Good old rock, paper scissors. With this t-shirt you don’t need a friend to play. Just stand in front of the webcam and hey presto. I’m now thinking of ideas to build on this. Watch this space Check it out (via)

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I found this post on Bored Panda's blog and think the images are just magicial—and the facts are cool too. My favorite pic is #12. What's yours?

15 Interesting Facts about Dreams and Dreaming

By Bored Panda • Topic: Featured, Latest Post, Miscellaneous

1. You Forget 90% of Your Dreams

Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream is forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone.

2. Blind People also Dream

People who became blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion.

3. Everybody Dreams

Every human being dreams (except in cases of extreme psychological disorder). If you think, you are not dreaming, you just forget your dreams.

4. In Our Dreams We Only See Faces, That We already Know

Our mind is not inventing faces – in our dreams we see real faces of real people that we have seen during our life but may not know or remember. We have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces throughout our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters for our brain to utilize during our dreams.

5. Not Everybody Dreams in Color

A full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white. The remaining number dream in full color. Studies from 1915 through to the 1950s maintained that the majority of dreams were in black and white, but these results began to change in the 1960s. Today, only 4.4% of the dreams of under-25 year-olds are in black and white. Recent research has suggested that those changing results may be linked to the switch from black-and-white film and TV to color media.

6. Dreams are Symbolic

If you dream about some particular subject it is not often that the dream is about that. Dreams speak in a deeply symbolic language.  Whatever symbol your dream picks on it is most unlikely to be a symbol for itself.

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7. Emotions

The most common emotion experienced in dreams is anxiety. Negative emotions are more common than positive ones.

8. You can have four to seven dreams in one night.

On average, you can dream anywhere from one or two hours every night.

9. Animals Dream Too

Studies have been done on many different animals, and they all show the same brain waves during dreaming sleep as humans. Watch a dog sleeping sometime. The paws move like they are running and they make yipping sounds as if they are chasing something in a dream.

10. Body Paralysis

Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a normal stage of sleep characterized by rapid movements of the eyes. REM sleep in adult humans typically occupies 20-25% of total sleep, about 90-120 minutes of a night’s sleep.

During REM sleep the body is paralyzed by a mechanism in the brain in order to prevent the movements which occur in the dream from causing the physical body to move. However, it is possible for this mechanism to be triggered before, during, or after normal sleep while the brain awakens.

11. Dream Incorporation

Our mind interprets the external stimuli that our senses are bombarded with when we are asleep and make them a part of our dreams. This means that sometimes, in our dreams, we hear a sound from reality and incorporate it in a way. For example you may be dreaming that you are in a concert, while your brother is playing a guitar during your sleep.

12. Men and Women Dream Differently

Men tend to dream more about other men. Around 70% of the characters in a man’s dream are other men. On the other hand, a woman’s dream contains almost an equal number of men and women. Aside from that, men generally have more aggressive emotions in their dreams than the female lot.

13. Precognitive Dreams

Results of several surveys across large population sets indicate that between 18% and 38% of people have experienced at least one precognitive dream and 70% have experienced déjà vu. The percentage of persons that believe precognitive dreaming is possible is even higher, ranging from 63% to 98%.

*Precognition, also called future sight, refers to perception that involves the acquisition of future information that cannot be deduced from presently available and normally acquired sense-based information.

14. If you are snoring, then you cannot be dreaming.

This fact is repeated all over the Internet, but I’m a bit suspicious whether it’s really true as I haven’t found any scientific evidence to support it.

15.You can experience an orgasm in your dream

You can not only have sex as pleasurable as in your real life while dreaming, but also experience an orgasm as strong as a real one, without any wet results. The sensations felt while lucid dreaming (touch, pleasure and etc..) can be as pleasurable and strong (or I believe even stronger) as the sensations experienced in the real world.

Well, I hope you had a great time reading these strange facts about our dreams. Good night and sweet dreams! (I’m going to my bed to check those facts once again.)

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Great behind-the-scenes footage of Google's new low-fi approach to marketing Google chrome. Unfortunately, Ad Age doesn't allow you to see the finished videos without registering—so I found the link for you: http://bit.ly/8soIzT Look under Google Chrome: A Creative Take.

The A-Z of social media for brands:

A stands for AUTHENTIC. 

B stands for BENCHMARK. 

C stands for CUSTOMER SERVICE.

D stands for DISTRIBUTE.

E stands for ENGAGE.

F stands for FEEDS. 

G stands for GOOGLEJUICE.

H stands for HONESTY.

I stands for INTERACT.

J stands for JOIN. 

K stands for KILLER CONTENT.

L stands for LISTEN.

M stands for MEASURE.

N stands for NETWORK.

O stands for ORGANISE.

P stands for POLICY.

Q stands for QUESTIONS.

R stands for RETENTION.

S stands for SATISFACTION.

T stands for TRAFFIC.

U stands for USER PROFILE.

V stands for VIP.

W stands for WRITE, WRITE, WRITE.

X stands for X RATED.

Y stands for YOU. 

Z stands for ZAPPOS.

Fast Company offers us a sneak peek at Dan Zarrella's report "The Science of Retweeting" which includes a lot of interesting, if not always surprising, statistics. The retweetability of URL shorteners was one of my favorite highlights. As you can see blip.fm, twitpic.com and tinyurl.com received negative results. However, I am far from surprised that people are not retweeting what song I'm listening to at the moment but do wonder if these results account for the differences in usage. For instance, bit.ly is definitely one of the most popular services, so is it a surprise that it has the highest use in retweets?

Either way Zarrella's got the goods on retweeting and here are some more great tips:

• Don't be stupid. Use less abbrevs and emoticions.
• Use punctuation, just not semicolons. Semicolons = Satan.
• Keep it original.
• Use nouns, proper nouns and 3rd-person verbs.
• Tweet at 4 p.m. on Friday. Friday is the busiest day on Twitter and there are more RTs too.

Want more info? Check out Dan Zarrella's blog and download the report.

How many times have you been in the middle of a conversation when bam! all of a sudden you're talking to the top of someone's head as they bow to their smartphone (which btw is why it's called the "blackberry prayer"). If this chart can't solve your problems, believe it or not, there are support groups even for this.