“Bank of America Sued for 1.784 Sextillion Dollars”
“[A] new record for stupidly large lawsuit demands.”
Archive of posts filed under the Amusing/Interesting/Appalling category.
Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
“Researchers Say ‘Good To Pee On Tomato Plants’ – Just Don’t Let The Neighbors See”
An interesting, if rather unhygienic, idea.
“SGI releases personal supercomputer”
Judging by history, this (or rather, a much, much smaller and sleeker version of it) represents the kind of computing power we’ll all be playing with in another decade. Or maybe less.
Developing For Windows Mobile OS
Hm… Go tinker with windows mobile. As someone who has written serious, production-quality code for WM5 and WM6, I say this from many months of hard experience: I WOULD RATHER STICK A FONDUE FORK THROUGH MY [censored]. Never the [censored] again will I develop for that platform. My god, I thought X11 was bad… Do …
“Media ‘re-open’ North Eastern Passage”
When “if it bleeds, it leads” falls flat, this is the kind of sensationalist reporting that you get. It’s a good thing that we aren’t paying for content, I’d hate to actually pay for this kind of drivel.
“Internet dumbing-down hysteria compared against previous waves of anti-tech backlash”
You’ve got to love the human race’s ability to turn off its collective brain.
“Lottery”
I’ve always called lottery tickets “a tax on people who are bad at math,” but Cracked.com takes the opportunity of the recession, and the accompanying surge of “financial idiocy,” to take it one step several steps further. (The truth’d-up lottery tickets are hilarious.)
“Dramatically reduce diabetes risk factors with just seven minutes of exercise per week”
I had to read this article twice before I believed my eyes… yes, that is what it says, and it’s from a reputable university too. There may yet be hope for those of us who prefer to sit in front of a computer for days on end. 🙂
“Japan scientists create 3-D images you can touch”
This is the kind of thing I love to hear about. 🙂
“Tick Saliva May Cure Skin, Liver and Pancreas Cancer”
This is very interesting and informative, but it doesn’t answer the burning question on everyone’s mind: just how the h*ll do you harvest tick saliva?