Month: August 2006

Cory Doctorow:
RIcky sez, “supernumber18 on YouTube has posted a couple of videos of Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion with the lights on. While this would normally be news in itself (it’s fairly rare to see the Mansion with the lights on), there’s even more to the story. Evidently the kids were trying to steal something from the recently made-over attic scene.”

Hot damn this is a kick-ass piece of video — the Mansion with the lights on, it’s like a cross between seeing your parents having sex and catching the hand of God rearranging the laws of physics while your back is turned.

On 08/13/06 we were riding Haunted Mansion at Disneyland when the lights suddenly came on. We later learned that it was because a few kids tried to steal a prop. They were escorted outside by CM’s and dealt with by security.

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(Thanks, Ricky!)

Update: Andrew sez, “I instantly thought of the video I had recorded of Space Mountain with its lights on, which I recorded on my trip to Disney World last week.”

Originally from Boing Boing

Updated report on the Zabasearch ‘people search’ service.

Originally from New Urban Legends

How to site Instructables has a nifty tutorial that will teach you to perform the “best card trick in the world.”

I don’t know about “best,” but the trick is mighty good, and since I’m a big fan of good card tricks (I’m not particularly good at them, but…), my love for Instructables continues to grow. Check out a video of the trick for yourself after the jump.

There you have it. Any amateur sleight-of-hand artists out there? Tell us about your favorite tricks in the comments or at tips at lifehacker.com (unless you’re sworn not to tell your secrets). — Adam Pash

Originally from Lifehacker

The Concert Ticket Generator lets you create and customize your own authentic-ish concert tickets so that you can brag to your friends about all the great shows you’ve been to, you pathetic liar.

Actually, it’s kind of a fun idea, and might make for a good joke, but don’t go thinking you can print off tickets to future shows and get away with it – the TicketBastard watermark might look similar, but it seems unlikely to convince. Thanks Alex! — Adam Pash

Originally from Lifehacker

Cory Doctorow:

Ben and Jerry’s sell a room-spray that smells like waffle-cones in the oven. This is an arrestingly delicious smell, but I expect that if I sprayed it around my place, I’d actually get fatter just by whiffing it.

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(via Cribcandy)

Originally from Boing Boing