Archive for the ‘Dumb Things That Happen’ Category

Who needs a microwave?

Posted on March 30th, 2007 in Dumb Things That Happen, Photos/Videoes, Time Wasters | Comments Off on Who needs a microwave?

Who needs a microwave when you can warm up your coffee, zap anything you want with a laser?!
Only 2 KW though, nothin like the juice that a full blown microwave has, but cool nonetheless. I want one…
I find it odd/wierd/interesting how they have a tray set for coffee mugs to warm up as if they do this alot. Again, who needs a microwave?
Watch the video: Youtube

Anti-Pastafarian Actions

Posted on March 29th, 2007 in Dumb Things That Happen, Time Wasters | Comments Off on Anti-Pastafarian Actions

A student was suspended…for dressing as a pirate. Wheres the pastafarian stuff? Well, the kid claims that he follows pastafarian religion, and that its “a crucial part of his faith [is wearing] full pirate regalia.”
It technically IS a religion….but the school claims that it was disruptive. Interesting….posted this for Nihar, and any pastafarians reading this 😉
Metro

One Sharp Car

Posted on March 20th, 2007 in Dumb Things That Happen, Photos/Videoes, Picture of the Day, Time Wasters | 2 Comments »

Yea…anyone who has the time/resources to do this to a car should be classified as nuts. Luca Pancrazzi (crazy :P) took a Maserati Quattrporte and covered it with 800 kg of shattered glass. This is absolutely…nuts. LOOK at it:

Thank ee Carscoop

Microsoft Piracy Policy

Posted on March 13th, 2007 in Computer software/hardware, Dumb Things That Happen, Tech News, Time Wasters | Comments Off on Microsoft Piracy Policy

Are you ready for it? Really?
Microsoft:

don’t use pirated software, but if you do, use ours

Ya…one of their representatives to the Morgan Stanley Tech Conference said that essentially, if you use pirated software…use microsoft pirated software. 😉
Funny stuff….sadly, it kinda makes sense, because, you have to admit, if your using pirated microsoft software…your still using…microsoft software.

Squirrel…torture

Posted on March 12th, 2007 in Dumb Things That Happen, Photos/Videoes, Time Wasters | Comments Off on Squirrel…torture

Needless to say, we did not help, endorse, or in any way aid the makers of this so called “Squirrel Catapult”
With that said, I found this to be absolutely hysterical. Watch it at liveleak

May the squirrels reincarnate in a good place full of acorns…

Would You use this toilet?

Posted on March 9th, 2007 in Dumb Things That Happen, Photos/Videoes, Picture of the Day, Time Wasters | Comments Off on Would You use this toilet?

Just look at this public toilet…whoever designed this is one sick genius. 😛

And what does it look from the inside?

Thanks voltier. Check out their site Voltier

Ways to STOP Piracy

Posted on February 26th, 2007 in Computer software/hardware, Dumb Things That Happen, PSA-Types, Tech News | Comments Off on Ways to STOP Piracy

Ok…lets review this for the people who think this is a good idea or are just ignorant of this event.
Programmer makes a piece of software that records your screen into a quicktime movie. Fine. THats all good.
License it, by using serial codes. Good Job…
Make it, so if you enter in certain “pirated” serial codes, program DELETES THE HOME FOLDER OF THE USER. BAD IDIOTIC MORONIC IDEA. This is for Mac’s by the way…
Some sentiments about this idea:
1) Prepare for the lawsuits.
2) File for bankruptcy NOW
3) Remove yourself from the face of the earth for your moronic judgment skills.

I’m sorry…but, this ACTUALLY HAPPENED. As one commenter said, he is an embarrassment to all programmers out there.
And I QUOTE: “there exist several illegal cd-keys that you can use to unlock the demo program. If display eater detects that you are using these, it will erase something.”

IT WILL ERASE SOMETHING? WTf?!

Again, i state…this is an example of nonexistant judgment skills. PLEASE take this as a warning to all you budding programmers…don’t ever ever ever ever dream up of some pathetic/dangerous program protection system?! PLEASE.

/end rant. Read the comments on versiontracker

Big Combined Post :-)

Posted on February 18th, 2007 in Dumb Things That Happen, Hands On/Build This!, How To's, Labs/Experiments, Photos/Videoes, PSA-Types, Science!, Tech News, Time Wasters | 2 Comments »

Dilbert Movie
First off…..theres going to be…a DILBERT MOVIE!
Warner Bros via Chris Columbus has gotten movie rights to the Dilbert Comic. Woot!

OpenCola
Who wants Coca Cola when you can get OPEN SOURCE Coca Cola?!
Presenting…OpenCola. Amazingly, people say it actually tastes like Coke and Pepsi combined. The can even says “check out the source at opencola.com.” If you go, its actually a recipe FOR OpenCola. The recipe is..of course, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Crazy people…Sadly, the website that made it at first died after selling a some cans, but hey…its open source. Go go GO! Open Source Coca Cola

UN Radiation Warning Signs

the UN has decided that they need universal radiation signs. and i quote “the new symbol will not be visible under normal use, but only if someone attempts to disassemble a device that is a source of dangerous radiation”….uhhhh…ok…
crazy…check it out at the UN site

Finally, NukeProof USB Drive

now, plenty of these usb drives have been taken to the test. The bullet proof usb key was recently tested and it surprisingly withstood quite a few blasts, cept a shotgun. Now…this one, i dont think anyone is eager to test. Nuke proof? WHO NEEDS ONE? Anyways…check it out at Slashgear

Is it really snow?

Posted on February 14th, 2007 in Dumb Things That Happen, Time Wasters | Comments Off on Is it really snow?

You know its a bad sign when the weatherman just gives up on predicting whats coming, and labels it just as “Unknown Precipitation”
I know i’m not in New York, but i’m pretty sure it aint HCL acid or cheese or crumpets. Look at it: Yahoo Weather
and in the emergency that the page is fixed….

….that is NOT photoshoped.

Sending an email….

Posted on February 12th, 2007 in Computer software/hardware, Dumb Things That Happen, How To's, Time Wasters | Comments Off on Sending an email….

Are you bored? Do you have nothing better to do than find different ways of sending email? Well….here’s your chance. Did you know that you could be a crazy command prompt idiot and send all your emails through TELNET?….
well…now you can.

Why not telnet email? 😛
In windows, just run command prompt
type telnet
enter
type o mail.myserver.com 25  where mail.myserver.com is your smtp server. could also by smtp.server.ext
and now…we turn over the tutorial to ricky. 😀
Ricky’s Web Review contains the rest of the steps to email your friends through telnet. Good luck….
You can also send email through your own computer by setting it up to be an smtp server of it self through ISS
or…you can write vb script to do it. Either way…your an idiot for not using gmail. 🙂 but…it can be fun to send email via telnet. lol
Check it out at Ricky’s Web Review