Reuters: Mainland China has opened its first halfway house for Internet addicts, offering shell-shocked teenagers counseling, books--and the use of computers.

Thanks to Sterling for the link [play tag with me].

Scott Adams: The scientists all laughed and snorted and wondered why they don’t get laid more often.

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/08/amateur_night.html

Randy: This could be Scott's best post yet. Must read. But save it for a time when you need a good laugh.

Oh please, I can't rhyme worth a dime. And when I try, it's just so very lame. But, I thought it was time to step up and thank my blogging friends. In particular, of late, Kent Newsome has been saying some really nice things. He calls me one of the fun brokers, in reference to the iBLOGthere4iM blog, where I simply post a lot of fun crap. But that in turn, brings up Coolz0r and Sterling, who are the true brains behind the iBLOGthere4iM blog. Both have been feeding me tones of links via the del.icio.us for:randymorin tag. That's part of a contest called Play Tag with Me where I giveaway a book in exchange for the best link every month. Thanks to Kent, Coolz0r, Sterling, Oleg, Steve and yes, I'm sure I forgot to mention you. Sorry and Thanks!

As a kid, I really enjoyed this book. Contrary to many, I did not like the "Lord of the Rings" book series.

Thanks Coolz0r!

Amateur movie produced on a $75 budget.

Thanks Coolz0r!

Do you think its possible? To drink 2 liters of water in less than 5 seconds?

Fast Drinker - video powered by Metacafe

On volume, Coolz0r has already won.

My favorite is...

#22: Never talk to a man in a bathroom unless you are on equal footing: i.e., both urinating, both waiting in line, etc. For all other situations, an almost imperceptible nod is all the conversation you need.

Read them all.

http://www.i-am-bored.com/28rulesofmanhood.html

Coolz0r is on a roll.

Everybody likes a list, especially one this funny!

1. Look Busy
2. Look Stressed
3. Speak Quickly
4. Hide
5. Break a Limb
6. Make Excuses
7. Never Leave Your Office/Room
8. What they can’t see…
9. Fool their eyes
10. Choose a profession people don’t understand

Read his entire post. It's worth the time you'll save working later.

http://www.fullduplex.org/humor/2006/08/how-to-get-away-with-doing-nothing-at-work/

And while you are not doing any work, find time to play this game.

http://www.tooncrisis.com/

Thanks Coolz0r! [play tag with me candidate]

From the album Straight Outta Lynwood comes an extremely funny song by Weird Al Yankovic. It's called Don't Download This Song. Click the link to download the song.

http://dontdownloadthissong.com/

Thanks Coolz0r! [play tag with me candidate]

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Originally uploaded by rugrap.

Thanks Coolz0r for playing tag with me.

Here's a challenge for my readers. The idea is to comment or blog about the most singular instance of stupidity that you've actually participated in. Now, don't embarrass anybody, change the names, if names are even required. You can post your own stupid instances in my comment or your own blog with at the del.icio.us tag for:randymorin. The best stupid moment will be considered for my play tag with me monthly book giveaway. Here's a couple of my favorites.

• Tony Craven's (name change) father was coming to town and we were going to meet him. I asked Tony what his father's name was and he responded "Mr. Craven" with a look as if I was stupid that I wouldn't know Tony and his father had the same last name.
• Describing a car accident I was involved in to some cow-orkers. I was stopped at a red light and an old lady was stopped behind me. A third car, rear-ended the old lady at about 60 kph (40 mph), who in turn rammed me. I said, "fortune that I left 10 feet in front of me or I would have hit the car in front of me too". One cow-orker replied, "if you hadn't left so much room in front of you, the person would have had more room to stop."

Tell me you didn't. You didn't post about that stupid movie did you? If you didn't, then you win the following badge developed by uber-blogger Jason Kottke. I won! But then, I don't blog about anything remotely popular or mainstream. I only blog crap. I hosted the image on photobucket, feel free to use it.

http://www.kottke.org/06/08/no-snakes-no-planes

If you have an extra $18,500 lying around, then here's your chance to spoil a kid.

Thanks Coolz0r for playing tag with me.

Thanks Coolz0r for playing tag with me.

Thanks Coolz0r for playing tag with me.

Got you all fooled!

You Are 86% Grown Up, 14% Kid

Your emotional maturity is fully developed, and you have an excellent grasp on your emotions. In fact, you are so emotionally mature - you should consider being a therapist!

Turns out, my wife was wrong all along. I'm an introvert.

You Are 20% Extrovert, 80% Introvert

You are quite reserved You aren't afraid of social situations... But you very much prefer to go it alone And why not? You're your own best friend!

Bangkok Insurance, Twister Commercial. Well done!

OK, you have to watch the entire video.  It's mostly stupid, but it's a big lead-up to a great ending.

Warning: May cause you to become deft. You can't sue me later. I warned you.

Thanks Coolz0r! [major play tag with me candidate]

Mark Frauenfelder: This photo offers incontestable proof of the existence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

This looks like another great Robin Williams film, by the same people that brought us Good Morning Vietnam.

In response to the girl who took at picture of herself everyday for 3 years and composed it into a video....

... comes a guy who does the same thing, but over a period of 24 years.

Very cool Xmas lights flickering to the beat of a song.

Channel9 Guy and 2 Tucows accompanied us recently on our RVing excursions.

The following eBay+PayPal coupon codes gets you 5% off. Please respond if and where it works.

CPP-EBAY06AUG

Grand Theft Auto parody commercial for Coke.

In the recent Apple commercial style, Wii vs PS3.

If you haven't already heard, The United States on Thursday raised its terror threat level.

http://www.kbcafe.com/politics/?guid=20060810050429

Whose the Play Tag with Me winner for July? Jason Schramm for this link sent about CalacANUS.com. Jason wins a $20 (or less) book from Amazon. Let me stress OR LESS. $1 would be fine. OK, how about Debbie Weil's book on corporate blogging?

http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM/?guid=20060731203304

At work, on a daily basis, I'm getting the following email or similar.

There's several others on TrueNuff.

PR: Hummingbird announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which a wholly-owned subsidiary of Open Text will acquire all of Hummingbird’s outstanding shares in an all-cash transaction valued at US$27.85 per share, or approximately US$489 million.

Randy: I've always desired to work for Opentext, but never wanted the commute to Waterloo :-)

I don't know who wrote this, but he should write a blog.

I have a Labrador retriever & I was buying a large bag of Purina at Wal-Mart and was in line to check out. A woman behind me asked if I had a dog (?).   On impulse, I told her that no, I was starting The Purina Diet again, although I probably shouldn't because I'd ended up in the hospital last time but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms. I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry & that the food is nutritionally complete, so I was going to try it again. I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was by now enthralled with my story, particularly a tall, black guy who was behind her. Horrified, she asked if I'd been poisoned. I told her no; I'd been sitting in the street licking my butt and a car hit me.  I thought the black guy was going to need help as he laughingly staggered to the door.

Thanks Wade!

Start w/ 2L of Diet Coke, add Mentos and bounce the bottle over a 30 foot house some 150 feet away into the backyard.

This land walker is pretty cheap at $300k.

Only valid this week, but this coupon is good for a play-all-day pass at Ontario Place for only $6.80.

http://www.680news.com/images/ontplacecoupon06.pdf

Intel Inside a Mac? Nooooooooooooooo!

Speech Recognition software has come a long way and still has a long way to go. Check out this presentation by Microsoft.

Thanks Robin!

Today only, eBay.ca has reduced their auction insertion fees to 10-50 cents.

http://pages.ebay.ca/promo/50AF080106/