For all of you that say Fahrenheit 9/11 is completely false and full of lies, I present you Michael Moore’s fact checking. If you want to download the movie (since Mr. Moore doesn’t care), there are good BitTorrent directions here.
You have a broken Real Doll?
You may (or may not) have heard of Real Doll (site isn’t safe for work). Basically, what these things are is super-realistic sex toys. They’re disgusting, really. But if decide to buy one, and it breaks down from…well…over use, there’s apparently somebody that will fix it.
C**t of the Week
From b3ta:
Regular readers will know we’ve recently been running URL redirects, i.e. taking an address like fuckingnazis.com and forwarding to the Barclays bank website. B3ta reader Tony has hit on a novel variation. He’s registered cuntoftheweek.co.uk and plans to point it to different people every seven days.
That site’s been added to my “check every seven days” folder, just to see who he points it to.
A Better “Hold The Button”
Remember Hold The Button, the game that challenged you to see how long you could hold down the button on your mouse? This game is just like that, but the button moves. What did you score? Link via b3ta.
Alternative Handwriting Styles
Every college student (or reporter) should learn one of these. It will enable them to write a lot faster. I used the “drop all the vowels from words” method when I was in college.
A Sad, Sad Day
I just read in today’s Chandler Drive Daily (I’m really never going to get a job there if I make jokes about it like that) that the Pilot Butte Drive-In, arguably the best burger joint in the state of Oregon, isn’t going to be open for dinner anymore. Understand, I’ve loved that place since I was a kid, and still to this day go there at least a couple times a month, generally after I get off of work — and they’ll now be closed during that time frame.
Why are they doing this? Really, I’m not sure. It’s always packed every night, so its can’t be a financial reason. The family owners say it’s a “Family decision” but later say “The good business is causing us to have slow ticket times, (food) not cooked correctly” because they weren’t there in the evening watching over everybody’s soldiers.
So what do they do? Instead of hiring a evening-shift manager that knows what they’re doing and can improve the problems they’re having, they decide to lay off staff and close six hours earlier. Brilliant, folks, absolutely brilliant.
To use an example I’m familiar with, I work for a family-owned and run company. While it’s nice when they’re there, they’ve surrounded themselves with talented employees so that if they were to up and disappear off the face of the earth, the company would still function great and nothing would falter. Why can’t they do that at Pilot Butte?
My guess is the public outcry will get Pilot Butte back to regular shift within the month, but they need to do it with better management, and, in this case, less family involvement.
Local Net-theft Scam Busted
This is actually a pretty involved scheme, and something I wouldn’t expect to see around here:
Two Madras teens have been arrested in an Internet theft scam, accused of using stolen credit card numbers to buy almost $50,000 worth of Apple Computer products and having them delivered to empty houses, police said.
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Investigators learned that stolen credit cards and stolen identities were being used to buy items from Apple over the Internet, Stanfill said. Almost 50 orders had been made, with more than $48,000 worth of products ordered. Some were shipped and delivered, some were shipped and not delivered, while others were identified as fraudulent by Apple Computers and stopped, the detective said.
The orders were being sent to unoccupied homes in the Madras area, using credit card numbers and identities stolen in various ways over the Internet from victims across the country.
The numbers were stolen by phishing methods, though it’s not known if the teens were directly involved in the phishing activity, though they think they might have been part of a larger group involved — the arresting agency is also sending reports to the Secret Service and the Postal Inspection Service, as well as working with an agency in California.
Anybody out there have young kids?
The wife got me roped into doing this sticker club chain letter thing, since she couldn’t think of people to send this to. I need to get ahold of a few names and addresses of kids that might be interested in participating (age 3 or older, I guess — anybody who’d be interested in getting stickers in the mail, I guess). Basically, you send a name on the list a little pack of stickers, and then send the letter you receive from me onto 6 other folks, moving your kid’s name in the spot. In the long run, your kid will end up getting 36 packs of stickers if everybody participates.
Anyway, if you’re interested in participating, e-mail me (jake – utterlyboring – c0m) with the name of your kid and your mailing address.
A 2,200 Acre Mushroom in Eastern Oregon
What is probably the largest living organism on earth has been discovered in the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon. A fungus living three feet underground is estimated to cover 2,200 acres. After testing samples from various locations, scientists say it is all one organism.
Officially known as Armillaria ostoyae, or the honey mushroom, the fungus is 3.5 miles across and takes up 1,665 football fields. The small mushrooms visible above ground are only the tip of the iceberg.