Thursday, June 10th, 2010
You Are a Thoughtful Artist You may be creative, but there’s nothing messy about your approach to art. All of your art is well thought out and planned. You art ends up being close to how you initially imagined it. Your work tends to be quite deep and complex. You know how to produce [...]
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Sunday, May 30th, 2010
There was that recent story in the news about the Verizon debt collector threatening to blow up someone’s house. (NOTE: I don’t know about this industry, am not a lawyer, or whether this works in all cases. Use this suggestion at your own risk.) A month ago, I was receiving calls from debt collectors who [...]
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Thursday, March 18th, 2010
I just came across this children’s toy called “Mattel Mindflex”, which floats a ball depending on your amount of concentration: Mattel Mindflex Commercial These guys turned it into the “Most Painful Toy Hack Ever” Electric Shock Machine On a related note, it has come to my attention that YouTube messed with the dimensions [...]
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
You might have heard of computer supplier Newegg accidentally shipping computer builders boxed “processors”. This is no ordinary counterfeit import issue – I found a nice article describing the shipments – the CPU was a piece of lead, with a sticker of a fan attached to a “heatsink” piece of molded plastic. And, of course, [...]
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Rick Astley is getting old – Carl Winslow is Next! Carl Winslow
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009
(Another celebrity dies in 2009) From Lew Rockwell: Soupy Sales, RIP Also from Lew Rockwell: Steal Your Parents’ Money
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
I found this video where these two kids (guy and girl) prank call Dell, with the guy claiming that on his computer, there’s a virus which keeps popping up and telling him he’s gay. Over time "the virus" "makes" him gay until he starts hitting on the poor Dell technician who can’t speak English. Funny [...]
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