This is already all over the blog world but I have to ask: Why in the heck is the city of Boston is freaking out over this? If you want to see one of the “suspicious devices” up close, somebody managed to get ahold of one.
Month: January 2007
Worst Driver or Worst Minivan Ever?
Either this woman’s a crappy driver, or the minivan was a crappy design, but this video is still hilarious.
Mine Would Look Like an Oval
Ever tried to draw a perfect circle freehand? My guess is that no matter how good you are, you won’t get as good as this guy (video after the jump).
Where was this back in my apartment days?
This CD would’ve come in really handy back in the day when I shared a wall with other folks…
A great way to get back at those noisy neighbors! Give them a taste of their own medicine with any one of these 20 ear-splitting sound effect tracks. Anyone who’s ever lived in an apartment will really appreciate this hilarious CD! Earplugs supplied for your listening pleasure. Imported from France.
I love how it’s imported from France, as if it makes it that much more annoying (which it really probably does).
Hiring People Is No Fun
I’ve been in the position to interview/hire people before, and thankfully the interviews haven’t gone like this …
Random Link Dump
In an attempt to get rid a few of my flagged links in my stash here until I can get something worthwhile written, here are just a few random links:
- Converting Physical Machines to Virtual Machines for Free
- Putty 0.59 is out
- Apparently there are lots of areas of the US that have their own currency
- Mobile Faker, a tool that would come in handy on the dating scene. I guess…
- 100 best fonts (PDF catalog)
- Tag Clouds of famous US Presidential Speeches (Iraq and Terrorists were the two most common ones in the last state of the union).
- Using the GParted LiveCD to repartition your hard drive
- FarkTV is stupidly entertaining.
- Google Analytics hack to optain full referring URL.
- Using a 9-Volt battery as emergency AAAs.
- Swear your way to a good score in the Profane Game
This week has just been crazy for me, and I’m hoping to divulge more about it later this week. Stay tuned…
Hold Off On Vista
Windows Vista hit the market today, but I’d hold off on purchasing it. To steal a bunch of self-promoting (for Mike Elgan) links from the Raw Feed:
6. Vista may be the best reason yet to buy a Mac
Here are 10 other good reasons to avoid Vista.
Seriously, though, Windows XP is fine for 99.9% of the folks out there, and I just have to wonder why we waited as many years as we did for this.
Who Has The Worst Crime Rate Per Capita?
The top crime neighborhood in the world isn’t in Sao Paulo or Lagos. It’s not the Bronx in New York, or even Wedding in Berlin. It’s the small city ruled by Pope Benedict XVI, which apparently sees more criminal cases per capita than any other part of the world.
The Vatican’s attorney general Nicola Picardi released the astounding statistic at the start of 2007: The tiny nation’s justice department in 2006 had to contend with 341 civil and 486 criminal cases. In a population of 492, that measures out to 1.5 cases per person — twenty times the corresponding rate in Italy.
Obviously, this is mostly from folks who make the journey to the Vatican, not from permanent residents, but it’s still an interesting stat.
MySpace For Dummies
Proving that MySpace is a horribly organized, hard to deal with, generally stupid and hidious Web site, a book has been created to help you with MySpace, though I really think that “MySpace is For Dummies” would be a more appropriate title, and obviously I wasn’t the only one that thought that.
Yes, I know the irony of bad-mouthing MySpace when I have a profile there, but as you can tell I don’t spend any time there at all — maybe 10 minutes a month, max. The only reason I have the profile setup is so I can actually track down my friends who do nothing but spend time on MySpace, and refuse to read messages to them unless they come through their MySpace inbox or their stupid MySpace instant messaging program (get a real IM handle, folks). They’ll send me messages from their messaging system, and my reply is always “Look, if you really want to talk to me, e-mail me at insert my e-mail address as I can’t stand this site. They refuse to start a blog or send e-mails to people and post their life history on MySpace instead and expect everybody to go there to read it. And then they make their profiles private, which makes it so I have to login every time as MySpace can’t seem to hold onto a login cookie in Firefox for its life, and external RSS readers can’t read it if they post something on their blog (they use the news postings area instead, which doesn’t have RSS). Ugh…I wish that site wasn’t so popular, as it’s making idiots out of everybody. I just logged in there to see, just for giggles, if I had a message in there, and apparently I had 15 — all with profiles who have magically disappeared. I felt my IQ drop 10 points just by logging in.</rant>
I Can’t Believe They Used To Sell This Stuff
Does anybody else find it creepy that you could buy synthetic cocaine and that there were TV commercials for it? Video below…