Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
I’ve personally never flown Southwest (that I can remember), so I’ve never experienced this, but rumor has it they’ve got some pretty funny flight attendants. After Sept. 11, they stopped being funny for a bit, but the humor has returned. From this Wall Street Journal article, some quotes:
I think I need to start flying that airline.
Really? Porn stars? Unprotected sex? No Way…. [/sarcasm]. It’s actually a well-written article with video and flash presentation (it’s the LA Times, so it’s safe for work).
Some folks just have the roughest lives ;-). Leif Ueland wrote about the six-month bus trip he took in 1998, documenting Playboy’s search for the Playmate of the Millennium — during which he was dragged to strip joints, obliged to photograph topless women and forced to sleep with two tryouts. He worried that the Playboy job would turn him into a “pig,” but he just ended up not wanting to write about sex anymore. Full Story (link from Obscure Store).
From Jokeaday.com:
One morning as Professor Jones was leaving for the university his wife told her absent-minded husband, “Don’t forget we are moving today. If you come to this house this afternoon it will be empty.”
Predictably he didn’t remember until he found the house vacated that afternoon. He mumbled to himself, “And where was it we were moving to?”
He went out in front of the house and asked a little girl, “Did you see a moving van here today, little girl?”
“Yes,” she replied.
“Would you know which way it went?”
She looked up at him and said, “Yes, Daddy, I’ll show you.”
Ohio state athletic association has “some concerns” about Lebron James driving around in $50,000 Hummer with three TVs inside. Full Story. They’re primarily concerned with his amateur standing, but, personally, I’m concerned with another distracted SUV driver on the road. That, and we all know that SUV drivers support terrorism.
Bet you they don’t have any of the stuff you’ll find at Reemco. Such gifts as electric toe nail clippers, and every kid’s favorite, the Ebola Outbreak play set.
If you’re a admin for a Sun Microsystems machine, make sure you have this site bookmarked. It’s a great collection of scripts, utilities, and more from Sun and other contributors.
The Recording Industry Association of America‘s web site has been hacked yet again (and, as I’ve said before, it’s because it’s being run by idiots). I’ll give you three guesses as to what Web server software they’re using. Anyway, a mirror of the hack has been posted here, for your viewing pleasure (pretty entertaining, actually, as they linked to a bunch of file-sharing programs that were stored on the RIAA servers). This just after the RIAA finally came to the conclusion that “Illegal music download sites will never be eradicated.” Well, no kidding. Thanks coach. (Links from NeoWin)
If it weren’t in the middle of Silicon Valley. But in case you need another reason to think Google is cool, check out thier Top Ten Reasons to Work at Google. I work there for the free lunches.
Just a public service announcement for you guys out there (and I’m mostly keeping this here so I can look it up later), here is how you tie a tie, four different ways for different types of shirts.