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youtube.com - Musician and Best Buy employee, Keith Parsons, rocks his Best Buy holiday campaign audition.
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- atomant411, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33This guy's google page is just blatant rips from other sites with no references. This is a Wired articled from last year.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.03/start.html?pg=3 - shakin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17@timmyboywonder
I appreciate what you're trying to do. Your heart is in the right place.
Unfortunately, for people like me who simply block users who spam, comments like yours that have become more annoying than the spam (that we don't see).
What we really need is a shared block list. After a certain amount of blocks that user is added to the opt-in shared blocked list so nobody has to read spams who doesn't want to. - shakin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14I, too, thought they had existed naturally since the dawn of time and space. Who knew?
- echoforever, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Photography is not mentioned!
http://www.trivia-library.com/b/accidental-scientific-discovery-and-invention-practical-photography.htm - prockcore, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Wow, Dan Quayle posts on digg!
- gardnmi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I can't believe it didn't mention Pringles.
RIP -Mitch Hedberg - captinherb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The new way??
- eric0213, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6On FoodNetwork (I forget which show, Unwrapped probably) they said the customer complained that the fries were too thick, so the chef cut them thinner, again the customer complained, so he cut them thinner, again he complained, so he cut them "paper thin" and the guy loved them.
Mmmm... potato chips. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6lsd beat penicillin?
- lostradamus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"***** it. Cut em' up!"
- josh4rim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The ink jet printer was also accidentally discovered.
-Used to work for Canon Inc. - russianmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I call foul on this list.
How can Viagra and LSD be better than Xrays and Pennicillin..? - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Teflon: DuPont was working with freon and refrigeration when they stumbled upon this slipperiest substance known to man.
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Teflon/Teflon-HistoryDuPont.htm
Post-It Notes: 3M was working towards stronger adhesives when they stumbled upon the Post-It glue.
http://www.3m.com/about3m/pioneers/fry.jhtml
Those, IMHO, have to be tied for second behind penicillin, and I can't believe they didn't make this list. - optigon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I have strong doubts about the brandy "discovery." This being because, if they boiled it down to get the water out, the alcohol would evaporate first...
I think they're looking for "distilling," which is a little more involved than simply boiling. :P - rubicante, on 10/12/2007, -1/+61. Viagra
2. LSD
3. X-rays
4. Penicillin
5. Artificial sweeteners
6. Microwave ovens
7. Brandy
8. Vulcanized rubber
9. Silly Putty
10. Potato chips - ajchavar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4sorry for hijacking the thread, but i'm confused, beachbabes spam isn't showing up, but i havent blocked them, i did block one of the 911 myspace spammers, but thats it. anyone know whats going on?
. . .not that i'm complaining about a lack of spam - zadadka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@shakin
"What we really need is a shared block list. After a certain amount of blocks that user is added to the opt-in shared blocked list so nobody has to read spams who doesn't want to."
Good idea....Dugg you up.
There would need to be some refining to preclude "hostile witnesses".
Perhaps too, it could also preclude having to view "Grey" Dugg-down comments and any associated Replies ...it's amazing how many comments are bitchy "thrust-parry-counters" against a comment already rendered Grey and often of little actual relevance to the article....
...er, a bit like mine ... sorry. - JackyTreehorn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Someone was dumpster diving for bubble jet printers.
- barryiggins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4damn, now I'm hungry for LSD-dosed potato chips. Would that be like salt and vinegar flavor?
- fikle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Top10 lists and Mac news. The new way of making Digg front page.
- Pile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Also Rogaine is another accidental discovery (makes you wonder WTF these drug companies are doing with all that money) when they used the drug for anti-depressant/anti-psychotic and discovered some people in the trials regrew hair. Also Zyban, aka Wellbutrin is another anti-depressant they re-labelled when they discovered it helped people stop smoking.
- MikeDawg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I don't know how I feel about brandy. Its not so much an accidental discovery, people were just so eager to get loaded, they didn't bother re-constituting the "wine".
- EtherGnat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3prockcore: "Amerigo Vespucci discovered America."
Millions of Native Americans would dispute that fact. - 5xSTUN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There's an interesting book you can probably get at your local library entitled "Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things."
I read the story of potato chips in that book years ago. - simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"The leap from detecting Nazis to nuking nachos came in 1946"
Funny! Yet interesting. - drjekelmrhyde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3penicilin should've been first
- ajchavar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3priorities, akapsycho, priorities
- ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No Peanut butter cups??
- Adenosine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not a single one of these were discoveries (in my humble opinion), except for maybe penicillin - They were all inventions
- bmartin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's scary. You should really consider doing LSD OR Viagra, not both. There are much better choices for hook-up drugs.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That whole thing is a glorified myth to hog credit.. many civilizations knew the new world existed, and even travelled to it, from the egyptians to the vikings and polynesians.
chris might have been brave to go that route, but people around the world knew what he would find. - howski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Good question, Roger. It sounds like the chef was the engineer and the customer was his manager. :)
- Corbomight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Millions of Native Americans would dispute that fact."
If they had to discover it, then they aren't exactly *native*, are they? :) - ihavebeenseen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2even funnier considering the nacho was not even invented until 1943
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacho - thespiff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, if you knew what you were looking for it wouldn't be a "discovery" when you found it.
- Karmalary, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The discovery of Dan Quayle was a tragic accident.
- mikesum32, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sorry, X-ray's don't project your bones on a wall.
http://www.ndt-ed.org/EducationResources/HighSchool/Radiography/discoveryxrays.htm - BlackPhantom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"We have many other article that are at least as interesting as this one". I believe you mean "Many other Articles", something tells me you quickly added that to feed off the flood of visitors.
- soulpiercer7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the ink jet printer technology was not developed for use in printers. They were designing a system that could preciosity place liquid droplets of tightly controlled sizes onto any given surface. I don't remember the original application they were going for but realized the technology would be perfect for printers.
chocolate chip cookies, dough nuts, floating soap, Frisbees, cheese, gun powder, Coca-Cola and glass were all accidentally discovered as well. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Microwave emitters (or magnetrons) powered Allied radar in WWII. The leap from detecting Nazis to nuking nachos came in 1946, after a magnetron melted a candy bar in Raytheon engineer Percy Spencer's pocket."
All this tells me is that he had a microwave aimed at his jewels. Poor guy's kids probably had 4 ears. - Daemons, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Man, I bet you're no fun to be around.
If I want to party, I want viagra and LSD.... you can keep your penicillin and x-rays, Mr. Boring. - rbvmusic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Whatever happened to the discovery of displacement? "Eureka!"
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@prockcore
Amerigo Vespucci was a cartographer. It was his travels to South America which led him to believe that it was not Asia - in 1502, well after Columbus' voyage. Other travellers at the time believed they were sailing to Asia. It's called America because of a map published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller.
For god's sake, do fifteen seconds of research. You know how to spell the guy's name, look that ***** up. - crh3f, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm with you...Viagra (or sildenafil) was originally developed as, and is still used for, severe pulmonary hypertension. This is when the resistance to blood flow to the lungs is too high. Sildenafil dilates the pulmonary vessels very well, allowing you to oxygenate more blood (this is a good thing, in case anyone's wondering.) I don't know the "true" story of how it was discovered that it has...other...effects, but my guess is that some dude was on it for his lungs and it was his WIFE that made the connection! Interestingly, it's used in preemies more often than adults (for it's original reason, not the new one).
- zadadka, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2...I accidentally discovered I chose the wrong wife........
- PanXIII, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Add also Gore-tex. Mr Gore (not Al) was trying to make a teflon thread. He had several solid rods of teflon which he would heat up and try to slowly draw out into a thread, but they would always snap. Working late and angry at failing, he grabbed the last teflon rod heating in the oven and angrily yanked it with the intention of snapping it... and it only stretched. They found out later the porous nature of the material, and voila, Gore-tex.
Or so they tell it at their place in Flagstaff, AZ... - Daemons, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How can you discover a place that is already full of human inhabitants?
Think about it... Columbus stumbles ashore, looks up and sees a bunch of indians whose people have been there for centuries and says, "I've discovered this place!"
Kinda like Bill Gates "discovering" the operating system. - Daemons, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What..... Ogg the caveman happened to be standing next to a tree that just got hit by lightning.
That's like saying that Isaac Newton "discovered" gravity. No... he NAMED it, he didn't discover it. - Dangerman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, you should see how messy my office is.
- physphd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Unless Fleming purposefully left his labware in the sink full of disinfectant but meant for that single dish to not get submerged and then instructed the mold spores to enter the open window and land in said dish....it was an accident. And he admitted it was.
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