Category Archives: Offbeat News

TipEx’s clever, raunchy YouTube ad

September 3rd, 2010 | Posted in Creativity, Offbeat News

TipEx (a Commonwealth analogue for Wite-Out and other correction-tape products) has an ingenious and engaging YouTube marketing campaign: a video called “NSFW: A hunter shoots a bear,” branches off into a kind of video-text-adventure, where you are invited to type verbs into a box and see what the bear and the hunter do with one [...]

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September 3rd, 2010 | Posted in Offbeat News

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The World’s Biggest Drum Machine

August 30th, 2010 | Posted in Art, Offbeat News

The Swedish music software developer Propellerhead built The World’s Biggest Drum Machine. Create Digital Music has a behind the scenes look at how it was created. via Gizmodo Join the forum discussion on this post

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Videos of 11-foot-8 trestle eating 12-foot trucks

August 30th, 2010 | Posted in Offbeat News

The Gregson Street train trestle in Durham, NC, is 11-foot-8-inches high. Occasionally, a driver of a 12-foot-tall truck approaching the trestle doesn’t pay heed to the flashing warning lights and gets the top ripped off his trailer. It happens often enough that Jürgen Henn has a Web site called 11foot8.com with videos of the unfortunate [...]

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Danish Rabbit Hopping Championships

August 26th, 2010 | Posted in Offbeat News

Here are the winners of this year’s Danish Rabbit Hopping Championships. via Nag on the Lake Join the forum discussion on this post

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Every Time Zone

August 22nd, 2010 | Posted in Creativity, Offbeat News

Every Time Zone is a great visualization tool that gives you a snapshot of what time it is around the world. via swissmiss Join the forum discussion on this post

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