March 2010
67 posts
terminally-incoherent:
This is from an actual email that was sent to the help desk the other day. Punctuation and spelling were not altered:
Iam having a pop up up come up. Insert CD- the something you are trying to use requires What is this? Also, since accessed an file- had an error-and now I can not print right on one printer.HELP
Ah… Don’t you just love the descriptive error messages. Here...
WatchFreebase Gridworks 1.0 beta Overview on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
'Breast implant bombs' new terror tactic |... →
I guess the next thing in airport security will be feeling up women with large breasts to see if they have implants.
Facebook Leads To Increase In STDs in Britain →
“Teesside had 30 recorded cases of the disease last year, though the actual figures could be much higher. Young people in Teesside, Sunderland and Durham were 25% more likely to use social networking sites such as Facebook than other areas of Britain, according to research.”
Worst science ever!
Infinite USB plug is a big idea for small... →
terminally-incoherent:
Shared by tuxmentat This shit should be in the USB spec. Seriously!
In a classic case of “why didn’t we think of this first,” Chinese design student Gonglue Jiang has shown us a new…
Well, someone did think of this…and then they invented the USB hub when they came across the question of “What happens when I want to unplug the middle device?”
Auto Smiley – Computer vision smile generator →
dhotson:
“Auto Smiley is a computer vision application that runs in the background while you work. The software analyzes your face while you are working and if it detects a smile it sends the the ascii smiley face letters “: )” as keyboard presses to the front most application.”
/dev/random: An elderly man was sitting alone on a... →
An elderly man was sitting alone on a dark path. He wasn’t sure of which direction to go, and he’d forgotten both where he was traveling to…and who he was.He’d sat down for a moment to rest his weary legs, and suddenly looked up to see an elderly woman before him.
She grinned toothlessly and with…
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
– Carl Sagan (via emilyposts)
“please don’t pull me in to your emotional fuckpie”
– peepshow
I've fallen and I can't get up! - Wikipedia, the... →
“I’ve fallen… and I can’t get up!” was a catchphraseof the late 1980s and early 1990s popular culture based upon a line from a United States-based television commercial.
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
In fact, you can’t have a solution to a problem until you have the problem.
“There are a large variety of ways of celebrating Pi Day and most of them include...”
– Pi Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via dawnowar)
Is it weird that “Pi Day” and ”steak and blowjob day” are the same day?
MySpace Jumps Into Bulk User Data Sales →
…and it starts!
ZOMBO →
anything is possible!
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– TimC