He tried shooting himself five times, but then resorted to driving down to a bridge and jumping off.
Month: May 2005
It’s My Birthday
Actually, it’s tomorrow, but I figured I’d let everybody know. I’ll be a whole 27 years old. I’m having a little family-gathering party tomorrow night, playing golf with my dad in the morning, and am just going to chill out as much as possible. In other words, no blogging tomorrow.
If anybody’s feeling giving, the donate page is here, and my PO Box is here. Otherwise, have fun with the pile of BB links.
Boing Boing Link Dump
You know, I just looked through all my flagged links in FeedDemon for my BoingBoing feed, and while many of them are full-entry worthy, I just might dump them (with links to the BoingBoing original post) here to give you something to do and read for quite a while.
- Do It Yourself Soda Machine (via).
- How To Make A Menstruating Barbie (via)
- FireFox optimized for USB Keys (via)
- Ironic? Hillary Rosen Thinks The iPod DRM is cruel and unfriendly (via)
- A Limerick For Every Word In The Oxford English Dictionary (via)
- Branding has gone too far: A Star Wars Rotating Sprinkler (via)
- Mr. Potato Head and Gummi Seven Deadly Sins (via and via)
- Alternatives to Lorem Ipsum (via)
- How To Blog Anonymously (via)
- The Ultimate Alarm Clock (via)
- Mac Mini hidden in an old Dell (via)
- Real Doll Photography (via)
- Herb Albert’s Whip Cream Cover Girl (I actually have this record somewhere — via)
- Sweet Sand Castle (via)
- Build A DVR Out Of An Old PC (via)
- Glow In The Dark Vibrator powered entirely by the current coming through a phone line. Now if more toys (non-sexual) would take advantage of this free power. (via)
- How To Filter Your Coffee with Coffee Grounds, Clay, and Cow Dung (via)
- Lovely. Wi-Fi encrytpion can be broken in three minutes (via)
That should keep you guys busy for a while.
They Waxed Your What?!?
I’m finally getting around to clearing out my RSS feeds, and came across this hilarious (and painful) tale on Jack’s site about getting male genitalia waxed. You’ve been warned.
More Google Map Goodies
I’ve posted several good posts lately about all the fun things people are doing and finding with Google Maps. Here’s a few more:
- Unidentified flying objects appearing on maps (more info here).
- Using Google Maps to find cheap gas (via).
- I’m sure DodgeBall will end up being integrated into GoogleMaps.
- Google Maps with NYC Subway stops.
- According to Google Maps, there’s a brothel on the University of Oregon campus.
Customize Any Web Page
Let me tell ya, this FireFox plugin has made browsing some local sites much easier.
Rip (Remove it Permanently) provides the ability to point at and remove permanently any item you can select. It provide a flexible and easily configurable solution to removing unwanted content from a web page.
If it is just image based ad’s removal you are looking for I suggest you use the rather excellent (Ad Block) extension and download a good list of regular expression for this extension.
If on the other hand you want the power to choose what content you want removed, be it unwanted forms, text based ads or just areas of a page (or website) you don’t want to see anymore, RIP is for you.
Here’s my rip for the Bulletin and for Bend.com (updated both of those on 5/26). You’ll need to import those into the RIP plugin options screen.
Anybody Have Some MS Office Licenses?
As I mentioned earlier, I’m shopping around getting quotes for computers and a server. After it’s all said and done, HP is looking like the best deal/service (and the sales rep from them spoke English, which is always an added perk considering the Dell rep didn’t very well). They also have a deal going on until the end of the month that with certain configurations, you can get a free 15″ LCD. One of those configurations is without Microsoft Office, instead with MS Works (which is an ugly little suite for business use), so I need to get some licenses for MS Office Pro or Small Business Edition 2003.
Anybody know where to get them cheap? I need either of those two versions because they come with Publisher as well, which was requested by the folks there for some basic in-house desktop publishing duties. I actually have the CD for the MS Office Pro edition as well as for Publisher 2003, I just need more licenses. So if anybody has four of them to sell/get rid of, by all means e-mail me (and Publisher I probably don’t need four for, probably just two of the Pro/SBE licenses and two Office Basic licenses).
Poop Art
Only in New York’s auction houses could you bid on a white cube that had the artist’s feces on it. Thanks Barney for the link.