…sure, that is.
June 27th, 2008
No, you never can be…
June 13th, 2008
Failure…
December 15th, 2007
Q: What swears a lot and is afraid of wolves?
A: Little Rude Riding Hood
(y’all can thank The Boy for that one…)
Posted by protected static as humor at 11:25 AM UTC
November 24th, 2007
596a96cc7bf9108cd896f33c44aedc8a
Me? Juvenile? Never…
(Actually, I found it via this site, which I found via /. Of course.)
October 11th, 2007
Bobby Tables
xkcd strikes again!
Okay, it’s funnier if you’re somewhat experienced with database programming… But if you aren’t, trust me – it’s funny.
Posted by protected static as humor, programming at 9:13 AM UTC
June 19th, 2007
It’s a disease!
A sickness! Madness! LOLCATS, LOLCODE… Is nothing safe?
Methinks Roy is being quite prescient by calling this “the hamster dance of 2007.” I present to you… LOL President:
IZ IN MY BLOG, TEARING MY HAIRZ OUT.
Posted by protected static as geek, humor, politics at 9:31 AM UTC
May 6th, 2007
Pointers
April 18th, 2007
Quick! Alert the Post Office!
And probably Los Alamos, or JPL, or DARPA, or some other geeky acronym! According to Amazon’s “Where’s My Stuff” page, the Post Office sent my package back in time:
Talk about your double-edged discovery… On the one hand, it explains much about the US Postal Service. On the other, I’m not sure that our society is ready for this kind of technology.
February 1st, 2007
That’s gonna leave a mark
November 15th, 2006
72 Missing, Feared Dead; Hundreds Injured
…as Wikipedia Explodes in China.
As of yet, no group has taken responsibility for this act. Authorities suspect that the nature of information itself contributed to the massiveness of the detonation.
“Information is deceptively stable under most circumstances,” said an unnamed official from the People’s Central Computing Authority, “but under certain conditions, it quickly moves beyond anyone’s ability to control.”
“When facts combine with rumor, opinion, and outright speculation, anything can happen, ” said another unofficial source. “This incident demonstrates the need for stricter controls on the public availability of certain kinds of information.”
A spokesperson for Stewart Brand, originator of the phrase “Information wants to be free”, was unable to provide us with a statement from Mr. Brand in time for the publication of this article.
October 3rd, 2006
30-second science blogging: News flash! Newest Nobel Laureate *not* a unit of measurement
Despite sharing the same last name as well as the same undergraduate institution, the newest Nobel Laureate in Physics is not the Smoot of Mass. Ave. bridge fame.
So, which would you rather be? Immortalized by the Nobel Prize, or by an MIT hack?
Posted by protected static as 30-second science blogging, humor, random at 9:10 AM UTC
September 19th, 2006
Fun with filters
So, what with it being Talk Like a Pirate Day and all that, I decided that merely mentioning it in passing with a few desultory “Yearghs!” and “Me hearties!” over on Mystery of the Haunted Vampire (where we loves us some pirates, yes we do – I think it has something to do with the floggings, but maybe that’s just me…) wouldn’t be enough. No, I needed to upload a WordPress plugin that will dynamically piratize (piratify? piraticate?) a WordPress blog’s content, comments and all.
Argh! Shiver me timbers! Uh, and all that…
At any rate, the plugin comes with a template to write your own filters, which inspired a little bit of whimsy on my part: what “Talk Like a(n) [X] Day” do you think the world can’t live without?
Posted by protected static as blogging, humor, random at 10:44 PM UTC
August 15th, 2006
Band names that you wish you’d thought of.
One night only! Presenting… Detcord Foley!!!
I’m thinking that’d be a good name for a punk band, eh?
Ooh… or a good drag name!
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April 8th, 2006
Google in 20 years
January 1st, 2006
