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How To Get YouTube To Film You?

This totally sums up everything I hate and love about the internet, a place of equal parts imbecile and brilliance. Okay, maybe the ratio is a little bleaker than that. Something more like 999 idiots to every redeemable person, but usually their genius makes up for (most) of their peers. So thank you, camaha126. You're truly one in a thousand.

P.S. The other answers do make for a fun read. Enjoy.

[YahooAnswers via TechEBlog]

 

Darth Vader To Celebrate Earth Hour - Join The Dark Side!

These ads for this year's Earth Hour (March 27th) are so unbelievably fantastic. Look at all those happy animals! And Vader's butterfly headband! Almost makes you want to join the Dark Side, doesn't it? Don't worry, if you're not ready for a commitment to the Dark Lord of the Sith, you can stick with Earth Hour, a single hour where everyone in the world is encouraged to take a stance against climate change by turning off the lights.

On Earth Hour hundreds of millions of people, organizations, corporations and governments around the world will come together to make a bold statement about their concern for climate change by doing something quite simple—turning off their lights for one hour. In the U.S. where we are already feeling the impacts of climate change, Earth Hour sends a clear message that Americans care about this issue and want to turn the lights out on dirty air, dangerous dependency on foreign oil and costly climate change impacts, and make the switch to cleaner air, a strong economic future and a more secure nation.

Participation is easy. By flipping off your lights on March 27th at 8:30 p.m. local time you will be making the switch to a cleaner, more secure nation and prosperous America. View the toolkits, to find out what else you can do to get involved including leading the Earth Hour movement in your community.

Learn more about Earth Hour here!

[EarthHour.be via LikeCool]

 

The CIA Spiked The Bread

In 1951, the French Village of Pont-Saint-Esprit was struck with a mysterious case of chaotic insanity when inhabitants mysteriously suffered from intense hallucinations leaving many institutionalized and 5 dead.

One man tried to drown himself, screaming that his belly was being eaten by snakes. An 11-year-old tried to strangle his grandmother. Another man shouted: "I am a plane", before jumping out of a second-floor window, breaking his legs. He then got up and carried on for 50 yards. Another saw his heart escaping through his feet and begged a doctor to put it back. Many were taken to the local asylum in strait jackets.

So what happened? The best explanation at the time was the possibility of a psychedelic mold in the town's bread supply. If that doesn't make you feel uneasy, then just you wait. Turns out things were a little different, as discovered by investigative journalist H P Albarelli Jr., who claims the outbreak to be a result of the C.I.A. lacing the town's bread with LSD as a tactic of experimental mind control during the Cold War.

Mr Albarelli came across CIA documents while investigating the suspicious suicide of Frank Olson, a biochemist working for the SOD who fell from a 13th floor window two years after the Cursed Bread incident. One note transcribes a conversation between a CIA agent and a Sandoz official who mentions the "secret of Pont-Saint-Esprit" and explains that it was not "at all" caused by mould but by diethylamide, the D in LSD.

While compiling his book, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments, Mr Albarelli spoke to former colleagues of Mr Olson, two of whom told him that the Pont-Saint-Esprit incident was part of a mind control experiment run by the CIA and US army.

After the Korean War the Americans launched a vast research programme into the mental manipulation of prisoners and enemy troops.

Scientists at Fort Detrick told him that agents had sprayed LSD into the air and also contaminated "local foot products".

Mr Albarelli said the real "smoking gun" was a White House document sent to members of the Rockefeller Commission formed in 1975 to investigate CIA abuses. It contained the names of a number of French nationals who had been secretly employed by the CIA and made direct reference to the "Pont St. Esprit incident." In its quest to research LSD as an offensive weapon, Mr Albarelli claims, the US army also drugged over 5,700 unwitting American servicemen between 1953 and 1965.

Holy shit, America.

Read more about the "cursed bread incident" and the C.I.A. here and/or check out H P Albarelli Jr.'s book, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments.

[Telegraph via BoingBoing]

 

The Internet Has Collided - Chatroulette On Missed Connections

Because Missed Connections couldn't possibly be any vaguer, a bunch of webcam junkies realized they could use its services for their Chatroulette infatuations. To be fair, I have no idea how else they're going to reconnect with a disconnected user. Have you not seen ChatrouletteMap? Everybody is online!

Anyway, here are a couple of gems that Zane found in the Philadelphia region. Who knows, maybe we can play a part in the reunion of two love-at-first-sight birds or some creepy stalker felony.

Met on Chatroulette - m4w - 20 (chatroulette)

I met you on Chat roulette, you just got back from your friends crib. the connection broke and you seemed like fun. I gave you an email that expired in 24 hours, hoping you just didnt get a chance to write it down.

Chat Roulette - m4w - 34 (New Orleans)

Hi there! We met on CR over the weekend. You were the most interesting person I met. We talked about clothes and textures... You remember me. Tell me what you were wearing to confirm who you are. I would love to continue our conversation...

S

chat roulette friday nite - m4m

hey we were chattin online friday nite on chatroulette.com. my computer crashed and i lost the connection. we were talkin about how there should be a way to find the person by hittin the back button. lol i said craigslist. u seemed like a cool guy to talk to and id like to chat again. i hope you actually check this bc i dont know where in delaware ur at. i was in cleveland ohio. hit me up!

Chatroulette Froze/ Disconected - m4w - 20 (New York/Phila)

You live in New York and are a freshman in school. You want to be a dental hygenist and ran the 400 and 600 meter in high school. You recently had dental work/braces.
I really enjoyed talking to you unfourtantely we didnot exchange names. I hope this finds you.
Dave

Good luck, dorks.

 

5 Second Films

It takes a very special storyteller to an entertain his audience for a mere 5 seconds, that's why if you haven't already heard of 5 Second Films, then your life is a shameful waste. Here. I'll help you make it better. Check out this video of the top 20 5 second films by 5 Second Films and then head on over to 5 Second Films and watch more 5 second films. Voila. Your quality of life has just improved 100% in 5 (more like 8) seconds. Don't thank me. Thank Tom-fucking-Watson.

[via Uproxx]

 

Hoboken!!!!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

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