TWISTER RECORD
The hula-hoop, Rubik’s cube and Twister are among the many inventions immortalized in the annals of popular culture. Despite the decades since their introduction to the masses, the toys’ popularity hasn’t diminished. In fact, hundreds of high school students in North Dakota are trying to make playing Twister the coolest activity in town… at least for one day.
Approximately 450 teens are looking to set a world record for playing the largest game of Twister. According to event organizers, the students plan to tape together 180 Twister mats on Sunday and stretch their bodies along the path of blue, red, yellow and green circles. Once it’s complete the mats will form a Twister board measuring 4,699 square feet. The current Twister board record was set in April 2005 in the Netherlands, at 2,453 square feet.
The kids from North Dakota won’t know if they will become part of history until officials at Guinness World Records review a video of their attempt.
TWISTED EMPLOYEE
Obsessed with a capital “O.” That’s how people are describing a Japanese bureaucrat who spent company time making hundreds of Wikipedia contributions about toy robots.
According to Japanese newspapers, the government worker made 260 written contributions to the Japanese-language Wikipedia entry on Gundam, a popular animated series about giant robots that inspired a line of toys. The country’s agriculture ministry reportedly verbally reprimanded the worker along with five other bureaucrats who admitted to contributing Wikipedia entries on movies and local politics. According to government officials, over the past four years the six employees together made 408 entries on the popular Internet encyclopedia from their work computers.
Reports say each employee has been prohibited from accessing Wikipedia at work. In addition, the recent discovery also prompted an internal probe of all Japanese public servants to see who else has been using government computers for purposes other than official business.