Grating Cards: For That Annoying Bitch In Your Life
Ever want to tell that special someone that after many wonderful years of being together you are cheating on them? But if you are too pussy to stand up, dial the phone, and leave them a voicemail explaining yourself, maybe you should use a greeting card? Or better yet…a Grating Card! This one might work:
Nice. You can get this very card at grateness.com where they sell a six pack of these lovely little cards filled will not-so-well wishings for 20 dollars. Here’s the bad part though: They only sell to Australian customers. Bummer. I guess you will just have to write that “Honey, I slept with your sister.” email after all huh sport?
Link: See the rest of the Grating Cards
Via: The Cool Hunter
Numb3rs: Can you dial into a wireless conection?
So Numb3rs just came on and like usual, I made a point to watch it. In case you missed the opening sequence, let me lay it out for you: Two kids are in a car trying to find an open Wireless Access point to do something (they were in the middle of a phishing scheme). After a bit of bickering back and forth, one of the kids finds an open network with a resounding “Found one!” The kid then proceeds to login to the wireless network and as he does you can clearly hear the sound of…wait for it…A MODEM HANDSHAKE! You know, the annoying sound that is synonymous with logging into AOL….with a modem…over a phone line…as in NOT WiFi. Numb3rs is usually so good about being pseudo-correct, but this has to be one of the worst tech-TV-goofs/stupid director move of all time!
Anyone else notice that, or am I the biggest nerd on the planet?
Gratuitous Kate Beckinsale Photo #11
(Confused because this isn’t Kate Beckinsale? Click here for all your answers.)
Mission Impossible 3 comes out today. You of course knew that. How could you not know that with equal parts commericals and Tom Cruise jokes everywhere you look these days. The real question is: Are you going to see it? In a display of the true bond between us I will say that I’m looking forward to going to see this flick. I usually don’t pay to see the turn-your-mind-off action flicks, but this one I think I will because, for one, I kinda dug the last two. Two, Philip Seymour Hoffman is the bad guy. And three, Keri freakin’ Russell. Man does she look good in the promo shots for this movie. I have always loved her when she was yonger with her then trademark curly locks, the new Keri Russell with her straight hair might even be hotter. Here are two of the promo shots for Mission Impossible III, one here and one after the jump. (FYI: These are big high-res pics)
Pics Source: Egotastic
Overheard in the Office
Overheard in the Office is a great humor site. People report in the odd \ funny \ stupid things that they hear during the course of the day in the office. You get hourly gems like:
10AM Conference Call
In New England
Coworker #1: Is Florida’s time zone one or two hours behind us?
Coworker #2: I’m not sure. It’s pretty far south, so probably two.235 Promenade Street
Providence, Rhode Island
and
4PM Snack Break
In Midwest
Co-worker #1: Well do you want to eat these peeps or not?
Co-worker #2: Hell no… They are hella stale
Co-worker #1: Well. okay. I guess we’ll just have to set them on fire.50 Public Square
Cleveland, Ohio
Geek Test: Name Nintendo Games From Their Covers
Think you’re the Classic Nintendo (thats “NES” for the cool kids) master? Think you can name all the games by just looking at their box and a screenshot? Well here’s your chance to proove it…its harder than it seems. I got most of them, but there were some where I was really pressing my brain to hop in the way back machine to figure some of these out. Turns out, I’m a “Nintendo Noob”. Bummer.
I’ve giving myself a penance of 10 hours of NES game playing this weekend.
Link: DESTRUCTOID >> Flash Game: Test your Nintendo Trivia
Via Best Week Ever
Smart Playlists Auto-Update on the iPod
Smart Playlists is one of iTunes strongest, and probably most under-used features. You can make an automatic playlist with nearly any criteria you want – a particular word in the title, the number of times a track has played (or not played), how you’ve ranked a track (either good or bad) and so on. iTunes comes preloaded with a few smart playlists, one for ’90′s Music’, ‘Recently Added’, and ‘Top 25 Most Played’. Well, you can also make a Smart Playlist to make all of your podcasts play one after another, which is the point of this rambling.
I’ve got roughly 30 podcasts that I subscribe to. Most are fairly short, coming in at under 10 minutes in length (C|NET, Slate, Onion Radio, various NPR shorts). While it’s pretty easy to pick out and play a single podcast on the iPod, it becomes cumbersome when you’ve got a dozen episodes to listen to because you have to let a single podcast run thru to the end, have it go back to the main menu, and then navigate manually to the next program to want to listen to.
You can make a Smart Playlist that puts all of your unplayed episodes into one playlist and they will all run in one long really good radio program. Go to File -> New Smart Playlist
You should get a window similar to the photo accompanying this post (click on the photo for a larger version). Choosing the genre and play count are key – putting a restriction on the time is my personal choice. Set genre to ‘Podcast’, and play count to ’0′. I chose to make this playlist a collection of all the short stuff because I want to make sure that I have the time to listen to a longer podcast. 20 minutes works well for what I’ve subscribed to.
Now, while this so far has been a mind-blowing ‘Oh God why didn’t I think of that’, this next revelation will just make you weep with just how amazing the iPod really is. Make sure that ‘Live Updating’ option is checked. If you’ve got a newer iPod (Nano, and I would assume Video iPods) this playlist updates itself live, on the iPod, away from iTunes. So, you can start with a jam-packed playlist and as you listen to each episode they drop out of the playlist one by one. The smart playlist works for the older iPods, but does not update itself away from iTunes. Despite not auto-updating on the older iPods this tip is most-usefull for you long-time iPod users. Your iPods don’t show what podcast episodes you’ve listened to already. Newer iPods place a dot before new episodes, just like in iTunes. For the 3G and earlier iPods this smart playlist takes the guessing out of ‘have I listened to this yet’? Let me know if this works differently on any of the various iPod models that I’ve not been able to test it on.
Has this happened to you?
This is where I work. Working for a ‘last-mile’ internet provider means that I’ve had to go to a lot of places that a well-fed and pampered West County kid from St. Louis would never, ever, ever expect to end up. I’ve climbed numerous water towers to install antennas and modems. I’ve been up on free-standing towers to sight-in 15 mile wide wireless links, making millimeter-by-millimeter adjustments to get things just right. I’ve hitched my laptop up to more rooftops than Michel Dell ever imagined one of his notebooks would ever see (add to that a few crawlspaces too, and you’ll begin to get the full picture). I’m on gravel roads more often than paved, and my territory is roughly 70 miles wide E-W, another 70 going N-S. Running coax or Cat-5 around 100 year old farm houses is a weekly event, and I’ve actually almost gotten used to the unbelievable reek of cows and pigs.
But not until today was I unable to do maintenance on some of our internet equipment because of a nippy horse. Until today. Click on the photo for a larger version.
Did You Notice Anyone Smoking Weed In Farrand Field?
The University of Colorado Police Department did. Not only that, but they have pictures and they want you to rat out the people you know. Seriously, if you go to the “420 Photo Album” on University of Colorado’s site you will see rows of photos of people smoking weed. Your job is to identify the “University”, rat them out by calling the U of C PD at (303) 492-8168 and if you help to catch them, you get $50.
Wow. Lots of fun opportunities here. Of course you could call that number with any number of phone pranks to teach these gestapo bastards a lesson or you could go the lazier (Hell Yeah Bitch! .com approved) route and just scan the pictures of hot broads smoking weed. Like this chick:
Via: TWiT
Is Lost a Repeat?
I honestly had no idea if Lost was a repeat until I found and checked out this very specialized and informative website, aptly named: islostarepeat.com. Beautiful. Exactly what I needed. God bless you islostarepeat.com! You are as wonderful as you are simple.
This makes me want to just change this site to a “one word format”. Maybe I’ll change the site to “yesorno.com” and you can just think of your own question before you visit and use the answer we give you. Or even better, I could just do nothing, keep the site as it is and use the time to eat ice cream in my underwear on my couch while watching News Radio reruns! Decision made.
Hell Yeah Bitch! .com has been around for a while now. Actually over 3 years is really long in Internet Time! (Which by the way is 3.33 years to every 1…which explains why we all say: “Dial up! I haven’t used that in a decade!”) During all this time, like everyone else, we have always had a “Preview” button next to the submit button on the comment form. Its always there on nearly every blog and forum, but doesn’t anyone really every use it? I don’t. The last time I remember using the Preview button is when someone made the first AJAX-y style Preview, and I gave that a whirl (Its wasn’t all that exciting if you were wondering), thats it. So answer me this fair readers: Do you use the “Preview” button on comment forms?
What reason is there to use it? Checking spelling / grammar seems to be the most common response, but that makes little to no sense since you can re-read what you wrote in the text field just as easily as you can on a preview page. I guess “seeing what the final product will look like” is a valid response, but since most places don’t allow much, or any use of HTML code in comments, its not going to look all that different than when you wrote it, and if it does, you won’t be able to do anything about it anyway. So is there a point? Do we need this? Do we want this? Will you feel naked with out the useless Preview button staring at you while writing a comment?
Let me know what you think, I’m interested in the seemingly un-interesting today.