Archive for June, 2009
Drinking Game
Friday, June 5th, 2009By now, just about everyone has seen the put Mentos into Diet Coke so it explodes bit in one form or another. But this takes it to a whole new level.
To summarize:
- Fill an ice tray halway with water & freeze
- Put a mentos candy in each compartment, fill the rest of the way with water and freeze again (now you have ice cubes with mentos in the middle
- Mix an drink that contains both diet coke and these ice cubes (the link says Manhattan’s, even though they don’t have diet coke in them. I’m thinking Rum & Coke? Anyway…whatever you fancy)
When you’re done, what you basically have is a drink that’s also a ticking time bomb. If the person can drink down the diet coke before the ice melts, he/she is fine. If he/she waits too long, though, ka-blooey!!!
(Hat tip: Willow Gross)
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Unfortunate Icons
Thursday, June 4th, 2009The Calendar view in Microsoft Outlook 2007 uses a clever set of icons to give the user key information about his/her meetings without opening each one. Recurring meetings, for instance, show up with curved arrows in the lower-right corner. If you modify a single instance of a recurring meeting, it puts a diagonal line through the arrows, which gives the unfortunate impression of a script “x”. Hence, you get meeting descriptions like this:
I assure you that opening the appointment is not nearly as exciting as the message above implies.
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ISBS Review: Facebook
Monday, June 1st, 2009As some of my readers are aware, I have been resisting joining the two newest social networking trends – Facebook and Twitter – for quite some time now. Twitter has been easier to avoid (only a couple of my friends use it, and given that SEC regulations prohibit me from using it in the office, I wouldn’t be much of a “tweeter” for most of the day anyway). Facebook, on the other hand, has been hounding me. It started with the “Hey – you’ve got to join” e-mails, and then moved on to the “click <Facebook link> to see this great picture of my kids” and the “that reminds me of that awesome story I read on Joe’s Facebook page” messages.
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