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Virtual Body Shots

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The smart marketers are gearing up for the massive travel money that Spring Break can bring. STA Travel is helping you get in the mood by offering the virtual body shot.

You can pick your person (girls and guys) then pick the drink you want to take as a body shot. You can find the hotty you want to shoot off of and they make comments through the entire thing. Some are cliche but a few are pretty funny, including the nerd girl and the brunette hotty.
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Seriously Silly Shit

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Contributed by Angry Guy

I LOVE Guinness.
It may be the Irish blood in me, or just my preference for a beer that has some flavour.

That love does NOT extend to the latest on-line goofiness from Guinness.

Apparently the Flash development team over at Guinness obviously had free-time and was instructed to come up with something that was both "dumb" and "related to sports".

The result is "The Guinness All Sports Invitational"

With this little app you can send a put down to your pals telling them how their Football, Hockey, Basketball, Mechanical Bull-riding, or Log-Rolling (I shit you not) team will be going down.
Unfortunately "All Sports" does not include Curling, Hurling, Biathlon, Synchronized Swimming, Archery, Cricket, Soccer, or even Baseball.

And whoever designed this has obviously never  actually been around men, as key components of an appropriate masculine insult such as "balls", "nuts", "ass" and "your mother" are not available. You are limited to a 6 word insult cobbled together from 151 possible word choices.

So a pithy "Your mother sucks dicks in hell" would be possible IF "mother" "dicks" and "Hell" were available, but "The Patriots Suck and your mother sucks dicks in hell" would not be an available choice (10 words). And in the time it actually takes to go through the process of creating and sending your insult, you could actually arrange to have a 300 pound stripper gram go to your pals house and insult him in person.

I like the Monty Python-like animation of the new Guinness ads, but like your mom, this sucks dicks in hell.

Technology for drunks

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Contributed by Kevin Erskine - The Scotch Blog.

This is either the greatest application of technology to the club scene since the installation of condom dispensers in the men's room, or the dumbest gimmick since urinal video games.

The "iBar" - is a motion sensitive bar top. Hands, drinks, credit cards, vomit, all of these items are detected on the bar and are surrounded by computer generated lights. movement of these objects is detected and followed.

Looks like a cool idea for a high end bar - until someone slams down their mug a little to hard.

See it in action

What is iBar ?

iBar is a system for the interactive design of any bar-counter. Integrated video-projectors can project any content on the milky bar-surface. The intelligent tracking system of iBar detects all objects touching the surface. This input is used to let the projected content interact dynamically with the movements on the counter. Objects can be illuminated at their position or virtual objects can be "touched" with the fingers.

The iBar system is ready to be installed completely into any kind of bar-counter, there's no need for any further installations on the ceiling or something like that. The software is flexible and can be adjusted and enhanced.