December 2008
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FontStruct →
Free font constructor. Very neat.
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Little Blue Pills Among the Ways CIA Wins Friends... →
The CIA offers Viagra to warlords and chieftains in Afghanistan in exchange for cooperation. One of their many resourceful ways to gain friends and influence people, it’s not as conspicuous as cash and not as dangerous as weapons.
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Whole wheat Christ has more flavor →
The Cavanagh Company of Greenville, Rhode Island makes about 80% of the communion wafers used by several Christian churches in the US.
Some customers say the Cavanaghs have such a big market share because their product is about as close to perfect as earthly possible. “It doesn’t crumb, and I don’t like fragments of our Lord scattering all over the floor,” said the Rev....
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Ben Affleck as Keith Olbermann. Awesome. :)
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Why dogs can sense fair play →
Scientists have recently proved that dogs experience emotions such as jealousy and pride.
You mean they didn’t know that before? What did they think ‘new baby envy’ was then?
Around the time my sister was born my mother had a Pekinese. She hated that my sister was around and even went to the trouble of waiting until my mother was in view before palling up to the maid while...
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So the sales in town are so nuts that there are queues outside Guess and Swarovski because they are trying to keep capacity counts. And people are taking photos. Yet more proof of how backwater it is here. :P
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Mac Giving Tree →
Get some free Mac applications from MacHeist. Refer a friend for extra bonuses. :)
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Monkeys Pay to See Female Monkey Bottoms -... →
travors:
A new study found that male monkeys will give up their juice rewards in order to ogle pictures of female monkey’s bottoms.
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Polaroid files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy... →
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Shark jumps out of aquarium into swimming pool →
Shark leaps out of aquarium onto a hotel swimming pool water slide. Woohoo!
But it died of chlorine poisoning shortly after they returned it to the aquarium. :’(
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Things my Boss has learned today
oic: Oh I see.
wtfomgbbq: An exclamation, with additional emphasis through chaining of other possibly unrelated abbreviations.
Other things he has learned recently:
o_O: Raised eyebrow, usually an expression of concern or disbelief.
Things we have used but which he hasn’t commented on so I’m not sure if he knows what they are:
^_^: happiness or contentment
T_T: tearful; very...
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I have the distinct impression that by the time I’m done with release 1 for our new product, I’m going to be extremely over Javascript.
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Cake request for 3-year-old Hitler namesake denied →
If you are foolish enough to name your children “Adolf Hitler Campbell”, “JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell” and “Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell” and ask for a swastika to be drawn on a birthday cake by a commercial operation, then you deserve whatever negative reaction you get.
Yes the name Adolf is quite common in Germany, yes the swastika was a spiritual...
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