Category: Internet
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Viral Videos
I really… really really really… do not like the term \”Viral Videos\”. Why? I don\’t know… A … A is for the abom…oops, sorry, force of habit. Anyway, I bring up Viral Videos because one I just came across which I\’m sure is circling the planet as we speak is Alanis Morissette singing Fergie\’s \”My…
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Found in the Tubes.
I\’ve had some down time this morning between tasks, so I thought I\’d do some tube-culling. Here then are some links of interest: There are deadly jellyfish moving south in Australia, and \’they\’ are saying it\’s due to global warming. What I\’m more concerned with is that the jellyfish are apparently even more deadly than…
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To the Nerdery!
Pizza Party: A command line program for ordering pizza. bash-2.05a$ pizza_party -p -m 1 medium thin Oh baby. The mother of all nerd programs. From the product page: Can order pizza with only a few keystrokes. Can save pizza preferences. Can use batch files for ordering many pizzas. Has easy to use flags for ordering…
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PCP: Random YouTubery
Well, you had to know this was going to happen sooner or later. It\’s Friday, and I just realized that nary a word has passed between Wade and I as to what topic we\’re going to \”debate\” this week. So I\’m taking the Executive Decision Ball (starring Kurt Russell) and running with it. This week…
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Jimmy Carter and the Killer Rabbit
So it started with this web comic. I\’ll admit, I was intrigued. I\’d never heard of this Monty Python-esque story of President vs. Rabbit. Naturally I turned to Wikipedia for corroboration. Yes Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia where nerds make stuff up and are corrected by other nerds. It\’s a highly useful source of information via…
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iPhone
Oh yes. I will have one.
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Geekery
Have a gander at this picture. That\’s my Apple MacBook Pro, running the Windows version of IE6 on its own, without needing to run an entire virtual copy of Windows to do it. The company behind this impressive feat is called CodeWeavers, and if their final product (they\’re still in beta) is at all stable,…
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Mark Cuban is a moron
Mark Cuban has been quoted saying that anyone who buys YouTube is a \”moron\”. He does have a good point in that most of the content found on the site is copyrighted. But Cuban is far from unbiased on this topic. He is the co-founder of HDNet, and he went out of his way to…
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September 19th – International Talk Like A Pirate Day
For those of ye who weren\’t aware, today be International Talk Like A Pirate Day. If ye be needing a refresher on Pirate, click here. Or here. \’Tis truly a fine day to speak like the Pirates! Yarrrrrr!!!!
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In case you haven\’t…
In case you haven\’t come across it already, this Ze Frank guy is pretty entertaining. Specifically I enjoy his show. I was going through the archives because I only came across his site in August and found a couple of fun relavent episodes: http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/06/061206.html http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/06/061306.html Ze Frank in Minneapolis! Â