Thanks to those fine folk at Boing Boing for this link. I may have to destroy you all for it.
So wrong: Something Awful re-captions selections from Watchmen.
Link
(thanks, Zed)
[Boing Boing Blog]
So wrong, but so funny. Hmm, what other comics to re-caption.
Mark Pilgrim writes about how most developers are morons or assholes in a post about why specs matter.
Most developers are morons, and the rest are assholes. I have at various times counted myself in both groups, so I can say this with the utmost confidence. [dive into mark] [via The Universal Church Of Cosmic Uncertainty]
I believe this applies to sysadmins also, but there are probably one or two more groupings. I know I’ve fallen into both camps at one time or another. Though I tend to think that my time in the asshole camp was usually caused by dealing with a moron.
So scary I think I want one.
I would have posted this up about 5 minutes before now, but I noticed they only had three more in stock, so I thought I should get there before you punks. Because lord knows, there’s nothing that goes together more sweetly than a distended Hello Kitty head and a light, battery-powered sucking force. And for $10, even! If this thing moves itself around by itself – something that I’m sad to say probably isn’t the case – I would buy 24 of them and set them loose around the house. It’d be cheaper than a Roomba and at least 24 times as cute.
Also, have you noticed people saying kawaii a lot lately, too? I doubt they are doing the clap and giggle. You gotta do the clap and giggle.
Read – Hello Kitty Desktop Cleaner – Pink (Duh!) [Jbox via RedFerret via Engadget] More Hello Kitty yum yum links after the jump. [Gizmodo]
I also agree that they would be much more cool if they moved around on their own. And even if I did say kawaii, I’d refuse to clap and giggle at the same time.
27 years ago today, at the young age of 8, I was attending a program for ‘gifted’ children at a place called the Talcott Mountain Science Center. I was taking an astronomy class and got to watch the first test flight of the Space Shuttle “Enterprise” as it was launched (somewhat) from the back of a 747. I remember them working hard to get a good tv signal and us eventually seeing a scratchy version of it on TV. At the time I thought it was one of the coolest things I’d ever seen, and it still ranks pretty high.
I can’t even begin to imagine this happening at an event here. People would riot.
Olympic brand-whoring attains new, shameful low
The Interational Olympic Committee — whose high-horse is well and truly elevated when it comes to lecturing atheletes about doping — is policing spectators at the games to ensure that they aren’t toting brand-marks for their sponsors’ rivals. Penalties for buying the wrong product range from confiscation of your goods to being forced to wear your t-shirt logo-side-in. The worst of it is the steaming craopla from the IOC official who says “We have to protect official sponsors who have paid millions to make the Olympics happen.” Oh, rilly? Or what? They won’t sponsor the Olympics anymore? Earth-to-official: companies sponsor your games because they’re important and lots of people watch them, not because they can be assured that Olympic venues will be swept clean of rival logos.
I wonder what the sponsors thing of this. I’m sure this is not the kind of publicity they wanted from the Olympics. I wonder if we’ll be hearing comments from the sponsors on this now.
Jonas M Luster writes about a conversation he overheard at some cafe.
…On the table across me, a girl and an older woman. The woman listens, the girl lays on the decibel. She’s an intellectual she’ll have her counterpart (and the rest of us patrons) know. She’s educated, she has a job, and she knows someone who knows someone who lost a brother on 9/11. So she knows.
“Kerry,” she says, “Kerry is a douche. He is kissing UN ass. And he said something about a ‘more sensitive’ approach to war”. And all those lies about torture by US soldiers. Wrong, she says. Those Al Quaeda (she pronounces it “All Ksaider”) terrorists deserve a beating. And this Saddam guy, he’ll get what’s coming to him for killing Americans. Those Islamists shouldn’t be in America, and shouldn’t be in Iraq.
“She’s cute,” I think, trying for a second not to become entangled in her rant. I try to focus on the waitress, who’s even cuter and has yet to turn me off by yelling loudly across tables. I fail. My eyes wander back, and so do my mind and ears. She’s explaining welfare and abuse by “those Mexicans” of said governmental help program to the older woman. While I contemplate wether to order more coffee from the bottomless supply, we’re at gay marriages, prayer in schools, and SUVs. She hates SUVs. Only liberals drive those Tahoes and Trailblazers and Avalanches. [Jonas M Luster’s blog]
I saw this great bit of news over at BBC.
Microsoft plans cut-price Windows
Microsoft is to launch a low-cost version of its Windows XP program to try to halt the rise of rival Linux software.
…Microsoft’s new software – dubbed “XP Lite” – will feature lower resolution graphics and limited options for networking computers together.
It will also limit users to running three programs concurrently – a far cry from the full version of XP, where the only practical limit comes from the speed of the computer and the size of its memory.
It will be available initially in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and two other as yet unspecified Asian countries. [BBC News | TECHNOLOGY]
So let’s see, since this is supposedly to compete against linux let’s compare. Linux gives me no real restrictions as far as how many programs I run and what graphics modes I can use. And with XP Lite I can run three programs.
Oh my!
He saw comet-tails on every pitch.
The LSD No-Hitter:When the subject of baseball and drugs comes up, the story of Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis and his celebrated ‘LSD No-Hitter’ stands out above all others. On June 12, 1970, the 25-year-old pitcher was between starts, so he stayed back in his Los Angeles hotel while his team flew on to San Diego to play the Padres. Ellis invited his girlfriend over, and they dropped hits of acid around noon.
As he tells it in his autobiography, In the Country of Baseball:
‘I had taken LSD … I thought it was an off day. That’s how come I had it in me. I took the LSD at 12 noon. At one, my girlfriend looked in the paper and said ‘Dock, you’re pitching today’.’”
(Should I be admitting this here…?) Back in my partying days I certainly never took LSD, and while doing so never ever spun out at parties. And I definitely never learned to spin records while tripping. Because uh, drugs are bad. These days I stay away from that stuff, the last thing I need is to be high when I get the call for a new lung (talk about a recipe for a bad trip).
Here’s an interesting product designed to get your site more traffic. It’s sad to see things like this becoming even this mainstream.
and the winner …
…of today’s Possibly-a-Big-Pile-of-Puppy-Poop Award is RSS Equalizer – and it’s only $97! Could it be just a joke? I sure won’t pay to find out. According to its Terms of Use, “While we try to include accurate stuff on the site, we’re not promising you it’s accurate. In fact, we’re not promising you anything except fun and entertainment.” Hmm… ;~)) [link via 0xDECAFBAD]
[jenett.radio]
I’m still trying to figure out the ‘fun and excitement’ part.
I thought this was funny.
Forbes thinks RSS is dumb
read the “Worst” section of the Standard review [via]
[Waxy.org Links]
What’s even funnier? Forbes.com has RSS feeds themselves. Which I guess don’t really serve much purpose either
