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Worlds Dumbest Criminal
January 18th, 2012
This is just absolutely amazing. This guy really has a never say die attitude. One thing we can say about him though, he is tough, I would be hurting soo bad after a few of his falls. He literally beats himself up.
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15 things to do on a road trip
January 18th, 2012
I spend alot of time on the road, I often think of things I can do while stuck in traffic. Here is a video, listing 15 things you can do on a road trip to irritate people.
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Addicted computer people
June 16th, 2011
I received this in an email the other day, and thought it must be shared on I am bored:
Do you have something to share on iambored? Submit a site and share with everyone.
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Germans Don’t Understand Traffic Circle
January 21st, 2011
Today in History 2nd September
September 2nd, 2010
Today in history 2nd september, the following happened:
1920 W Somerset Maugham’s “East of Suez,” premieres in London
1919 Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago
1919 Italy agress to general voting right/proportional representation
1919 National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series
1917 Deutsche Vaterlands Party forms (by Admiral Tirpitz)
1914 General von Hausen and countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux
1913 Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas
1909 English King Edward VII signs South Africa Bill
1908 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Lang in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1901 Vice President Theodore Roosevelt advises, “Speak softly and carry a big stick”
1900 Telegraph use between Germany and U.S. begins
1898 Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
1898 Machine gun 1st used in battle
1894 Amsterdam Municipal theater opens
1870 Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies
1867 1st Girl School opens in Haarlem, Netherlands
1864 Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta
1859 Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii
1839 Salon of Varietes opens in Amsterdam
1806 A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley, Switzerland, kills 500
1796 Jews of the Netherlands are emancipated
1792 Paris masses remove nobles/clergymen out of jails and slaughter them
1789 U.S. Treasury Department established by Congress
1752 Last Julian calender day in U.S. and England (no Sept 3-Sept 13th)
1752 Last day of Julian calendar in Britain, British colonies
1743 England/Austria/Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms
1732 Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome
1686 Habsburgse armies occupy Buda on Turks
1666 Great Fire in London ends, kills 8
1666 Fire in London destroys 13,000 houses and kills 8
1644 Battle at Lostwithiel: Robert Devereux’ infantry surrenders
1537 King Christian III publishes “Ordinance on the Danish Church”
1519 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico
1192 Sultan Saladin and king Richard the lion hearted sign cease fire
911 Viking-monarch Oleg of Kiev-Russia signs treaty with Byzantines
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Just for a laugh
August 18th, 2010
Here are some really funny quotes: have fun.
1. The fattest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption.
5. No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.
6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
9. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
11. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
12. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other: ‘You stay here; I’ll go on a head.’
13. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
14. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: ‘Keep off the Grass.’
15. The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
16. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
17. A backward poet writes inverse.
18. In a democracy it’s your vote that counts. In feudalism it’s your count that votes.
19. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.
20. If you jumped off the bridge in Paris, you’d be in Seine.
21. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, ‘I’m sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.’
22. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says ’Dam!’
23. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can’t have your kayak and heat it too.
24. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, ‘I’ve lost my electron.’ The other says ‘Are you sure?’ The first replies, ‘Yes, I’m positive.’
25. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.
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Create your own Sun Jar
July 27th, 2009
Rules that Govern Groups
July 2nd, 2009
10 Rules That Govern Groups
Much of our lives are spent in groups with other people: we form groups to socialise, earn money, play sport, make music, even to change the world. But although groups are diverse, many of the psychological processes involved are remarkably similar.
Here are 10 insightful studies that give a flavour of what has been discovered about the dynamics of group psychology.
1. Groups can arise from almost nothing
The desire to form and join social groups is extremely powerful and built into our nature. Amongst other things groups give us a most valuable gift, our social identity, which contribute to our sense of who we are.
Just how readily people form and join groups is demonstrated by Tajfel et al. (1971) in the so-called ‘minimal groups paradigm‘. In their study boys who were strangers to each other were given only the slightest hint that they they were being split into two groups. Even without knowing or seeing who else was in their group they favoured members of their own group over the others. Group behaviour, then, can arise from almost nothing.
2. Initiation rites improve group evaluations
Existing groups don’t let others join for free: the cost is sometimes monetary, sometimes intellectual, sometimes physical—but usually there is an initiation rite, even if it’s well disguised.
Aronson and Mills (1959) tested the effect of initiation rites by making one group of women read passages from sexually explicit novels. Afterwards they rated the group they had joined much more positively than those who hadn’t had to undergo the humiliating initiation. So, not only do groups want to test you, but they want you to value your membership.
3. Groups breed conformity
After joining a group and being initiated, we have to get a feel for the group norms, the rules of behaviour in that group. Group norms can be extremely powerful, bending our behaviours in ways we would never expect.
One of the most famous experiments showing how easily we conform to unwritten group rules was conducted by Asch (1951). He had participants sit amongst a group of other people, judging the length of a line. The trick was that all the other members of the group were confederates of the experimenter who had been told to lie about which line was longer. Incredibly 76% of participants denied the evidence from their own senses at least once, just to conform with the group. Afterwards people made up all kinds of excuses for their behaviour. Most popular was a variation on: “that many people can’t be wrong”. Oh yes they can.
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Story of Nail art
July 2nd, 2009
