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Annual Event. Improv Everywhere does the MP3 Experiment in New York each year. Thousands of people download a 40 minute set of instructions and play them at the same time together in the same park, everyone morphing into a giant single group. The boys and I have been going for the last few years. I also posted my favorite Improv Everywhere videos. Inspirational Speaker. Brene Brown has a great Netflix Special The Call for Courage and a recorded seminar The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connection, and Courage . To take a quick bite, check out her animated shorts on Empathy and Blame and her TED talks on The Power of Vulnerability and Listening to Shame . Bonus! My favorite inspirational talk is Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture , a wonderful summary of how to live a life.Internet Artist. Ze Frank is my favorite Internet artist. Here’s a great retrospective of his work . If you like that, the first half of an early TED talk is equally entertaining (the first 5 minutes is one of my favorite things ever) . I also wrote a piece about how Ze has helped me understand how social media really works .Card Game/Corporate Prank. You’ve probably played Cards without Humanity , the adult card game of association. Each year on Black Friday, they do a publicity stunt . It’s probably the most fun thing I buy each year. This year was the battle between Artificial Intelligence and their human writers (spoiler alert: humans won and get to keep their jobs.) A few years ago was Eight Sensible Days of Hanukkah where I and 250,000 other customers received 8 gifts, 3 of which were socks.Unknown Hero. Vasili Arkhipov , a Russian submariner, did more to save the world than anyone else. In a vote on whether or not to start a nuclear war, the vote was 2 to 1 with Arkhipov the only one against. Take a look at this video to learn how we came that close to self destruction . The crisis is also discussed in the New Yorker article The Day Nuclear War Almost Broke Out .Washing Instructions. My shirt from Headline Shirts has the washing instructions , “Remove Before Washing” and “Wear With Pants.” Here’s some other funny washing instructions . BTW, here’s a list of laundry symbols .Online Stores.
