• WTF

    Hmmm.

    by  • August 11, 2007 • Personal, WTF

    There’s a bunch of squirrels running around in the backyard. I really should get a bird feeder and one of these for the hours of entertainment it would provide.

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    Idle Conversations on AIM

    by  • March 16, 2007 • WTF

    A friend and I, idly speculating on what we’d do if we ever won the lottery (assuming we bought tickets) : ytrewq78: buy your entire neighborhood, raze it, then build a mcmansion. ;) Thav: naw, but I’d throw block parties quite often. :) ytrewq78: aw, come on. you could play the evil real estate developer [...]

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    Mozilla is definitely taking the wrong road here.

    by  • January 18, 2006 • Technology, WTF

    So, I was browsing through my RSS aggregator this morning when I came across this Slashdot article describing how Firefox developers are adding a “feature” to upcoming Firefox versions to ping a site when you click on a link, so sites can track what links you follow. This bugs me both because of the privacy [...]

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    BlueHippo

    by  • January 8, 2006 • Personal, WTF

    The last few days I’ve been seeing advertisements on the History Channel for “Blue Hippo,” which appeared to be a company hawking low-quality PC hardware. So, naturally, I hit up Google to see what I could find out. Wikipedia offers a very illuminating writeup: BlueHippo Funding, LLC is an installment credit company for customers with [...]

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    It’s a… wovel?

    by  • November 3, 2005 • Personal, WTF

    This is twisted in its brilliance. I’m seriously thinking about buying one — it’s cheaper than a snowblower, faster than a shovel, and probably won’t destroy my body for three days like shoveling the 12″ of snow we got last year did. :)

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    A short note on comment spam…

    by  • August 14, 2005 • Personal, WTF

    Although I doubt any of the comment-spamming morons will actually read this entry, I just wanted to note that spam comments are deleted just as soon as I come across them… assuming they avoid the moderation queue. I’m not paying money for this site just to provide you with a way to improve your pageranks, [...]

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    Okay, this is a bit much…

    by  • July 20, 2005 • WTF

    An article posted in the Ars Lounge yesterday: Teaching group to consider banning word “fail” – Yahoo! News I can understand not wanting to demoralize kids, but really, that’s taking it a little bit too far. On the other hand, this presents some amazing possibilities for amusing euphemisms. I am not, for example, deaf. No, [...]

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    Hee!

    by  • June 19, 2005 • WTF

    My scheme blinded them all, as if by fog But for these medd’ling kids and this their dog.

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