While I was away in Idaho this past weekend — visiting relatives for the wedding of one of my cousins, seeing my uncle finish Boise’s first Iron Man half-triathalon, watching coverage of McDonald’s fries inventor and resident potato billionaire JR Simplot’s televised funeral, and impressing the in-folk with my Scattergories rectal-extractive point-scoring techniques (”things found [...]
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Digg.com’s site was down last night around 0200 Central, but they offered a list of links to check out in the meantime. Knowing the list would not be there for long, I tried a few out (also chronicling which sites were recommended), which are found below. Enjoy!
# Adam LivePlasma
# Amar Grow-a-Brain
# Anton Escher [...]
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Posted in General Stuff, advice, big freakin woop, commercials, crybaby, dooftards, heads up, helpme, pwn, ranty mcranterson, solutions, utter tragedy, well you see officer, words, wtf on May 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been looking into subtle advertising resources for the site here and I was just about to sign up with AdBrite, but it’s a good thing I opted to actually read the Terms of Service agreement.
I found a particular clause in the TOS that changed my mind about signing up, especially since you’re required to [...]
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There’s an interesting article on New Scientist suggesting a possible correlation between the increase of suicides and various malformations of the earths electromagnetic field in a particular region. There’s loads of remarks about it being purely speculation, but it’s certainly interesting to think about. Gives a good enough reason to wait things out [...]
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This one had me a bit stumped. When I searched for the email’s title, I only got one single entry in the entire Google dbase, of a forum post from what I presumed to be a family reunion site in a “hey look at this” type of message. I changed the “four” to [...]
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I’ve recently been sent an email forward warning against use of the 809 Area Code for phone calls, for the reason the email states, lest I be charged $2425 per minute. Yikes.
Good ole Snopes to the rescue as usual! Snopes reports the email to be fradulent, but offers important clarification on telephone scams in [...]
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My uncle, Steve Hodges, is a very successful electrical engineer and inventor who’s made a fair number of useful devices such as the fisherman’s Depth Finder and now builds cellular-based utility status-monitoring devices (M2MCommM). A while back he owned and headed a company called SynPet, that manufactured household robots by the name of Newton. [...]
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Engadget has a nifty article about a new do-it-yourself project that will enable your houseplants to post an update to Twitter when they need more water. Now only if they would make a Facebook app for that..
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As some of you know, I’ve got an upcoming trip to Nigeria in March, which may result in some lull in posts for a week or so in exchange for a few thousand tribals getting a few new water wells drilled. During that week, I’ll have set a number of forward-dated posts to be, [...]
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I found a neat inadvertent optical illusion when browsing DontCensorMe.com’s Digg section, where some dooftard was flooding the comments with repeated remarks pasted over and over in the same comment. The spaces between words just so happened to line up perfectly and create the impression of a line of blank space. Alert the [...]
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I stumbled across a really good video of two guys going down a dense wooded bike trail with numerous ramps and jumps, some made of dirt, some made of little wood bridge materials. The second guy has a helmet cam, and there are no crashes — although I was expecting some. The background song I [...]
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A recent Ripley’s Believe It Or Not newspaper panel told readers about a 6-legged, 4-kidney’d pooch named Spider and had a simple illustration — but not many more details. I tried all kinds of searches but eventually this search was the only thing that turned up anything (Ok I admit I stopped looking after than [...]
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Posted in General Stuff, beat my score, crybaby, heads up, pwn, ranty mcranterson, well you see officer, words, tagged 50, 5min, 66, 66 percent, Car, Car Door, doors, fifty, fifty percent, fitty, Goat, Goat Door, Hall, Monty, Monty Hall Problem, percent, Problem, six, sixty, sixty six, three, three doors, youtube on November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Let this stand as a testament to how the popularly and improperly taught truth about the Monty Hall Problem is false, for a variety of reasons.
If you’re unfamiliar with it, check out either this video (5min.com) or that video (YouTube). They’re two seperate explanations.
To set an official designation of the rules:
You are a contestant on [...]
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I’m willing to give a month’s advertising (size of the T-shirt link to the right, there) to the person who graciously answers my metafilter question, “Mystery Mixtape Movie Score Track: Elfman, Zimmer & Kazoos“
Help me identify this mystery track from my friends’ mix CD, that he can’t recall either. No sample available, yet! It’s more [...]
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Posted in General Stuff, cinema, comics, crybaby, games, japanese, mp3, music, utter tragedy, video, video games, well you see officer, wtf on November 1, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m not sure I’d like exactly everything on this list, but it’s quite possibly the largest post I’ll ever make. I was trying to find the tune “Dear My Friend” by Every Little Thing and whilst hunting came across this giant list of downloads the dude had purportedly been capable of acquiring. As a [...]
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Posted in General Stuff, eBay, google, heads up, life hacks, news, pwn, random images, toothpaste snag, well you see officer, wtf on October 10, 2007 | No Comments »
You tend to end up in the weirdest places after checking toothpaste sometimes.
So I was checking out a few more Toothpaste For Dinner LJ image snags to post as random images that seemed cool, when I lucked up on this image. I clicked on it, which led me to that Livejournal post. Apparently [...]
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Those crazy folks at WFMU have taken all of the Beatles albums released in the UK and compressed them down into a one-hour mp3 that you can download if you please. The file is shy of 85mb, and I’ve got it running in the background even now. They’re going so fast I can barely [...]
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