Want less Spam in your Hotmail account?
There's a quick and easy step you can take: turn your junk e-mail filter from "Low" to "Enhanced". At the lowest level Hotmail will delete the known junk e-mail before it even…
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Table Nutball anyone?
No, it's not that questionable appetizer your Aunt Mildred serves... it's playing table hockey... with nuts... against squirrels. A hint, you get bonus points for hitting the squirrels in the naughty bits.…
Would that be considered a hardware or a software problem?
A friend e-mailed me... [My Wife's] crt stopped working so I took a look around making sure everything was still plugged in, etc., Then I took a look on top where the cat…
Software conflict?
Do you ever install a new piece of software and find that it breaks something else? This person had the same problem. :D Icon Story
Don’t give my those puppy dog eyes, private! Drop and give me twenty!
I'm as big an animal lover as the next guy... but this is just... well... odd. "Imagine: your dog, cat, or other pet in full military regalia. I make this fantasy a…
I gave my gingerbread man a Nutella pompadour
Click for scary-big. Ginger Elvis says: “I taste better than fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches! Thank you very much!” <crunch> Ginger Elvis's head has left the building.
World-Wide Media Exchange
I was just e-mailed this by a co-worker (thanks Paul!): the World-Wide Media eXchange. It’s a Microsoft Research project gathering pictures from all over the world and arranging them into a map-driven…
God’s food
Perhaps it was made with Swiss cheese, it's hole-y! Hole-y! Get it? Holes in cheese? Sounds like holy? Anyone? C'mon, this is great stuff! Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Update: eBay auction saved…
The shrinking web
The reason the World Wide Web is called the World Wide Web is because it’s filled with interconnected links, allowing you to move from site to site. Do you ever do that?…
She’s worried… honest
Sure... jackhammers... add it to the list lady. (click for big) Edit 10/7/2004: Snopes picked up the story.
Tracking down the best photo sharing site
For a while now I've been wanting to get more of my pictures on line to share with friends and family. Here are the sites I've dug up to date. Any suggestions…
That’s no moon!
With the release of the Star Wars DVDs last week everyone has the classic films on the brain. And what goes better with classic films than classic rock? Mad props to the_man361...…
Next on reality TV – Spammer Bounty Hunters
Okay, so perhaps they don't have a show in the works, but I'd certainly TiVo it if they did. Ah... the wonderful vision of underwear-clad spammers being dragged across their front lawns by…
Some more travel tips
Ah, the joy of business class! On the way back from Korea (more on that later) Paula and I were able to upgrade to business class. When you’re dealing with a flight…
Travel reference for the travel portion of your trip
Airlines often allow you to pick your seats when you're buying your ticket... but how do you know if you should pick 16a or 27f? Will there be in-seat power for your laptop? …
I don’t get it
If you want to watch the Olympics, you watch it on one of the NBC stations (which includes MSNBC). Now, if you're on the web and you tune to MSN Video, guess…