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Cho v. Seagate Technology – class action suit
Cho v. Seagate Technology (US) Holdings, Inc. If you bought a Seagate hard drive at retail between 3/22/01 and 9/26/07 you can go to this site to see the class action settlement against Seagate. The gist is that they advertised … Continue reading
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Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig in New Romance Comic
Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig Become More Than Friends in New Romance Comic Wow, I may have to drop the four bucks on this comic. Starring super-notorious musclebound punk/metaldudes Glenn Danzig and Henry Rollins (with a little help from super-notorious … Continue reading
Creepiest banner ad ever?
Is it me or could this be the creepiest banner ad yet? Cartoon porn doesn’t seem like the best way to sell a dating service.
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J!NX : Necronomicon T-Shirt
This is such a great concept for a shirt, I love it! J!NX : Necronomicon T-Shirt – Clothing Inspired by Video Games & Geek Culture
My first bacon or canned unicorn meat?
I can’t decide which one I want more from Think Geek, the my first bacon doll or the juicy canned unicorn meat. http://thinkgeek.com
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I love my window view: V-22 Osprey fly-bys
Boy do I love the view from my desk. I have about 18 inches of window that looks right out to the outbound flight path from MCAS Miramar. I’ve had this view for a few years and it’s mostly F-18 Hornet … Continue reading
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Has it been six weeks already?
Wow, has it really been six weeks or more since my last post? In all fairness I had a DNS problem that I stupidly didn’t detect so the site was effectively offline for the past three of those weeks due … Continue reading
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The Poking Man Pen Stand
How can anyone live without the The Poking Man Pen Stand? I swear this must have been invented by the same guy that came up with the humping dog USB drive. Please, whatever you do don’t click on the video … Continue reading
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Don’t drink the Kool-Aid
Actually drink all the Kool-Aid you want, just don’t go around spouting the “Drink the Kool-Aid” cliche that’s so popular right now. Also please don’t say anything about “peeling back the layers of the onion”, I am so sick of … Continue reading
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Christmas Resistance
Thanks to John Cleese’s Cheese Podcast site for this one. Check out xmasresistance for more (or their Facebook page).
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That’s more like it: 12Mb down/1900k up
That’s more like it, DOCSIS 2.0 is good: The test says “Warning: ISP upload compression was detected. Your upload speeds may be inaccurate.” but I don’t know how the test is effective. ***Edit*** Looks like that test image isn’t available … Continue reading
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Negative speed?
Well that was really odd: after replacing my cable modem (who knew that a DOCSIS 1.0 modem would be deprecated and suffer degraded performance?) I ran a few speed tests at DSL Reports and the third one (to Ontario) came … Continue reading
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Did You Bring Me A Monkey?
This one is for my friend Shack who will someday have his own monkey. Should we be thanking him for keeping outbreak over there on such a heavy-duty chain, or should we call someone to come and do something? I … Continue reading
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Dick Towel anyone?
I saw that on an episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philidelphia (about my favorite comedy show right now) and laughed my ass off, it’s the DICK TOWEL. That’s right, they actually created a web site for a gag from … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday Sesame Street
Today is the 40th anniversary of the first episode of Sesame Street, it was nice of Google to notice. Sesame Street @ Wikipedia
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