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Wally can’t hide from Mathematica

Posted in Funny, Technical/Gadgets on April 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

In my role as a recruiter I spend a lot of time speaking with developers and programmers who often use Mathematica whilst at university, now I’ve discovered a great use for this programme. Wally may be good at hiding from you and me, but can he hide from computers?  Stack Overflow user Heike used the [...]

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Lost Boy Used Google Earth to Find His Mother

Posted in Funny, News, The web on April 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Twenty five years after he got lost whilst traveling on a train in India, a man found his mother using the unlikeliest of technology, satellite images. Here’s the incredible story of how Saroo Brierly used Google Earth to reunite with his long lost mother: Saroo was only five years old when he got lost. He [...]

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Why You Shouldn’t Walk and Text: A Wild Bear Might Appear!

Posted in Funny, YouTube on April 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

If walking off a pier or into a fountain isn’t enough of a deterrent to Walking While Texting, then perhaps this will: you may just walk into a bear roaming the community! That’s what La Crescenta, California, resident Vaz Terdandenyan found out the hard way while walking and texting one afternoon: “I got up this morning from helicopter noise [...]

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Guys take note …

Posted in Funny, YouTube on April 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

This is why you should never ever propose to a girl in public.  The commentator is hilarious: “He’ll probably get over it in 10-12 years or so…” Classic.

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Teen prank texted “I hid the body … now what?” to a random guy, who turned out to be a cop!

Posted in Children's and Youth Work, Funny, News on April 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

It’s the modern equivalent of dialing a random phone number or knocking on strangers houses, except this time it went a little wrong! A northwest Arkansas teenager thought it would be funny to text a random phone number saying she hid a body, but the joke backfired. Of all the local phone numbers she could [...]

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Funny stories from around the world

Posted in Funny on April 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Some more funny and random headlines from around the world: Paragliding grandma breaks record: A 101-year old great-great grandmother from Utah breaks the world record for the oldest woman to do a tandem paraglide. Lucky cat survives 19-storey fall: A cat from Boston, Massachusetts fell from a window 19 storeys high and amazingly survived with [...]

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Google’s April Fools’ Day Joke

Posted in Funny, Technical/Gadgets, YouTube on April 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

This is brilliant Via Mashable

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Trike Drifting

Posted in Cycling, Funny, YouTube on March 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

This isn’t a little child’s bicycle, check out Trike Drifting, a new extreme-sport video from Devin Graham. Think of it as the Fast and the Furious … on trikes!

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Helpful football fans point towards the goal

Posted in Funny, Sport on March 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The soccer team of Magdeburg, Germany wasn’t doing well. Fans suspected that the players didn’t know where the opposing goal was and were just too embarrassed to ask. So at a recent match against a Berlin team, they held up arrows that discreetly pointed it out. The effort was successful, and Magdeburg scored a single [...]

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Lawnmowers on Ice

Posted in Funny, YouTube on March 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Finland’s hot new sport is lawnmower racing -on ice! It only makes sense, because there’s plenty of ice in Finland, and the lawnmowers are busy cutting grass when the ice is gone. The city of Jarvenpaa recently hosted an international race: The object of the sport is to ride a lawn mower and accumulate as [...]

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