Halloween link blitz
Posted: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 8:59 AM by Will Femia
From Matthew in the mailbag: A bunch of Halloween games
"Of all the terrors lurking in the streets and alleys across the U.S. tomorrow night, the economics of Halloween may be the most horrific." (Mostly wrestles with the problem of distributing candy that trick-or-treaters don't like.)
Famous scary homes (Zillow is a real estate site, so these links add the weird dimension of providing value assessments.
Speaking of famous locations, "An attempt to recreate some outdoor shots from The Matrix at the locations where they were filmed."
For the life of me I can't figure out why malfunctioning voting machines isn't a bigger story. Although I've read some good guesses. Updates on this blog entry offer suggestions for trying to make it a bigger story.
Speaking of malfunctioning machines, Rick mailed this link on how to steal an election by hacking the vote.
How To Keep Good Posture When In Front Of A Computer - The first one about the back rest is the most important - or at least, the one I feel makes the biggest difference. The eye advice is also one I follow. I make a habit of doing focus exercises every time I pause for thought.
Time has a cool set of infographics, including a map of population density that is drawing a lot of links.
900 satellites plotted in interactive 3-D around the Earth. (Requires Java)
There's a new Diet Coke/Mentos video. Instead of choreographed fountains, it's set up like a domino rally. When one bottle erupts, it pulls the pin that's holding back the Mentos in the next bottle. Interesting that Coke appears to be a sponsor. Good idea.
Speaking of marketing with YouTube, "Think dove's "campaign for Real Beauty" generated a ton of buzz for relatively little expense? You haven't seen anything yet." The question I have is how necessary YouTube is to a video experiencing such a viral explosion. Would it have been the same phenomenon if people had simply e-mailed each other links to the source site and followed references from blogs?
I don't do a lot of online shopping, so it took me a minute to figure out what RetailMeNot is about. As you might guess, it comes from the BugMeNot folks, but instead of people sharing login information, they share coupon codes.
Meet The First Car Powered By Air - After reading the description of the compressed air tank I had a vision of a person in this car getting in a rear end collision and sputtering around the freeway like an untied balloon.
