Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Handy tips

Waitless
Sprint (the telecom company) is graciously doing a little public service with some handy tips on saving time in life. How about not having to redial a dropped connection...??
http://www.waitless.org/


Tourette's add-on
Here's a simple Firefox browser add-on that will insert swearwords into any text you try to type. The appeal, obviously, is to surreptitiously download on a friend's machine and watch his bewilderment as he is helpless to prevent a simple work memo from becoming obscene gibberish.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kvFfcdZkGDI


QotD
"We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know."
-- W. H. Auden


Quick strip: Escape is Impossible. Mu ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...
http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/58443/1193225690/spyroom.jpg


How to stash your stash
In one segment of what's apparently a whole series, ex-policemen Barry Cooper explains (at length) how to avoid getting caught while transporting drugs. It's interesting stuff, although he has a tendency to belabor the point. Then again, he is trying to explain this stuff to stoners...
http://www.dailymotion.com/search/never+get+busted+again/video/x30so0_barry-cooper-never-get-busted-again_politics


Game-ish: Test your Eye-Q
A little game to see if you can go blind in 30 seconds using a high resolution monitor.
http://mindbluff.com/images/gameeyeq.htm


"Dough-Nu-Matic"
The culmination of American consumer electronics: this $130 starch-and-sugar-dispensing wonder is an all-in-one machine that forms and fries mini-doughnuts in just under a minute. D'oh.
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/10/31/doughnumatic-automat.html

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