Piece for HTTP

1. Post a link to a website online, but remove one of the Ts from "http" so it becomes "htp".
2. When this link is clicked, the participant will be forced by their browser to pause for a moment and reflect on the syntax of URL, adding the missing "t" by hand

Six Pieces for Life

Live like you only have until the next:

1. day
2. week
3. month
4. year
5. decade
6. century

Piece for Ingenuity

Count every hair on your head.

Piece for Internet

Click on every advertisement you see.

Piece for ESP

1. Focus on the idea, "odd numbers".
2. Continue focusing, and roll a die.
3. If the outcome is odd, today is a day for ESP!
4. Do this each day, and keep a running tally of your results.
5. If the outcome keeps moving towards "odd", this life is a life for ESP!
6. Or you need new dice.

Piece for Anonymous

Next time you come across a personal blog of someone you've never met, bookmark it and check it frequently. Do your best to understand where the person is coming from, and leave thoughtful comments. Do this without letting it become creepy.

Piece for a Car Thief

1. Discover a defining characteristic of these cars used to catch car thieves. (Perhaps RF signals used for controlling and monitoring the car.)
2. If it is possible, enter the car without breaking into it.
3. Say: "This is not my car." loud enough for the embedded microphone to record it.
4. Exit the car.

Piece for Beer and Keyboard

1. Spill beer on your keyboard.
2. Open a text editor.
3. Clean beer off your keyboard.
4. Save the text.

Realization, 2/19/09:

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Piece for DNS

1. Register the shortest possible domain name you can.

Potential additional constraints:

• You are limited to the .com top level domain.
• Domain names may include a-z, 0-9 and the hyphen, must start with a-z and may not end with a hyphen. (See RFC 1034)
• Get kicked out of domaintools.com's bulk check:

  Security : Client may be too resource intensive. You have reached your daily lookup limit.

Piece for Post

1. Mail an empty envelope to a friend.
2. Without opening the envelope, they should put it in a new envelope and send it back to you.
3. Without opening their envelope, you should put their envelope in a new envelope and send it back to them.
4. Repeat until the Post loses the envelopes, or refuses to carry it.

Instruction Piece for Printer

1. Find a paper towel.
2. Remove the carriage from your printer.
3. Clean the carriage with the paper towel.
4. Return the carriage to the printer.

The Same Old Song

An instruction piece and concept album:

1. Make friends with 3 street musicians.
2. Record them every day for 3 weeks.
3. Make 3 songs, where each song consists of the 3 weeks mixed together.
4. Do this in 3 different cities.

April 12, 2009: The accessible version.

Bring the Noise

1. Pick a YouTube video.
2. Train a Markov chain on the comments.
3. Generate a new comment with the Markov chain.
4. Post that comment to the video.
5. Pick a new YouTube video and repeat.

Piece for Facebook

1. Register a Facebook account.
2. Friend request only your real-life best friend.
3. Confirm every person who sends you a friend request.
4. That real-life best friend is not allowed to answer your request.

Two Pieces for the Louvre

1. Cover every piece in the Louvre except the Mona Lisa.
2. Cover the Mona Lisa.

Instruction Piece for Keyboard

1. Open a text editor.
2. Remove all the keys from your keyboard.
3. Clean your keyboard.
4. Return all the keys to your keyboard.

Two realizations by Caitlin, one on February 23, 2008:

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And another from May 4th, 2008:

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(The horizontal lines are in fact much longer, but they had to be broken for the purpose of this post.)

Two Pieces for Voice

1. Find the loudest sound you can, and try to overpower it.
2. Find the quietest sound you can, and try to underpower it.