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Who said it, Hitler or Falwell?
Mangoat linked to the Stinko Pinko’s LiveJournal page where he has 10 quotes, some said by Adolf Hitler and some said by the recently deceased Jerry Falwell. Your job: figure out who said each one. You might be surprised if … Continue reading
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Man loses girlfriend due to Blackberry outage
I ran across this story at Network World about the guy who claims he lost his girlfriend due to the big Blackberry outage last week. Sure sounds like she just found a convenient excuse to break up with the guy. … Continue reading
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Alec Baldwin: Father of the Year?
Wow, Alec sure has a way with children, just listen to the voicemail he left his 11 year-old daughter here. It sounds more like he’s trying to teach her to fear him rather than respect him. He sounded like an … Continue reading
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“Out of Pocket” doesn’t mean that!
Argh, somebody just touched one of my pet peeves again today. I hate it when people are going to be out of the office (especially out of town) and they tell everyone else that they are going to be “out … Continue reading
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Historical Motivation Posters
This thread in the Something Awful forums has some great motivational posters based on historical photos and events. I finally signed up for a forum account (not that I’ll necessarily post anything) but I do enjoy some of the stuff … Continue reading
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Naked Chocolate Jesus
Just saw this on CNN, apparently chocolate Easter bunnies weren’t enough for an enterprising artist. He decided to make an anatomically correct naked chocolate Jesus as reported by WLKY in New York in this story. Better yet he titled this … Continue reading
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Bono’s charity org is bogus
After reading this story about how Bono and U2 take full advantage of tax breaks etc. (thanks Mangoat) I ran across a related story that RED (a charity organization that Bono founded to fight AIDS in Africa) spent only 18% … Continue reading
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Vista IPv6 security is non-existent
Alpine$sun posted this on a BBS I frequent and I thought it was worth sharing. I presented at a security confrence last week and the speaker after me was taking about Vista and IPv6. Basically Vista is about as secure … Continue reading
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Holy horse apples, real centaurs!
I ran across this at eatliver.com today and I’m scared. The meeting place is about an hour from my house so theoretically I could go out there some Wednesday to see the insane people in person. Of course there’s always … Continue reading
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24…….Hour Pizza Delivery
Thanks to Mangoat for linking to this one. I’m with him, it was really well done. Ever wonder what it would be like if Jack Bauer were a Pizza Delivery Driver instead of an agent for CTU? Between Seasons four … Continue reading
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The Week magazine
My brother got me a subscription to The Week magazine for Christmas and I’m really enjoying it. While a weekly magazine might seem hard to keep up with it’s fairly thin so it’s doable. I don’t watch the news on … Continue reading
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Random images for 2007/02/11
From the NASA launch image gallery From the National Optical Astronomy Observatory site From the Library of Congress
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Say hello to my little friend (Jackson)
My wife and I went to a local pet shop to get a Valentine’s Day portrait of our two dogs and damned if they didn’t have five dogs from a local shelter there that they were trying to adopt out. … Continue reading
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Ecto-1 is for sale
It would sure be nice to have $150K laying around so could buy the authentic George Barris-built Ecto-1 car from the first Ghostbusters movie. You can even get 144 month financing. Did you know that the car was used in … Continue reading
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Zalman HD160XT HTPC case – drool…
Damn, when I finally get around to building my own home theater PC I hope I can afford one of these… See the details here. The bottom of the front panel flips open to expose ports like USB, Firewire etc.
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