I don’t usually post beer commercials on my blog (I’m more of a root beer man myself), but this one is pretty amazing. If you have ever enjoyed setting up dominoes and watching them fall, you have got to check out this ad for Guinness Dark Stout. No special effects were used in making the ad. There is even a nice hat tip to the old Mousetrap game at around the -0.47 second mark.

(Video length: 1:30)

Shot in an Argentinian mountainside village, it features a game of dominoes which escalates to include suitcases, tires, oil drums, fridges, wardrobes and cars … The advert took a week to film, with some of the sequences having to be reshot up to 15 times. Setting the dominoes on the table at the start of the advert took a team of three experts two days, but it took just 14 seconds to topple.

Paul Cornell, the marketing manager for Guinness, said: “The ad is fundamentally a celebration of community. It shows an entire village coming together to create an awe-inspiring spectacle of toppling objects.”

HT: Neatorama

Here are the five best things to say if you’re caught sleeping at work:

5. They told me at the blood bank this might happen.

4. This is just a 15 minute power nap like they raved about in the
    time management course you sent me to.

3. Whew! Guess I left the top off the white-out. You probably got
    here just in time.

2. Did you ever notice sound coming out of these keyboards when
    you put your ear down real close?

And the number one best thing to say if you’re caught sleeping at your desk:

1. Raise your head slowly and say, . . . “Amen!”

(Original source unknown)

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Sory for al the typoes and speling erors, but I em sufring fom slepe depervation along wit te ressed of peple hear in Masachussets and probly wil bee untill the werld serees is over. Go Soox!

(BOSTON/AP – The Boston Red Sox routed Colorado 13-1 to take the World Series opener. Josh Beckett struck out nine in his seven innings and the Red Sox set a World Series record with eight doubles and nine extra base hits in their 17-hit attack. Eleven of their runs came with two outs.)

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Sorry, Star Wars fans – this one was just too much fun to pass up. And it’s
in widescreen, too!

Darth Vader Feels Blue (Video length: 1:45)

So, is this another example of George Lucas still fine-tuning various scenes from his movies?

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HT: Neatorama via Provocative Church

I saw this morning that former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. But never mind the Nobel Prize. Check out the 2007 Ig Nobel Prizes, awarded last Thursday night, October 4, at the 17th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. Here are some of my favorites from the list.

• Physics: L. Mahadevan of Harvard University, USA, and Enrique Cerda Villablanca of Universidad de Santiago de Chile, for studying how sheets become wrinkled.
• Biology: Prof. Dr. Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk of Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, for doing a census of all the mites, insects, spiders, pseudoscorpions, crustaceans, bacteria, algae, ferns and fungi with whom we share our beds each night.
• Literature: Glenda Browne of Blaxland, Blue Mountains, Australia, for her study of the word “the” — and of the many ways it causes problems for anyone who tries to put things into alphabetical order.
• Nutrition: Brian Wansink of Cornell University, for exploring the seemingly boundless appetites of human beings, by feeding them with a self-refilling, bottomless bowl of soup.
• Economics: Kuo Cheng Hsieh, of Taichung, Taiwan, for patenting a device, in the year 2001, that catches bank robbers by dropping a net over them.

Related Link: List of 2007 Nobel Prize Winners

I am sure many of you are familiar with The Serenity Prayer, written by Reinhold Niebuhr:

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Now Ben Witherington presents The Senility Prayer “for folks over 50 who are cranky”:

Grant me the senility
to forget the people I never liked anyway;
the good fortune to run into the ones I do;
and the eyesight to tell the difference.

Witherington also has a great story about prayer in the same article. “A voyaging ship was wrecked during a storm at sea and only two of the men on it were able to swim to a small, desert like island . . . .”

seagull.gif A seagull in Scotland has developed the habit of stealing chips from a neighborhood shop.

Dubbed “Sam” by the locals, the seagull waits until the shopkeeper isn’t looking, and then walks into the store and grabs a snack-size bag of cheese Doritos. Once outside, the bag gets ripped open and shared by other birds.

Sneaky Sam’s shoplifting started in July 2007 when he first swooped into the store in Aberdeen, Scotland, and helped himself to a bag of chips. Since then, he’s become a regular. He always takes the same type of chips.

Customers have begun paying for the seagull’s stolen bags of chips because they think it’s so funny.

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Politics got you down? Enjoy the lighter side of our President as he tries his hand at some stand up comedy at the Annual Radio & Television Correspondents Association Dinner.

(Video length: 7:16)

President George W. Bush at the Annual Radio & Television Correspondents Association Dinner;
March 28, 2007

HT: Evangelical Outpost

Here is a little Adam Sandler clip for everyone heading back to school.

(Video length: 0:32)

“Back to school! Back to school, to prove to Dad that I’m not a fool! I got my lunch packed up, my boots tied tight, I hope I don’t get in a fight! Ohhhh, back to school! Back to school! Back to school! Well, here goes nothing!”

HT: Provocations and Pantings

As the pastor says near the end of the video: “I’ve been a pastor for 25 years – and that’s a first.”

(Video length: 1:25)

Does this kid belong to any of you? 🙂

HT: GirlTalk

Here is a video showcasing some great shadow puppetry set to the music of Louis Armstrong crooning “What a Wonderful World.” It’s amazing what you can produce with just two hands and an overhead projector.

(Video length: 2:17)

Note: Shadow puppetry performed by Australian magician Raymond Crowe.

HT: Challies

Mac versus PC: In which PC and Mac get theological in their debate:

PC: PCs are way better than Macs. Remember, it was an Apple that caused all the problems to begin with back in the Garden.

Mac: True, but that’s only because Eve would never have been tempted by a PC.

(I am actually a PC guy myself, but my brother should enjoy this.)

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