Continuing the series on accidentally-humorous spam messages… “Hit her entrails with your penis.” (Why would I want to?) “With Penis Enlarge Patch your penis will protrude like a balloon.” (Kind of embarrassing to walk down the street that way.) “I am ready to kill myself and eat my dog, if medicine prices here are bad.” …
Microsoft has apparently ticked off a lot of people in their attempt to force everyone to switch to Vista, besides me.
There’s a neat article in National Geographic on how “swarm theory” can be used to solve real-world problems. The short Boing Boing excerpt is worth a read if you’re at all interested in software development or intelligence research.
I just received notice from our cable Internet provider that they’ve boosted our office connection speed, from 5Mbps to 7Mbps. This is the second such notice that we’ve gotten since we moved in here; a few years ago they bumped it up from 3Mbps. There will probably be a slight rate increase soon, to go …
The CNET review was prompted by Dell’s inclusion of Ubuntu on some of it’s systems. It isn’t entirely complimentary — it complains about missing wireless and webcam drivers, and that the timekeeping wasn’t accurate, but I haven’t seen any of those problems myself. It also complains that the system isn’t always able to recover from …
I’ve recently discovered a great arcade-like shooting game, Grid Wars 2. It’s apparently a clone of something called Geometry Wars for the X-Box 360; I don’t have an X-Box, but Grid Wars is available for Windows, Mac OSX, and — wonder of wonders — Linux (if those links are broken, do a search, there are …
This article warns: “In a society flooded with mobile phones, Blackberry devices and computers of various shapes and sizes, a quarter of all Britons do not know their own landline number while as little as a third can recall more than three birthdays of their immediate family.” Oh no! The world is coming to an …
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A Chinese city called Chongqing is going for a world record with the newly-opened four-story toilet facility. “We are spreading toilet culture. People can listen to gentle music and watch TV,” said Lu Xiaoqing, an official with the Yangrenjie, or “Foreigners Street,” tourist area where the bathroom is. “After they use the bathroom they will …
My Linux-using friend tosses around phrases like “free as in beer” or “free as in speech” a lot. He’s tried to explain what they mean several times, but I seem to have some kind of mental block about them because I could never figure out what he was talking about… talk is cheap, and beer …
Okay, it’s not the proper use of the term (which means “the fear of Friday the 13th”), but it was such an interesting word that I had to find a way to put it in a blog title.