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Why One Day Your Kids Will Take Hostages 2008-02-06 05:58:25 Every parent dreams that one day their child will grow and become prosperous and powerful. And the best way to do that is sticking it to the little guy, right? Wrong! Give your child an early head start in to the successful career of ransom making!
With this complete kit for only a dollar (USD $1) your child can have the swashbuckling adventure of holding your neighbor's cat for ransom! Long gone are the days of boys just leaving the girls out of their club, now it's simple and easy to steal little Susie's doll and hold it until all your little pirate's demands are met!
Let's not forget it also includes a bottle/flask so if the demands aren't met, you can drown your sorrows away why you're being grounded. (Or in my parents house, lashed with the whip)
Ok, so that sounds far fetched
nSpaces.com Launches Free Forum Hosting 2008-02-06 04:14:01 The increasingly popular nSpaces.com () image hosting service has recently announced that they're expanding and will be offering free forum hosting.
The forums will be running the robust phpBB forum software and will offer an easy and popular way for anyone to create an online community in just a matter of minutes. Of course all free things have a price. However the only price I can see is a small advertisement on the bottom of each page. Click here to check out their new offerings. ()
nSpaces.com () became popular a few months ago when they introduced themselves as a player in the highly contested image hosting market. While the site isn't as advanced as Photobucket or some other popular rivals, the speed of the service more then makes up for it. Users are also given virtually unli Read more:Forum
, Hosting
, com Launches
The Yellow Page War 2008-01-09 00:52:00 Every morning driving into work I hear very expensive rush hour
advertisements for various Yellow
Page style directories. And every
morning I think to myself Is this really necessary? I don't know
about the rest of the world but I only get a phone book from my phone
company...which...in most cases only one landline phone company with
service a particular area. So why do these companies pour millions of
dollars into advertising that ABC Yellow Pages are better then XYZ
Yellow Pages ? No, I don't have the answer.
Even though I abstain from having a landline phone in my home due to
low cellular rates, Embarq would be my local provider. They've gone so
far as to give their book the personal name of Dex . (I'm assuming a
spinoff of 'Index') My next question is do people, aside from pe
Racial Segregation? Yup, it's still around 2008-05-05 04:46:26 According to Wikipedia by 1968 all forms of segregation had declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court . That's great, now everyone can go to the same schools, stores, drinking fountains and restaurants to name a few. The coloreds and the whites are finally united as one big happy family and the color of your skin doesn't determine who you will become and what you can do with your life.
Prior to those times the United States Constitution openly declared We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
So, as equals, why does the US Census Bureau divide us? What purpose does this have? Thanks to who my ancestors decide Read more:Racial
, Segregation
Edvard Munch's "The Scream" Appears On Log 2008-06-10 04:37:59 And for a limited time, you can also purchase this unique one-of-a-kind natural masterpiece on eBay ( item=170227893518)! This would be a must for any true art collector out there. You know your a great artist when nature itself imitates your work. Check out the pix on the auction and see for yourself! Here's an excerpt from the listing:
On a chilly
Friday evening two figures gathered wood and Read more:Scream
, Appears
, Edvard Munch
Village Knowingly Re-Elects Dead Mayor 2008-06-16 08:41:03 Talk about politics being a dead issue...a small village in Romania decided that the dead candidate was preferred to the living.
The late incumbent Neculai Ivascu who was mayor for over 20 years died from liver disease shortly after the polls opened. Yet he still won re-election by 23 votes.
I know he died, but I don't want change, a pro-Ivascu villager told Romanian television.
I feel sorr Read more:Village
, Mayor
Florida Man Arrested Stealing Gas With 800 Gallon Tank 2008-06-17 08:55:48 As usual all the weird people come out of my home state...today a Florida
man was arrested about 5 blocks from my office for attempting to steal gas from a Hess station using an 800 gallon gas tank in the back of his truck.
Here's a quote from the Orlando Sentinel:
Deputies were called out to the Hess gas station at 2902 W. Sand Lake
Road around 9:40 a.m. and found a man pumping fuel into a Read more:Stealing
Toshiba's Portege R500-S50007V - The MacBook Air Killer? 2008-06-18 04:25:20 On my usual morning read through over at BoingBoint.net I stumbled across this great looking 0.77 thick compact. Here's the scoop from BoingBoing Gadgets:
Toshiba
's entry in the superthin stakes is the Portege R500-S5007v (),
a 2.4lb notebook with a 128GB flash drive and integrated optical.
Topped by a 12.1 1280x800 widescreen display, it comes with 2GB of
RAM, a U7700 Core 2 Duo CPU and Inte Read more:MacBook
, Killer
Toshiba's Portege R500-S50007V - The MacBook Air Killer? 2008-06-18 04:25:20 On my usual morning read through over at BoingBoint.net I stumbled across this great looking 0.77 thick compact. Here's the scoop from BoingBoing Gadgets: Toshiba
's entry in the superthin stakes is the Portege R500-S5007v (), a 2.4lb notebook with a 128GB flash drive and integrated optical. Topped by a 12.1 1280x800 widescreen display, it comes with 2GB of RAM, a U7700 Core 2 Duo CPU Read more:MacBook
, Killer
Florida Man Arrested Stealing Gas With 800 Gallon Tank 2008-06-17 08:55:48 As usual all the weird people come out of my home state...today a Florida
man was arrested about 5 blocks from my office for attempting to steal gas from a Hess station using an 800 gallon gas tank in the back of his truck.
Here's a quote from the Orlando Sentinel:
Deputies were called out to the Hess gas station at 2902 W. Sand Lake
Road around 9:40 a.m. and found a man pumping fuel into a Read more:Stealing
Village Knowingly Re-Elects Dead Mayor 2008-06-16 08:41:03 Talk about politics being a dead issue...a small village in Romania decided that the dead candidate was preferred to the living.
The late incumbent Neculai Ivascu who was mayor for over 20 years died from liver disease shortly after the polls opened. Yet he still won re-election by 23 votes.
I know he died, but I don't want change, a pro-Ivascu villager told Romanian television.
I feel sorr Read more:Village
, Mayor
Edvard Munch's "The Scream" Appears On Log 2008-06-10 04:37:59 You know you have a true masterpiece when even nature imitates your work. Check out this log that looks very similar to Edvard Munch
's awesome piece The Scream
. The wood itself hasn't been tampered with aside from chopping it it half as they were about to toss it into a fire. Apparently, that chop was all that was needed to reveal the masterpiece within. Check out the pix below and see for yo Read more:Appears
Racial Segregation? Yup, it's still around 2008-05-05 04:46:26 According to Wikipedia by 1968 all forms of segregation had declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court . That's great, now everyone can go to the same schools, stores, drinking fountains and restaurants to name a few. The coloreds and the whites are finally united as one big happy family and the color of your skin doesn't determine who you will become and what you can do with your life.
Read more:Racial
, Segregation
Thanks to Tetris, I Understand Life 2008-02-18 12:00:00 I guess I could be referred to as a Tetris
addict. As soon as I get a new cell phone the first game, if not the only game, loaded is Tetris. It makes for a great time filler as well as offers a challenge if I have the spare time to play for more then 10 minutes. Boring meetings, waiting for the wife, or waiting for my ship to arrive in Ouray Base while playing Freelancer – Tetris is there for me Read more:Thanks
, Understand
Woman sues Best Buy for $54,000,000 2008-02-18 01:50:10 Best Buy, the most customer friendly *coughs* retail chain in the world, has really done it this time. Raelyn Campbell is suing them for $54 million US dollars. Even if she won the big yellow price tag company would end up trying to pay her in worthless gift cards no doubt.
So, what could possibly be worth $54 million? Try a lost notebook computer. Campbell was suckered into the in-store exten Read more:Best Buy
Why One Day Your Kids Will Take Hostages 2008-02-06 05:58:25 Every parent dreams that one day their child will grow and become prosperous and powerful. And the best way to do that is sticking it to the little guy, right? Wrong! Give your child an early head start in to the successful career of ransom making!
With this complete kit for only a dollar (USD $1) your child can have the swashbuckling adventure of holding your neighbor's cat for ransom! Long go
nSpaces.com Launches Free Forum Hosting 2008-02-06 04:14:01 The increasingly popular nSpaces.com () image hosting service has recently announced that they're expanding and will be offering free forum hosting.
The forums will be running the robust phpBB forum software and will offer an easy and popular way for anyone to create an online community in just a matter of minutes. Of course all free things have a price. However the only price I can see is a Read more:Forum
, Hosting
, com Launches
The Yellow Page War 2008-01-09 00:52:00 Every morning driving into work I hear very expensive rush hour
advertisements for various Yellow
Page style directories. And every
morning I think to myself Is this really necessary? I don't know
about the rest of the world but I only get a phone book from my phone
company...which...in most cases only one landline phone company with
service a particular area. So why do these companies pour mi
Site of the week: woot! 2007-11-27 02:40:38 woot.com ()
The main woot! website
sellout.woot.com ()
This actually redirects to Yahoo Shopping but offers a different deal
than woot.com. Generally I've noticed they're a little higher priced
but still filled with plenty of great bargins
shirt.woot.com ()
Same concept as the others, except for they deal only in shirts. My
wife loves visiting this everyday and seeing the usually humorous
prin
Dockulicious: Customize Your Dock in a Jiffy 2007-11-16 12:00:00 I’m sure you’re all tired of hearing about the new dock in Leopard, however if you’re like me, maybe you’ll find this application interesting and useful. Personally I enjoy the ability to swap out my dock with a drag a drop.
Now you can customize your possibly-hard-to-see dock by just dragging and dropping a .zip file onto the free program from Dockulicious () called DockSwitcher ().
I
RealPlayer 11: A Viable Media Player for Mac? 2007-11-16 12:00:00 Apparently for the last couple years, we were completely unaware
that the RealPlayer
format was still considered a viable streaming
solution, in the wake of Quicktime and Windows Media Player’s growing
popularity.
After trying out their previously adware/spyware ridden Window’s
version a few years back I completely swore off the company altogether.
So, will this latest edition change our min Read more:Viable
BusySync: Share your iCal easily via Bonjour on a LAN 2007-09-28 08:50:27 How in the world do you share out your iCal to other people in your local network with full Read/Write privileges? For me this has been one of the biggest issues as a Mac-based Network/Systems Administrator. Up until today the workarounds have been spotty at best and haven't always delivered the desired result.
Now thanks to BusySync from BusyMac, all your problems have been solved...at least t Read more:Share
Buy a BBQ smoker, get a human leg for free 2007-09-26 04:00:56 A Maiden North Carolina man purchased a smoker, a covered grill like device that allows you to smoke food such as turkey, at an auction. Upon being the the winning bidder he proceeded to open his new cooking device to inspect it. Inside he discovered what appeared to be a piece of wood wrapped in paper, however, upon unwrapping he instead discovered a human
leg that had been cut off about 3 inches Read more:BBQ
Want a free iPhone, iPod Classic, Nano, or Shuffle? 2007-09-26 03:14:05 Well, it's not exactly free, however, it could be a great deal for audiophiles everywhere. FeedYourPlayer.com offers to take your used CD's and turn them into a brand new Apple device. Basically the exchange rate turns out to be $2 per CD and $3 per DVD. Sure you could sell them yourself and perhaps get better prices on some of your CD's but selling all those CD's on Amazon or similar music store Read more:iPhone
, iPod
, Classic
, Shuffle
The amazing fatty pen safe 2007-09-25 16:53:43 So you happen to have some crisp folding money. You also happen to have a wife who likes to take money from you. You also have one of those big fat pens that are so ugly and cheap looking no one wants to steal it. (No offense intended to those liking said pen) With that said, we have the perfect hack for you!
It's the amazing fatty pen safe, in a nutshell, this hack requires only one of thos
1 TeraByte iPhone coming soon? 2007-09-24 05:21:03 Now that I have you all excited, which this is very exciting, here's the scoop. Ok, so the catch in all this is that the 1TB would reside externally from your iPhone
and would actually be streamed over the web. But that's still great, right?
We recently posted a short link to the fake 'skim' project and now from the same programmer we give you iPhone streaming music. While it will involve slightl
PHP QuickTime Virtual Reality (QTVR) for the rest of us 2007-09-24 05:04:00 We've all seen the really cool QuickTime
Virtual Reality elements out there. They allow you to 'grab' an image and rotate it as if it were actually spinning. Normally this could only be done through various QuickTime or Flash programs, however there's a new PHP/JavaScript version with this same concept that you can get for free. All you need to do is drop the images you want to use into a folder a
Make your screen saver your OS X desktop 2007-09-24 04:21:06 While working in a design based environment there's always tons of really cool backgrounds on your coworkers desktops. So why not jazz yours up a little by making a dynamic background using your current screen
saver?
1. Open 'System Preferences' and select the screen saver you wish to use.
2. Open Terminal (Located in /Applications/Utilities/)
3. Enter in this command and press return: /Sys
Seniors protest free donut ban 2007-09-24 02:48:09 Like any morning at the elderly were playing games, creating crafts and demonstrating out front. Their protest? Could it be lack of affordable health care? Perhaps mishandling of their retirement funds? No, the quagmire of the day is the lack of free donuts.
The center receives on average around 16 cases of donated baked goods, however as of late they have been discarding these sweet treats as t Read more:Seniors
Hidden Mac games 2007-09-23 13:39:19 Did you know that your OS X based Mac came with several 'hidden' games? They're actually Unix based games, however, I'm sure they'll keep you entertained just the same.
To play:
1. Open Terminal (Located in Applications/Utilities/)
2. Type 'ls /usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/play' this will show you what games are installed
3. Type 'emacs' and press return
4. Press Esc and and the 'x' Read more:Hidden
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