October 7, 2005

Irritable Shotgun Syndrome

  • Panoramio (photography, maps)
    • It's another site which allows you to mark up the globe with your pictures. This one makes it easy to add your own photos.
  • 10 things James Bond would never do (funny, animation, video)
    • Mildly funny. But where are the “WWJBD?” T-shirts?
  • The Pitch Drop Experiment (physics, science)
    • Found this on RMC’s blog today. Slow as watching pitch drop. But all sciency and stuff. So it’s all good. How fast does pitch flow? Not fast.
  • Find-A-Human — IVR Phone S… - Approved* (consumerism, lifehacks, reference, shopping, telephony, tricks)
    • Are you ever in phone system hell with a company and want to know how to just get through to a human, fast? Try this handy reference.
  • LiveMarks (links, resources, web, delicious)
    • See live-updating popular links from the Del.icio.us linkblogging site.
  • Cleaning and Stain Removal (cleaning, domestic, reference, tips, howto, home)
    • 150 different cleaning tips from DoItYourself.com. Keep this on hand for when stains vex you, or an innovative cleaning approach is needed.
  • defective yeti: Check One (funny, political, blog)
    • Insight into the SCOTUS nominaiton selection method.
  • Useful Bookmarklets: Lifehacker (javascript, utilities, tools)
    • Ten very useful bookmarklets for your browser.
  • Latin Quotes, Latin Phrases, Latin Mottos and Latin Quotations (reference, quotations, language)
    • Look up commonly used Latin quotes. You don’t have to speak Latin to use it. And… (spoken in avuncular voice) you may just learn something.
  • Things You'd Like To Say At Work, But Can't (article, comedy, humor, work)
    • Heck - I've said half of these things.
  • What Should I Read Next? (book, consumerism, shopping, search, services)
    • Tell the site what you like and it’ll try to suggest what you should read next. Book suggestion engine.
  • Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb (article, productivity, software, programming)
    • It turns out that you have to have two attributes to be a good programmer. You must be lazy, and you must be dumb. Surprisingly true. Of course, it's a specific kind of laxy and dumb.
  • The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (article, funny, society, humour)
    • It may be worthwhile to study patterns in human stupidity. Identifying and classifying stupidity, while fun for humor purposes, could actually be of some use. So say I.
  • WindowsXP Tips (computers, howto, reference, windows, xp)
    • Long list (no frills) of WinXP tips
  • Beyond DeLay (politics, reference)
    • The 13 most sleazy members of congress. [UPDATE: I fixed the broken link]
Posted by James at October 7, 2005 10:22 AM
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It looks like you may have had some cut-and-paste accidents today.

Posted by: Julie at October 7, 2005 11:36 AM

Or perhaps he was accentuating the "lazy and dumb" ;-)

Posted by: briwei at October 7, 2005 11:50 AM

10 Things James Bond Would Never Do is quite clever. I liked seeing him sitting on the couch whilst eating crisps and watching football.

Posted by: Patti M. at October 7, 2005 12:53 PM

Hmm - not sure why that happened. Probably a lazy and dumb problem.

Posted by: James at October 7, 2005 1:04 PM

Is this a puzzle? Because I'm too lazy and dumb to solve it.

Posted by: Maggie at October 7, 2005 2:36 PM

"Whale fin for humor purposes!"

Upon hearing this the younger dolphins snickered and swam off to taunt Big Blue.

Posted by: Mike L. at October 7, 2005 3:04 PM

Please, please please please please re-post the link to the Beyond DeLay article? thanks!

Jocelyn

Posted by: jocelyn at October 10, 2005 1:09 PM

BTW, the 10 things James Bond Would Never Do is funny! Thanks for posting that. However, didn't he take the train a few times in his various movies? Now I gotta go check...

J

Posted by: jocelyn at October 10, 2005 1:15 PM

Thanks for pointing out the broken link. Fixed!

Posted by: James at October 10, 2005 1:28 PM

At least three train scenes I can recall: From Russia With Love; The Spy Who Loved Me; Octopussy.

But I'm sure there are more that I'm just not remembering.

Posted by: Julie at October 10, 2005 2:34 PM

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