I used to laugh that my best friend growing up managed to pass driver’s education in high school despite running into and denting a parked car. But I’m willing to bet this guy won’t pass after running over his instructor.
Month: February 2005
If You Work For Miller Beer…
…don’t get caught on camera at Mardi Gras with a Bud Light in your hand. Full Story.
Deep Throat
For all those journalism history geeks like me, you’ll love digging through this.
Now available to the public for the first time are Woodward and Bernstein’s notes from source interviews, drafts of newspaper stories and books, memos, letters, tape recordings, research materials, and other Watergate papers. These materials document Woodward and Bernstein’s four-year partnership telling the story of Watergate in Pulitzer Prize winning articles for The Washington Post, in two best-selling books, All The President’s Men and The Final Days, and in the multiple academy award-winning movie of All the President’s Men.
Thanks Barney for the link.
Instant Karma for Bike Bully
I had this video e-mailed to me last week, but didn’t want to post it here and have my bandwidth suddenly disappear. Besides, this guy’s not only got the video, but more story behind it. Anyway, a group of kids in a car pulls alongside a guy on a bike so that one of the backseat passengers in the car can head slap the kid on the bike. The problem is that the said passenger falls out of the moving car — and gets hit by another car. Watching the video, you know that frickin’ hurt.
URL Games
Don’t get started on these things while at work, otherwise you’ll kill your entire day and get all pissed off. In both of these games, the idea is the guess the URL of the next page in the series.
Exhibit A is a puzzle where the answer is written in a clear form, it’s just disguised in some way. The first little bit is fairly easy, but it gets pretty tough pretty fast.
Exhibit B should only be tackled if you have a week to kill — at the bare minimum. Over 1.5 million have tried it, only 173 people have completed it. It involves digging through hex code, images, opening up sound files, as well as a pile of other pain in the butt stuff, sometimes to get passwords to move onto the correct page. It has 81 levels, and a huge forum if you’re having trouble with them. Just don’t ask for hints. I’ve gotten through eight of the levels, and I was pretty proud of myself, but even that took a long time.
I’m just not going to get started on any of these things, otherwise I’ll be at it for quite a while.
Incredible Dingbat Archive
Sometimes when I’m work on a design or tweak to a document here at the office, I like to use typographical dingbats because typography is easier to work with in most programs, and it always prints sharp (one of the perks of vector-based graphics). Upon my searching today, I came across this huge archive. I’m mostly posting it here so I have a permanent bookmark of it, but it might come in handy to somebody.
Men: Never Turn Down Sex
Otherwise your lady might rip off your testicle with her bare hands.
The Real Reason Carly Fiorina Resigned
An interesting theory how former HP/Compaq CEO Carly Fiorina was done in by her inability to understand branding.
He’s Got A Face For Radio
You might notice something different about the “Credits” area of this site, and you may have noticed a subtle hint before: Barney Lerten, formally ace reporter at Bend.com, has moved on over to Z21 as the Assistant News Director. You can read the full story and press release over at Barney’s site.
Pretty much everything that Barney touches is vastly improved (heck, there are far fewer stupid errors on this site because of him), and while he’s still got a lot to learn over there, I’m sure things will only get better (they need to keep that weekend weather guy — he’s a riot). I will miss him scooping the city on Bend.com, however. Hopefully Z21 will get something going online so I can link to the scoops he’ll undoubtedly get online there at some point.
Bush Calls This “Uniquely American”?!?
It’s sad when our administration doesn’t live in reality.
THE PRESIDENT: Good. Okay, Mary, tell us about yourself.
MS. MORNIN: Okay, I’m a divorced, single mother with three grown, adult children. I have one child, Robbie, who is mentally challenged, and I have two daughters.
[…]
THE PRESIDENT: You work three jobs?
MS. MORNIN: Three jobs, yes.
THE PRESIDENT: Uniquely American, isn’t it? I mean, that is fantastic that you’re doing that. (Applause.) Get any sleep? (Laughter.)
MS. MORNIN: Not much. Not much.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, hopefully, this will help you get you sleep to know that when we talk about Social Security, nothing changes.
It’s “fantastic” that someone has to work three jobs to survive in this country? Did I miss the memo here? Somebody please tell me I’m reading this wrong.