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Make it stop!

( Rants )

According to the Daily Mail, “US troops are to be armed with a stun gun that uses a baby’s high-pitched scream to bring the enemy to its knees.”

Great: screaming baby sounds, or “instant migraine[s],” are now official military weapons. I told you them thangs were dangerous.

Remember the good old days when they just played [...]

Did an NES stop a crime wave?

Well, Wichita is back in the news again, back in full effect from the woman who died while watching The Passion. So Wichita’s back — even ranking a MetaFilter post — and it doesn’t have a connection to religion (at least one currently known). You just don’t get it — can’t Wichita get noticed for [...]

Yay randomness!

I’m currently running Mozilla Superkoala! Yay!

I just opened a new window, and it’s Mozilla Moonmonkey!

Sure, this may get old quick, but it’s fun right now. I’m pretty sure this is reason enough why the IT dept. won’t let us have Mozilla over IE. Some of us are easily amused.

As mentioned on Slashdot. It was inspiring [...]

Someone put the fun dictionary in the spam generator today.

Today’s spam e-mail subject lines and my guess on their topics as I, of course, do not open such messages. Thanks to my new improved “bounce” option and strict filtering, I’m down from hundreds of e-mails to tens of spam e-mails daily. Woohoo!

sculpt hubby (probably an ad for a modeling clay-related sex toy)

hellenic [...]

The 213 Things Skippy is No Longer Allowed to Do in the US Army

( Links )

Lookie, someone in the military has a sense of humor. God bless Skippy: personally, I feel a lot better knowing Skippy’s out there.

Unfortunately, Skippy’s style is being cramped by the military. Some of his findings are somewhat common sense though, at least for us creative types.

“87. If the thought of something makes me giggle [...]