Category: Funny

Mother’s Day Reading Material

OK, there is nothing here related to Mother’s Day (except for maybe this Calvin and Hobbes classic or these psycho movie moms), but here’s wishing all you moms out there a great day of well-deserved spoiling.

For Airport Security, Size Matters.
Yet another reason to get an Android phone: Google Goggles gets an upgrade to translate real-world text.
ClearOS (formally ClarkConnect) looks like a great replacement for Windows Small Business Server.
What Conan was really thinking during his 60 Minutes interview.
Speaking of Conan, he paid a visit to Google.
Speaking of Google, they’ve added an app gallery for Analytics.
Speaking of Analytics…well, I’ve got nothing. But speaking of Google, did you notice they flattened their logo?
When 4Chan Gamed the Time 100.
How to hide your collection of risqué material.
Weirdest thing I’ve ever seen: These guys can run for short distances on water.
The Queen may get last word in UK election.
21 Essential Social Media Resources.
If the original Super Mario Bros was designed in 2010.
How To: Jailbreak any iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad..
5 Best Personal Landing Pages.

May 9, 2010

The Care Bears Are Back

And this time, they’re not going to play nice…

May 5, 2010

Reading Material

If the Empire’s IT tech’s wrote a blog, it would look something like this.
Really nice HDR wallpapers.
If I’m ever old and have a disabled parking permit, I’m going to be just like this guy.
10 Things you Didn’t Know Google Maps could do.
The hacks will always continue: CSS3 solutions for Internet Explorer.
XKCD’s results from its color survey are in.
Top 10 Reasons you should quit Facebook.
After Steve Jobs ripped up flash, Adobe responds and confirms plans to move away from Apple.
The Taco Bell Chihuahua is going on a beeg, beeg treep (thanks, Dren!).
Somebody with far too much time on their hands: A DIY Lamborghini (thanks, Ben!)
How Wired.com Tracked Down The iPhone 4G finder.
17 Tips Every Windows 7 User Needs To Know (related: 60 Tweaks and Hacks for Windows 7, Vista, or XP).
The most clever ways to use Dropbox that you’re not using.
What is everybody on Facebook “Like”-ing? Find out (though I still prefer popurls to see what everybody’s liking or linking to).
TechCrunch hacker identified: Should they press charges?
All newscasts could be better if their cutaways were accompanied by the Law and Order “chung chung” sound. Anybody want to over-dub a KTVZ broadcast and send it my direction?
Bend is #4 in America’s top-10 cities for start-ups.
Think an image might be photoshopped? Throw the URL into here, and it might help you find out.
If you’re going to plagorize somebody’s art and win a huge chunk of money, the original artist is bound to find out.

May 4, 2010

Apparently “The Liberal Agenda” Is The Cause For All Problems

The American Spectator is asking its subscribers to pony up some $26,000 in donations to help it offset increased printing costs. Their reasoning? The shortfall was “created by the perverse incentives of the liberal agenda.” Um…OK…

According to the conservatives, the liberals are to blame for everything, including rising costs of paper. Apparently costs for paper weren’t rising at all over the last decade, just during the last two years.

This is why I avoid political discussion, as this kind of crap is so prevalent on both sides of things.

May 3, 2010

Bend’s A Thriving iPad Market, Apparently

Quoting Fortune/CNN: According to Net Application’s May 1 report, the five U.S. market areas with the largest concentration of iPads — measured by its clients’ browser data — are as follows:

San Francisco, Calif. (0.25% Internet share)
Grand Junction, Colo. (0.23%)
Santa Barbara, Calif. (0.19%)
Honolulu, Hawaii (0.19%)
Bend, Ore. (0.19%)

The author obviously knows nothing about the area and apparently forgot that you could get the iPad at places other than an Apple Store. They have the Internet over here in the sticks.

As Robert points out, however, the margin of error on the ±0.9%, ~~which is nearly half of our percentage~~ which is nearly five times our percentage (I mis-read the decimal point), so I wouldn’t take those numbers too seriously.

However, the best part of reading it is the comments. Many folks from the area have obviously found the story and are commenting on it (I saw it when it was posted, thanks to Barney, but didn’t have a chance to post/comment), and smacking the author around a bit for thinking we’re completely isolated morons out here. Robert and I share a favorite:

One came down on an ox cart from the Cascades with the Indian traders. i defrosted it by the campfire. i use it to kill rock chucks so there is food for dinner.

May 3, 2010

Let’s Party Like It’s 1996

The Geocities-izer will make any site “look like It was made by a 13 year-old In 1996.” I’m thinking about redesigning this site based on its suggestions (be sure to turn up the volume for full effect).

May 2, 2010

Awesome Reaction To Unpaid Bill

Client doesn’t give a crap about paying you? Give back the crap.

Personally, if I worked with gigantic amounts of poop on a daily basis, I’d probably have the same reaction, and would probably do the same thing.

April 29, 2010

Reading Material

That iPhone that Giz had? And that Dilbert is parodying? Looks like it caused police to seize Jason Chen’s computers.
Like I mentioned, the Hiter Downfall videos were all taken down. Hitler is upset.
Patrick Stewart needs to make his dream movie (and I need to get Extras on Netflix).
How to turn your Android phone into a killer MP3 player.
Speaking of Android and iPhones, install Android on your 2G iPhone.
What if I bought Apple stock instead of that Apple product?
How to successfully educate your clients on Web development.
The pros/cons of recent Facebook announcements.
8 Things I wish Everyone Knew About Email.
Want to build a online poker-playing software robot? Here’s some source code.

April 27, 2010

Reading Material

You know that volcano that blew ash all over Europe and wrecked havoc all over the place? You can blame the guys at Top Gear for that. (By the way: If you’ve never seen Top Gear, it’s hilarious. Watch some.)
The iPhone can now run Android.
Protection from double jeopardy doesn’t exist if the federal government tries you.
Chatroulette: Batman vs. Random Couple (watch it at full screen so you can read the text).
High-tech underwear for adventurous geeks.
Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Liberal, Maren Tarro’s account of the D.C. Tax Day tea party protest with her rightwing dad.
Mensa Selects Its Favorite Brainy Games of 2010.
WhiteHouse.gov releases Open Source Code, as does the Bank of Canada.
Yet another reason to avoid McAfee software: a patch they put out borked thousands of Windows PCs.
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad caused quite a stir when he (basically) said that women showing any skin increases the earthquakes in the world. So to see if he’s right, some folks are organizing a Boobquake to see if they can cause the Earth to move by showing more skin. This may be one of those cases where a POIDH is called for.
Need some background textures for your web site? Here are some great sources.

April 22, 2010

Reading Material

11 Brilliant Arrested Development Shout Outs To Its Actors’ Past Roles. For example, I had no idea that was Buster in that VW Mr. Roboto commercial, and they made reference to it. I have the whole series on DVD, need to finish watching them all.
Tweets may be 140 characters (at the most) but there is a lot of data behind them.
Photoshop CS5 looks pretty sweet — too bad I just got CS4.
Australia is pissed, and I can’t say I blame them.
There have been some really amazing pictures that have some from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption, but I honestly believe this is probably the best (more from the photog).
Infographics seem to be all the rage lately — and most of them are just useless.
The best performing media player for 2010.
Expect this to be implemented sometime on here, since I always seem to miss something: Crowd-sourced copy-editing.
Interesting selections/reviews on remote access software. I’m in the process of (finally) upgrading from a Citrix terminal network to full-blown computers at the office, but will still occassionally need to get access to desktops at the office.
Top 10 Free Antivirus software of the year.
jQuery is going to get implemented on some site I manage someday. There are just all sorts of sexy plugins and useful bits of code that I just don’t know how I could go without when I finally redesign this site or Bend Blogs.
Since nobody here seems to ever go to my band concerts, you can get on YouTube and watch some of them.
Collection of local Web cams.
Olivia Munn Pranks Lovelorn Asylum Intern.
Have a PalmPre? Tether it.

April 20, 2010

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