Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
(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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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: …
Here’s a bit of Friday-the-13th fun for you. I have to admit, they had me smiling pretty widely.
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)
I love this… an advertising gimmick gone wrong, and a company that made good on it… after a fashion. 🙂
The sturdy mini-trash-cans that I talked about last time seem to have done the trick, but they needed some extra help. As I mentioned, Ralph and his relatives didn’t give up easily. It took them several days, but they figured out how to open those cans too. After examining (and cleaning up) the evidence from …
I’ve finally discovered my true species classification: Homo Logicus. Or technically, Homo Sapiens Logicus, a subspecies of humanity. (As opposed to the more common subspecies, Homo Sapiens Idioticus, or the overlapping Homo Sapiens Dipshiticus, several representatives of which I’ve had the misfortune to have to deal with recently. But that’s a completely different subject.)
Being homeless is no laughing matter. But pretending to be homeless in order to cash in on peoples’ charity… that’s big business. Find the right street corner, in the right city, and you can make a bundle. The startup costs are low: all you need is a piece of cardboard, a marker, a hard-luck story, …
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I wish these ads were dated, or at least put in order of their release. I recognize a good portion of the hardware — and the prices — but some of the ads look very sixties-esque, a decade I wasn’t around for. (Via Lifehacker)
Interesting chemistry facts and fantasies about that most-useful of chemicals, H2O. (Via LifeHacker)