Crazy But Able

Has anyone seen that Burger King ad with the black cowboy singing? I just saw it the other day and thought that they are really starting to be downright blatent with sex in advertising. You have to love the large breasted woman standing in front of the chicken breast tree and the women […]

Nice Ask Metafilter thread about microwave ovens with the rotating platter in the middle:
So, if your microwave oven has a carousel, is it necessary to stop the cooking halfway through and rotate the food, like most prepared food packages suggest? And do you place the item in the middle or slightly off to one side […]

Think you’re safe from spam with captchas? Think again.
the attack took 10 minutes. out of a list of 99 blog posts, it successfully posted comments to 94. the 5 that were missed either did not allow comments or the bot failed to guess the CAPTCHA image five times in a row. my guess is […]

Olia Lialina reminices about late 90’s web design in A Vernacular Web: The Indigenous and The Barbarians.
Don’t miss the fantastic “Final Countdown” midi file.

Jorn Barger is back!
(Jorn Barger is the guy who invented the word “weblog” back in 1997, [link], as well as the great tagline for it: “I edit the net!”)

I trimmed the 8 eyes RSS feed to only return the ten most recent posts, rather than every single post, ever.

Everyone knows why the social security crisis is coming, right? All the boomers will be hitting social security age, and there won’t be enough of us whippersnappers around to pay for the geezers. “But wait, I thought all the geezers paid into the program, so they should just be getting back what they’ve […]

WOW! Every one should go check out the wild porn Keir keeps putting up on the photolog!
http://crazybutable.com/photolog/

I ran across Ann Elisabeth’s blog a couple of days ago and I thought I’d post a link here. It seems that all this person does is blog about her efforts to fight spam. If you’re running a Movable Type blog and having problems with blogspam then you might want to check it […]

The University of Minnesota has enacted started enforcing some new dictatorial rules on bringing food on campus for student events and the like. The rules are that food has to come in to the U in “sealed packages”. What I want to know is, what kinds of things can I bring in sealed […]