Monthly Archive for September, 2006

Europe Bound

Over Paris by Arnold Pouteau's
Over Paris by Arnold Pouteau’s (notice the Eif­fel Tower hid­den in the mist)

This blog might be a tad empty for the next while as I’m head­ing off for an extended vaca­tion. For now, try Boing Boing for some strange and amus­ing articles.

Improv Everywhere

Improv Everywhere - Best Buy Invasion

Here is a great site that fea­tures pranksters at their best. In one “mis­sion”, Improv Every­where had hun­dreds of peo­ple invade a Best Buy depart­ment store. Every indi­vid­ual was wear­ing the stan­dard Best Buy uni­form of blue shirt and kaki pants. Need­less to say, they caused quite the com­mo­tion. The per­sonal accounts of these pranks may be a lit­tle long-winded, but the con­cepts behind them are great. Go check it out.

Improv Every­where: We Cause Scenes via Rock­et­boom and x_defying_gravity_x

Debating Religion

The Daily Show: Even Stevens Debate Religion

If you have ever wanted to see a truly hard hit­ting debate, this clip is for you. Watch as Stephen Col­bert and Steve Car­rell debate which reli­gion is more plau­si­ble: Islam or Chris­tian­ity. I know a thing or two about valid argu­ment struc­ture, and I can assure you, the premises put forth by these two aca­d­e­mic heavy­weights are some of the most bril­liant and thought pro­vok­ing I have ever seen.

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