Anybody else remember Super Chuck Norris Bros.? I sure don’t…
Category: Funny
Redneck Bluetooth
A co-worker of mine has a dad who’s a bit less-than-savvy when it comes to tech. He only had a cell phone recently. Somebody should tell him that they do make wireless headsets for those phones:
Yes, that is a rubber band holding the phone to his head.
Every Help Desk Guy Has Had Days Like This (Including Me)
While I would never play Halo on the clock, I’ve dealt with this kind of obnoxious tech support hell far more than necessary (warning, NSFW language):
Original source and higher res version is here. Thanks Marshall for the link.
Tyson Homosexual Is the Nation’s Fastest Sprinter
Or, why automatic auto-replacing is a bad thing.
By auto-replacing the word “Gay” with “Homosexual” in some headlines and stories from the Olympic trials, you can end up with some even more hilarious stories, as one site found out.
UK Courts at Work
In the legal opinion of the decade, a UK court has made it official: Pringles are not potato chips.
Link via bojack.
What’s The Difference Between A Douche Bag and a Tool?
Leave it to former Bend blogger Dane to explain the difference.
Congrats to Celine Dion
Celine Dion’s cover of AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long” was named worst ever cover song. And I have to say that I agree completely — it was horrendous.
Not Your Typical Office Activity
Not really your typical office gals, either…
Thanks Cheryl for the link.
I Could See This Playing Out Here
Just substitute “Brits” for “Californians” and “Germans” for “Oregonians”, and this could play out here.
Thanks Jennifer for the link.
Geekdom Link Dump
For the geeks (like me) out there, enjoy! (And even if you’re not a geek, there is something you’ll enjoy here, I’m sure).
- Outlook Attachment Remover Add-in is a free Outlook add-in for saving and extracting attachments, decreasing the size of your Outlook files. Speaking of Outlook, here’s something that will screw with Outlook users heads.
- IsMyLcdOK, a tool to help see if you have dead pixels. If you do find stuck or dead pixels, here are some tricks to fix them.
- Scaring people with Flash’s full screen.
- Recover lost Windows, application, IM, router, and other saved passwords.
- Whatever happened to UI consistency?
- iPhone Apps worth Jailbreaking your phone for.
- How to Update your Hackintosh Mac to 10.5.3.
- Windows XP SP3 triggers false positives in security apps.
- Geohashing with XKCD.
- Keep XP Fresh until Windows 7 arrives.
- Commercial Games Gone Freeware.
- If you own an iPhone, you may already own the Most Powerful Portable Gaming Device.
- Torrent2Exe turns torrent files into tiny executable files that will download the torrent’s files for your less torrent-savvy friends.
- Has Vista SP1 caught up to XP SP3 perfomance? Quite possibly.
- Speaking of Vista, get its best features in XP.
- Prevent “locate link browser” popup dialogs in Outlook (that’s mostly for my reference as I run into this now and again with Firefox and Outlook).
- Change the product key on a Windows XP install.
- Help For The E-Mail Etiquette Challenged (send this PDF to everybody).
- Windows reinstall — Simple, Easy, and Quick. Covers the basics of backing up data, drivers, and more before bulldozing things (DriverMax is mostly why I linked to this).
- Determine if your ISP is messing with your BitTorrent traffic (haven’t tried this at home yet).
- 10 Tools to Get Your Blogging Done.
- How do I find a unix/linux command?
- What can you do with a 2nd ethernet port on your linux box?
- Free (or open source) drive imaging solutions.
- In Celebration of Pixel Art.
- How To Thief Proof Your Laptop. Some of this is going to get done here at the office so a public laptop we have doesn’t get stolen. Nevermind that the laptop in question is probably only worth about $20 on the black market, it still looks high-tech.
- What can you do with one kilobyte of code? Quite a bit, actually.
- Here’s a fix for when clock, volume, power, or network icons are missing or grayed out in Vista.
- AutoGK is great for ripping DVDs to Divx.
- Solving the IT Turnover Crisis. Every HR and IT manager should read this.
- Building your own home theater PC.
- 10 good additions to your phone’s contact list.
- “Viruses can be picked up via networks. Hackers hack in to computers via networks. Viruses are bad. Hackers are bad. QED: networks are bad. It’s obvious when you really think about it! Therefore, there is no company network.” Wow, I wish this were fake.