Archive for January, 2006

Speaking of the law

Again, made me laugh….
Something Awful got sued. In 2004. Lowtax just decided to respond to it. Do yourself a favor and read the intro, then skip the end and read the letter he sent to the NY AG. I laughed so hard I had tears.
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Stupid Business Tricks - StarForce

I’m filing this one under “Made Me Laugh”, mostly because you’d think they’d know by now.
StarForce, who apparently tried to install crap-tastic DRM software on my computer when I bought Silent Hunter 3, decided that they would threaten Cory Doctorow over his post which called them on their, well, crap-tasticness. Seems the wonderful piece of [...]

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The Pee Tree

As a society, we have accomplished quite a bit: cured diseases, created works of art that move people to tears, stood on our nearest satellite. But today, we have reached the pinnacle of what we can accomplish. Yes, today, men (and soon, I’m sure, women) can urinate on a tree. But not just any tree. [...]

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Monday in an IM

I don’t know why, but I found this conversation suprisingly lucid (and funny) for 8:30 on a Monday morning.
J– [8:34 AM]:
ok
Me [8:34 AM]:
ok?
J– [8:34 AM]:
so this girl is totally my doppelganger…
http://anchorednomad.blogspot.com/
J– [8:34 AM]:
i was SO looking at those sheets
Me [8:35 AM]:
really…
J– [8:35 AM]:
until i decided they weren’t chocolatey enough for my color sceme
J– [8:35 AM]:
and [...]

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Build Your Own T-Shirt Folding Machine

.. out of of corrugated.
Ok, granted, big points for the geeky factor, minus a few points for the geeky factor, multiplied by a hell of a lot of geeky factor. I think that equals geeky, but I was never that good at solving math problems.

Warning, annoying music ahead.
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Benford’s Law, the Fraudster’s Friend

In 1938, Dr. Frank Benford, a physicist at GE, noticed that pages on a logarithm book were dirtier if the pages contained digits starting with 1. After studying more than 20,000 data sets, he derived a theory that says real statistics have a preclusion to begin with the digit 1. So, for instance, a normal [...]

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Truth Hurts

IF KANYE WEST HAD BALLS, he’d pose as Mohammed, instead of Jesus. But he doesn’t. Efforts to be controversial have become so predictable. Yawn.
Check.
Instapundit

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