Month: April 2004

Are you a billionaire?

We All Hate Work

But the folks overseas must hate it even more if an amusement park is using that hatred of our jobs as part of their promotional campaign. Full Story of ihatework.co.uk.

More Useless Legislation

Louisiana politicians want to make it a crime to wear low-riding pants. Full story.

Brits are Crap at Password Security

Quoting the article:

A survey of 172 office workers at Liverpool Street Station found that 71 per cent were willing to part with their password for a Marks & Spencer’s Easter Egg. Last year 90 per cent of office workers at Waterloo give away their passwords for a cheap pen, so perhaps things have improved slightly.

I’m sure this is common in the U.S., too, but hopefully not to this extent. Thanks to Yoleen for the tip.

Looking to spread the crap around?

Our tax dollars are going to fund a creation of a “manure spreading index.” Automated weather stations are being placed throughout western Oregon in the hopes of predicting the best time for farmers to dump their shit in the fields. Full story at bend.com.

Have small feet?

Then you might not necessarily have a small penis. And somebody paid for that study.

Buy My eBay Crap

OK, I’ve been cleaning up the closets at work and at home to help pay some bills, and have been adding it to eBay. So far, here’s what I have listed. I plan on adding a few more things later tonight (a Denon Reel-to-Reel, a classic Guerciotti road bike with extra racing wheels, some baby stuff, among some other things). If any readers of this site want to buy the items I have for sale outright, I’ll happily cancel the auction for you.

The ‘net is going to collapse

I predict a big ‘net collapse soon, not only because of a flaw in Cisco’s routers (which power a great deal of major network backbones), but a flaw in TCP/IP that could cripple the Internet. Now all we need is another annoying worm. Wait, nevermind.

Bad Ad Placement?

Or totally appropriate?

Thanks Barney for the screen shot.

Random Roadside Sign

Laura B. sent me this photo. Her friends were driving down Berry Mills Road, in Moncton (New Brunswick, Canada) and saw this sign. Her and her friends were not quite sure why it’s there, but said that it says something different every few days. She said it’s in front of some trash recycling place.