Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
“Even though our cats lick their butts, they’re still cleaner than the Bush administration.”
We called a customer here at the office to remind her that the final payment for her reservation was due today. We were greeted by this as the first line of her answering machine message (which then went on to say “This is so-and-so, leave a message”). My guess is she’s not a fan of Bush. Just a guess, however.
I’ve had this videos sitting here for a while, waiting to be shared, just haven’t gotten around to posting them. Enjoy them all after the jump.
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The graphics are intentionally primitive, but Dino Run is a very deep and entertaining game. Watch it kill off your day.
You’ve probably seen the Bill O’Reilly “Inside Edition” teleprompter freakout video. If not, here’s that (warning: seriously foul language) :
But the best part has been the follow-up videos, with this one being by-far the most entertaining:
(Edit: Fixed 2nd video)
What the newscast would be like if there was nothing to report:
Monster Cable — the company that makes those horrendously overpriced audio and video cables — is suing Monster Mini Golf because it claims the mini golf course are “”are likely to cause confusion” with it’s brand.
This is the same company that sued Disney for Monsters, Inc. (the movie) and the Boston Red Sox for “Monster Seats” on the big green monster.
The video starts off a bit slow, but give it a minute for a good laugh.
(If you haven’t been following the BendBroadband bandwidth cap update, read up here first which links to the few entries that follow this whole mess. Most of the discussion has happened here.)
BendBroadband announced today that they’ve dropped their tiered-bandwidth-cap for the upcoming service change in July, in favor of an across-the-board residential 100GB cap. The pricing differences will now be because of the speed differences and the Platinum Plan that was created during this whole discussion has been dropped.
Just the same, Comcast still gives you a higher cap.
The press release (full text after the jump) also mentions their business plans that are coming soon. It was originally thought and mentioned that these would be uncapped, but it appears that the cap will be set at 150GB for all but the high-end plan (no details on pricing has been released — which I’m still a bit miffed about and have been all along). As was mentioned before, the cap on business plans might hurt Bend as a destination for new technology entrepreneurs. Experimentation with technology can sometimes be an expensive and stressful endeavor if you have to worry about caps.
And there is still is my problem with the overnight downloads/uploads that I do (for backup/security purposes). Again, they shouldn’t count against me, but they’re going to, even though they’re going to hurt nobody. While I’m not over the 100GB limit, there are times where I easily could be. And I can’t consider a business plan as they still haven’t released them.
So an improvement? Yes. Completely fixed? Nope. Are people still going to complain? You bet. Will the usage graph be fixed? As of May 7th, it say it is on the site, but who knows if it’ll break again.
I just don’t think people will realize the impact this could potentially have on their bill. While the cap is much higher than before, with Summer coming and the kids being at home and discovering torrents and iTunes video and such, I just have a feeling there will be more outrage to come.
Full press release after the jump, feel free to comment below.
Update: FixBBB is all over it as well.