How Often Do They Check Your Signature?

Apparently not until you use your credit card to buy $16,000 worth of Plasma TVs. Nevermind the couple dozen other purchases and pictures he took before that.

The Biggest Problem With The Gas Prices?

Thanks to the high prices, gas stations are running out of “2s” to put on their signs. Apparently the big ones cost $150/each.

Hydrogen powered cars can not come soon enough.

Random eBay Items For The Day

I have to admit, this is one damn cool VW Bug (still a couple days left on that auction, folks).

And I’m willing to bet that the only reason this shirt sold was because of the cleavage on the woman modeling it.

Sneak This Into Your Wife’s Purse

A brand new brand of chewing gum from Japan called “Bust Up” is supposed to (all in theory, of course) make women’s breasts bigger.

So what happens if a man chews it?

Is Your School Needing Funds?

Don’t bother raising tuition, asking for increased taxes, or any of that crap. Just rent out your facilities to an adult entertainment cable channel.

Don’t Booze Up On Airplanes

Don’t booze up heavily when your on a flight, otherwise passengers might not tolerate it well and you’ll end up dead when you land.

Your Idiot For The Day

Bad: Leaving your SUV running while getting your cigarettes. Worse: Leaving your three-year-old sleeping in the back. Awful: Having the SUV stolen right in front of you. Luckily, it has a happy ending, because somebody ran down the car, and the woman who originally stole the car bailed out, leaving the child and truck, and was caught later.

Moral of the story? Cigarette addictions make you do really stupid things.

Ransom Note Generator

Here’s a couple neat little toys that allow you to create ransom-note-like bits of text. One uses Yahoo!’s image search, another that uses Flickr. If you truly want a secure note for your kidnapping, use both.

It’s The First Day Of Spring…

…and it’s snowing in Central Oregon. You can sort of tell it’s snowing by looking at our office Web cam, but it is certainly snowing. The mountain got some snow last night, too.

Why Is Google Building In The Dalles?

I mentioned before that Google was planning on opening up shop in The Dalles. So why The Dalles? Because there’s a big frickin’ hydroelectic dam there, and Google might need the extra power. Interesting theory, and actually makes a great deal of sense.