Using well-placed camera angles and clothes, this stuff if completely safe for work.
Month: March 2004
The Official Rules of Calvinball
The official rules for everybody’s favorite game — like it wasn’t already confusing enough.
A 4GB Compactflash drive for $200?!?
They usually run for $500, but if you do a little hardware hacking, you can get one for about $200.
Real World Video Game Scenes
What would happen if you tried to act out favorite video game scenes in real life? You’d have a really fun Photoshop contest.
Pete Rose to be inducted into hall of fame
The WWE Hall of Fame. Well, it’s a start — he’ll never make it to Cooperstown, however.
This disgusts me
Kraft execs lay off 6000 workers, close 20 plants, yet five executives there got $10-million in bonuses.
Swiss Army Knife for Geeks
It’s got a blade, file, scissors, and a USB flash memory stick. Marketing gimmick at its finest.
Headline of the Week
My guess is this wasn’t unintentional. It showed up on Leno the other night, apparently. The headline was about Rosie O’Donnell marrying her partner in San Francisco and blasting President Bush’s position on gay marriage had to be no mistake. No attribution but it appeared to be San Francisco Chronicle type face.
The Headline?
“Rosie Marries, Slams Bush”
Thanks Barn for the tip.
The difference between liberals, conservatives, and Southerners?
I agree with Barney, and I’m generally a moderate, but I did laugh pretty damn hard at this joke from my cousin…
You’re walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children. Suddenly, a dangerous looking man with a huge knife comes around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams obscenities, raises the knife, and charges. You are carrying a Glock .40, and you are an expert shot.
You have mere seconds before he reaches you and your family What do you do?
Liberal Answer:
Well, that’s not enough information to answer the question! Does the man look poor or oppressed? Have I ever done anything to him that would inspire him to attack? Could we run away? What does my wife think? What about the kids? Could I possibly swing the gun like a club and knock the knife out of his hand? What does the law say about this situation? Does the Glock have appropriate safety built into it? Why am I carrying a loaded gun anyway, and what kind of message does this send to society and to my children? Is it possible he’d be happy with just killing me? Does he definitely want to kill me, or would he be content just to wound me? If I were to grab his knees and hold on, could my family get away while he was stabbing me? Should I call 9-1-1? Why is this street so deserted? We need to raise taxes, have a paint and weed day and make this a happier, healthier street that would discourage such behavior. This is all so confusing! I need to debate this with some friends for a few days and try to come to a consensus.
Conservative Answer:
BANG!
Southerner’s Answer:
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! click….(sounds of reloading). BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Another Brilliant Solution to Spam
This one comes care of Microsoft. The solution to spam? Start charging to send an e-mail. Even at a penny per e-mail, it’d be around 75-cents per day for me, which means I’d pay around $22.50 for e-mail per month.
I can see this hurting the spammers, but what about us common folk? What about legitimate e-mail newsletters that send out e-mails to 100,000+ folks? Those folks wanted to be on that list, so why should folks like Lockergnome have to pay a fee? They’re already having to deal with fart-knockers like AOL who block their legitimate e-mail anyway. And what about this site’s daily newsletter? It’s only going to 64 people, so do I have to pay for them, too? Micropayments ain’t ever going to work.
So Microsoft’s other solution?
Instead of paying a penny, the sender would “buy” postage by devoting maybe 10 seconds of computing time to solving a math puzzle. The exercise would merely serve as proof of the sender’s good faith.
I quit taking math classes years ago, and I certainly don’t need to waste 10 seconds doing a math problem so I can send a frickin’ e-mail.
Needless to say, none of these solutions will be implemented any time soon. SpamBayes (on the client end) and Spam Assassin (server-based tagging) keep my spam at bay. I would love if it weren’t even making it across the ‘net to begin with, but there’s nothing I can do to stop that.