Forgot to mention this yesterday as I got too busy, but Barney, the occasional copy editor and frequent link contributor of this site and full-time reporter over at Bend.com turned 48 yesterday. So feel free to e-mail him at barney[funny “a” sign]bend.com, and wish him a happy b-day!
Month: April 2004
Don’t get angry
Anger, frustration, and other mental stress can trigger abnormal heart rhythms that may lead to sudden death, new research shows.
In the first study of its kind, a group of researchers has demonstrated that mental stress alone can provoke these dangerous heart rhythms.
So think happy thoughts while that sonnofabitch cuts you off on your commute home from work today.
April Fools Day Fun
I’ll be updating this post throughout the day with whatever April Fools Day Jokes I come across.
- Chris replaces his site with a gigantic graphic (took me a while to figure out what was going on)
- Howard Stern gets replaced by guys whose mission is “morning fun without filth” and ends up causing quite the stir
- Compgeeks.com raffles off 30 minutes of Mars Rover driving time
- Thinkgeeks giving away free shirts with binary text that translates to “I shopped at ThinkGeek on April Fools Day, and all I got was this lousy shirt!” as well as selling the PC EZ Bake Oven
- I’m still convinced Google’s 1 gig e-mail accounts is a joke.
- Dave Winer starts Netscape to sell RSS to Microsoft
- Google’s hiring for its Google Copernicus Center (yes, on the moon)
- Waxy has a pile of links as does this site
Once I get through my RSS feeds and e-mail some more, I’m sure I’ll come up with more. Comment here if you have any to submit.
Google to start offering 1 Gig E-mail accounts
But there’s a catch to get all that space: Google’s automated bots read your e-mail and place contextual ads in the e-mail. So you get free, large-storage e-mail in turn for a ton of space. Full story.
(Yes, I know today’s April 1st, so take all of this with a grain of salt — but I heard it on CBS News this morning, as well as noticed a few sites running stories about it so maybe it is legit? Or they fooled a lot of people. The folks at SlashDot don’t think it’s legit, and I’m tending to agree, considering Google’s past tricks.)