Tag: insanity
Bill Gates unleashes horde of mosquitos into packed conference hall
Screaming “Not only poor people should experience this!”, last night Bill Gates released a swarm of mosquitoes into the audience at TED – a technology conference in California. You just can’t make this stuff up.
Gates, whose foundation spends millions of dollars on combating malaria, was making a point that rich countries don’t pay the disease enough attention because it doesn’t really impact their citizenry. Still, hell of a PR stunt!
The Twittersphere reported the swarm as it was release, with eBay founder and Twitter CEO Pierre Omidyar providing the best commentary.
(via Switched)
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Insane companies are doing job interviews in Second Life
Now, chances are you spend a lot of time on the internet. There’s nothing wrong with that. In fact, it’s definitely better than spending your evenings worrying about the sex life of Ian Beale and which moron’s going to get voted off whatever abysmal reality show is currently fashionable.
But doing job interviews? Online? In the odd fantasy world of Second life? It’s corporate suicide for…
