Category: Funny

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The Waterfryer – Has Water (and a Fish) Under Your Frying Oil

Finally, another stupid “gadget” that’s worth mentioning here. It’s actually an interesting idea, but the demonstration is horrible. So what is the Waterfryer? It’s a deep fryer that has water under the oil. The result of having the water there is that, since water and oil don’t mix, the oil stays clean because all the food crumbs fall into the water. The water stays clean, and to demonstrate this there’s a fish living there right under the very hot oil. I guess you have to see it to understand. Check out this video. (via Digg)

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Google Maps Offers You To Swim The Ocean. I Think It’s A Nice Touch

Lately, it was published that if you ask Google Maps to show you instructions on how to get from one place to another, which is across the ocean, Google Maps will offer you to swim. For example, here’s Google Maps’ instructions on how to get from Mountain View to Zurich. Note that instruction 36 says:

Swim across the Atlantic Ocean, 3,462 mi

Google Maps is offering you to swim 3,462 miles (5,571.54893 kilometers, I used Google Calculator for this) across the Atlantic Ocean in order to get to Zurich.

While this is funny, I also think it’s a very nice touch by Google. Obviously, the swimming part can be replaced by:

  • detailed flight information, or
  • an error saying the route cannot be computed.

While the error option would have been much easier for Google, they chose to put a placeholder until (I’m sure) they’ll have integrated flight information for their directions part of Google Maps. So why, really, emit an error when you can be funny?

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It’s April Fools’ Day on The Internet (also In Real Life, but Who Cares)

April Fools’ day on the Internet begins with Google’s Gmail Paper initiative. Have your emails freely distributed on paper by Google, who will add some advertisements on the back of the paper. Great joke from Google. See for yourselves.

UPDATE 1: Google continues with Google TiSP, the broadband system for your home, going right through your toilet to a snorkeling PHD (Plumbing Hardware Dispatcher) person in the TiSP access node, who will connect you. You have see the installation instructions to understand.

UPDATE 2: Slashdot also started posting April Fools’ day articles, one of which is that the Mozilla Foundation is suing Microsoft over tabbed browsing, which causes Microsoft to contemplate shipping a special version of IE7 named IE7 NT (No Tabs) :-)

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Interview With Raymond Chen (Audio)

I’ve written about Raymond Chen and his popular blog a few times before. He’s a brilliant Microsoft employee, who writes about “serious” stuff like how to use some of Windows’ API, while also including nice stories from Microsoft’s past (plus some other stuff, which always shows how much you can learn from him).

This time I’m writing about him because there’s a podcast online where you can listen to him getting interviewed about the blog, his new book and Microsoft.

Did you know that every copy of Windows XP includes Microsoft Bob (Wikipedia definition)? I didn’t. If you have an original Windows CD and you can pound on your keyboard with your hand in a very specific way, you can get to the Microsoft Bob installation on the CD :)

I guess you have to listen to the podcast to know why I’m saying that.

UPDATE: Raymond Chen was interviewed previously on another show. It’s also very funny for Windows developers with a bit of sense of history. Here it is.