Archive for June, 2004

Jun 30 2004

Stick-men Gotta Make A Living, Too

Published by Jody under humour

The Deadly Follies of Stick Figure Warning-Man and Family:
I have the worst freaking job in the world.
You know those warning signs you always see with the stick man falling down or being crushed or otherwise incurring bodily harm? That’s me. I posed for those pictures.
Boy, do I remember the day we shot this one.
Normally, I [...]

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Jun 30 2004

Press The Button

Published by Jody under games

How long can you hold the button? (Not the button on this page, silly.)
Someone held it for 5 days. FIVE DAYS! I held it for 9.15 seconds.

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Jun 30 2004

Questions You Should Be Pondering

Published by Jody under humour, life

Crazythoughts.com – Life’s Unanswered Questions. A sample:

Wouldn’t it be smart to make the sticky stuff on envelopes taste like chocolate?
Can blind people see their dreams?
How come thaw and unthaw mean the same thing?
How come we choose from just two people for President and fifty for Miss America?
Why do we say “bye bye” but not [...]

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Jun 30 2004

How Evil (And Good) Is Your Site?

Published by Jody under humour, internet & computers

The Gematriculator…
is a service that uses the infallible methods of Gematria developed by Mr. Ivan Panin to determine how good or evil a web site or a text passage is.
If the amount of these matches is divisible by a certain number, such as 7 (which is said to be God’s number), there is an [...]

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Jun 30 2004

How To Create An Internet Radio Station

How To Set Up An Internet Radio Station:
To run a station you need Winamp and the Shoutcast DSP Plug-in for Winamp, a server to stream to, a good connection to the server, good bandwidth from the server, and some MP3’s.
Is this how Whole Wheat Radio is setup?

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Jun 30 2004

Cannot Find Server

Published by Jody under humour, internet & computers

Cannot find the damn server:
The page you are looking for sucks and is currently unavailable.
If you are trying to reach a secure site, make sure you are not running Windows. Click the My Computer menu, and then right click Drive C:. On the Menu select “Format”.

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Jun 30 2004

Newfoundland Dictionary

Published by Jody under canada, reference

So, owshegettinon b’ys. It’s right warm out, eh buddy?
Translation: How are you, fellas? It’s very warm out, stranger.
The online version of the Dictionary of Newfoundland English is a handy reference for tourists not familiar with Newfoundland’s unique culture and language.
Sandra’s Newfoundland Sayings explains common phrases you may hear (scroll down the page for [...]

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Jun 30 2004

SETI@home Goes BOINC

Published by Jody under internet & computers, science, software

SETI@home has released a new version of their software called BOINC:
- BOINC transparently and securely downloads new application versions.
- BOINC has a more flexible data architecture than SETI@home Classic.
- BOINC distributes work based on host parameters.
- Other distributed computing projects are also using BOINC, and you can share your computer time among projects of your [...]

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