Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
(This is a follow-up to last year’s post on the cat-crap problem. As I said then, if you’re bored or offended by talk of the removal of feline waste products, don’t read this entry any further.) Our third Littersweep Ultra died a few months ago, worn out the same way as our first one. I’m …
One of the (few) spam messages that survived to show up in my junk folder today: Subject: Hilarious! Could it be true? See inside. Jessica Simpson Breathes Air READ FULL STORY Um… unless Jessica Simpson is a fish, a methane-breathing alien, or dead, why would that pique my interest? Isn’t that rather like exclaiming “Amazing, …
LifeHacker.com ran a poll of their readers last week to determine what their “must-have” Firefox extensions are. Surprise, surprise — AdBlock was at the top of the list. LifeHacker is an ad-supported site, so the title for the post reporting the results is no shock. (I don’t see any need to block ads, myself — …
I ran across this quote on the Tools For Thought blog (which is rapidly becoming a new favorite of mine): From the film Roger Dodger: Nick: Like, what do you do all day? Roger: What do I do all day? I sit here and think of ways to make people feel bad. Nick: I thought …
My friend Ploni Almoni crows that Apple “ranks 85 out of 100.” That’s nice Ploni, but honestly, they hardly have any competition in that arena. 😉
I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I want to do, but I don’t know where to begin. — Stephen Bayne
Quite interesting…
Although interesting (to me) in and of itself, I’m mentioning this article because of this bit from the last paragraph: In other developments, spammers have abandoned the use of image-based spam, file attachment spam and other such frippery by going back to basics. Nine in ten spam messages now contain little more beyond a few …
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Uh-oh! Better lock up your e-mail program ’til he’s re-caught!
GoddessJ pointed this one out to me: We regret to announce that due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, the publication of The Astrological Magazine will cease with the December 2007 issue. So the stars didn’t say anything about that, eh? 😉