Speaking of safety, despite the hostility of many of the players and the depth of the PvP system, it’s considered bad form to attack anyone except under very strict, very controlled circumstances. This is apparently because getting killed in the game actually removes you from the game forever. What genius thought that one up?

Aside from the constant and irritating fees the game has exhibits remarkable inflexibility compared to other MMORPGs available. You cannot create a new character to try out other roles or career choices or even start over when you realize you’ve hopelessly screwed up your current character. Although career change is possible, if you want to try out Electrical Engineering instead of Forestry and Wildlife, for example, you’ll be required to literally attend years in the newbie zones at great cost and financial risk to yourself and the rest of your guild (called a “family”).

An absolute riot, and it actually made me stop and think once or twice. It continues into the comments — I love collective humor, and the occasional post from some guy who doesn’t realize everyone else is in on the joke is funny too.

Thanks to some text message-savvy grandchildren, North Carolina drivers whose license plates have the potentially offensive “WTF” letter combination can replace the tags for free.

According to the jetblue map, I’m directly over you right now.

Not much to see.

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Adam Kalsey

This is like when Joe sent me a picture of a frog.

Strong typing is hitting the keyboard with your fists. Weak typing is hitting it with so little force that the key doesn’t depress enough to activate the keyswitch

[…] Cyclomatic complexity refers to the vast number of washing machine cycle choices available on today’s machines.

Super Mario theme recreated by driving an RC car at perfectly placed line of glass bottles.

A friend asked if I wanted to go to a party and I 202, and said 200. When we got there I asked for a glass of water, only to be given a 400 instead. So I asked for a Coke and the reply was 402, so I 202.

Just click “Set custom time” from the Compose view. Any email you send to the past appears in the proper chronological order in your recipient’s inbox. You can opt for it to show up read or unread by selecting the appropriate option.

Cute, but it doesn’t hold a candle to the Gmail Paper thing they did last year, which I actually fell for. They also did Google TiSP last year, which makes me think there are other goodies out there for today.

I don’t want to tell you how to do your job.
But, could you make the logo bigger?
Bigger, bigger, make it big.
Make the logo bigger.

Chorus
Make the logo as big as you can.
And make the logo bigger.

“Apple made the clbuttic mistake of forcing out their visionary - I mean, look at what NeXT has been up to!”

Hmm. “clbuttic”.

Google “clbuttic” - thousands of hits!

Lately I’ve noticed a pattern of people building Single Serving Sites, web sites comprised of a single page with a dedicated domain name and do only one thing.

I must say I like “Let’s turn this f**cking Web site yellow.” I could have done without the profanity, but I still thought it was funny. Kind of like that new movie Untraceable, but with more color and less poison.

But I don’t think the scammers quite thought this through to the end, as you might notice looking at the URL that the “Log in” button links to - stupidity or just refreshing honesty?

I like one of the comments: “I wonder what the old scam was like.”

That’s Tim’s handwriting on the first computer on the Web (this is the computer that Tim used to invent the WWW).

This link runs a slooow SQL query on the RIAA’s server. Don’t click it; that would be wrong.

Found on reddit.com. I clicked it, just out of curiosity. It pulled a press-releases index page. I don’t know how someone knows it’s slow.

During normal operation or in Safe mode, your computer may play “Fur Elise” or “It’s a Small, Small World” seemingly at random. This is an indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer’s BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed, or that the power supply voltages have drifted out of tolerance. This is a design feature of a detection circuit and system BIOSes developed by Award/Unicore from 1997 on.