Tuesday: April 20, 2010
- Cheese sandwiches can also double as punishment sentence for school food fights.
Ah, food fights - the cornerstone of every good education. Rather than hand out detention for those involved in said food fights, one New Jersey school decided to serve up nothing but cheese sandwiches. They hope this policy will help to reduce further food fight escalations. Keep on fighting the good fight, Jersey.
Monday: April 12, 2010
- Eleven recordings of terrible hold music for your listening pleasure.
Ever been stuck on the phone waiting customer service of some kind? Chances are that you've probably heard some of these musical disasters. There are some exceptions to the hold call rule. Some of the trendier companies here in NYC play classic Nintendo (8-bit and all) music whilst holding. Instant win.
Thursday: April 1, 2010
- New survey shows that office April Fools pranks are inappropriate.
No fooling -- at least not during the Great Recession. April Fools Day is no joke in this down economy. A survey of 500 advertising and marketing executives finds office pranks are now out of place. That's according to two-thirds of those asked.
Wednesday: March 17, 2010
- Fake Steve Jobs to get his very own half-hour television sitcom.
What makes this interesting is the addition one of the staff writers from 'Seinfeld' who will be pitching in on development of the series. Bring in the Mossberg puppet as the cranky neighbor and you've got a hit show.
Thursday: February 25, 2010
- Forbes covers fifteen kooky inventions you may not have previously known about.
Yes, someone actually holds a patent for a device that allows the user of said to device to swiftly kick themselves in the buttocks. This would undoubtedly make for a lovely addition to any home or office (most likely the latter).
Wednesday: February 24, 2010
- What do you want written on your wireless tombstone? PLACE DEVICE HERE.
Objecs announced today that it has developed 'enhanced memorial products' that add Near Field Communications tags to cemetery markers, which allow text and photos to be 'embedded' in a headstone and retrieved whenever a cell phone is touched against its surface.
Wednesday: February 17, 2010
- Microsoft to bring MySpace and Facebook into Outlook.
I foresee this particular move as something that will greatly increase the productivity of every corporate employee that happens to use Microsoft Outlook as their primary email program.
Thursday: February 4, 2010
- Do you think that your favorite television characters need Twitter accounts?
My initial response fell into the negative on this subject but then I realized that some of my favorite characters would actually be pretty funny to read in some type of Twitter capacity. For your enjoyment here is a site dedicated solely to Creed quotes.
Monday: February 1, 2010
- AT&T decides that pouring another two billion dollars into their mobile network is worth it.
AT&T plans to spend between $18 billion and $19 billion in 2010 upgrading its wireless and backhaul networks to handle the onslaught of new traffic. This is roughly $2 billion more than the company had invested in the previous year.
Friday: January 29, 2010
- PETA calls for replacement of Punxsutawney Phil in favor of animatronic version.
According to legend, if Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, six more weeks of winter weather will follow. If he doesn't, expect an early spring. But PETA has had enough of the tradition that dates back to 1886, and believes robotic technology could be the solution.
Friday: January 8, 2010
- State of the Union address will not disrupt season premier of Lost says White House.
typically delivered in late January, and networks anticipated this year's speech would fall on Jan. 26. The date, however, appears to be in flux, and news that the president may deliver the speech on Feb. 2, the date of the 'Lost' season premiere, set off a flurry of Internet protests.
Thursday: January 7, 2010
- Netflix customers will have to wait 28 days for new releases from Warner Brothers.
This means that when a popular Warner Bros. movie comes out on DVD for sale at your local Target or Best Buy, you must wait another month before you can get it delivered to your door or desktop via Netflix.
Monday: January 4, 2010
- Gamer pays $330,000 for virtual space station.
...$330,000 for a fully-equipped space station, boasting multiple biodomes packed with exciting hunting opportunities, a thriving bar, and extensive shopping and reincarnation facilities. Sounds like a bargain, but there's one drawback: it's not real.
Monday: December 21, 2009
- Yes, it's quite possible for someone to marry a video game character.
The newlyweds, who went on a honeymoon to Guam, now go on dates around Tokyo, with SAL9000 taking pictures of Nene, installed in his Nintendo DS, in front of famous landmarks and then posting them on social networking sites.
Monday: December 14, 2009
- Scientists deduce the best method in which to remove a Band-ADo it fasid.
The results will shock you. Ok, no they actually won't shock you at all. Do it fast and you'll have less pain. Don't you feel better knowing that this is scientifically proven now? No? Yea, me neither.
Friday: December 11, 2009
- A collection of the world's most lavish gaming gifts for you to gawk at.
Yes, there is actually company that will come build your very own miniature golf course. Doing so will set your wallet back anywhere from $60,000 to $350,000. Your choice of windmill and/or fiery volcano.
Thursday: December 10, 2009
- An extensive gallery of the most obnoxious holiday light decorations for you to gawk at.
Looking at these photos may cause an intese desire to go watch Christmas Vacation... multiple times. 'Is your house on fire, Clark?' 'No, Aunt Bethany, those are the Christmas lights.'
Tuesday: December 1, 2009
- Seven of the most inexplicable character additions to television shows.
...the writers some how thought it made perfect sense to introduce a futuristic floating green alien into the town of Bedrock. Add in the fact that only Barney, Fred, Pebbles and Bam-Bam can see or hear the alien, and the Great Gazoo essentially amounts to an imaginary friend.
Tuesday: November 24, 2009
- A collection of ten watches that happen to be more expensive than a Ferrari.
If you keep this moon-phase, perpetual calendar, retrograde behemoth running continuously it won’t need adjusting until 2100. That’s something your children’s children’s children will most certainly appreciate.
Thursday: November 19, 2009
- A gallery of dumb food allergy advisories for your viewing pleasure.
Allergy advice: your package of peanuts contains 100% peanuts, your salt packet contains 100% salt, and your soymilk contains soy. Obvious post contains 100% obvious obviousness.
Friday: November 13, 2009
- Five tips for fixing up your Facebook page from the folks at CNN.
Article covers everything from how to block a friend's annoying Farmville stats to setting up privacy for your racy uploaded photos. Happy Facebooking.
Friday: November 6, 2009
- If at first you don't succeed at your driver's test, try 950 times.
Good news: after the 950th time, this person was finally able to pass the written exam. Bad news: there is still the little matter of passing the actual driving portion of the exam.
Monday: November 2, 2009
- Turns out the real-life Harry Potter not that big a fan of Harry Potter series.
After 12 years of it I couldn't count the amount of times I've heard 'You're a wizard Harry'. It does wear a bit thin after a while. And I've heard all the puns about my wand.
Wednesday: October 28, 2009
- Disney offering refund on Baby Einstein videos that didn't turn children into geniuses.
Turns out that these videos didn't really make a whole lot of difference on a child's intellect by any means. Who would have guessed? Every household is eligible for a $15.99 refund for up to four DVDs.
Tuesday: October 27, 2009
- Norwegian student is newly crowned World Monopoly Champion.
The winning strategy? Consecutive high rents on Pacific and North Carolina Avenues. In other news, there is actually a World Monopoly Championship held in Las Vegas.
- Latvian meteor-like crater, most likely thought to be a meteor, not a meteor after all.
Apparenly real craters left by meteors are not as tidy as this one was and that don't appear to have been dug out with a shovel. Oh well. See yesterday's batch of links for original story.
Monday: October 26, 2009
- The ten funniest people currently on Twitter according to MSNBC.
Sometimes fake celebrities are actually more interesting than their real-life counterparts (at least on Twitter anyway). Fake celebrities aside, theme accounts (a la Meeting Boy) are just awesome.
Wednesday: October 21, 2009
- Thirteen of the most ridiculous 'special' episodes from eighties television sitcoms.
Although not technically a sitcom; Jesse's caffeine pill freakout from Saved by the Bell is still a personal favorite.
Wednesday: October 14, 2009
- Kellogg's planning to laser etch brand name into their corn flakes.
Kellogg's will produce a number of trial batches before considering whether to put some branded flakes into each box to guarantee authenticity.
Thursday: October 8, 2009
- New study shows that Windows 7 doesn't boot up faster than Vista.
...a three-month-old machine can take up to a minute longer to boot, or 2 minutes and 34 seconds. Windows 7 did outperform Vista at the three-month and six-month marks but it generally 'trailed the older version significantly' in its boot-up tests.
