Encouraged by the good folks at Businessweek, our favourite master slingshot builder Joerg Sprave put together this latest video showing how to weaponise everyday office supplies. Because no one’s going to steal your lunch from the break room fridge when you’re packing heat.
Over at Slate, Tom Scocca has written an eloquent article about how it’s time for Microsoft Word to die. I agree with him to a point, but I think he’s pitched the use of the tool slightly wrong in final analysis.
The strong suggestion — as yet unconfirmed by Microsoft itself — is that Microsoft Office For iPad is imminent. Presuming that the reports are accurate, it raises the question: Why would Microsoft port one of its key revenue sources to a competing platform? I can see a couple of reasons why it would make sense.
Darts are awesome, but they’re tricky to set up at work. Real darts aren’t super safe and leave walls full of holes, and safety darts suck hard. Mark Rober has got a solution that’s simple, elegant, and awesome.
So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case.
Getting excited about MS Office feels a little bit like racing home to do your taxes, but getting the full Office suite on the iPad — which The Daily reports is happening — would make a lot of sense.
Not only is it one of my favourite books, but John Austin’s Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction also makes a great gift for kids or adults who refuse to grow up. And since I fall into that latter category, I’m pretty excited to see he’s now got a sequel that lets you re-appropriate your office supplies into 30 new spy weapons and surveillance tools.
