Fiona Apple and Damien Rice are playing this weekend here in Bend at the Les Schwab Amphitheater. And if you hurry (this deal lasts until Friday, June 30th, at 6:00PM), you can get free tickets if you pay the $1 Ticketmaster processing fee (considering the tickets go for $55, that’s a pretty damn good deal). Enjoy!
Stop Microsoft From Calling Home
Don’t know about you, but I don’t like it when any of my software calls home. Now you can officially disable Microsoft’s Geniune Advantage from checking in with Microsoft — and they’re giving you directions on how to do it (wonder who forced them to do this?).
Why is Geniune Advantage a bad thing? Read on.
Punch Card Curtains
I think I remember Jen saying that she might have some punch cards (or at least she worked with them at some point). I think you should decorate your house with them. Link via Make Blog.
It’s Bad When The Drums Stop
Just got this joke from a friend of mine …
A biology graduate student went to Borneo to take some samples for her thesis work. She flew there, found a guide with a canoe to take her up the river to the remote site where she would make her collections…
About noon on the second day of travel up the river they began to hear drums. Being a city girl by nature, the biologist was disturbed by the noise of the drums. She asked the guide, “What are those drums?”
The guide turned to her and said, “Drums OK, but VERY BAD when they stop.”
Many hours past but the drumming did not cease. As the sun was about to set, suddenly the drum beats stopped…
With an expression of fear on her face the biologist turned to her guide and said, “The Drums have stopped, what happens now?”
The guide crouched down, covered his head with both hands and said, “Bass Solo.”
Coolest Invention Ever
OK, maybe not ever, but BedBooks are still pretty cool for folks who like to read in bed. Why? The text is printed sideways so you can lay down and read properly.
The Pessimist vs. the Optimist In News Design
It’s always interesting to see how the competing newspapers in the same city cover the same story.
David Hasselhoff is a Weird Dude
The guy is seriously off his rocker. Who else would put out a music video (and song) like this?
The Ultimate Repellent?
Apparently it’s dingo urine. Needless to say, it’s a bit hard to collect.
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian researchers say they have discovered a new repellent that can help with everything from rehabilitating old mine sites to reducing the amount of roadkill. It’s dingo urine.
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He said the university was also trying to isolate and synthesize the active chemicals in dingo urine so that it could be made in quantities large enough to be commercially viable.
For now, the university is receiving supplies of the real thing from Australia’s Dingo Conservation Society, but he said how it is gathered is a tightly held secret.
“At one stage we fashioned a little urine catcher to walk dingoes and collect it from, but that tended to be risky,” Parsons said.
Thanks Cheryl for the link.
Rush Limbaugh Has Trouble Getting It Up
Why do I find it funny that somebody with as big an ego as Rush would need Viagra? Oh well — at least he didn’t try to get an implant to have it malfunction.
Thanks Barn for the link.