Forwards from Phil: Mar. 25, 2008
March 25th, 2008 by Phil
- Sinistar meets Dick and Jane.
- If you’ve ever replied to an email that ended with ‘donotreply.com,’ here’s where it ends up: in the hands of a programmer from Seattle, who purchased donotreply.com 7 years ago or so. He’s gotten personal information from bank customers, info on troop movements in Iraq (!!), and more.
- Because I needed a reason to use the ‘And Now They’re Dead’ tag: Al Copeland, the founder of Popeye’s Chicken ‘n’ Biscuits, died in Germany on Sunday. He was 64. … Dammit, now I want some fried chicken, and it’s 8:40 in the morning.
- Microsoft finally makes things right for the kid whose art-covered Xbox 360 they scrubbed clean. Idiots. Amazing how much bad PR it takes to finally stir the monolith. At least they went above and beyond to compensate for their errors, but it doesn’t really answer the question of why the hell it happened in the first place.
- Behold: Google Street View shows you where to score some crack in Chicago.
- When my laptop was stolen from my apartment, I chose to go the legal route - turning everything I knew over to the police, including the Craiglist ad I found it for sale on. Results: absofuckinlutely nothing (thanks a lot, legal system). Now I realize, I simply should have turned to the most vicious mob of them all: the internet. Witness as Digg bitchslaps a kid for holding another guy’s Xbox 360 for ransom.
- Here’s a review of echochrome plus, in case you’re wondering what I’ve been blathering about when I talk about importing it.
- Watch in amazement, as a ‘magician’ fails to kill a guy on live television. Repeatedly. In India. If anyone can find Youtube video of this, please do.
- Even the OED has its share of absurd entries. The guy who read the OED shares his favorites.
In the category of Blatant Disregard, the past editors of the OED had seemingly come to the conclusion that since they sat around all day reading about words, accruing a monstrous knowledge of vocabulary, their readers must have done the same, and therefore it was not necessary to talk down to anyone with the definition. For instance trondhjemite is defined as ‘Any leucocratic tonalite, esp. one in which the plagioclase is oligoclase’. I have my doubts as to whether anyone has ever thought to themselves ‘I wonder what trondhjemite means?’ But if someone did, and went to look it up in the OED, it seems unlikely that this definition would clear things up much.
Clear as mud.
March 25th, 2008 at 10:01 am
I’m craving chicken now too!
March 25th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
I’m a firm believer in the only justice is vigilante justice. Sucks but the best idea would have been to buy it back from the asshole who stole it.