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Month: October 2005
E-Mail Pet Peeves
If anybody uses their e-mail for any sort of serious conversations, or wants to make the attempt to, please don’t do any of the things in this page, like sending an e-mail with a bunch of “>>>” characters in them, use Plaxo (I’ve opted out, so you won’t get them from me or I won’t take them), attachments and no body, unprofessional e-mail address, and unresearched hoaxes.
The Ultimate Alarm Clock
I can almost guarantee you won’t sleep through this.
Do you find it hard to get your partner or the kids up in the morning? Well the Sonic Alarm is the perfect solution to your problem.
Getting that grumbling snuffling bulk out from under the duvet in the morning is a challenge you really shouldn’t have to bother yourself with. Especially as the thing that emerges is inevitably grumpy and looks like a hung-over swamp monster. Well the Sonic Alarm makes the whole ‘getting them out of bed’ exercise a very simple, and indeed amusing, operation. Looking like an old-fashioned comedy hand grenade, the Sonic Alarm will wake pretty well anything up. Simply pull the pin, yell an emphatic “fire in the hole” and lob the grenade into the sleeper’s room. After ten seconds a very annoying and piercingly loud noise (there are three volume settings) will blast out from the alarm. That’s not all however, what makes this especially great is that to stop the alarm the sleeper has to find you so you can put the pin back in. It’s stupid, and brilliant, and will be the bane of every over-sleeper on the planet. Parents are going to love this, though the soon to be rudely awoken might not.
Now if it just let off a bacon smell…
Search Engine For The Visually Impaired
For those folks who need bigger text when they’re looking at search results, and a browser’s adjustments aren’t good enough for you, just try this site which takes Google’s results and supersizes them. Thanks Jo-Anne for the link.
This Kid Will Get Beaten Senseless When He’s Older
I mean, it’s no good that you’re named after a search engine, but what happens if Google after becomes less popular than another search engine? If I were this kid, I’d be praying for it.
Some Folks Have Too Much Time On Their Hands
But I will admit that this scale model of the Sears Tower made entirely out of Jenga blocks is pretty damn cool.
This Was Done 2005 Years Ago
But David Copperfield is going to do it again, apparently.
David Copperfield says he plans to impregnate a girl on stage — without even touching her.
Speaking to German magazine Galore, the illusionist rejected the theory that there were only seven different kinds of magic tricks.
He said: “Bull s**t! There is a great deal of new territory to conquer. In my next show I’m going to make a girl pregnant on stage.”
He added: “Naturally it will be without sex. Everyone will be happy about it, but I’m not telling you any more.”
Oh my. I remember seeing David Copperfield when I was a little boy at the Hult Center in Eugene and thinking the show was very cool (even got in line for his autograph — still have that program with his autograph). Now I’m starting to think the guy’s a bit off his rocker.
Top 40 Magazine Covers
This has been floating around the Web the last couple of days, and the reason I’m linking to it is because I love good covers (studied Magazine Journalism in college, after all). But the American Society of Magazine Editors has named it’s top magazine covers of the last 40 years, and there are some great ones (that’s a mirror link as the original is down — you can download a torrent of them here).
Waste Your School Day Away
If you’re one of those cool kids that has a TI-83+ or TI-84+ model calculator, you could very easily kill off your entire math class playing this Dance Dance Revolution clone on your calculator. That’s, of course, assuming your batteries last the entire class, as this is probably pretty hard on them. Link via BB.