“Lurid brain-buckets protect your noggin in style”
I don’t ride a motorcycle, but if I did, I’d want one of these helmets. I can’t even pick a favorite, they’re all amusing.
Archive of entries posted on August 2010
“Ultraviolet Movie Locker Aims to Solve the Movie Industry’s Digital Mess”
Sorry, but I just don’t trust the movie industry to do something like this. It sounds good, and it would be welcome, but think about it… the movie industry made a killing on the VHS-to-DVD format change, just as the music industry did on the cassette-to-CD change, and the 8-track-and-LP-to-cassette change before it. Maybe the …
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“10 Funny Programming Cartoons”
Well, it’s not quite like this… but there’s an uncomfortably high amount of truth there too. 😉
“Gauntlet of Death”
When Scott Adams is on his game, he’s really on his game. This one is comic gold.
“UK ICT classes killing kids’ interest in tech”
Here’s the first paragraph: The Royal Society is to investigate why British schools are failing to interest children in information technology – and why numbers taking classes are falling so fast. Well, duh! There are two main reasons for this. The second one is that the dot-com era turned into a dot-bomb — you can …
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“Female Adult Home Entertainment Units Turned into Dueling Weaponry”
(Warning: slightly NSFW.) Ah, so that’s what they’re for! I’ve wondered since I first heard about them, as they’re too big for the normally understood use of such things, unless you were planning to use them on a horse. And if you know otherwise, I do not want to know about it. 😉 I have …
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“AOL sales drop by a quarter, reports billion dollar loss”
Before the Internet became widespread, AOL made money by charging ridiculously high rates to access the content on their network. Afterwards, their content was worth less every day as web sites sprang up everywhere, so they reinvented themselves as an Internet Service Provider (a pretty slick move, in my opinion, not that they had a …
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“Last.fm’s robots.txt”
robots.txt is a file used by convention to tell web spiders (systems like those at Google or Microsoft that “crawl the web,” indexing files for their search engines) to ignore certain files. It seems that someone at Last.fm has a geeky sense of humor… User-Agent: * Disallow: /music? Disallow: /widgets/radio? Disallow: /show_ads.php Disallow: /affiliate/ Disallow: …
“World’s Funniest Tech-related Demotivational Posters”
Here’s a bit of Friday-the-13th fun for you. I have to admit, they had me smiling pretty widely.
“Brainless slime mould makes decisions like humans”
So you mean that there’s even less reason to consider humans intelligent? 😉 (Actually, I’d argue that the human brain works somewhat the same way, the cells “deciding by committee” what path to pursue based on how strong its good and bad points are.) (Via BoingBoing)