Category: Interesting

You may or may not have seen 10.5 over the weekend. I don’t get NBC very well at my house, though I probably wouldn’t have watched it anyway. Basically the premise was that a gigantic earthquake tears apart the West coast, destroying stuff, etc… . It made a pile of people unnecessarily scared when most of the mini-series was complete and utter crap.

You can tell they’re a nerdy company when the amount of money they decided to raise in their IPO is the mathematical constant “e” times one billion. Very nerdy, indeed.

A year ago, one of the most creative commercials I’ve ever seen hit the ‘net. I won’t get into the details for those who haven’t seen it (just download it here), but rumors ran rampant that the commercial was computer generated, took 600+ takes, etc… . A Wieden and Kennedy employee (W&K made the ad) put the rumors to rest in his comment on this article (scroll to the very bottom). Link via Waxy.

That’s what this guy is trying to pull off. He plans on starting with $14 and in one year turn it into $1000 (deadline April 15, 2005). He decided to take it up as a personal challenge after a MeFi discussion pretty much said it’s impossible. I know I’ll be following his progress.

Just sleep in the library, shower in the gym, and do your homework at McDonald’s like this guy.

I say this to be nice to them, and all of the U.S. Intelligence officials, because they might be reading this. Link via Waxy.

Quoting this news release from NASA:

Many news organizations across the country are mistakenly identifying the flag-draped caskets of the Space Shuttle Columbia’s crew as those of war casualties from Iraq.

Editors are being asked to confirm that the images used in news reports are in fact those of American casualties and not those of the NASA astronauts who were killed Feb.1, 2003, in the Columbia tragedy.

An initial review of the images featured on the Internet site www.thememoryhole.org shows that more than 18 rows of images from Dover Air Force Base in Delaware are actually photographs of honors rendered to Columbia’s seven astronauts.

The images in question are mirrored here as thememoryhole.org is getting pummeled with traffic.

On a related note, George W. ordered these photos not released, but he’s still moved by them. Can you tell its an election year? Thanks Barney for the tip.

I predict a big ‘net collapse soon, not only because of a flaw in Cisco’s routers (which power a great deal of major network backbones), but a flaw in TCP/IP that could cripple the Internet. Now all we need is another annoying worm. Wait, nevermind.

Thanks to a 70-year-old provision in the Securities and Exchange Act, Google may be forced to move forward with an IPO, otherwise they would have to disclose closely guarded financial secrets.

Companies must report financial results to the SEC once they have at least $10 million in assets and more than 500 shareholders of record, including employees who hold stock options. Google’s profits are thought to be $100 million or more. And the assumption — reinforced by Google’s Web site, which touts “pre-IPO stock options” to prospective employees — is that the company has granted stock options to most of its more than 1,000 employees.

If those assumptions are true, then Google should have to start making quarterly filings to the SEC by April 30, which is 120 days after the close of its fiscal year.

Reporting companies must disclose the same information to federal regulators as publicly traded companies, including assets, liabilities, operating expenses and partnerships. But they do not trade their shares on the Nasdaq or New York stock exchanges.

Full Story. Thanks Barney for the tip.

Actually, I can’t think of one use for Pig feces, but apparently somebody’s figured out how to make it into crude oil.