Bjorn Borg serves up love game
The international sportswear retailer Bjorn Borg (namesake of the superstar Swedish tennis player) created a promotional video game (now also sold separately) that encourages not mayhem and murder but the vanquishing of one's opponents with love and "lovingly" stripping them down so that they can be outfitted in Bjorn Borg fashions. Said a company official, a player's mission is "to liberate haters by undressing them with your love guns and [then to] dress them in Bjorn Borg clothing." (Via Weird Universe)
Eating out can make you peed off
"We might have sat outside at a cafe in Browns Bay but after seeing a dog peeing on the table and chair legs while his lady owner chatted away oblivious, we decided against it," writes Mark Bradman of Long Bay. "I went up to her and said 'Excuse me. Your dog is peeing on the chairs and table legs'. She looked down on the ground at the trickle of pee, but when it appeared she wasn't going to do anything about it, I added, 'You might want to clean it up'. My wife and I ordered and sat as far away inside the cafe as we could, only to notice her glaring at us from across the distance. My wife couldn't stand it any more and went over to her to tell her to stop staring at us, at which she claimed that I had been rude about her dog and had spoilt her day? Eh? Bad enough that she had done nothing about her dog or his pee, she was now claiming that I had been rude?"
Voting with your feet
A reader was at Britomart and noticed an inherent bias of the foot traffic voting system as mentioned in yesterday's Sideswipe. He writes: "When moving towards the advance option, the path is clear of obstructions. For the basic option one's line of sight is obscured by the bus shelters and other objects. This effectively means that if someone was to walk in a straight line from one end of the block to the other without caring which one they walked through, they would be roughly twice as likely to walk through the advanced gate than the basic. I would suggest that this is a poorly designed experiment that will naturally lead to an overestimation of Aucklanders' desire for the advanced option."
