2011-07-27

How to Levitate

How can you levitate and impress your friends and followers with your magic powers:

2011-07-20

Wife Jumps Forward, Son Steps Back

Rupert Murdoch while being interrogated concerning his involvement in Phone Hacking by the different media assets he owned was attacked by a foam pie wielding protestor.

What is interesting to see is how his son is startled and pushes away from his Father but his Chinese born, volleyball athlete wife, Wendi Deng, jumps ahead towards the protestor and smacks him right in the face.

Wife Scores,
Son Fails.

2011-07-17

Kuwaiti TV Ads in the 1980s

Here are a few TV ads that where constantly broadcast on Kuwait TV in the 80s.



Americana Cake



Pizza Italia



Dalal Oil

2011-07-16

How to Write with Style by Kurt Vonnegut

Here is a great piece from Kurt Vonnegut about writing, it has gems such as:

William Shakespeare and James Joyce, wrote sentences which were almost childlike when their subjects were most profound. "To be or not to be?" asks Shakespeare's Hamlet. The longest word is three letters long.


The whole article can be found here.

In summary, the key points made are:

1. Find a subject you care about.
2. Do not ramble, though
3. Keep it simple
4. Have guts to cut
5. Sound like yourself
6. Say what you mean
7. Pity the readers



And here is a little ad from Amazon with one of Kurt's well known book, Slaughterhouse Five

I love this - X Factor Promo