Randy Charles Morin blogs for the sake of blogging.
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The largest iPod in the world. According to Google maps, it's more than 1km in height. For you Americans, it's slightly less than one mile.
After RVing most of the month of March, I've decided that I'm gonna become the first professional RV blogger. I'm gonna tour all of North America in my RV and blog about the RVing life. As long as AdSense keeps paying, I should be able to make ends meet and save piles of cash for rainy days and my kids education.
I don't know if this is real, but this appears to be a sexy abandonned Microsoft commercial for XP. Very risqué.
Available on T-shirts, Mugs, Caps, Mousepads, etc.
http://www.t-shirthumor.com/Merchant2/products/msfg.html?Category_Code=newr
- Go to Dell.com
- Choose PayPal as your payment option.
- Enter Code: X10DHMT?VL6NBS
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purchase with coupon code CPPEBAY03. Discount is up to $3.49 USD, and applies only towards the shipping cost of your order. Expiry date is currently unknown, please leave a comment with any further details or if you encounter any problems.
Randy: And here's some more that I found on what looked like a splog, so I won't link to it.
- Save 10% - up to $25 - on an eBay purchase in March -- Expires March 31st
Code: C-MARCH2006CAT - Save $10 - on your next FASHION purchase of $50 or more -- Valid April 1 - 15
Code: C-APR2006FASHION - Save $20 - on your next TECHNOLOGY purchase of $100 or more -- Valid April 16 - 30
Code: C-APR2006TECH
There's also...
- C-MAR2006ANNIV, but this works, I believe, only if you signed up in March.
Congrats to Jason Kottke and Meg Hourihan.
Holly Batman! For $10k+, these guys will install a bookshelf that reveals a hidden passage when a favorite book is pulled, or a hidden room when you twist on a candle of the fireplace.
Everybody likes a sexy carwash video. Right?
A small clip from Disney's Carousel of Progress ride.
Google just released a new Website, Google Finance. It doesn't have the depth of information of Yahoo! Finance, but like everything Google does, it's fast as lightning, much easier to use and isn't cluttered with inline ads. Sorry Yahoo!
Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Scientology and South Park characters. You should be laughing already. You can watch it too!
I blogged a list of the 2,300 U.S.deaths in Iraq. How many died on 9/11? 2,986. George Bush seems to be catching up to Osama bin Laden in totally casualties they are personally responsible for. Oh wait! How many Iraqis have died?
Snubster is the anti-Friendster social Website. Instead of creating lists of friends, you can create lists of people and things that you don't like.
AP: It almost seemed like a miracle to Haldis Gundersen when she turned on her kitchen faucet this weekend and found the water had turned to beer. Two flights down, employees and customers at the Big Tower Bar were horrified when water poured out of the beer taps. By an improbable feat of clumsy plumbing, someone at the bar in Kristiandsund, western Norway, had accidentally hooked the beer hoses to the water pipes for Gundersen's apartment.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2006/03/13/1485829-ap.html
Randy: BTW, I'm camping at Disney this week, which explains the light blogging. Thanks Kevin!
What do you get, if you put a get engine on the back of a Beetle? It's not a joke. It's real! The Jet Beetle.
image via Flickr.
AOL has launched it's free TV Website. This Website is a complete usability nightmare and shows just why AOL went from the darling of the Web to complete disaster company.
- Javascript errors on every webpage.
- You can't download the video.
- Requires ActiveX (hint: use Flash).
- You view the video in a miniature frame.
- Uses double-click spyware cookies.
- Slow as hell.
- Clicks often launch new windows.
- Clicks (ex. In2TV logo) often lead to 404 pages.
- Ad filled header loads very quickly.
- Content area loads only after about 15 seconds.
- Sometimes the ad plays, but the video doesn't. You have to restart and watch another ad.
- Didn't seem to work in IE7.
- I've watched the same Pringles commercial 100 times. I will never buy Pringles again.
After about 15 minutes, I got tired of trying to find something useful to watch and gave up. Definately Beta!
AP: A group of boys who posed as a 15-year-old girl for an Internet prank ended up helping police arrest a 48-year-old man who tried to meet the fictitious teenager for sex, authorities said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11708746/
Randy: Of course, this led to the comment "this is why it has to stop!!!" in one of my permathread blog entries on the Dangers of MySpace. I've also heard of 48-yr-old men, trying to pick up 15-yr-old girls at the library. I assume, we should then close all libraries in addition to MySpace. Fact, MySpace seems to be a great way of exposing these sex offenders. The police should be setting up fake profiles left-and-right in every major city. Yes, MySpace can be a tool for good (not only evil).
Mark Evans: RIM has agreed to pay NTP US$612.5-million for a license that covers "all the current NTP patents involved in the litigation as well as any future NTP patents."
http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/3/3/1795532.html
Randy: This is disturbing. It validates the business model of writing invalid patents and extorting money out of legitimate companies. The American patent system is officially broken. TTYL. I'm going to write some patents.
Boston University used satellite images to find this baby, a 20-mile wide crater, millions of years old in the Sahara desert. The future is maps. You can sit at home and make discoveries using Google Earth or MSN Virtual Earth.
Check out these absolutely surreal pictures taken of a seemingly abandoned city.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jestre_aka_zann/sets/72057594070588837/
Nathan Weinberg: Get a free 16 megabyte USB thumb drive in 6-8 weeks. [cut] See that image at right? You’ll also see it on this page (don’t use Opera). Click on it, then follow the instruction. When you get to the questions, the answers are, in order:
- 2
- True
- True
- True
I think we all get frustrated with traffic and traffic laws, but these guys are simply assholes. In fact, you can see in the video that they were responsible for an accident. Based on the video, they should be charged and the police have all the evidence they need. The humble opinion from someone who's said to drive like a granny. I drive slow, real slow, but in the far right lane. Slow right. Fast left. Else asshole.