Forgetomori has a great post about social conformity:
It may be fun, but this is no comedy, it’s more like a documentary. Cults thrive on our vulnerabilities, and a good demonstration of just how vulnerable we all are was given in a series of experiments conducted by social psychologist Solomon Asch in the 1950s.
Researchers at the Autonomous University of Madrid have studied 129,000 men and women over two decades and found that people who drink more than five cups of coffee a day every day were less likely to die of heart disease than those that don’t drink coffee at all.
37 year old Dave Bruno, who is an online entrepreneur one day looked around his San Diego home and realized how much his family’s belongings were weighing him down. He then began what he calls the 100 Thing Challenge.
LonelyCylon15 explains why DRM is a bad idea.
Frenchman Gerard Brion, 29, has spent 15 years of his life putting together this amazing mini model of Paris, including such landmarks as the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe and Sacré Coeur made out of soup cans, baby food jars and old cinder blocks. His garden has become a tourist attraction in Vaissac in the southern France.
Jason Voight made this social networking documentary for his Documentary Media class in Spring 2007.
This video is from Keith Olbermann Countdown, President George W. Bush waved that spectators Raleigh, N.C, but they didn’t wave back, so he tried again, but with the same result.
In 1986 Robert Silverstein jotted down by hand the following formula for solving the Rubik’s Cube. His record time using this method was 2 minutes 13 seconds.
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