twiminals

Here's an interesting article I found on www.gawker.com about criminals who tweet from prison. Wish we had known about this one for our twitter read!

Also, this might be old news, but here's the first tweet from space.

Mini skirt starts riot, leads to expulsion

Maybe some of you saw this in the news recently, a Brazilian girl started a riot at her school and was later expelled for wearing a mini skirt.
here's a link to an article
check it out here

And here's a video of it, unfortunately it's in Portuguese, but you can clearly hear people yelling "Puta" which means slut/ whore/ bitch




Why did this happen? This really changed how I imagined Brazil, before they were so sexualized-- I mean, "Brazilian waxing", Brazilian thong bathing suits.... Can this riot and those things co-exist?

Banana Man

I was looking at an older site I used to frequent and found this awesome video. It is so well done, and as simple as the lyrics, it's pretty catchy too. Hope you enjoy

Person Swap

Here is a video by Derren Brown that explores the idea of how observant people are. It kind of ties into the conversation 180 was discussing yesterday about being an island and how to create art, you need to step outside of yourself. The participants are not artists, but it's interesting to see how absorbed in their own lives they are that they take no notice when the person they're talking to completely switches. Embedding is disabled by request

What It Feels Like to Kill Someone

I am laid over in JFK for nine hours, so surfing the net is my saving grace at the moment. Loving the blog posts recently, but here's something a little heavier. I'm sure you've heard about this murder of a 9-year-old girl by a 15-year-old girl...what interests me is her motive. Apparently, she wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone. There are a lot of teen girls this age who get into "emo" and self-expression/individuality through such styles and alternative trends.

But for some reason this case goes beyond a simple emo teenaged girl who cuts herself. How unbelievable the departure is from a few shallow cries for attention on a wrist to a 9-year-old with a slashed throat. Hard to get my mind around it.

Gawker's article, with pictures.

German fake washroom mirror prank

My friend showed me this video, and it is hysterical! A pair of twins mirror their actions in a bathroom, so that when people come in... it looks like there is a mirror... The only problem is they can't see there own reflection. Take a look. I think the music is particularly amusing with this video too.

Youtube is Dying

So another video by our favorite mayne Mr. Chi City. If you feel that you're tired of this guy take notice that this video is four days old. It has earned over 285,000 hits so far. And to further entice you this post takes the charm and personality of "Mr. Chi City" and uses it to tackle some more interesting issues like the relation between youtube and google as a corporate entity and more importantly the types of control that youtube has on its posted videos.