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.
Or perhaps he was accentuating the "lazy and dumb" ;-)
10 Things James Bond Would Never Do is quite clever. I liked seeing him sitting on the couch whilst eating crisps and watching football.
Hmm - not sure why that happened. Probably a lazy and dumb problem.
Is this a puzzle? Because I'm too lazy and dumb to solve it.
"Whale fin for humor purposes!"
Upon hearing this the younger dolphins snickered and swam off to taunt Big Blue.
Please, please please please please re-post the link to the Beyond DeLay article? thanks!
Jocelyn
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
Thanks for pointing out the broken link. Fixed!
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.