They’re coming to Albany later this month. Thanks Cheryl for the link.
Category: Interesting
High-Def Is Good
Check out these screenshots of the standard def version of The Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship of the Ring compared to the high-def version of it and you’ll see how this stupid format war needs to end now so it’s not a complicated pain in the butt to enjoy this stuff.
Have A Jar Full Of Coins?
This little site will help you guess how much you have in there.
New Year Clearing Out Random Link Dump
To ring in the New Year and to start anew, here are the links that I’ve just had sitting here for a long while in various places around my hard drive. These are totally random, some fun, some interesting, some funny, some just downright scary, but should keep you entertained for a bit.
(And before I post all these, I wanted to wish everybody a happy and safe new year. Welcome ot 2008, everybody, and feel free to share your resolutions below.)
Links below and videos after the jump.
- Social Engineering Gone Wrong (I’ve had conversations like this).
- 8 Things You Don’t Really Have To Do.
- Tim O’Reilly is thankful he’s not Bill O’Reilly (I would be, too).
- The Biggest Data Disaster Ever.
- Swearing at work increases company morale.
- How to track down anybody online.
- Find Free MP3s at BeeMP3.
- Everybody who lives in Bend and is proud of our landmark butte needs this shirt.
- How did Futurama’s Zoidberg get his name? From an Apple II game that Futurama creator David X Cohen created.
- The problem with mainstream media today.
- FOIA reform: Bloggers are journalists, too.
- Laura Bush wishes she could stop s**ting blood.
- Moron crook for the day manages to get featured on the front page of a newspaper cleaning up in front of his business as well as robbing a store.
- One ridiculously expensive Starbucks drink.
- Boise firefighters return to find firehouse on fire.
- The 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2007.
- On the Bulletin’s free music downloads.
- Hot-or-Not-style Wedding Betting.
- Fake Warrant Generator.
- Mariah Carey’s Saudi Arabia Album Covers (yes, they’re legit).
- What is your home’s Walk Score?
- A bunch of Lifehacker top 10 lists with WiFI tweaks, body hacks, PDF tricks, iPhone apps, and more.
Videos after the jump.
The Huge Storm Didn’t Just FUBAR The Northwest
It messed with New Zealand’s Internet access, too.
Thanks Rob for the link.
How To Cut A Beer Bottle In Half Using A String
Because you never know when this will come in handy. Like if I ever wanted to make a really ugly toothbrush holder.
Did Anybody Else Get The Bank of the Cascades Phishing Phone Call?
Last night at about 9:30 my phone rang, and it was an automated message saying that my Bank of The Cascades account had been compromised and I needed to call some toll-free number I didn’t recognize to re-activate it. Since I don’t have a Bank of The Cascades account, I just assumed it was a scam and hung up. Apparently I wasn’t the only one who got the phone call, as my in-laws called me and said they got it, along with a bunch of other folks, some who did and some who did not have BOTC accounts.
BOTC, like every bank, is now the victim of phishing scams, and even has a Web page for this type of thing, but I know the toll-free number I heard was an not the “877” that they advertise on that page (I can’t remember the number, but I’m pretty sure it was an 866 number).
Did anybody else get that phone call? Anybody know what’s going on?
Update at 3:30: Apparently I’m not the only one — it’ll be on KOHD tonight, and it’s on the Bulletin’s site right now (thanks for that, Jen).
True Stories, Told In One Sentence
I just recently found this site, which basically is just a collection of single sentences that tell an entire story. Like this one:
I held my father’s hand as he died in that hospital room and realized I’d never held his hand before that moment.
Or this one…
As you were breaking up with me, all I could think about were those mornings when you compared the Pop-Tarts and gave me the one with more frosting.
Fun site to kill several hours on.
There’s A Blog For Everything
Like this one dedicated to backgrounds of classic cartoons.