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Entries from September 2009

messenger pigeons transmit data faster than the internet

September 11th, 2009 · No Comments

At least in South Africa.
Frustrated with Telkom, South Africa’s biggest ISP, the cheeky staff at a South African IT company devised a race to see what would be faster: e-mailing a large file from their Pietermaritzburg offices to the city of Durban, 77 km away, or strapping a data stick to a pigeon’s leg and […]

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Tags: africa · crazy · curio · dumb · fauna · funny · irony · neato · tech

how to fake a sports injury

September 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

All you Italian soccer players out there can skip this lesson — hell, you could probably teach the class.
The BBC asks the asinine question: “Could a rugby injury be faked?” Yes, yes it could — and Nick Asbury of the Royal Shakespeare Company has put together a tutorial video to show you how, complete […]

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Tags: funny · movies/tv/video · sport · uk