Because it’s full of crap like this.
Category: Funny
Geekdom Link Dump
As per my usual every-couple-of-weeks routine, here are a bunch of geek links that are mostly for my reference but might be handy for somebody else.
- Western Digital debuts a 300gb 10,000 SATA hard drive that’s stupidly fast.
- So when do we get folders in Gmail?.
- How to build a $188M submarine cable system.
- Mount flickr storage space as a hard drive.
- Fun little Physics toy.
- How to make a sawed-off USB key.
- Placing forced ads on your customers’ sites with .htaccess (for folks who are considering hosting sites for free).
- What file system should I use?
- Torrents of traffic and the Internet backbone (good article considering what’s been going on lately).
- Downloading YouTube videos as MP4 files.
- The WiFi Predator, a “modified wireless router connected to a high-powered antenna and running custom firmware to actively seek out open wireless connections. Once they are found, it will test them for internet connectivity and then join and repeat the one with the strongest signal to secured wireless connection that YOU control.” Totally illegal, but totally cool.
- Dealing with Windows Vista Explorer screwing up auto-detection of folder types.
- Move email to Gmail with Google Email Uploader.
- What if Futurama was real?
- Dropclock motion clock screensaver.
- Linux remains unbeaten in pwn2own Hacking Contest.
- Best Firewall Software of 2008.
- Open Source classroom management with iTalc.
- Push the Freakin’ Button (and Pro version).
- Left Behind: A fond farewell to 209 once-common things that are either obsolete or well on the way.
- Make your Windows XP start up screen look like Vista.
- Comparison of how 10 popular web sites have (and have not) changed.
- Where do email to “donotreply.com” go? They go to this guy.
- 10 Handy Numbers to Save In Your Cell Phone.
- Speed up Network File Copying While Playing Audiot in Vista SP1.
- ClamWin anti-virus for Windows.
- Embed your to-do list on your desktop.
- Run a management WiFi hotspot with a PayPal Payment gateway.
- UltraDefrag is much better than the built-in defrag in Windows.
- 10 JavaScript/Ajax effects to boost your website’s fanciness factor.
- 101 Five-minute fixes to incrementally improve your Web site.
- CSS media selections for various browser types.
- 85% of all spam comes from six botnets, with 40% of all spam coming from just one botnet. Good luck shutting that down.
- How to find out where an exploit is running on cPanel.
- A bunch of Single-serving-sites, web sites comprised of a single page with a dedicated domain name and do only one thing.
- 21 Awesome (but lesser known) open source applications for Windows.
- 50 ways your Web site is discouraging conversions — and how to fix it (Editor’s Note: Step 1: Find more time….).
- Using CSS to do anything. 50+ creative examples.
Jeez that’s a bunch of stuff. Have fun!
I’ve Never Seen “Juno”…
…nor have I really cared to, but if this rewrite was made into a movie, I’d watch it.
Buy Your Own Pimpmobile
A man on Bend’s westside is selling his pimpmobile on Craigslist.
Yo. Bring in 70% of your whores take with this styling 2004 Chrysler Concord. You could be the pimp of a whole string of ho’s and ride around in comfort doing drug deals and dropping off mommas to their dates. Got a big trunk for carring a baseball bat or taking stolen property to the pawn shop. Leather seats and CD player. Aluminum mags. Tinted windows: flip off the cops or smoke weed in front of them and they won’t see.
Momma got to go to the DR so I have to sell it. Won’t last at this price.
Awesome.
Thanks Redmond-ite for the link.
Flickr Hosts Videos, Everybody Panics
So Flickr Pro users now have the ability to upload video. There are a lot of folks who are pissed about that and want it to be a photo-only site. In sarcastic response to the whiners, folks now want photos taken off Flickr.
50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time
From the likes of Kids In the Hall, SNL, Carol Burnett, In Living Color, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Abbott and Costello and much more are some of the greatest comedy sketches of all time. I’ve seen a good chunk of these, but some of these were new to me.
What’s their #1? One of my personal favorites (and I’ve been catching up on Michael Palin’s “Around The World in 80 Days” on Netflix, so this is even more entertaining to me as he makes a subtle reference to this sketch during the show):
Turning A Little League Game Into A Major League Event
For these kids on these little league teams, this was like Christmas and birthdays all rolled into one — it was the best game ever:
On A Lighter Note…
With all the hullabaloo about the BendBroadband mess, some times we all just need to take a deep breath and have a laugh. And web design and SEO geeks will appreciate this:
Thanks Barb via COWPU for the link.
Time Killer For The Day
I’ve been warned by spouses and girlfriends of folks who read this site not to post time-wasting games. Why? Because then my readers get nothing done, totally ignore their significant other, and it’s all my fault. Or something like that.
But I can’t resist linking to Platform Racing, which killed off most of my lunch break.