Category: Humor
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News of the Weird
Caught an amusing story on NPR about pet python eating a queen size electric blanket! with controller, none-the-less Catch it here: Python’s Electric Meal: No More Cold Blood? The snake is fine after a little emergency surgery. Guess he couldn’t tell where is rabbit dinner stopped and the blanket started.
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Really Expensive Cat Toy?
When you’re not using your MacBook Pro for productivity, it makes a fine cat amusement. Aw, how cute. Cute, until that screen gets all clawed up, anyway…
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SmackBook
Way cool, someone has hacked the motion sensor in the new Macbooks so you can use it to swap desktops. Give your Mac a little tap on the side to go from OSX to Windows. Ha! See it in action. (Via)
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Microsoft WYSP
Here’s an interesting spoof video from Microsoft about what happens on the other side of their automatic error reporting system. Ah, if only it was for real, maybe explorer wouldn’t spazz out every time I connect my ipod. oh well…
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Problems with your PC overheating?
Maybe you need more fans in your pc. How about a PC case made entirely of fans? Yes, all the fans actually spin. Geez, I can barely live with the noise from the 2 fans in my Dell. Hehe. Be sure to send this all your overclocker friends.
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Online Confessionals
“Bless Me, Blog, for I’ve Sinned” is a cool article on NYT about online confessionals. One of the more interesting sites they referenced was PostSecret. Their hook is that you submit your confession anonymously via a postcard, which they scan and catalog. Geez, I could just sitting around all day reading their submissions. My current…
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Take That Scumbag!
Don’t Fuck with Ovid, a great story about guy who tracks down some goofballs who stole his credit card info and ran up a couple thousand dollars of charges. Have to say, if it was me and I got as close as this guy did to the baddies, I probably would have beat the crap…
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Quote of the Day
Was listening to All Things Considered on the way home and they had an article about the Westminister Kennel Club Dog show (includes audio), and one of the judges had this to say about the Best in Show winner: She just did everything right, it was not an easy decision, but there’s just something about…
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Now That’s Some Bad Publicity
Was listening to NPR (on our local station WAER) on the way into work this morning and caught a story about tax preparation programs. One of the hosts who had never used tax prep software before was going through building a return in Turbo Tax. When it got to the part about dependents, he said…
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Interesting Article: Most Common Ways to Kill a PC
Over the years, I’ve been known to fry a PC or two or random component, in my quest for the ultimate PC. Sometimes it was cheap faulty hardware, sometimes it was me being a moron, sometimes it was that the stars just happened to align at that point in time. Here’s a great article from…