Interesting Product Listings
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A shrimpy yet fully-functional USB drive
Here are a couple of fun lists which I have recently come across:
Some even contain videos.
Archive for the ‘Humour’ Category
Futuristic Gadgets
Yes, that’s a USB drive
OME of these videos and images could definitely make you choke on your Cola (or whatever you drink, if anything). These are good illustrations of products that are either ahead of their time or are simply plain ridiculous.
Related items (other ‘shrimpies’)
How to Fix Windows
I thought that the following was very blog post-worthy…
How to fix your Windows Application when it doesn’t work:
(1) Stop and start the program
(2) Log in and log out again
(3) Reboot the machine
(4) Reinstall the application again
(5) Reinstall the operating system
(6) Dance naked around the machine, waving a rubber chicken
(7) “Take your machine back for servicing”
– Chris Wedgwood
History Relived Through Films
The Movie Timeline is a nice little project which attempts to assign a film to each event since the beginning of time. To get the general idea, here is an arbitrary snippet:
1973 Bobby Darin dies (Beyond The Sea)
New York – Penny Lane becomes a regular on the tour bus (Almost Famous)
Las Vegas – Sam “Ace” Rothstein begins running a casino (Casino)
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Although many of the entries are humorous, Hollywood has made it possible to watch a series of films which document Earth’s history.
Slashdot Fools Everybody, Again
The front page of Slashdot on April 1st, 2006
Y title is probably misleading, but Slashdot have published some rumours as news, on several occasions in the past. Their editors improve in terms of how selective they are, yet I lost some interest in Slashdot due to a fine alternative. I find more of the latest on technology over at Digg. With Digg, content tends to be more succinct, more broad and more frequently updated (albeit frauds due to slow moderation have become commonplace). Subscription to the Digg feeds is something which I strongly recommend to those who can cope with more load and want to keep abreast of the latest.
Web Design Courses: You Thought You Had Seen Everything
This is a testimony which I could not help quoting. It speaks of the rotten state of Web design courses.
I asked the teacher to direct me to a real website in the real world that he has developed. He told me his job is to teach, not create a site. I then asked if he could accurately describe the use of the [a href] tag and how to make it open in a new window. Total silence. I then asked if he knew what “CSS” stood for and its place in web design. Once again, silence. I asked what PHP is. I asked about asp and its purpose in web design. Still silence. I was sure he hung up on me, but I was wrong.
After 10 seconds of stammering his way through the css question, he summarized his comments by telling me that CSS is a very specific programming language seldom seen in the real world. He admitted he was not familiar with asp and phc (that’s right, ph”c”). He feels that since it is seldom used, there is no reason to teach it to the students.
Google Backwards
OOGLE has got an illicit mirror, which is known as the infamous Scroogle (appendage of the words “scrape” and “Google”). It also has plenty of legal harvesters, which use Google as the source for some search results (e.g. Webcrawler et al. and Google with traffic gauges such as A9).
Google, however, has yet another mirror, but in a more practical sense of the word. Have a look. The nice little thing is that the user gets re-directed to the site which matches the query, only reversed! (anagram)
Related items: Gizoogle