Archive for April, 2003
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Monday, April 28th, 2003A guy is driving down a country road when he sees a sign, “Apples $5.00 each.” Intrigued to find out why an apple should cost that much, he stops and asks the farmer why the apples are so expensive.
The farmer says, “These are special peanut butter and jelly apples. Here, try one.” The man [...]
Employers in the gun over email porn
Friday, April 25th, 2003“Employers who do not take steps to block offensive spam from arriving in workers’ inboxes may be open to sexual harassment claims from their staff.
Pornographic or offensive images appearing on a worker’s screen by way of unsolicited or junk email (spam) could also qualify as evidence of a “hostile work environment”, a situation contravening the [...]
Turn anything into oil?
Friday, April 25th, 2003“If the process works as well as its creators claim, not only would most toxic waste problems become history, so would imported oil. Just converting all the U.S. agricultural waste into oil and gas would yield the energy equivalent of 4 billion barrels of oil annually. In 2001 the United States imported 4.2 billion barrels [...]
Dead Man’s Switch
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2003This is awsome. It’s a program that runs on your windows installation. You set it up with a certain amount of time, if you die or dont check it can do stuff like send out emails to loved ones or post messages to forums and boards.. it can also delete files you dont want people [...]
Funny Arab Joke
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2003Two Arabs boarded a flight out of London. One took a window seat and the other sat next to him in the middle seat. Just before takeoff, an American sat down in the aisle seat. After takeoff, the American kicked his shoes off, wiggled his toes and was settling in when the [...]
Funny FWD Emails
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2003This is some funny shit.. I can relate because I get fwd’s like this alot.. Check it out. Made me laugh.
Twenty-six things a perfect guy would do and other propaganda disseminated by misguided women.
Gnome 2.2
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2003Well, made the switch today from fluxbox to Gnome 2.2. It’s pretty clean. Great fonts. Even better than KDE. Only complaint is the theme manager is Segfault’ing but im working on fixing that.. Got inpired to try gnome from the Dropline Gnome installation i tried on my slackware 9.0 laptop. I’ve made the themes very [...]
Sharp Zaurus Review
Friday, April 18th, 2003Very detailed review on the new Zaurus SL-5600.
“The new Zaurus SL-5600 from Sharp is a linux-based PDA with a 400MHz Intel XScale (PXA250) CPU. The street price is currently around $500 for the SL-5600. Sharp calls these devices Personal Mobile Tools, and if it were up to me I’d call the Zaurus, say, an “Ultra-Light [...]
Iraqi Jokes
Friday, April 18th, 2003These jokes are ok.. First I’ve seen though.. So I thought id post em.
What is the Iraqi air force motto?
I came, I saw, Iran.
Have you heard about the new Iraqi air force exercise program?
Each morning you raise your hands above your head and leave them there.
What’s the five-day forecast for Baghdad?
Two days.
What do Miss Muffet [...]
Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes
Friday, April 18th, 2003Interesting article about people with synesthesia.
“When Matthew Blakeslee shapes hamburger patties with his hands, he experiences a vivid bitter taste in his mouth. Esmerelda Jones (a pseudonym) sees blue when she listens to the note C sharp played on the piano; other notes evoke different hues–so much so that the piano keys are actually color-coded, [...]