“Stranded Monty Python legend John Cleese lands $5,000 taxi fare”
That’s one heck of a taxi ride. I hope they gave him an in-drive meal. 😉
Archive of entries posted by Head Geek
“Petition to make “Hella” the prefix for 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000″
Sounds like a good idea to me. Finally, when someone says “that’s a hella-big number,” I’ll know exactly what they’re talking about. 😉 I don’t know whether it will go through or not, but it’s likely to get adopted colloquially regardless. It’s already pretty much there.
“If chess were redesigned by MMORPG developers”
As a chess player and an observer of Massively-Multiplayer Online Games, I found this very humorous.
“Study Sheds Light on What Makes People Shy”
Curious. And it sounds awfully familiar too.
“Fear 2012? Bunker hustler has you covered” — NSFW commentary!
(It’s Tax Day! Have you filed your taxes yet? And no, this isn’t the NSFW part. 😉 ) Oh, this is a fun one… so many creative ways that the world is on the edge of destruction! So many things to fear! Yes, fear them! “But,” says this Robert Vicino fellow, “if you give me …
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“United States of Insurance”
Scott Adams (yes, the Dilbert guy) had an interesting post the other day, on restructuring the government as an insurance agency. He makes a compelling case of it, too. He admits that it could never happen, but as he says at the end, it’s “interesting to think about.”
Memory Expansion!
I’ve had to do a lot of work on my Windows 7 virtual machine recently, with my Linux virtual machine running at the same time. It was… painful. Even starting up the Win7 VM while the Linux VM was running meant twenty minutes or more of an essentially unusable machine. Starting up the Win7 VM, …
“How I Mastered the Power Nap”
I used to have a problem similar to this guy: I am the kind of person who takes 30 minutes to an hour to fall asleep, most nights. Falling asleep is an ordeal for me (unless I’m completely exhausted). […] Because of this, I always thought that power napping was not for me. After all, …
“Man smashes 27 TVs at Wal-Mart”
(It was apparently 29, not the 27 cited in the story.) My favorite comment: “Probably just not a fan of America’s funniest home videos….“
“The real dangers of PDF executable trickery”
If you pay any attention to computer security news, you’ve almost certainly heard of the recently-discovered PDF hack that allows an attacker to embed arbitrary commands in a PDF file. Well, it’s worse than you thought — another researcher has a proof-of-concept hack that allows an infected PDF to infect every PDF file on the …
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