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I feed myself (pun intended) a number of things that amuse me. My style is to use a NetNewsWire “script” feed, so it changes every time I refresh.

For all you folks out there I give you

Face’s Daily Wisdom

It works best in NNW since I see the first line of the item in the directory.

Includes a cooking tip (limited for now); Dates - all the dates you can eat; Greta’s Vocabulary Word (look it up, use it in a sentence); Oblique Strategies; La palabra del dia en espanol; Zen saying.

It get’s updated once a day in the morning (just prior to 6 AM MST).

I would be happy to share the technical details with anyone who would like.

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A recent report now says that the Mozart effect is another charming urban legend.

The bad news for the hip urban professionals: playing Mozart for your designer baby will not improve his IQ or help him get into that exclusive pre-school. He’ll just have to get admitted to Harvard some other way. Of course, we’re all better off for listening to Mozart purely for the pleasure of it. However, one wonders whether, if playing Mozart sonatas for little Tiffany or Jason could boost their intelligence, what would happen if other composers were played during the kiddies’ developmental time? Read the rest of this entry »

Small, isn\'t it?

garfield minus garfield:

Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against lonliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb.

Science of Nascar - Stock Car Racing - Physics - Aerodynamics - New York Times

Less than a foot? Well, that’s the kind of experiment that Nascar fans will be watching for and, maybe, as Dr. Leslie-Pelecky hopes, it will also inspire some future scientists. I don’t recall growing too excited about the old textbook problems involving locomotives lumbering at different velocities out of cities A and B. But I would have paid attention to two cars traveling 200 miles an hour separated by inches.

Mac and PC

Lake Superior State University :: Banished Words List :: Banished Words List

***This year, in a gesture of humanitarian relief, the committee restores “truthiness,” banned on last year’s list, to formal use. This comes after comedians and late-night hosts were thrown under the bus and rendered speechless by a nationwide professional writers’ strike. The silence is deafening.***

The Beast

The Beast:

A few weeks ago, I shared the RemoveSpecialCharsExceptQuote AmpersandApostropheOpenBracket CloseBracketCommaHyphenFull StopCommaForwardSlash() method that Paul G. was forced to implement by his superior. Now this may come as a surprise, but there were a few more "oddities" at that organization. And shortly after leaving the longest-three-months-of-his-life contract, Paul was nice enough to share some more of them.

"The job interview went pretty well," Paul wrote, "everyone was pretty level-headed and seemed to have a pretty strong grasp of .NET and web technologies. Their description of the core application was like any other ASP.NET app: a Web Server communicated to a Database Server via ADO.NET and used a handful of Web Services. It seemed like a great fit."

However, after signing the contract and turning up to work, Paul got a slightly different impression about their system. His first clue was that everyone simply referred to it as The Beast. And for good reason. The Beast sported it all:

(Via The Daily WTF.)

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Washington Post annual neologism contest winners

Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating

  1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
  2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
  3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
  4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
  5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
  6. Negligent (adj.) describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
  7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
  8. Gargoyle (n.), olive-flavored mouthwash.
  9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
  10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
  11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
  12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
  13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.
  14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
  15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your Soul flies up on to your garage roof and gets stuck there.
  16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

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Simple Home Remedies

In no particular order…

  • When choking on an ice cube, simply pour a cup of boiling water down your throat. Presto! The blockage will instantly remove itself.
  • Avoid cutting yourself slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold while you chop.
  • Avoid arguments with the Mrs. about lifting the toilet seat by using the sink.
  • To treat high blood pressure: simply cut yourself and bleed for a few minutes, thus reducing the pressure in your veins. Remember to use a timer.
  • A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
  • If you have a bad cough, take a large dose of laxatives, then you’ll be afraid to cough.
  • You only need two tools in life: WD-40 and Duct Tape. If it doesn’t move and should, use the WD-40. If it shouldn’t move and does, use the duct tape.

When confused remember, everyone seems normal until you get to know them.

Daily Thought:

Some people are like Slinkies: not really good for anything, but they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs.

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe Exploits of a Mom - Little Bobby

Quite the humorous cartoon.

If you don’t smile, well…well

This is funny

Thanks for the pointer Sam.

Follow this link to see a TV ad for the latest product to come from the rainy Northwest - the ZunePhone.

I think the rain does something to them. Really.

mobile illuminating dub

Idea Generator

Original Colossal Cave Source Code Found | HoffmanLabs

Colossal Cave Adventure has been around for many years, and parts of the game including XYZZY and PLUGH and the twisty passages are now widely known. This was the original Adventure game. And now, the original version of Adventure is available.

Why Do Gorillas Have Big Nostrils?
Because They Have Big Fingers

How Do You Catch a Unique Rabbit?

Unique Up On It

How Do You Catch a Tame Rabbit?

Tame Way

How Do Crazy People Go Through The Forest?

They Take The Psycho Path

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Activision Reports Sluggish Sales For Sousaphone Hero | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source:

Sousaphone Hero offers two dozen public-domain marches, including 1893’s “The Liberty Bell,” 1896’s “Stars and Stripes Forever,” and 1897’s “Entry of the Gladiators.” The bulky sousaphone-shaped controller coils around the body, and players wear white spat-like foot coverings fitted with sensors that monitor synchronized marching steps. As with the fret buttons on Guitar Hero’s guitar peripheral, the sousaphone controller’s three valves are color-coded to match on-screen notes the player must hit. Players may also choose from 27 different fat-guy characters who can be customized with Alpine hats, epaulets, and a mustache editor with a wide array of options.

You Get What You Ask For - Worse Than Failure

At Lee Burch’s company, they send candidates a simple set of technical questions to see how well they respond outside of a high-pressure interview setting. Following is the worst response he’s ever seen. What inspired me to share it with you was the candidate’s arrogance while failing so miserably…

Read the response to the interview questions. Hoo boy!

Bug Bash » Archive » If Bugs Were _____, You’d Be _____ :

The nice thing about the “If Bugs Were People, You’d Be China” joke is that it’s almost infinitely extensible. Really, try it: “If Bugs Were _____, You’d Be _____.” When the “If Bugs Were” comic ran in the internal newsletter of a large Northwest software company, I used it to incite just such a company-wide contest. Funny how when you open the gates like that, you learn that your readers are actually funnier than you are. The best lines from that particular contest are included below. (Individuals aren’t credited only because no one gave me explicit permission to expose their names beyond the firewall – but the writers are encouraged to claim credit if they happen to be reading this.) 10) If bugs were coffee, you’d be Starbucks.

(Via Sam’s Random Musings.)

Global Nerdy » Blog Archive » Laws of Software Development

Inspired by Phil Haack’s article 19 Eponymous Laws of Software Development, I decided to collect laws, axioms and rules pertaining to mainstream software development and put them in a nice, easy-to-read table. This is by no means a complete list of laws; I’ve purposely stuck to the ones that apply to everyday software development and steered clear of the more theoretical ones. Maybe I’ll compile a more complete list someday. You’ll notice that some of the laws come from the world of biology — they also appear in some lists of software laws, and I think they still apply.

Strategic Developer | InfoWorld | 10 Corollaries of Murphy’s Law: Debugging | July 19, 2007 07:15 AM | By Martin Heller

The debugging tool you need will not be installed on any computer that exhibits the problem. There will be no way to reproduce the problem on the developer’s computer. Proxies, firewalls and NAT boxes will keep you from being able to connect to any computer that exhibits the problem. If you are debugging a Web service client, the service will go down as soon as you have your tools running. Any debugging tool licenses you have will expire before you really need them. If two debugging tools use the same DLL, they will require different and incompatible versions of the DLL. The most revealing trace log statement you write will never be called. The least useful trace log statement you write will be called thousands of times. Any trace logs generated will be too large for your email server to accept. The problem will not be where you’re looking, because you’re looking in the wrong place.

Tucson Weekly : Currents: Barflies, rejoice! Whatever. We’re not here to look

down on dives; we’re here to celebrate them. They’re dark. The drinks are cheap; the drinks are strong. There’s a good jukebox. A game on the TV. A pool table, maybe darts, probably a claw machine if you want to take home a stuffed animal or a titty keychain. And you know what the best of ‘em have in common? Dusty Budweiser Clydesdales chandeliers.

Just so you can tell how far from home you have to stray I built a map that points out the locations of each.

Refuctoring

Waterfall 2006 - International Conference on Sequential Development

Industry studies show a clear relationship between the maintainability of code and the expendability of developers. In your rush to deliver working software, there’s always a danger that you might inadvertently introduce code “smiles”. A code “smile” is some aspect of the code that makes other developers smile when they have to maintain it. Common code “smiles” include:

Test Movies

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fullduplex.org » How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language

The proliferation of modern programming languages (all of which seem to have stolen countless features from one another) sometimes makes it difficult to remember what language you’re currently using. This guide is offered as a public service to help programmers who find themselves in such dilemmas.

The link to the “other” page with patterns is wrong - see my post here for the correct link

Here’s an example of one

AWK

You try to shoot yourself in the second, third, and fifth toes of each foot, but you can’t match either foot at first. When you finally manage to, you load your toes into an associative array so as to shoot them more efficiently, but they don’t come up in the order you expect. Finally, you define a bowling ball function in the BEGIN block, process your feet, then call the function in the END block to drop a bowling ball on your foot if no toes were shot.

XqTN Jokes

The proliferation of modern programming languages (all of which seem to have stolen countless features from each other) sometimes makes it difficult to remember which language you’re using. This guide is offered as a public service to help programmers in such dilemmas.

Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace (and elsewhere)!!! Start with BLAMESTORMING.

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Jokes - Beatles Computer Song - Let It Be - ArcaMax Publishing Beatles Computer Song - Let It Be When I find my code in tons of trouble, Friends and colleagues come to me, Speaking words of wisdom: Write in C. Read the rest of this entry »

We Haz Cats 2

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I got a plugin for WordPress to make it work on my phone. I got a reminder to go look at Google Maps Mobile. I made myself a personal challenge to create a dead simple 2 table application using CakePHP.

And I got dinner too.

Saturday Night Live Transcripts Saturday Night Live Transcripts  Featuring 3,140 transcripts from “Saturday Night Live”

Giggle of the Day: if Microsoft made vi:

How the vi editor would seem if it has been made by Microsoft

It’s not exactly safe for work, but I found this animated GIF hilarious.

(Via O’Reilly Mac Stuff.)

Especially new version for Jan.

Cows

SOCIALISM - You have 2 cows…

Read on for a new twist or 2 ;-) Read the rest of this entry »

  • I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Borrow money from pessimists - they don’t expect it back.
  • Half the people you know are below average.
  • 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

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Restless Dreaming » Hipster Shuffle

You may have recently seen the wonderful invention that is the Hipster PDA (hPDA). It is a fantastic innovation that has been adopted by many a GTD follower. But what is the Hipster? Quoted from the Hipster Wikipedia definition:-

High Tech Toys!

  1. Jim Baker and Jimmy Swaggert have written an impressive new book. It’s called “Ministers Do More Than Lay People.”

  2. Transvestite: A guy who likes to eat, drink and be Mary.

  3. The difference between the Pope and your boss…the Pope only expects you to kiss his ring.

  4. My mind works like lightning. One brilliant flash and it is gone.

  5. The only time the world beats a path to your door is if you’re in the bathroom.

  6. I hate sex in the movies. Tried it once. The seat folded up, the drink spilled and that ice, well, it really chilled the mood.

  7. It used to be only death and taxes were inevitable. Now, of course, there’s shipping and handling, too.

  8. A husband is someone who, after taking the trash out, gives the impression that he just cleaned the whole house.

  9. My next house will have no kitchen - just vending machines and a large trash can.

  10. A blonde said, “I was worried that my mechanic might try to rip me off. I was relieved when he told me all I needed was turn signal fluid.”

  11. I’m so depressed. My doctor refused to write me a prescription for Viagra. He said it would be like putting a new flagpole on a condemned building.

  12. My neighbor was bit by a stray rabid dog. I went to see how he was and found him writing frantically on a piece of paper. I told him rabies could be treated, and he didn’t have to worry about a Will. He said, “Will? What Will? I’m making a list of the people I want to bite.”

  13. Definition of a teenager? God’s punishment for enjoying sex.

  14. As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point the wrong way.

First Time

A girl asks her boyfriend to come over Friday night to meet, and have dinner with her parents. Since this is such a big event, the girl announces to her boyfriend that after dinner, she would like to go out and make love for the first time.

The boy is ecstatic, but he has never had sex before, so he takes a trip to the pharmacist to get some condoms. He tells the pharmacist it’s his first time and the pharmacist helps the boy for about an hour. He tells the boy everything there is to know about condoms and sex. At the register, the pharmacist asks the boy how many condoms he’d like to buy, a 3-pack, 10-pack, or family pack. The boy insists on the family pack because he thinks he will be rather busy, it being his first time and all.

That night, the boy shows up at the girl’s parents house and meets his girlfriend at the door. “Oh, I’m so excited for you to meet my parents, come on in!” The boy goes inside and is taken to the dinner table where the girl’s parents are seated. The boy quickly offers to say grace and bows his head. A minute passes, and the boy is still deep in prayer, with his head down. 10 minutes pass, and still no movement from the boy. Finally, after 20 minutes with his head down, the girlfriend leans over and whispers to the boyfriend, “I had no idea you were this religious.”

The boy turns, and whispers back, “I had no idea your father was a pharmacist.”

Q: Name the four seasons. Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar. Read the rest of this entry »

The Ape: iTunes “Recently Played” list on your website

The other evening I set about putting my iTunes “Recently Played” list on a web page. Not only that, but updating it regularly throughout the day. I got it working and you can see the songs that are on my turntable right now. It updates every hour and is automatically uploaded to my website, as if by magic.

See the faceTunes page for my version.

Currently updates every 2 hours, shows the last 24 hours.

50 Greatest Cartoons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The 50 Greatest Cartoons was a 1994 book by animation historian Jerry Beck that compiled a list of the 50 greatest animated cartoons of all-time as voted upon by those in the animation industry.

Usability in the Movies — Top 10 Bloopers (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)

10. “This is Unix, It’s Easy” In the film Jurassic Park, a 12-year-old girl has to use the park’s security system to keep everyone from being eaten by dinosaurs. She walks up to the control terminal and utters the immortal words, “This is a Unix system. I know this.” And proceeds to (temporarily) save the day.

No, really, it’s easy ;-)

Schizophrenia

Do You Hear What I Hear?

Multiple Personality Disorder

We Three Kings Disoriented Are

Dementia

I Think I’ll be Home for Christmas

Narcissistic

Hark the Herald Angels Sing About Me

Manic

Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets and Stores and Office and Town and Cars and Buses and Trucks and Trees and…..

Paranoid

Santa Claus is Coming to Town to Get Me

Borderline Personality Disorder

Thoughts of Roasting on an Open Fire

Personality Disorder

You Better Watch Out, I’m Gonna Cry, I’m Gonna Pout, Maybe I’ll Tell You Why

Attention Deficit Disorder

Silent night, Holy oooh look at the Froggy - can I have a chocolate, why is France so far away?

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle,Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,

Men’s Basketball - Schedule/Results - Arizona Wildcats Official Site Men’s Basketball - 2006-07 Schedule/Results

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this is a mobilized entry

From the Ad Council. Looks like adults still can’t seem to get it straight ;-) I mean, do people really use JBOD in their chats?

What about LMAO, WTF, and some other notably missing shorthands? Read the rest of this entry »

Useless Facts

  1. For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects.
  2. The harmonica is the world’s most popular instrument.
  3. By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television.

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Non-Errors

Non-Errors

(Those usages people keep telling you are wrong but which are actually standard in English.)

Catskills Humor

You may remember the old Jewish Catskill comics of Vaudeville days, Shecky Green, Red Buttons, Totie Fields , Milton Berle, Henny Youngman, and others? You’ve probably heard of them before, but don’t you miss their humor? Not one single bad word in their comedy.

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KNOW YOUR STATE MOTTO

Alabama Hell Yes, We Have Electricity.

Alaska 11,623 Eskimos Can’t Be Wrong!

Arizona But It’s A Dry Heat.

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From YouTube to the iPod - O’Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog

Idol season is surely upon us. And I have received many letters begging me to reveal how to make copies of YouTube videos.

Stress: 20 Ways To Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity

  1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.

  2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don’t Disguise Your Voice. Read the rest of this entry »

Evening Classes for Men

The course covers two days, and topics covered in this course include: Read the rest of this entry »

This is for Christine to experiment with

Edit Tiger’s slideshow transitions:

Using Quartz Composer, you can edit the transitions that Tiger uses when you launch a slideshow in the Finder.

(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.)

MarsEdit: Easy weblog editing.

Savage Chickens: Love Your Work

Love Your Work

Howtoons!

Howtoons!

Howtoons are cartoons showing kids of all ages “How To” build things. Each illustrated episode is a stand-alone fun adventure accessible to all. Our Howtoons are designed to encourage children to be active participants in discovering the world through Play-that-Matters — fun, creative, and inventive — and to rely a lot less on mass-consumable entertainment.

The Right Tool For The Job

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Mashup?

can’t seem to upload the MP3, but this uploaded just fine

US Squash button

Here’s the MP3 - One sample short of a lawsuit

For Sam.

True Christian® Halloween Combat Guide:

Use the links below to learn how to protect your Christian family from the coming demonic onslaught of skateboarding Wiccans, Devil Worshippers, and general mayhem that surrounds the most evil day of the year: Satan’s Birthday (Halloween).  

Halloween Witnessing Tips For True Christians:

1. Wait for unsaved children to come to your door and hurl a bucket full of warm lamb’s blood (goat or dog blood can be substituted later in the night if you run out) all over their hair and faces. Shout -  “I plead the power of the Blood of the Perfect Lamb over you! Take that! FOUL DEMON!”  

The Baby Name Wizard: NameVoyager

It’s a Java app. It’s cool.

I found it here nat friedman

Blues Primer

If you are new to Blues music, or like it but never really understood the whys and wherefores, here are some very fundamental rules:

  1. Most Blues begin with: “Woke up this morning….” Read the rest of this entry »

Ipod Nano 200gb Instructions/Page 1 - Uncyclopedia

First, put on a static wrist strap and attach it to a grounded surface to avoid damaging the iPod Nano. Open the package. Remove your iPod Nano from the protective casing. Admire the packaging. Remove the packaging from your hard drive, and lay it on the table.

It’s just wonderful

NPR : Podcast Directory

NPR Podcasts include selections from Morning Edition, All Things Considered and other award-winning programs from NPR and partner organizations.

Quotes

“Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.” — Rodney Dangerfield

“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.” — Oscar Wilde

“Sex is one of the nine reasons for re-incarnation. The other eight are unimportant.” — George Burns Read the rest of this entry »

Tumbleweed Tiny House Company | Houses

6 x 8 FRONT GABLE

These things are cool. Need one of those smart cars out front ;-)

smart.com - roadster

Conceived with the classic 50s roadster in mind, the smart roadster gets plenty of pep from its 80bhp3-cylinder suprex turbo petrol engine. With a low centre of gravity and good weight distribution outstanding cornering performance is guaranteed. Standard features include electric folding soft top, black tridion, softouch, electric power steering, “spinline” alloy wheels and radio/CD player.

At last a guy has taken the time to write this all down. Finally, the guys’ side of the story. (I must admit, it’s pretty good.) We always hear “the rules” from the female side. Now here are the rules from the male side.

these are all numbered “1″ ON PURPOSE!

  1. Men ARE not mind readers. Read the rest of this entry »

Savage Chickens: Chicken Cartoons on Sticky Notes by Doug Savage:

Savage Chickens Chicken Cartoons by Doug Savage

The following are actual exchanges between airline pilots and control towers around the world, conversations from the cockpit that airline passengers normally will never hear. Read the rest of this entry »

Laws Pertaining to Dessert

For we judge between the plate that is unclean and the plate that is clean, saying first, if the plate is clean, then you shall have dessert. Read the rest of this entry »

Good housekeeping tip…

Always keep several get well cards on the mantel….. so if unexpected guests arrive, they will think you’ve been sick and unable to clean.

by way of Christine

motelsign.com:

all photos and words on this site © 1995 - 2004 by paul vlachos and peggy jordan

Words Women Use

This list is for me to find (and you too Chris ;-) Sometimes these things just strike me the right way - they’re amusing and often true.

This stuff just circles the ‘net.

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What is EarthCore about?:

Deep below a desolate Utah mountain lies the largest platinum deposit ever discovered. A billion-dollar find, it waits for any company that can drill a world’s record, three-mile-deep mine shaft.

(Via EarthCore: A Podcast Novel.)

Cool. Chapters at a time means that you can listen in bits.

Just like getting the text of a novel in an RSS feed - read a little bit each day.

I need to recover the links to the diaries online - I think it’s Dracula that I remember that I want.

IFILM Viral Video

Defective iTrip? BLOW IT UP!:

itrip boom smallAll right. Don’t go blowing up your iTrip just for fun. I just got off the phone with Jason over at Griffin Technology, and they have a very interesting and unofficial return policy that has been in place for a while. If they’ve gone through all the necessary phone support and troubleshooting with you and they determine that you do in fact have a defective unit, then rather than shipping the defective product to them and waiting for them to receive said product before they ship you a replacement, they may at their discretion choose to rush you the replacement as long as you agree to destroy the defective unit “in a creative manner” and send them a picture of your destruction.

Now, that’s a return policy!

[via Engadget] Thanks, Jason!

(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.)

pPlayer

pPlayer:

Posted Feb 22, 2005, 11:17 AM ET by Jen Leo Filed under: Home Games As if The Travel Channel, ESPN, BRAVO, and FSN hadn’t already brought poker to the mainstream—Vanity Fair kicked it up a notch. Now it’s mainstream mainstream. To be said like a teenage girl would ask her friend, “Yeah, but do you like him like him?” The article is a run down of who’s who in Hollywood poker, as well as a peek into some of their home games. They reeled us in with the A-list names we could recognize like Brad Pitt, Ben Affleck, Tobey Maguire, and Leonardo DiCaprio, but those aren’t even 1/50th of them.

Just to have a link.

Mine. All Mine.

The hot-selling item for Christmas 2005 is the remarkably fascinating “Bonsai Crop Circle”.

Order yours today.

The Infinite Matrix | Cory Doctorow | I, Robot:

Arturo Icaza de Arana-Goldberg, Police Detective Third Grade, United North American Trading Sphere, Third District, Fourth Prefecture, Second Division (Parkdale) had had many adventures in his distinguished career, running crooks to ground with an unbeatable combination of instinct and unstinting devotion to duty.