Category: Cool

Justin Simoni, who created Dada Mail (the software used on this site), is very proud of himself: This is the first time he’s passed math since high school, and he’s issued an entertaining press release.

The State of Ohio has adopted a new law that will require individuals caught driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs to display special license plates–eye catching, bright license plates with (you guess it) red numbering. Full story. Link via Ars.

I’ve got another item to add to my to-do list. Instead of fixing my preview template, I’ve got a better idea: Just incorporate real-time preview as you type. Link via Waxy’s Links.

Current bid on this bad boy is right around $70-million. I really don’t know what’s more entertaining: That somebody’s selling an Aircraft Carrier on eBay, or that the boat is listed in the “28+ Foot Power Boat” category.

If you’re going out to party tonight, or plan on drinking at all, remember to be safe, and that 7-11 is giving out free coffee tonight. Don’t be stupid and drink and drive — please.

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Ray over at Joke A Day is giving everybody a Christmas Gift: Free access for a few days to his premium joke site. Until 01/05/04, you can access the premium site at http://www.jokeaday.com/kringle/. If you like what you see, it’s only $5/year.

He sent a joke along with today’s announcement:

A young Jewish mother walks her son to the school bus corner on his first day of kindergarten.

“Behave, my bubaleh” she says. “Take good care of yourself and think about your mother, tataleh! And come right back home on the bus, schein kindaleh. Your Mommy loves you a lot, my ketsaleh!”

At the end of the school day the bus comes back and she runs to her son and hugs him.

“So what did my pupaleh learn on his first day of school?”

The boy answers, “I learned my name is David.”

Voodoo Doughnut in Portland has made news in the past for its wild doughnuts, including doughnuts coated with Robitussin, Ny-Quil and Pepto-Bismol, before the FDA cracked down on him. Now he’s making the ultimate doughnut for folks on the go: a caffeine-infused doughnut with the same amount of caffeine as one-and-a-half cups of coffee.

He was the unpopular kid. Nobody knew his name, he wasn’t on any sport teams, clubs, or anything along the lines. But he was smart. And, as a joke, his class voted him as valedictorian. With that title came the privilege of giving a speech at the graduation ceremony. He came prepared with a cliche-loaded speech approved by his principal. When he got up there, he started in on his speech.

He was finding his prepared speech difficult to read as he told the audience of students (who were laughing at him most of the time he was up there), parents and school board officials that his class had “arrived at school strangers and now leave as friends.”

With that, he paused and crumpled up the paper that held his carefully typed string of cliches. And continued….

“A lot of you were jerks.”

He quit following his pre-arranged script from there.

The reason I’m linking to this story is that I know many of the folks reading this were like me in high school. Granted, I wasn’t your typical nerd — I actually lettered in sports, and not just academics and band — but I knew what the kid was going through. High school kids are ruthless and always pick on the little guy when, in reality, it’s the little guy who will be the successful one in the future and many of those punk bastards will be asking us for jobs down the road.

OK, done ranting. Carry on. Link via Waxy’s Links.

To quote the site: “This is what happens when a person gets a brilliant idea and a little free time.” This guy turned is cubicle into a pretty nice Christmas house. Only took him $14 worth of stuff and about six hours to pull of. And it looks pretty nice!

Bookmark this site. With all the various e-mail scams going around, it only takes a short amount of time before somebody gets screwed. Thanks to Chris for the link.