A Free Wii!

Posted by Doug on March 30th, 2007 | 6 Comments

Want a shot at a free Wii? Then fire up your blogging software, create a link to UNEASY Silence's Wii giveaway and then submit a comment over there pointing to your link/story. Done. Easy peasy.
Or, alternately, you could decline from doing so and thus increase my chances of winning the Wii, you [...]

Posted in Video Games

Translation: CNN Headlines To English

Posted by Doug on March 29th, 2007 | No Comments

I have noticed that CNN/CNN Headline News have begun "tagging" all of their news with helpful chronological crawler/ticker headline messages. These tags allow one to, at a glance, determine approximately how old the news they are being presented with is. However, these messages are not in plain English. In furtherance of a [...]

Posted in Humor, Observations, Television

"What We Call The News"

Posted by Doug on March 29th, 2007 | 2 Comments

Those JibJab cats (the ones that brought you the memorable This Land Is Your Land spoof during the '04 elections) are back with another catchy video called "What We Call The News". Check it out:

Posted in Humor, Media, Politics, Television, Videos

A Totally Lame Dodge

Posted by Doug on March 28th, 2007 | No Comments

Work stinks, home life is nutty, no time to write. More later.

Posted in Blogging, Site News

Awww Crap. Looks Like I'm In The Market For A New ISP.

Posted by Doug on March 27th, 2007 | No Comments

Holy Out-Of-Left-Field News, Batman. I've stated previously that I will never give Best Buy another dime of my hard-earned money due to their consistent mistreatment of me in the retail space. Looks like they're going to be mistreating me in the ISP space until I can find a replacement:

Best Buy Acquires Speakeasy: [...]

Posted in Computers, Customer Service, Observations, Technology

Making Lord Of The Rings Accessible To All Literary Palates

Posted by Doug on March 27th, 2007 | No Comments

I recently stumbled across a wonderful thread on the Straight Dope message board posing the following question: What if Lord of the Rings Had Been Written By Someone Else?
Some quick examples, starting with an adaptation that would make Theodor Geisel proud:

"Gandalf, Gandalf! Take the ring!
I am too small to carry this thing!"
"I can not, will [...]

Posted in Books, Humor

Up From Humble Beginnings

Posted by Doug on March 26th, 2007 | 1 Comment

It's hard to believe, but Google, the current King of the Internet[s], sprang up from humble beginnings at Stanford back in 1998. Want proof? Here are the pictures that capture the ragtag nature of the first revision of the Little Search Engine That Could And Eventually Did.

Posted in Asides, Computers, Technology, Web Design
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