African or European? Well, we may finally know the answer! From slashdot, we have a link to a researcher with lots of time on his hands who decided to investigate the question! So, “What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?”:http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/ Check out the link.
Ever want to start a company, but don’t want to shell out lots of money for someone to come up with a cool name? Fear not! We now have the “Brand Name Generator”:http://www.whatbrantareyou.com at “www.whatbrantareyou.com”:http://www.whatbrantareyou.com. You enter your name, choose a core-value and a main goal and you’ve got a name!
Examples:
* inexperta (meaning: many eggs, one basket)
* absorbeo (world ethics)
* universus (old fashioned service in a modern building)
Ever wonder how driver’s license numbers are generated? Here’s a great article that “describes how many states generate your drivers license number”:http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/numbers/. Very interesting! They have Minnesota, Wisconsin and Washington’s details among others.
Almost 4 years ago I purchased my first laptop (merlin). It’s a Dell Inspiron 7500. It’s a boat anchor but it was pretty cool in it’s day. Well, merlin has been going down hill lately. A couple months ago one of the hinges that connects the LCD to the chassis broke. Two weeks ago, the other hinge broke. This left me with a laptop that couldn’t be moved for fear of breaking the tiny little ribbon cable holding the screen on.
Well, on Friday I finally bit the bullet and ordered a replacement…
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I don’t know what to say about this other than WOW! Go take a look at the “Y2k Bug - computer case”:http://www.mashie.org/casemods/y2k01.html. This is one of the most amazonc cases I have seen!
“Wheaton College in Wheaton Ill is holding it’s first ever dance”:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20031113/ap_on_re_us/wheaton_dance. Way to keep up with the times!
The article mentions “It was not until the 1990s that students and faculty were permitted to dance with spouses or relatives at family events such as weddings. “
Here’s another link that made me think of “Jane”:http://www.droyer.org/~jane/blog/. It’s the “Church Sign Generator”:http://www.aboyandhiscomputer.com/churchsigngenerator/index.php. Go take a look and have fun!
I saw “this picture”:http://www.themorningnews.org/images/pupkin1.jpg and just had to share it! It’s a story from “The Morning News”:http://www.themorningnews.org about “pets, companionship and an excuse to play dress-up!”:http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/new_york_new_york/the_great_pupkin.php
I say ‘The Matrix: Revolutions’ on Wednesday. I’ll see if I can post a review later (in short, I thought it was bad). For anyone needing a review of the 2nd movie I thought I’d share “a short cartoon review of ‘The Matrix: Reloaded’”:http://www.chud.com/graphics9/matrixspoof.jpg
Looks like Hollywood is reaching for a new low. Coming soon, to a Pay-Per-View channel near you…”Who wants to be a Porn Star”:http://www.azcentral.com/ent/celeb/1104realitytv.html?
TechTV has an article about “some of the worst inventions ever”:http://www.techtv.com/inventthis/features/story/0,24330,3516670,00.html. What’s on the list? Among others, we have a bear-proof suit, a vibrating bowel-mover and an x-ray machine to tell if your shoes fit.
This is Awesome! “Slashdot”:http://science.slashdot.org/science/03/11/03/2258257.shtml?tid=129&tid=134&tid=188 has an article about how a Simpson’s fan (with too much time on their hands) has “created a real-honest to goodness Tomacco Plant”:http://www.kptv.com/Global/SearchResults.asp?qu=tomacco!
I love “Homestar”:http://www.homestarrunner.com! Especially the “Strongbad Emails”:http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html. Anyway, in honor of halloween, Strongbad posted several “pics of people dressing up as characters from Homestar Runner”:http://www.homestarrunner.com/costumes01.html. There is a nice audio critique that goes with each photo too!
Here’s something for you “Jane”:http://www.droyer.org/~jane/blog/.
Here’s a real good description of “creating how to create a photolog using MovableType”:http://www.moonpost.com/jeremy/photolog5steps.html.
Here’s a cute one. Someone decided to “recreate several popular Album covers…in Legos”:http://www.geocities.co.jp/Hollywood/9060/musice.html!
(Link from “BoingBoing”:http://boingboing.net)