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Octopi on TED
Cephalopods can be masters of disguise, and this video is proof. The whole video is fascinating but just wait till…
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Math Camp Massacre!
Can anyone guess who the killer is?? Click here to watch!
Simpsonize Me!
Mmmmmm…. avatars. Make yourself into a Simpsons character! This is me, what do you think of it?
DailyLit
Dorothy looked, and gave a little cry of fright. There, indeed, just under the corner of the great beam the…
Random fun-ness
If you have to work in an office, wouldn’t it be great to work in one that looked like this? I bet you didn’t know that each year, November 19 is World Toilet Day. In celebration, you can attend the World Toilet Summit: A major world conference devoted to toilet provision and standards, the Summit sees delegates from all over the world attending conferences, experts’ forums, seminars, toilet exhibitions, network meetings and amazing toilet tours. Heck, I’m all for working to provide better sanitation to the underpriveleged, and perhaps convincing certain cultures to dispense with the astounding habit of using one’s left hand to wipe one’s bum instead of toilet paper. I just didn’t know there was an organization devoted to all things potty. You know the “In a world….” guy? The guy who does all the movie trailers, like “In a world, where nightmares come true…” Oh yeah, you are thinking, THAT guy! Well, there’s him and like four other guys who do all that kind of voiceover work. Check out this video on YouTube where they all get together. I had a hard time connecting the images of real live human beings talking with their voices, but as soon as I closed my eyes it was crystal clear. Kind of like when I see someone like Seth Green or Dan Castellaneta talking, I can’t really hear any of their characters’ voices but as soon as I close my eyes I can. Weird! Also: I made my first lolcat! I can’t say that I completely understand the phenomenon, probably because I’m too old to have caught this wave when it started. This one is Bob’s cat Marley:
Bananagrams
My full name can be anagrammed as “Thankless, red-hot narcotic.” How awesome is that?! What does your name anagram to?
Wonder Bread Freemason Bus!
Weird DreamI dreamed last night that Doc joined a secret society, sort of like the Freemasons. They had come to our house in a huge bus shaped like a loaf of Wonder bread. He let them in and they made their pitch, and he decided to join because members got to wear neckties that had a little lever at the top that when you pressed it, made a really loud train whistle sound. He told me that he really didn’t believe what they were telling him, but he signed the papers because he wanted the train necktie. And who wouldn’t?! Mmmmm ChocolateIn other news, I got accepted to be in a taste test focus group study on chocolate bars! Next week I’ll get paid $60 to spend 90 minutes eating chocolate and giving my opinion. Can’t beat that with a stick. Work BitesI spent 8.5 hours at work on Saturday, finishing up a project that was supposed to launch today. We found out yesterday that it has been delayed for another week because the client, at the very last minute, decided that she didn’t like any of the copy we’d written. Just a global “I don’t like it,” no specifics given. I wasted my entire Saturday for nothing. At least I got a free lunch (or was it really free? I did trade my weekend for it!). Dot-Matrix Printer BikeI read a few weeks ago about a guy who custom built a bicycle equipped with a laptop computer and cans of water-soluble spray chalk. It received messages that people submitted to a website and printed them out on the sidewalks as he rode down the street. I think he was arrested before he ever got to use it (something about intent to perform criminal mischief/graffiti, and how coincidental that this […]
Free broadband! Don’t miss out!
Sick of paying your internet or cable company hundreds of dollars each year for broadband access? Now you don’t have to! Just sign up for Google’s new FREE broadband service, Google TISP (Toilet Internet Service Provider). Simply drop the supplied FiOS cable into your commode and flush. The rest happens automatically! Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines. “I couldn’t be more excited about, and am only slightly grossed out by, this remarkable new product,” said Marissa Mayer, Google’s Vice President of Search Products and User Experience. Try it now!
catching up with depeche mode (and me)
I leave town for a week, with scant computer access, and it feels like my arm is missing or something.…
i think you’ve got snakes on your internet
I’ve been having entirely too much fun this afternoon having Samuel L. Jackson make personal phone calls to my friends and co-workers, demanding that they go see Snakes on Plane. “Hi, this is Samuel L. Jackson. You may remember me from such films as Pulp Fiction, Star Wars, and The Incredibles. But I’m here today to tell you about a movie that’s near and dear to my heart. That’s right, I’m talking about Snakes on a Plane!”