Here’s a screen-capture from the “National Weather Service in Minneapolis”:http://www.crh.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/MNZ060.php?warncounty=mnc053&city=Minneapolis. The temp this morning? 23 degrees below zero. Yes, for you math majors that’s 56 degrees below freezing.
Sorry…I just had to whine.
I found this over on “BoingBoing”:http://www.boingboing.net and had to share. I’m just not sure what to say about it!
“Brassieres made from yarmulkes, in limited editions (and limited cup-sizes)”:http://www.yarmulkebra.com/
This is kind of interesting. An “Indiana woman did a quick Google search on a man she was going to date only to discover that he had an outstanding FBI arrest warrant”:http://www.theindychannel.com/news/2799934/detail.html. It’s amazing what you can find on the net if you spend the time looking!
The “New York Post”:http://www.nypost.com has an article about a guy who decided to create a “documentary about his attempt at a ‘McDonalds Diet’”:http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/16393.htm.
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I have no idea what they’re doing but it looks fun! Check out “The Ping-Pong Ball Avalanche Home Page”:http://duvel.lowtem.hokudai.ac.jp/~jim/avalanche/miyanomori/miyanomori.html It just looks like a ton of fun!
Look below for a photo! (Link from “BoingBoing”:http://www.boingboing.net)
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“mediatinker.com”:http://www.mediatinker.com has a great artcle describing the “details behind MovableType templates”:http://www.mediatinker.com/blog/archives/007806.html.
From the ‘Who really gives a F*ck’ dept, “Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are breaking up”:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/people_affleck_lopez
Here is an interesting review for anyone who builds computer systems from scratch. There are many manufacturers of thermal paste that is used to help certain components conduct heat more effeciently. SOmeone decided to test the manufacturers claims that they contain 99.9% silver. It turns out that lots of those claims were false. “Half of the thermal paste tested contained no silver, even though the manufacturers claimed it was a major component”:http://www.overclockers.com/articles938/
Oops. A “US Airways flight lands at the wrong airport”:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/wrong_airport.
Many pieces of computer software and hardware come with a default username and password. Somewtimes this was intended to let technicians get in and fix things in the field. Other times someone just forgot to turn it off. Either way it’s not a good thing. Here’s a “list of several hundred default usernames/passwords”:http://www.phenoelit.de/dpl/dpl.html to help with penetration testing and security evaluations.
Remember Microsoft Bob? The pre-Windows 95 software that was the birthplace of ‘Clippy’ found in Office? Well, here’s a site from Germany that has “dozens of screenshots from Microsoft Bob”:http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=de_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.winhistory.de%2Fmore%2Fbob%2Fbob.htm to help you remember Micrsoft’s biggest software failure. That not enough? How about the page that lets you “download Microsoft Bob so you can run it on your very own PC”:http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=de_en&url=http://winhistory.simpletec.de/bobd.htm?
This is just too funny! A 7-year old boy managed to get himself stuck in one of those stuffed-animal crains! The fire dept and a locksmith had to be called to get him out!
Click below for a picture!
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Here’s a guy from Olympia who has some friends with too much time on their hands. When this poor soul was on vacation, his friends “coated his entire home in tinfoil”:http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20040107/southsound/8191.shtml. Everything from books to appliances to the walls. (Pictures included in the article.)