Thursday, December 31, 2009

The power of IB students?

It's new year's eve and I decided to watch a Japanese sing off show which they have every year (this would be their 60th time), in addition they are running a bunch of boring documentaries which for which I am bored out of mine watching.

The world's fattest female model? Putting a guy in a box of ice for 1.5 hours for a new Guinness record? Top 5 most "astounding" UFO videos?

My brain is exploding from boredom. Interestingly I managed to find a site online where we have a bunch of 16 (17?) year old guys in an IB program somewhere doing a marathon game of nearly all the Zelda games to raise money for charity.

It's apparently their second day and they've raised $2,600 already at the time of this writing. They've made a site with streaming video of them playing live with commentary and a IRC like open forum where everyone can post messages while they play. The dialogue is immature and hilarious at the same time, but I am quite amazed at these guys for setting up the entire website.

Goes to show that intellectual prowess does not necessarily have to go hand in hand with maturity.

If you've got time check them out here, they'll be on for only a few more days.

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