I’m working through some issues on the site here, folks, regarding comment spam. For some reason it’s appearing on the site, despite being marked as junk in Movable Type. I think I found the offending bit of code, and I’m doing a full rebuild to hopefully clear things up, but if you notice obvious comment spam somewhere on the site, please e-mail me at utterlyboring [at] gmail[dot] com and let me know the URL where you saw it (or post a comment here).
What Is So Wrong With Using The Telephone?
Kids these days — they’d rather IM or text message than pick up the phone, and today’s User Friendly reminds me of a conversation I had with someone of the younger generation the other day (I’m only 28, so I’m hardly an old fogey, but I felt like the grumpy old codger around this guy).
Now I use IM and I use text messaging, but I use text messaging for incoming message (when servers go down) and that’s about it. I do use IM when I’m at work as it’s quicker and easier than a phone call many times (and I can’t always get a phone call in), but what frustrates me are the people who would rather sit in front of a computer chatting via IM instead of just picking up the phone (especially when it’s a local call). At least get skype or something if you insist on sitting in front of the computer.
Stephen Colbert Brings Down Phone Switches All Over The East Coast
Stephen Colbert gave out a vanity phone number on his show — 1-888-OOPS-JEW (and lots of bloggers called it). The phone call response brought down phone switches all over the east coast, but the number always worked, says the company that setup the phone number.
Thanks Barney for the tip.
Firefox Flaw Was A Hoax
The talk given Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew Wbeelsoi at Toorcon that discussed a security flaw in Firefox was actually meant to be humorous, not cause the mass panic it did.
Some People Need A Hobby
This is nearly a 30-year tradition, but the Annual Mooning of Amtrak just screams “If you give me enough beer, I’ll do anything!”
Granted, I say this as a guy who mooned more than few people in my high school days, so maybe I shouldn’t be so hypocritical. I guess I just grew up.
Oddball Fetish Of The Day
The strangest things make people hot, and apparently some people are turned on by tube crushing — the act of stomping and squeezing every amount of liquid mass out of a tube.
Weirdest thing I’ve seen in quite a long while.
Ricky Martin’s Cry For Help
This is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time. A blogger decided to take some Ricky Martin song lyrics, compose them into e-mail asking for Biblical advice, and then sending the e-mail to several right-wing Christian web sites, soliciting responses. He did get some responses and they were priceless.
Pac Man For Excel
If you have a limited list of applications that your IT guys will let you can run at the office, and MS Excel is on that list, you can still play games at the office now that somebody has created Pac-Man for Excel. It’s actually fairly smooth on my PC, but I’ve heard it’ll run a bit slow on older PCs. Also make sure you have Macros enabled in Excel, otherwise the thing doesn’t run. But this is by far the most impressive use for Excel I’ve ever seen.
I’ve put a mirror copy here in case the guy goes over his bandwidth quota.
Best Use For Milwaukee’s Best Light
Put cans of it in a cannon, and shoot it at stuff. Watch this impressive slow-motion footage…