You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who makes people happy, but inside he’s real sad. Also, he has severe diarrhea. –
Jack Handey
h/t: RJ Miller (Worth 1000)
Microsoft Confirms That It Is Developing a Competitor to the iPod – New York Times
After denying rumors about an “iPod” killer in the works Microsoft yesterday announced plans for developing just such a device.
It is believed the products are targeted for release during the Christmas season.
Record company executives have to love this because [...]
Twenty-something years ago, if we wanted to see pictures of generally attractive women dressed in Princess Leia’s metal bikini, we’d have been out of luck.
Now, of course, there’s a website.
Wish you would stop getting junk mail from credit card issuers and insurors? At OptOutPrescreen.com you can submit your name and be removed from the lists that Equifax, Experian, Innovis, and TransUnion sell. You can remove your name for five years at the website — if you want to make it permanent you need to [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)I always thought these guys looked a lot more alike than they do when I put them side-by-side. Just the same, given a choice between the two I’d rather have The Shield’s Vic Macky as CEO of my company that Dennis Kozlowski.
While on the subject of The Shield, here are some memorable quotes from Macky:
Good [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)The Stranger “Seattle’s Alternative Weekly” reports that a popular central Florida retirement community is experiencing a surge in sexually transmitted diseases.
“Details come from southern Florida’s trashtastic Local 6 News, whose reporters descended upon the horny retirement community outside Orlando. Gynecologist Dr. Colleen McQuade claimed to have treated more cases of herpes and HPV [...]
If you deal with lawyers, know lawyers, are married to a lawyer (like me), or, God forbid, are one, visit Anonymous Lawyer for a very funny fictional look at life in a big firm. Such as …
Clients need to be impressed. That’s how we get them to pay us money and keep hiring us. So [...]
(source: email from Dr. Hoist)
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(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Bad Photoshop? Or does this model have my grandfather’s hands?
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)This page estimates how long it would take different classes of computer to crack passwords based on a brute force generation of all possible combinations, taking into account password length and scope of characters (numeric only, etc). For instance, if you’re using 62 possible characters (upper and lower case, plus numbers) and an eight character [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)This site uses Google Maps and census information to calculate a bunch of information — population, income, and so forth — for a circle 1, 3, and 5 miles from any location.
38,613 people live within one mile of Independent Sources South. I knew it felt crowded!
“… he was ready to start his skate brand. After an exhaustive process, he had decided to name his company Ollie King ™, and he was ready to go. I told him that he would have to wait because I was reading to his sister, at which point he stormed up stairs to his mother, [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)The site http://www.visualcomplexity.com features graphics of complex systems such as social relationships, the web, and spam networks:
Another cool one is a visualization of how over 9,000 musicians are correlated according to their ratings in Yahoo! Music.
Our conspiracy theorist friends from the Charlie Sheen 9/11 comment thread will appreciate this one on the world government:
In honor of the longest discussion thread we’ve ever had at Independent Sources — our Charlie Sheen / 9-11 Conspiracy item Charlie Sheen Says 9/11 is a fraud so it must be so — I’ve put some photos I took of the WTC site in mid-October 2001 up on Flickr. Click on these to see [...]
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