The ultimate revent against telemarketers...

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Weird news-happenings from all over...

- Apparently, New Yorkers drive too damned much
- New York City is implementating technology that will allow people to send digital images to 911 and 311 call centers
- The President's people don't read articles about early childhood education
- Four powerful Senators are living in what sounds like a political frat house...
- Some photographer guy in Illinois wants to make a calendar featuring The Women of State Farm
- Some dude rode a stationary bike for 85 straight hours to set a world record
- Texas and Connecticut are dualing over where the hamburger was invtented
- Folks in Oklahoma are digging up a car that they buried 50 years ago as a time capsule Nobody knows if it will start who who will own it...
- Example of a very stupid law that is still on the books: In North Dakota, it's illegal to play house
- There is a claymation movie about how 'Nazis are uncool'
- People in Athens still worship Zeus
- Eritcha found an old-lady-style music video

2007 Design and Development Emergency Kit

So having been away from the office for three weeks, I was mildly surprised to find that someone left a present for me on my desk. It's a zip-lock baggie (with a little Santa Claus on it) that contains some goodies, and a damned funny little explanatory note. You can see the picture here, but just in case you can't make out exactly what the text says, I'll transcribe it...

--BEGIN--

2007 Design and Development Emergency Kit

To prepare for cuts and bruises from continued use of bleeding-edge technology, you will find the following:

* 1 Band-aid - for the nicks and cuts you may endure next year
* 1 quarter - for the headache or ulcer medicine of choice. See the medicine dispenser in L-1 or in other Corporate South Locations
* 2 pieces of chocolate - for its anti-oxidant & pick-me-up properties for those days when you're just feeling down or depressed

--END--

At first glance, I immediately assumed the quarter must be for "calling someone who cares" - but apparently that's just the obnoxious New Yorker inside me talking.

So much weirdness in so many places...

It has been a weird few days in in the news - literally all over the place:

• Something totally stinks in New York


• This couple in Colorodo decided to sell snow on e-bay - AND - this guy in Connecticut just bought it for $200 (as soon as I find a linkable article I'll post it - but there was a video on cnn.com)


• Back in Sioux Falls, they're teaching you how to love
  Some dude is selling his own private beach-front country


• Pluto is no longer a planet, but its close relative is now the word of the year for 2006

Cats with Credit

Apparently, in Australia, cats can get credit cards.

Yes, that's nice, but will it blend?

I just LOVE this guy!

Wow - a modern day prophet

eh - more like an idiot actually...

UFO Sitings at O'hare

I was probably there that week, but I didn't see it.

What accent?

So actually - people regularly tell me that I don't sound like I'm from New York. They're wrong - but this website seemed to get it right...

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Northeast   Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.
Philadelphia
The Inland North
The Midland
Boston
The South
The West
North Central
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

Hat tip to Mobius

Helping The Cause

Obnoxious as I may be, this post is my contribution to the Google Bomb which links the words miserable failure to Dubya's bio on the White House website.

(If you do a search on Google for those two words - your first search result (or what you'd get by clicking the "I'm feeling lucky" button) is George Bush's bio on the white house website.)

You can learn more about this here.

Simon Says Santa...

Oh yeah! Once again this year, you can be the boss o' Santa.
Go to http://www.simonsezsanta.com/ and give him some orders.

I recommend trying these:

do some pushups
pull down your pants
drink a beer
knock over the tree
kiss mrs. clause
do a split
moon me
sing
floss

What he really thinks...

The folks at Saturday Night Live found the "special director cut" of Mel Gibson's Apocalypto.

See it here

More real than you thought

Did you know that Looney Tunes characters have skeletons?

Father where art thou?

This story is pretty bizarre. Gotta love that fake-clergy getup - it tricks people EVERY time.

Cubicle Warfare...

Now this product looks like fun. Quoting the website: "The arms race is on. The workplace has become a dangerous place, but once upon a time, it was all a laugh. Back in the day, your workmates chased each other with squirt-guns, then disc-guns. Everybody laughed when somebody brought in the harmless Airzooka. Gleefully, somebody brought in a marshmallow blaster.

Then it went kinda nuts. Sonic Grenades, catapults, lightsabers, ninjas... Suddenly, it was less about harmless fun. Suddenly, things got serious. Deadly serious. The day that the guy down the hall brought in the USB Missile Launcher was the day the gauntlet was thrown down [...]

This rocket launcher connects to your Windows 2000, XP or Vista machine via USB. Install the included software, plug in the Rocket Launcher, and with 360 degree horizontal rotation and 45 degree vertical rotation, the USB Rocket Launcher can fire over six meters, giving you coverage for over 113 square feet of your workspace."

The most wonderful time of year...

So it IS good that I don't celebrate Xmas...