Planet Bizzle

Aug 9, 2010

Social Media Monopoly

It’s the game that brings the internet into the real world!

Pete Cashmore, Kevin Rose, Tom, Amber MacArthur, Crystal Gibson and Ariana Huffington are fighting for social media dominance. Race around the board picking up smartphones and computers but make sure you don’t get sent to MySpace or you’ll risk losing everything, including your reputation.

Print out the full-size version plus the Mashable and Technorati cards and use your regular Monopoly game money, and you’re good to go.

Aug 8, 2010

Monty Python Meets Star Wars

Oh wow - this is fantastic! Great editing and sound bite choices. (Bonus - watch for the stormtrooper on the speederbike at 1:12.)

'Ice Invaders' and Other COOL Ways to Keep Your Drink Fresh...

Neatorama's NeatoShop has a ton of great stuff. Here's some of my favorite ice trays:

Ice Invaders

Brain Freeze

Gin & Titonic

Cool Jewels

Fossiliced

Stone Cold

Some Amazing Shots

Evan Sellers has a talent: he can sink basketball shots from enormous distances. In this video, Sellers is standing on top of the 134-foot platform in the statue of the Roman god Vulcan in Birmingham, Alabama. The goal is about 150-180 feet from the base of the sculpture, making this possibly the farthest basketball shot ever recorded.

Of course it's all subjective, but here's a candidate for the world's GREATEST basketball shot:

A Different Graduation Speech

Erica Goldson gave a very different Valedictorian speech at Coxsackie-Athens High School in Coxsackie, New York. She gave the commencement address many students over the years claimed they would make if they ever got the chance. She began by stating that her goal in school was to get out as soon as she could.

I should look at this as a positive experience, especially being at the top of my class. However, in retrospect, I cannot say that I am any more intelligent than my peers. I can attest that I am only the best at doing what I am told and working the system. Yet, here I stand, and I am supposed to be proud that I have completed this period of indoctrination. I will leave in the fall to go on to the next phase expected of me, in order to receive a paper document that certifies that I am capable of work. But I contest that I am a human being, a thinker, an adventurer – not a worker. A worker is someone who is trapped within repetition – a slave of the system set up before him. But now, I have successfully shown that I was the best slave. I did what I was told to the extreme. While others sat in class and doodled to later become great artists, I sat in class to take notes and become a great test-taker. While others would come to class without their homework done because they were reading about an interest of theirs, I never missed an assignment. While others were creating music and writing lyrics, I decided to do extra credit, even though I never needed it. So, I wonder, why did I even want this position? Sure, I earned it, but what will come of it? When I leave educational institutionalism, will I be successful or forever lost? I have no clue about what I want to do with my life; I have no interests because I saw every subject of study as work, and I excelled at every subject just for the purpose of excelling, not learning. And quite frankly, now I’m scared.

You can read the entire 'Here I Stand' speech and some reactions at Swift Kick Central.