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34-year-old James Peterson earned a spot in Guinness World Records after he fist-pumped for 16 hours straight, beginning at 11am on Friday and ending at 3am on Saturday. In order to assure success, Peterson super-glued his hand shut and had pair of videographers film the thrill a minute action in its entirety.
Peterson claims to be a “seasoned veteran of fist pumping” who has honed his skills while installing light fixtures over his head. He also claims to have performed this same feat on St. Patrick’s Day – although it wasn’t documented.
Even though he’s from Ohio, Peterson says he prefers “Jersey Style” fist-pumping, which requires the use of your elbow to roll your fist, as opposed to a “fist thrust” where simply thrusts his fist into the air.
So what was he so pumped about? A guy from Jersey would have just thought about the Jets for 16 hours, but since he’s from Ohio, Peterson’s motivation is a mystery.
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ADR Studio launched the “Instagram Socialmatic Project” which sought to convert the Instagram icon into a fully-functional camera. The result is this impressive device which offers a myriad of features, including 16 GB of mass storage, wi-fi and Bluetooth, a 4:3 touchscreen, webcam applications and QR Code capturing, optical zoom, LED flash, an internal printer, Facebook sharing and more.
Sadly, the camera is only a concept at this point – however, the company does plant a seed of hope by saying “it could became real…”
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A lightning bolt in Madrid decided to channel its way into the ground through an unidentified man’s nutsack on Thursday, sending him to the hospital with burns, but leaving his heart and brain intact. The victim is currently in stable condition – hopefully his dignity is as well.
Somewhere Thor is laughing his ass off.
(via Metro)
During a meeting in 1984, Apple sought to mobilize an international sales force to sell a sh*t ton of Macs and dominate IBM by inappropriately comparing the rivalry to 1944, the year allied forces gained the upper hand in the European theater of World War II. To illustrate their point, the company produced a terrible 9 minute film that followed up on their legendary 1984 TV spot, and featured Steve Jobs in the role of FDR, declaring:
“General, you and your brave fighting force have a rendezvous with destiny. Your battle will be long. It will be hard, but it will be won. I’m sure your victory will be great. Insanely great.”
The film was obtained by Network World from Craig Elliott, a former Apple employee who is now CEO of Pertino Networks, a cloud-computing startup. Hit the jump to check out the complete film and a short clip of Jobs’ cameo.
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This pissed off looking character is Claude, a Monster Tasmanian Crab that was recently caught off the coast of (you guessed it) Tasmania. Claude currently weighs 15 lbs and measures 15″ in width, however, he’s expected to reach 30 lbs and add an additional 3″ of girth. He was purchased by a British Aquarium for £3,000 ($4,800), where he’s now living a confined, but well-catered life:
In the wild, crabs eat any dead or dying matter they find on the seabed but Claude is currently dining on diced mackerel and squid and is reportedly very happy with his gourmet diet. Rob Hicks, head marine biologist for Sea Life, said: ‘They are such impressive creatures we thought that it was worth the cost and effort of flying them halfway round the world so they can flourish in an aquarium display. Jemma Battrick, aquarist at Weymouth Sea Life said: ‘When I found out we were getting the crabs in I was really excited.’
Translation: “I bet people will pay a mint to come gawk at this beast.”
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A Mexican Internet company called “Terra” has launched a promotional campaign that will provide free Wi-Fi in exchange for dog sh*t. The company equipped local parks and public places with weigh stations that will provide varying periods of free Wi-Fi for the surrounding area depending on how much poop is provided. Ad agency DDB even created what is sure to be a viral video to spread the word, which you can check out after the break (it helps if you understand Spanish). There doesn’t seem to be any details on how long the promotion will last, let alone what will happen to the scat after it’s been weighed, or even how the scale will determine whether it is indeed weighing poop, and not say, a brick – but chances are that this will encourage web addicts to clean up after their dogs.
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While walking down the sidewalk in the Chinese city of Xi’an, the pavement beneath a schoolgirl’s feet gave way, sending her into an 6 meter deep sinkhole. A cab driver witnessed the event and sprang into action, lowering himself into the hole as best he could to check on the girl. The fire department soon arrived and provided a ladder for the rescue.
“The ladder kept moving about, it’s a little flimsy and the girl kept screaming out of fear,” cabbie Wang Wei recalled. “So I told her to go first and I’ll be right behind her. Finally we managed to get out.”
Thankfully, the girl seemed to emerge from the hole shaken but otherwise unharmed. Check out the video after the break -it makes something like this seem pretty tame by comparison.
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Meow is a two year old cat that weighs 39 pounds – the equivalent of a 600 pound human. He was surrendered to the Santa Fe Animal Humane Society after his 87 year old owner said she could no longer care for him, stating that he was a fit kitten, but suddenly ballooned. Meow is currently staying with a foster family and is being checked to ensure a medical condition isn’t contributing to his weight. Check out the video after the jump to learn more.
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A whole new application for physics has been discovered by University of California, San Diego professor Dmitri Krioukov, who used it to BS his way out of a $400 ticket:
As Physics Central explains, because the police officer was around 30m from the intersection where the stop sign was situated, “a car approaching the intersection with constant linear velocity will rapidly increase in angular velocity from the police officer’s perspective”
The physicist even created graphs showing what happens would have happened to his angular velocity if he had either been driving at a constant linear velocity or had made a quick stop then accelerated back to speed, which is what he claims happens (actually, he sneezed, causing him to brake harder than usual). It was during this sneeze stop that another vehicle obscured the police officer’s view of Krioukov’s car, argues the paper.
I’d imagine the likely scenario was that the judge saw him waking into court with graphs and a determined look and decided then and there that it would be easier to dismiss the case rather than sit through his excuse and attempt to fathom it.
(via Wired)
