I certainly hope the thing works better than their idiot support guys in India do.
Month: April 2004
Want your weight in cheese?
All you have to do is pass this challenge:
Can you get from London city-centre to Paris or Amsterdam’s city-centre for under £27 return? And in under 12 hours travel time each way?
We don’t think that anyone can beat the great Eurolines ‘Heart-to-Heart’ fares, so we’ve laid down this challenge for anyone who can.
If you think you can and can prove it, email us your travel plans — if your route checks out we’ll send you your weight in cheese.
Paris travel solutions win their weight in Brie, and if you can get to Amsterdam for under £27, we’ll send you your weight in Edam.
I don’t know anything about the area, so I have no idea how hard it would be.
Looking for a way to pay for college?
Just start a porn site. That’s what these ladies did.
I Hate Central Oregon Sometimes
It’s April 15th (Have you done your taxes?), and what do I wake up to? About two inches of snow. I took pictures last night when it first started, but my image upload script on this blog has gone nuts, so I’ll send ’em over to Barney for the story he’ll probably be posting on Bend.com about it (which I’ll be linking to when it happens). Meanwhile, I might have to go throw the studs on my car so I can make it to work this morning.
Update: Here’s a story on the storm.
Anybody have a laptop to get rid of?
I’ve got a friend who’s looking to get a laptop/notebook/whatever. She’s not a big geek or anything, so just getting something functional, but easy for me to repair, is the goal. Needs at least 256 MEGs of RAM, PIII 700 or better, CD-RW, Floppy, modem, and that’s about it. Anybody have anything?
Can you pass the third grade?
A fun flash for the day. I managed to get it on the first try, but I was pushing my time limit. Link from Ken.
Some Lawyers Have Too Much Time (and Money) on Their Hands
Quoting this BoingBoing story:
Brad Templeton — the long-time moderator of rec.humor.funny and host of the rhf archives — has received a cease-and-desist notice from AmEx’s lawyers over a 13 year old joke called “American Expressway.” Brad, being fully aware of the Constitutionally protected right to parody and how that trumps trademark, has posted a link to the joke, the C&D, and his response, which pokes vicious fun at AmEx’s lawyers at the firm of Dewey, Cheatham and Howe.
Read Brad’s hilarious replies here. There’s also a good bit of fun comments on SlashDot.
Message from Weird Al Yankovic
Comedian/musician Weird Al Yankovic lost his mother and father this weekend in an accident involving carbon monoxide poisoning. He’s posted a message on his website about this, and corrects some errors in media coverage on the tragedy. Via BB.
Amazon’s A9 Search Engine Launches
Amazon.com‘s Entry into the Search Engine World launches today. It looks like it’s currently using Google’s Adwords for its sponsored results, and the main results content comes from its own database, Alexa.com, and Amazon.com. It also has a list of what’s new and cool. It does have some interesting features (like built-in “search in the book” from Amazon.com’s database), but nothing too wild, other than interface stuff. I do like the fact that I can type “a9.com/search term” into my URL field and it will search.
What I can see happening is better integration of Amazon.com’s product listings into the results, as another set of sponsored listings. So if somebody searches for an author, for example, it’ll show search results, but also easy ways to buy books from that author. That is one thing that Google will never have is that locked-in product inventory.
Bloggers are a Funny Breed
When most bloggers disagree with someone, they post an entry on their site (I’m probably guilty as well), and the format of those rants fits this template perfectly. Link from b-links.