Another hilarious Worth1000 Photoshop contest: What if the movie titles were off by one character?
Month: October 2006
What Would Happen If Humans Were Obliterated From Earth?
It would still take quite a while for what we left behind to totally disappear.
Condoms Have All Sorts Of Uses
Why anybody would dedicate a site to “Things In Rubbers” is beyond me. There’s some really weird stuff on there (why anybody would cram a bunch of bacon into a condom is beyond me).
On a related topic, if you really want good…ahem…protection for your mobile device be sure you get your cell phone a condom. All the cool kids are doing it.
How Do You Get Your Site On Digg’s Front Page?
If you’re KTVZ, you just get oddball content off the AP wire that will occassionally get you a pile of traffic. But if you don’t have an AP wire feed like they do, there are a couple of not-so-ethical methods to go about it.
Either you can follow these 10 steps on the SEO Black Hat site, or just buy yourself some Diggs on User/Submitter. They’ll get you on there, but I don’t know if I’d be able to sleep at night.
On a related note, I’ve gotten hit by Digg once (that I know of), and I didn’t use either of those methods.
Downtown “Thugs” Are Taking Over
I’ve always enjoyed the Bend Economy Blog, and this hilarious rant about the “thugs” in downtown Bend who hang out at Drake Park was priceless:
Well, I’ll tell all you worried newcomers who’ve spent your hard-borrowed money to move to an overwhelmingly white community where you thought there would be less crime, less drugs, less punks, more family values, more scenic views and quaint shops, don’t blame the Bend police! You newcomers have done nothing to help the situation (which gets worse the more of you arrive), and I have to suspect that some of them are your kids! Why didn’t you forbid them to get piercings? Why don’t you grab them by the ear and tell them to come home, get a haircut and a job?
Aside from the punks who actually commit crimes, why do you care where they hang out? I had comments like “it’s intimidating to walk through there with kids.” What are you doing, hanging out with your kids downtown at 1 in the morning? Or do you really think that a street punk is going to leap out and snatch your child from you in broad daylight in downtown Bend? Or is it just that you suddenly feel self-conscious, as a well-scrubbed yuppie emerging from your leased Volvo Cross Country with your kids to go get an ice cream at Goody’s, to be in the company of free-spirited youth who are lounging around with no apparent responsibilities?
Anybody who’s lived here for a long while — especially folks who have lived here for a long while and have kids — will appreciate this. Be sure to read the whole rant, as it’s a riot, whether you agree with it or not.
This Is Going In The Toolkit
If you’re like me and do repairs and troubleshooting on computers that come from large companies like Dell and HP, you’ll notice that they all seem to come with a lot of crap installed — free trials, limited versions, etc… . This handy bit of software will help you get rid of the crap.
Really? You Don’t Say
Who could’ve imagined that vowing to stay a virgin would actually lead to lower STD rates.
Microsoft Windows Link Dump
Had these links sitting in my box for a while here, decided to share them all at once.
- Handy list of commands for the “run” box (in case you can’t find the program on the start menu).
- Microsoft Research’s Group Shot, which is a handy little program if you have two photos that you want to combine into one to make a group photo better. Nothing you can’t do in Photoshop, but this sure makes it easy.
- 20 Things The Average Person doesn’t know about Windows XP (nothing new to me, but good for a lot of people).
- Wininternals, a company that makes a ton of great system utilities (many of which that are free) for Windows, is being bought by Microsoft. Hopefully we’ll see some of these things bundled with Windows.
I Never Thought I’d Say This…
…but I actually support Wal-Mart on this. There are advantages of being a greedy company as large as Wal-Mart as they’re the only ones that can take on the even more greedy bastards at the RIAA.
It’s Peter Griffin In The Flesh
If you watch Family Guy at all, it’s going to be hard for you to look at this picture and not think it looks like Peter Griffin:
