Category: Cool

A Little Treat For Those Obnoxious Teenage Trick Or Treaters

Many of you may remember how I spent last Halloween. Long story short, I gave an obnoxious, too-old-to-be-trick-or-treating teenager a can of canned veggies instead of candy because he was far too old to be tricking or treating. While I haven’t quite made plans for this Halloween quite yet (other than some entertaining of my kids as well as my nieces and nephew), I am ready for those morons again if we decide to distribute candy this year (we haven’t quite decided yet).

I have some old cans of veggies and other random items from the pantry (like some pickled asparagus — why I have that, I have no idea) that I have collected and will be sticking these labels on them. That link links to a PDF file I created in about five minutes during my lunch break so edits/changes are appreciated (comment here). The sheet is formated to print on Avery Template 5160 (the 1″ x 2.625″ 30 labels to a sheet mailing label — can be bought very cheap as a generic at OfficeMax). So print them up, stick ’em on, and enjoy (and if anybody has a different design idea and wants to throw one together, e-mail it my direction and I’ll post it here).

Update: Thanks to Barn, I fixed a typo.

October 26, 2005

Flash Time Killer For The Day

A nice simple (but fun) maze game.

October 26, 2005

Just Doing My Part

An Ad Age report says that U.S. workers will waste the equivalent of 551,000 “work years” reading blogs (reg. required). Quote: “Currently, the time employees spend reading non-work blogs is the equivalent of 2.3 million jobs.”

I’ve been told many times before how many hours of people’s lives this site has wasted, mostly during work hours, so let me say I’m glad to be doing my part. Now excuse me while I get back to work.

Link via Morph.

October 26, 2005

Oregon RIAA Victim Sues RIAA Right Back

Right on!

This is the case peer-to-peer file sharers have been waiting for. Tanya Andersen, a 41 year old disabled single mother living in Oregon, has countersued the RIAA for Oregon RICO violations, fraud, invasion of privacy, abuse of process, electronic trespass, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, negligent misrepresentation, the tort of “outrage”, and deceptive business practices.

Read the full claim at the above link — it’s entertaining, and I hope the RIAA loses.

October 24, 2005

Sudoku Puzzle Solver

Personally, I’m not really into Sudoku, which is apparently really popular especially among morning commuters riding the bus or train to work. It’s so popular that the Oregonian now has the puzzle in their comic section. For those of you who don’t really care about solving the puzzle, need help with the one you’re working on, or just want to impress your friends, this Javascript-based solver might be handy for you. Source code and tutorial on how the script was created is available here.

October 24, 2005

Annoying Flash Game For The Day

This simple one will drive you nuts.

October 23, 2005

A Nice Use For Old Keyboards

Make them into a fashionable handbag.

October 23, 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.

October 20, 2005

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…

October 20, 2005

Fun Little Flash Game For The Day

Robots Attack.

October 20, 2005