Archive for September, 2005
Monday, September 19th, 2005
We Are Michigan : Your Alternative News & Information Resource
An web site full of short, well-written interpretations of top news stories. The news may not be ground-breaking, but the prose is enlightening.
In a ruined city - still largely without power, stinking with piles of garbage and still 40 percent ...
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Friday, September 16th, 2005
Power-dressing Aussie leaves trail of destruction - Yahoo! News
Can you spot the bad science in this article?
An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building.
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Friday, September 16th, 2005
Mr. Sun!: The Little Piggies Went To Market.
The Little Piggies Went To Market.
Gather 'round, children. It's time for a nursery rhyme. Follow me closely:
This little piggy went to FEMA
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Friday, September 16th, 2005
Overheard in New York: The Voice of The City
Funny site with overhead thing in NY. Lots of stupid people quotes.
It's Underwater, Dumbass
Girl #1: What do you mean, there's an Indian Ocean?
Girl #2: Of course there's an Indian Ocean.
Girl #1: Where is it?
--Bryant Park
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Thursday, September 15th, 2005
Tragic: The Gathering
Collect them all!
This is the combined effort of Ubiq and myself to use our mighty ubergeek powers to laugh in the face of that which cannot be explained. No offense is intended, unless offended is a Bureaucrat or Politician creature.
[via Cruel Site of the Day]
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Thursday, September 15th, 2005
RssFwd : Readers
Interesting idea. Now I can forward all my feeds to gmail and read them on my phone via POP. But I probably won't. Still could be useful to read feeds this way. I'll drop a comment later if I get a chance to try ...
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2005
Gear Live | How Google Maps Got Me Out Of A Traffic Ticket
In January of this year, I was pulled over by a traffic officer for “disobeying a steady redâ€, a.k.a. running a red light. I pleaded “Not Guilty†to the charge, and today - nearly six months later ...
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2005
iPodNanos.FreePay.com - Get a FREE iPod nano!
I'm giving the free ipod nano a try. It worked for my 20GB iPod, should work for this too!
Standard drill, signup, refer some friends, get free stuff.
Get a FREE iPod nano!
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2005
Atom Chip Corporation
If it walks like a hoax and talks like a hoax, then it must be a hoax. Be sure to check out the Industrial Products page. You'd think they'd use something other than a Radio Shack Headphone plug for their 24GB NvIOp RAM.
Atom Chip Corporation is ...
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Thursday, September 8th, 2005
Steve Minutillo :: messy-78 --- Is this the final blow in the Doppler wars?
Will the dopler wars ever end?
Have you noticed the ongoing arms race among local news broadcasts, trying to outdo each other with new generations of doppler radar? One station started out with plain old Doppler Radar. But ...
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Thursday, September 8th, 2005
brad's life - best captcha format EVAR!
best captcha format EVAR!
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Thursday, September 8th, 2005
Katrina Timeline
Makes you wonder why Bush is in charge of the investigation on how badly he failed at providing assistance.
Wednesday, August 31
5PM BUSH GIVES FIRST MAJOR ADDRESS ON KATRINA: "Nothing about the president's demeanor... which seemed casual to the point of carelessness --- suggested that he understood the depth ...
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2005
Urban Dead - A Massively Multi-Player Web-Based Zombie Apocalypse
A pretty cool text/web -based MMORPG .. err MMPWBZA? Who doesn't like zombie games, anyway?
The city is dying. Some months on from the first reported outbreak, military quarantine units have closed Malton's borders, and are moving in to eliminate the ...
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