I nearly choked on my drink at the selling M&M’s shtick.

24 questions of the real name of various shapes.  I only got seven correct.  To be honest, I hadn’t heard of more than half of them.

My home wireless is named “Free Public Wireless”, just to mess with my neighbors.

Google using a black background certainly gets your attention.

Out of 3.2 million entries, only two correctly picked all sixteen of the Sweet Sixteen in ESPN’s NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament challenge.  One of them is Johnny Gilbert, an Ohio State Buckeyes fan who doesn’t have cable and made his picks by reading the paper and ESPN online.  Here’s his bracket.

Interface Builder Is Stuck In The Past

How come Interface Builder 3.1, the latest version as of the time of this post, shows rounded application menu corners when OS X Leopard did away with them?

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Study finds it rains more and heavier between Tuesday and Thursday compared to Saturday through Monday.

CNN Breaking News

I get CNN Breaking News e-mails, and every now and then I can’t understand what they consider “breaking news”.  This page will keep track of some of their Breaking News Alerts that I think are a waste of electrons.

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You wear a bracelet and switch it every time you utter a complaint.  Pretty soon, you stop complaining.  Interesting idea, but I really don’t like web sites that have a lot of flash on them.  Whoops, time to switch that bracelet.

The Washington Post holds a Peep diorama contest each year.  If this one were in it, it would’ve won.

They were minced and the fumes overpowered the crew.  They’ve been added to the “no fly list”.  I feel safer already.

It was in the space station, and was made out of paper, but it flew the same way as it does on Earth.

It’s a fish tank built into the tank part of a toilet.  Great idea.

Billy Mays presents the “Handy Switch”, a remote control switch that lets you turn on and off any product that plugs into an outlet.

Another in the collection of “How Did They Land A Man On The Moon Before They Did That”.

Update: Apparently, not so handy.

Every once in a while Steinbrenner shows he has some class.