn an external hard drive into a USB hard drive

If you’re like me, you probably have an external hard drive laying around. Now you can it into a USB drive. This simple tutorial at instructables.com shows you how.

Super fan makes Lord Of The Rings prequel using £25,000 of her life savings

Kate Madison – a super fan of the Lord Of The Rings films – set out to make her very own prequel to the trilogy series with £25,000 of her life savings. She wrote, directed and produced the prequel based on two paragraphs lifted from the appendix in JRR Tolkien’s books. The end result was  an hour long prequel titled “Born Of Hope.”

Gone was the elaborate £200million budget and lush scenery of New Zealand trilogy director Peter Jackson had at his disposal. The film was shot entirely on location around England and took over a year to shoot. Incredibly, Madison convinced more than 400 cast and crew to donate their time for the project. She picked up office temp work and earned an additional £17,000 by posting a trailer on YouTube accepting donations. She also played the part of Elgarain the forest ranger herself.

It’s a remarkable effort and most certainly surpasses the modest budget. View the film in it’s entirety at BornOfHope.com.

Bottoms up shot glass

This clever shot glass features an ambigram – a design that can be read as one or more words when viewed from different angles. Simply drink the shot, turn it over, and the word DRINK magically transforms into DRUNK. It also gives you a heads up which end to fill. Unless of course you’re past the point of no return!

Yo-yo freestyle

I’m lucky if I can make the Yo-yo go up and down let alone crazy freestyle tricks! Who knew there was a yo-yo championship.

Anti-theft lunch bags

Several years ago I worked for a fairly large ad agency in Miami. In the kitchen there was a refrigerator where the staff would put their lunches. Over the period of a few weeks, people started to witness a bizarre occurrence. Each day, a different lunch bag was missing something. Sometimes it was an apple. Other days it was a half eaten sandwich. It became almost an obsession to catch the perpetrator in the act. After several weeks had passed, the perpetrator was indeed caught. It turned out to be one of the agency partners. Yeah, kind of creepy.

Had we been armed with these anti-theft bags, that incident could have been completely avoided.

Via ThinkOfThe.com

Box art

Box doodle has a simple premise. Send in a jpeg of original art you made out of a box.

Check out the rest of the amazing box art at boxdoodle.com.

A clever Web site answers an important question

There are all kinds of Web sites out there. Sites that tell your horoscope. Social media sites and still others to provide you up to the minute news. You get the gist. Sometimes a site comes along that answers a very important question. Check out the site here.

Spider

The hand drawn seven-legged spider above became the subject of a hilarious viral email a couple of years ago. It begins with an email exchange between an Australian man – David Thorne – and a utility company. As it turns out, Thorne owes the company $233.95. Because he has no money, he emails a hand drawn spider which he values at $233.95.

Here’s the response for the company:

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 10.07am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Overdue account

Dear David,
Thankyou for contacting us. Unfortunately we are unable to accept drawings as payment and your account remains in arrears of $233.95. Please contact us within the next 7 days to confirm payment has been applied to your account and is no longer outstanding.

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles

From: David Thorne
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 10.32am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Overdue account

Dear Jane,
Can I have my drawing of a spider back then please.

Regards, David.

Read the rest of the exchange at 27bslash6.com.

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