IT Director for a non-profit in Washington, DC. Man About Internet.
I ran across this last week:
"You ever noticed the big weird numbers on the wall at Best Buy? They're usually just to the right of the exit, by the registers. They're yellow. Of course they look like goofy price tags. And they're just up there on the wall, for everyone to see."
I've ran across a number of very amusing videos in the past week. I thought I'd share:
For all of your Battlefield 2 fans, here is how to ride the UAV.
Apparently this kid just wants his change back.
This is somewhat old(2003) but its still funny. Its a parody of the mac switch ads.
And who doesn't like songs about SysAdmins.
Or five babies who cant stop laughing at their dad...in sync with each other.
Here is a hilarious musical trio called Tripod who performs a funny song about computer gamers at a comedy festival.
Here is a family guy clip that I hadn't ever seen before that I thought was great.
This baby likes disco.
Finally, did you know that Peter Griffon did the top 10 list on Letterman last friday?
I came across this courtesy of BoingBoing:
"Laine, a crafty crafter, has made a Katamari (the ball that picks up random oddments in the wonderfully weird games Katamari Damacy and We Love Katamari out of wool and stuffing, with a powerful magnet inside that allows it to actually pick up (ferrous) oddments in the real world! Link"
I just ran across this today. Apparently this has been around since sometime in december, though, I have no idea how it wasn't floated around the usual tech news sites.
Anywho, point your firefox tab here: http://www.google.com/musicsearch
Allows you to search for Artists, Albums, Song Lyrics etc etc
Almost all the apple rumor sites, slashdot, digg & ars technica are covering this. Previous leaks say that this is the big announcement that's been due for this month. Red iPod for AIDS money? New touch-screen video iPod? New iBooks?
For more detailed info, read here.
I ran across this tip while browsing BoingBoing in class today. I can't believe that I hadn't heard of this before now. Apparently it is possible to use the english language translator for any of the google top level domains (.com, .jp. .co.uk, etc etc) and use it to view any website your employer's web filters may be blocking. I'd been getting TONS of hits in the last 2 or 3 months on tuzworld from people using this method and always wondered why people are going to google.com and having tuzworld translated into english when it was already in english.
Here is how its used: "If you are stuck behind a Boing Boing-proof firewall, you might be able to access Boing Boing using this link: http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.boingboing.net"
Also:
"Reader comment: Adjam says: " Iused that 'Google proxy' method to bypass our sysadmin's paranoid web restrictions all the time two years ago!
He would block it though, so instead of using google.co.uk /translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.somthing.com i would use google.co.jp or google.co.fr. And he was so incompetent that every now and then he'd just reset all the web restrictions without realizing it and I could use .co.uk again.""
Finally, here is a direct link to the O'Reilly page explaining this google hack.
I finished 2nd place out of 50 people in tonight's 7:00 game.
