Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
This is the coolest use of Amazon Web Services I’ve seen: Type in a phrase, and it will construct an image displaying your text using covers of books, music, videos, etc… . Give it a whirl. Click on a cover for more details on the book to purchase the book, making him a few pennies as well.
As an example, here’s dang near every PHP book in existence, constructing the letters “PHP”. Click on a title to get more information, reviews, etc… . Very impressive!
I remember The Wonder Years and remember all it’s characters and the show really well. What’s more entertaining to me is what the folks from the show are doing now. While Fred Savage is still doing lame acting jobs, Winnie and Paul are doing well with themselves. Paul Pfeiffer, was played by Josh Saviano, and he’s now a Yale-educated lawyer. And Danica McKellar, the girl who played Winnie Cooper, now has her own Web site, went off to college to study math (will even answer your math questions) and did some very advanced study. While she’s gotten back into acting, she still considers math one of her passions.
<dude>Geek girls are hot, man.</dude>
On a related note, pulled from this MeFi thread, apparently Dolph Lundgren has masters degree in chemical engineering and was awarded a scholorship to MIT. Who knew? Or that Dexter Holland (lead singer for The Offspring) has a Ph. D in Molecular Biology. It is nice to read about smart celebs now and again.
Apparently not until you use your credit card to buy $16,000 worth of Plasma TVs. Nevermind the couple dozen other purchases and pictures he took before that.
Thanks to the high prices, gas stations are running out of “2s” to put on their signs. Apparently the big ones cost $150/each.
Hydrogen powered cars can not come soon enough.
I have to admit, this is one damn cool VW Bug (still a couple days left on that auction, folks).
And I’m willing to bet that the only reason this shirt sold was because of the cleavage on the woman modeling it.
A brand new brand of chewing gum from Japan called “Bust Up” is supposed to (all in theory, of course) make women’s breasts bigger.
So what happens if a man chews it?
Don’t bother raising tuition, asking for increased taxes, or any of that crap. Just rent out your facilities to an adult entertainment cable channel.
Don’t booze up heavily when your on a flight, otherwise passengers might not tolerate it well and you’ll end up dead when you land.
Bad: Leaving your SUV running while getting your cigarettes. Worse: Leaving your three-year-old sleeping in the back. Awful: Having the SUV stolen right in front of you. Luckily, it has a happy ending, because somebody ran down the car, and the woman who originally stole the car bailed out, leaving the child and truck, and was caught later.
Moral of the story? Cigarette addictions make you do really stupid things.