Category: Funny

How To Use Your Printer to Freak People Out

I’ve mentioned before how you can use Google to find unsecured Web cams and printers. The folks at Reddit found another open printer URL, but the best part was this comment, which makes it so you can change the status display on some HP printers, with some hilarious results.

If You’re Going To Photoshop Your Real Estate Listing…

…I’d recommend you actually use Photoshop, and not MS Paint.

Update on 7/30: It looks like they replaced the photo on the listing. The one that was there before is here:

I Never Knew Sarah Palin’s Words Could Be So Beautiful

This was absolutely breathtaking — or something…

Users are Lazy, Stupid, or Lazy and Stupid

Which is why tech support will always be necessary, contrary to what some CTOs think.

Better Late Than Never

In a 1920 editorial, the New York Times ran an editorial saying space flight was impossible. Forty-nine years later, and years after objects, man and beast had been launched into space, they finally ran a correction.

How To Quickly Lose A Sale

If you’re going to sell many thousands of dollars worth of servers to Opera for use in their datacenters, you better dang well make sure that you don’t have code on your product’s web-based administration interface that doesn’t work with Opera.

What If The Moon Landing Happened Today?

The news videos might look something like this:

Updated: If you want to see it how it was 40 years ago, watch it “Live” as it aired back in the day (in memory of Walter Cronkite).

Isn’t That The Truth

There’s a reason I use Teracopy:

When Cultural Awkwardness Meets Technical Cack-Handedness

Too Busy To Read The News?

Then how would you know what to be scared off? Doomwatch will read the headlines and tell you what you need to freak out about.

Update: If you’re here from bojack, you’re looking for this.