Author Archives: Niall Murphy

Gold To Go – the world’s first gold vending machine. Already installed in Abu Dhabi, Germany, Italy and Spain. Next stop, Las Vegas and Florida.

From the hideous blurb:

The GOLD to go vending machine is an unmanned point of sale. It offers an extraordinary opportunity to purchase gold bars and coins of assured quality, backed by the security of a Swabian Fort Knox® and with the ease-of-use of a vending machine. Prices are updated in real-time. The GOLD to go gold vending machine is largely burglar-proof and tamper-resistant. It has an excellent user guidance, which makes it very easy to handle.

‘Burglar proof and tamper resistant’, eh?

Sounds like a challenge.

cnet


Keanu Reeves, interviewed in NYMag yesterday, claims not to have any knowledge of the global Sad Keanu meme.

What an actor.

You’re taking over the Internet. Have you seen all the “Sad Keanu” stuff out there?
My publicist showed me the photo, but no.

There’s not one photo. There are millions. You’re Photoshopped next to kittens and into Pulp Fiction and next to the cast of The Breakfast Club, and in a million different ways. Have you seen those?
Oh, that’s funny! No, no, I haven’t seen them.

There are millions, really. Google “Sad Keanu.” You haven’t?
[Laughs.] No.

Seriously, though, this is one of the reasons I think one of the big appeals of you as an actor is that people are always straining to figure out what’s on your mind, what you’re thinking, why you’re sad … There’s thousands of people doing this.
Wow. So, what, now they’re putting me next to other objects?

Yes! For instance, right now I’m looking at you in some Banksy graffiti, you next to a panda.
That’s so funny.

You with a cheerleader, but you don’t notice her …
Oh, that’s funny. So they like take paparazzi pictures and re-contextualize them? Funny.

Exactly.
Well, it sounds like harmless, good clean fun.

Read the full interview here.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYXKaAzEJrk&feature=player_embedded#!

The best two-Kermit-Bowie-Mercury-ambidextrous-homeless-guy-mime you’ll see today.

Touching, inspiring, clearly staged, but in a very good cause. It’s a viral awareness-raiser for change.org. And, naturally, it has its own Josh Ellingson sketch.

Welcome to the internets, curiously talented homeless guy.

DailyWh.at

In August 1974, eight months before its cinema release, Tony Kerpel of the British Board of Film Classification previewed Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

A subsequent chat between Kerpel and Mark Forstater, one of the film’s producers, led to the above summary of the censor’s advice, which Forstater mailed to fellow producer, Michael White.

geekosystem

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upqp2W1un9w

Jeb Corliss, 34, professional BASE jumper, skydiver, and wingsuit flyer, does his terrifying thing.

In 2006, he was arrested and banned from ever setting foot in the Empire State building after unsuccessfully attempting to exit from the observation deck.

He was probably surprised at all the fuss.

More insanity here.

thehighdefinite