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Top 12 Weird Japanese Inventions
Some simply amazing inventions. How do people think of these things.
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How to Dress for Your Google Interview
Jason Warner is the head of staffing for a division of Google. In other words, he’s Google’s in-house headhunter. If you want to work for Google, you should pay attention to what Jason says about the Google dress code.
- Sales and operations people wear quality shirts, nice slacks or khakis, and Ecco shoes. You can get away with wearing Dockers.
- Everyone else wears jeans, T-shirts, and Ugg boots.
- Leave the Rolex at home.
- Don’t dress for the job you want to have, dress 30% above your level. More than that, and it will look like you’re trying too hard.
That’s Jason on the right. From the picture, you can gather another bit of important information: Out of the office, sales and ops guys can wear polo shirts.
From Wired Blog
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Schedule incoming phone calls with the Popularity Dailer
Feel left out in a room full of people talking into their cell phones instead of to each other? The Popularity Dialer schedules recordings to call your cell phone at a predetermined time to give the impression that you too are "in demand."
The recordings are hilarious – and pretty realistic! – one-sided conversations with a male or female "friend" or your "boss" timed just so that you’d respond in kind. Ok fine, we’re not suggesting that you actually use this to seem more popular, but it could be just the thing to escape a bad date or drawn-out meeting. "Sorry, gotta take this!" – Gina Trapani
From lifehacker
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Antipodal Map Tool: The other side of the world
There’s a common belief, at least in the U.S., that if you were to dig a hole deep enough (assuming the technology existed), eventually you’d pop out on the other side of the earth, and this would be somewhere in China. This belief might be true……if you were to start your hole in Argentina.
Here’s a Google Maps tool that shows you exactly where you’d end up. Consult this before you start digging, or you may wind up at the bottom of the Indian Ocean –Link.
From MAKE Magainze
Posted in Google Earth, Interesting
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You'll never take my land!
Boing boing have recently featured stories about people who refuse to sell their homes to developers, no matter what the price.
This first house in Bismark was once part of a residential area, but as the nearby St. Alexius Medical Centre expanded they needed more and more parking space and bought up the land of all the adjacent houses. With the exception of one.
The house and its garden space are now directly opposite the emergency room so the owner must be either deaf or he really likes the sound of ambulance sirens.
Our second homeowner in San Jose refused to sell up to the developers of the nearby HP Pavilion indoor arena so is now completely surrounded by parking. I wonder if he gets free tickets on gamedays?
Previously on Google Sightseeing: The Man Who Lives in the Middle of the M62.
Thanks Boing boing and its readers.
Categories: California and North Dakota
From Google Sightseeing
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Planes in Formation?
Always something strange to see on Google Earth…
Initially we thought this was possibly the coolest find ever, but sadly this is not 9 small planes flying in formation over Denmark. No, even better than that, when you look closer it becomes obvious that someone has taken a single plane, and has been cloning it in Photoshop!
This is of course a complete scandal… I mean, it’s all very well blurring out Government buildings, which is just hiding the truth… but this? This is out and out fantasy! Where will it all end? (Probably Alien Civilizations and UFOs no doubt…)
The company that provides this particular aerial image is called Scankort, but as yet we’ve been unable to prove whether the image was manipulated by them, or by Google themselves. However, there is one other possibility… No, I’m not talking about aliens, I’m talking about BBC 2!
They get everywhere those little 2s…
Via gearthhacks and virtualglobetrotting.
From Google Sightseeing
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