Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
From the WFT? department… a company in Singapore is claiming that they own a patent for linking to other web pages by way of an image, and is trying to extort money from companies whose websites use that method (which is very common, and was enshrined in the HTML specifications well over a decade ago). …
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“Cats are like potato chips, you can’t have just one.” 🙂
I was at a Radio Shack today, and discovered a package labeled “High Speed USB 2.0 Beverage Warmer!” I had to read it several times before I convinced myself that I wasn’t misreading. A hot-plate plugged into your computer is fairly weird in and of itself, but it would only need to draw power from …
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Some things just beg you to put on a puzzled and/or disbelieving expression and say “huh?”. This qualifies as one of them.
Vacationing in the buff? Hey, why not? 🙂
This outburst makes me ashamed that I was born in Illinois. Obviously there are some people who still think “freedom of religion” only means that “everyone is free to practice my religion.”
I stumbled over an interesting article, from a couple years ago, on passwords. The most interesting part, to me, was a pair of statements buried in the text: Cuss words were very popular. Boy, there’s a lot of aggression out there. I was surprised about how many Christian-sounding — for example, “Ilovejesus” — log-on names …
We were on the road today, and stopped for breakfast/lunch. I got an apple juice, and was bemused to notice that the label claimed that it had a “new and improved taste!” Funny, it tasted just like apple juice to me.
This was apparently an April Fool’s joke that I just saw for the first time. After I stopped laughing, I started thinking… it actually sounds like a good idea, at least to a point.
Just an interesting science article.