What not to name your WiFi Network

 

 WiFi Network Named 'Al Quida' Singlehandedly Delays Flight 17 Hours

 http://flightclub.jalopnik.com/al-quida-personal-hotspot-delays-flight-for-17-hours-1651636035

Not Dead Yet!

 

Vinyl makes a comeback at The Rock Shop at Plymouth Meeting Mall

http://www.timesherald.com/business/20141029/vinyl-makes-a-comeback-at-the-rock-shop-at-plymouth-meeting-mall 

 

FW: IRS Phone Scam Alert

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Don't fall victim to a widely used phone scam. The scam starts with a phone call from a so called "IRS agent" demanding payment for back taxes. They will say that if not paid you will be arrested, your home will be taken away, or the FBI is waiting outside your house and many other ways to try to scare and intimidate you. If you also try to say you want to get your son/daughter, accountant, financial advisor, attorney on the phone they will say that you will be arrested because the phone call is private.  PLEASE UNDERSTAND THIS IS A SCAM AND THIS IS NOT HOW THE IRS WORKS! The IRS does not initiate with a phone call to try to collect taxes from an individual. It always starts with a letter. Please do not fall for these con artists who are preying on the elderly, widowed or anyone they can get on the phone. If you receive any call of this nature we suggest you hang up immediately and either contact the IRS directly through the number listed on their website, www.irs.gov, and/or contact your accountant. You can also contact your local police department to notify them about the call. Please pass this along to all friends and family as it is something that is now running rampant across the country. We have attached a link to the IRS website that discusses how this scam works: http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/IRS-Warns-of-Pervasive-Telephone-Scam

 

David Sedaris - "The Santaland Diaries"

You might not expect "Santa's Helper" to be a career-altering gig, but for David Sedaris, it changed everything.

The writer and humorist spent a season working at Macy's as a department store elf. He described his short tenure as Crumpet the Elf in "The Santaland Diaries," an essay that he read on Morning Edition in 1992.

Instantly, a classic was born. Sedaris' reading has become an NPR holiday tradition. 

Click the link to hear Sedaris read his tale:

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/23/144136439/david-sedaris-reads-from-his-santaland-diaries

And here's a link to David reading the entire story as published: 4 audio segments:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL59C325513052AAB2

Some headlines just write themselves

 

Kim Jong Un Closely Inspects Hello Kitty Set at Orphanage

Creepy.

Not too far from the mental idea of Hitler hugging a bunny.

How to sell a free movie:

 

While wandering through the Free Movie selections from my cable company, I found "Zone Troopers" with the following description:

World War 2 American soldiers find an alien UFO. 

Impact Elements of Action include Alien Hatching, Massive Artillery, Nazi Disintegration and Hitler Punching.

You know you've worked in a lab too long when...

 

You know you've worked in a lab too long when... 

You can't watch CSI without cursing every scientific inaccuracy.

Liquid nitrogen is only half as dangerous as you thought.

You have to check the web to find out what the weather is outside.

You realize that almost anything can be classed as background reading.

Warning labels invoke curiosity rather than caution.

You decide on conference to attend by the quality of the food served.

You've used dry ice to cool beer.

You can no longer spell normal words, but have no trouble with spelling things like immunohistochemistry or deoxyribonucleic acid.

You have a callus on your thumb.

You can open the toothpaste with one hand.

You wash your hands before and after using the washroom.

When you hear Tween, you think of the surfactant, not the age group.

You can identify organs on road kill.

You've never worn a clean lab coat.

You don't fear rodents. Rodents fear you.

You flinch when you hear the word "significant."

When your bananas go bad and you get fruit flies, you can't help but check their eye color.

You own Invitrogen t-shirts, and actually wear them.

You refer to your children as the F1.

You've used Kimwipes as Kleenex.

You say "mills" and "migs".

You've played Battleship using pipet tip boxes.

The scent of latex reminds you of work, not play.

Your parents still have no idea what you do for a living.

For all the Lab Rats out there...

 

 

 

rejection letter

 

A reading from the Book of Thermostats

 

#Gamergate Discovers Its Ideal Audience: A Completely Mindless Bot‏

The open secret about the fabled Turing test is that the standard of humanity gets lower all the time. Even as computers become more and more sophisticated about replicating human communications, humans are becoming less and less sophisticated communicators. 

Nowhere is this more true than in the realm of #Gamergate. The trolls and true believers are so eager for an audience—and so deeply uninterested in what anyone else has to say to them—that some ingenious soul has now tricked them into arguing their case with an Twitter bot that runs ELIZA, the antique and rudimentary chat program. And ELIZA seems to be winning.

http://themachines.gawker.com/gamergate-discovers-its-ideal-audience-a-completely-m-1646786502

Re: Comic Sans Typewriter Is Here to Ruin Typewriters for Everyone

Now we need a rainbow ribbon, so it changes colors every few characters.

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Bob Bendesky <bob_bendesky@hotmail.com> wrote:

 

Typeface geeks, avert your eyes. Someone came up with the idea to ruin the old-school charms of a typewriter by adding cringeworthy Comic Sans. 

Designer Jesse England says he invented what he calls the Sincerity Machine after reading a typewritten document, and realizing there was nothing stopping him from giving the words a different look. In a demonstration video, he explains his philosophy behind trolling every design snob on Earth.

"While making it, I thought a lot about the Comic Sans typeface and how ridiculed it is. But it is also a mark of sincerity for those who do not have graphic design experience.  I'm not particularly enamored with this font, but I don't think it deserves the flak it gets." 

England used a laser engraving machine to etch Comic Sans letters and glued them onto the strikers of a 1970s Brother Charger 11 typewriter. He then cut vinyl to create new key covers so you know what you're getting yourself into when you type. 

article and video at:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/how-to/blog/comic-sans-typewriter-17324088

Comic Sans Typewriter Is Here to Ruin Typewriters for Everyone

 

Typeface geeks, avert your eyes. Someone came up with the idea to ruin the old-school charms of a typewriter by adding cringeworthy Comic Sans. 

Designer Jesse England says he invented what he calls the Sincerity Machine after reading a typewritten document, and realizing there was nothing stopping him from giving the words a different look. In a demonstration video, he explains his philosophy behind trolling every design snob on Earth.

"While making it, I thought a lot about the Comic Sans typeface and how ridiculed it is. But it is also a mark of sincerity for those who do not have graphic design experience.  I'm not particularly enamored with this font, but I don't think it deserves the flak it gets." 

England used a laser engraving machine to etch Comic Sans letters and glued them onto the strikers of a 1970s Brother Charger 11 typewriter. He then cut vinyl to create new key covers so you know what you're getting yourself into when you type. 

article and video at:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/how-to/blog/comic-sans-typewriter-17324088

... and now you know

You Want This.

This German genius has created one of the most awesome inventions in recent memory, one that will bring incredible voice to humanity: A fully automated paper airplane machine gun. 

Yes, people: A machine gun that folds plain paper sheets into airplanes and then fire them across the sky.

He fully designed it and then 3D printed most of it, he says. I really hope that he starts some crowdfunding thing for mass manufacturing. Or at least share his plans on the internet.

And someone give this dude a Nobel already, please.

article and video at:

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/mad-genius-creates-awesome-fully-automated-paper-airpla-1644140869

 

Know when to hold them, know how to fold them

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@EdwardTufte: Insane video quilt:

140 Futurama episodes at all once! 

Note videos abut, no frames. Watch full screen, mute sound.
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Shades of "Blip-Verts!"

xkcd: Grammar meets Science