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The fun theory – people do things when it’s fun!

Not much needs to be said here, check out this video – what a great idea!

Win $100 in A/V cables and accessories!

To all NorthGeeks and home theater enthusiasts, our good friends over at Optimization-World.com have informed us of an exciting contest they’re running, where you can win a $100 gift card to their site, just for submitting a photo of your messy cabling set-up!

Whether it’s your computer cable maze or your home theater cable jungle, snap a photo of it and either send it directly to us, or visit their contest page, at http://www.optimization-world.com/contest.html to submit your entry. The contest page has all the rules, too.

With $100 there, you can do some serious damage!

So go get messy, and good luck!!

Tuts My Barreh

If you haven’t seen this yet, be prepared for your life to change – forever.

Funny kid singing – strange?

I hope this isn’t mean, because it’s hystericl!!

Montreal’s very own Michael Jackson tribute!

NorthGeek Product Review: 6′ HDMI 1.3b cable from Optimized Cable Co.

Sorry for the delay, folks – but here it is!! Our first review of a product from http://www.optimization-world.com – here is the product page for the HDMI cable they sent me – a 6′ gold-plated HDMI cable, for just $12.99! And they ship to Canada!

Please don’t mind the lack of editing – I had to use iMovie and I haven’t used it in a while… Am waiting for the new FCP to come out!

Mommy said I could!!

This is an oldie but a goodie…

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Evian RollerBabies!

Maybe the funniest and cutest video you’ll see all day…

How do you get to school?

This is pretty crazy stuff! How much could it really cost to build a walking bridge? Those Columbian jungle governments are nutty.
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Some interesting trivia you may or may not have known…

Just a collection of interesting facts. Or factoids… What’s the difference between a fact and a factoid?

• ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
• And ‘lollipop’ is the longest word typed with your right hand.
• No word in the English language rhymes with ‘month,’ ‘orange,’ ‘silver,’ or ‘purple’.
• ‘Dreamt’ is the only English word that ends in the letters ‘mt’.
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
• The sentence: ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses every letter of the alphabet.
• The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak,’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
• There are only four words in the English language which end in ‘dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
• There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: ‘abstemious’ and ‘facetious.’
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
• A snail can sleep for three years.
• Almonds are a member of the peach family.
• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
• Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
• February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
• In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
• If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
• The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
• The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
• The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.