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In a response to the latest Slashdot poll, which was “Number of Open WAP Access Points Around You Now”, one user wrote: “Define open. I mean, does WEP count?”
If you don’t get it, then you’re not as geeky as you may think. Here are some links that may help you get the joke:
If you ever wondered where the phrase “all your base are belong to us” comes from, then your search is over. It’s actually a pretty funny story. You can read it in the history page on the official video site, or view the actual video (followed by a hilarious Techno track). You can also read it all on the “all your base” page in Wikipedia.
The Infinite Cat Project is one of those things that can only happen by chance. Here’s the story, as told on the website:
“It all began innocently enough when a user on an Apple help web site posted a picture of his cat, Frankie, contemplating the beauty of a flower. Shortly afterwards another user posted a picture of his cat bristling at the image of Frankie on the monitor. I decided this was too much fun and advanced the concept as The Infinite Cat Project which is, simply, cats regarding cats regarding cats in an electronic milieu. If you like this web site then thank your lucky stars that the world is populated with cats, Macs, and people with wayyyy too much time on their hands.”
Here is a direct link to the first 25 cats, including the original one, Frankie.
(this post is dedicated to Shaul. I hope this clears the 0.22$ I owe you for clicking the Google ads)
If you have never seen this ad before, then you should. As explained here it took 6 million dollars and 606 takes to finally get it right.
This game looks simple and easy at first, but is very challenging and enjoyable. Basically the instructions are KILL ALL THE PUKIS!!!
(via DownloadSquad)
The Register has this funny story. If you looked in Google up until a few days ago for “African slaves” you would get a sponsored link which would have sent you to ebay.co.uk, where you could supposedly get a great selection of African slaves for the best prices.
Since the story was published, this doesn’t work any more.
(Thanks to Doron for this link)
Raymond Chen posted a funny post on naming product groups.
In his most recent article, usability guru Jakob Nielsen declares the death of WYSIWYG, which will be replaced with a new approach – results-oriented UI. A very interesting read.
So you’re sitting in the living room dying for a coffee cup, but you just don’t feel like getting up right now. That’s why they created the SMS Kettle (via Gizmodo). You send a text message to the kettle, and it starts boiling the water.
This reminds me of the world’s most useless remote control button: the eject button (in modern CD/DVD players – open/close button). You still need to get up and put the DVD in its box. This is very much like it. I mean – can you be sure that the kettle has water in it when you send the SMS, or will you just have to get up and check?
Otherwise, this will happen to you.