Archive for June, 2004

Jun 30 2004

Stick-men Gotta Make A Living, Too

Published by Jody under humor

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 humor, 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 humor, internet

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

Published by Jody under internet, music, wwr

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 humor, internet

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, 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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Jun 30 2004

Find The Word From A Concept

Published by Jody under reference

The OneLook Reverse Dictionary…
lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word.

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Jun 30 2004

Interesting Places To Visit

Published by Jody under life

The World’s Top 100 Wonders, a list of 100 travel attractions. I don’t think I’ve heard of half of them.

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Jun 30 2004

A Lot Of Silly Putty

Published by Jody under humor

You can buy 5 pounds of Silly Putty for $60 U.S. Their warning note is amusing:
This product presents a choking hazard due to small parts[...] Not intended for use as ear plugs.

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Jun 30 2004

So, Who Was On First?

Published by Jody under humor, movies

Costello: All I’m trying to find out is what’s the guy’s name on first base.
Abbott: No. What is on second base.
Costello: I’m not asking you who’s on second.
Abbott: Who’s on first.
Costello: One base at a time!
Abbott: Well, don’t change the players around.
Costello: I’m not changing nobody!

Who’s On First:
You can listen to one of the [...]

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Jun 29 2004

Bras Made Out Of Underwear

Published by Jody under consumer, humor

Boogie Bra:
In a pinch? Need a bra? Have you got undies? Hoist them gals up with undies! No, I’m not joking.
This is probably cheaper than buying bras. I dunno, though. Is it?

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Jun 29 2004

A Bus With Teeth

Published by Jody under art

Swallowed by a bus.
(via Bifurcated Rivets)

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Jun 29 2004

Diagrams

Published by Jody under general

threetwoone.org has made some interesting diagrams available, including:

Descendants of Adam in Genesis
Wall Street scandals

They’re big GIF images, and some don’t many any sense, like How all the countries of the world
are connected to each other: what do the connected lines indicate?

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