Got this from a thread at work:
Anyone know if the Candians have such a thing as the kilometer high club?
Bah, those Canadians soo hilariously backwater bucking the empirical system used by the rest of the world for their own metric system.
If you don’t get the joke, read about the Mile High Club at Wikipedia.
Random Crap:
Really old joke, but it was retold on a MS newsgroup so I thought I’d share:
An economics professor and a Yankee farmer were waiting for a bus in New Hampshire. To pass the time, the farmer suggested that they play a game. “What kind of game would you like to play?” responded the professor. “Well,” said the farmer, “how about this: I”ll ask a question, and if you can”t answer my question, you give me a dollar. Then you ask me a question and if I can”t answer your question, I”ll give you a dollar”
“That sounds attractive,” said the professor, “but I do have to warn you of something: I”m not just an ordinary person. I”m a professor of economics.”
“Oh,” replied the farmer, “in that case we should change the rules. Tell you what: if you can”t answer my question you still give me a dollar, but if I can”t answer yours, I only have to give you fifty cents.”
“Yes,” said the professor, “that sounds like a fair arrangement.”
“Okay,” said the farmer, “here”s my question: what goes up the hill on seven legs and down the hill on three legs?”
The professor pondered this riddle for a while and finally replied. “Gosh, I don”t know… what does go up the hill on seven legs and down the hill on three legs?”
Well,” said the farmer, “I don”t know either. But if you give me your dollar, I”ll give you my fifty cents!”
A difference between men and women – Using brain-imaging techniques, they compared how men and women reacted when watching other people suffer pain. If the sufferer was someone they liked, areas of the brain linked to empathy and pain were activated in both sexes. Women had a similar response if they disliked the person experiencing the pain but men showed a surge in the reward areas of the brain. … Men admitted to having a much higher desire for revenge than women and derived satisfaction from seeing the unfair person being punished. I can agree with their revenge statement.
Godzilla PVR (from /.) – With the third installment of our Monster PVR series, we here at SnapStream asked ourselves, “How can we beat the Medusa PVR, our 6 tuner beast, and our Hydra PVR, our 10 tuner monster?” Why, by making an 11 tuner system with HDTV support, of course! This is when the Godzilla PVR system, king of all monsters was born. How do we top the Hydra PVR? This system is an ultra high end HTPC showcasing Beyond TV 4 and capable of recording 11 shows, 4 high definition and 7 standard definition, at once. With Beyond TV 4’s HDTV support and with its unlimited tuners, you can create your own monster system. Crazy!
BetterCampus (from Derek) – PRT: Personal Rapid Transit – PRT represents the first completely new ground transportation technology in 90 years. A PRT “last mile” solution connects a single campus bus stop to 30,000 desks, dramatically increasing transit effectiveness. Remember to check out the video. It’d be pretty sweet if when they do implement this on Microsoft campus. The 3D modeling is actually done quite well too!
pya! Flood:
(vid) パックマン – PacMan – This puppet show was awesome!
(img) こんにちwan – Konnichiwan – Someone got so bored during class, they carved a dog out of their eraser.
(img) 今日は鶏鍋じゃ – Today’s Roast Turkey – Poor girl… I wonder if she could eat any turkeys for the rest of her life. She’s probably a vegeterian by now.
(vid) 体分裂 – Splitting Body – Is this some magic trick? or is this video editing?
(img) ihead – The cult of iPod. Pretty neat head shave though.
(img) 脱走中 – Middle of Escape – basket full of puppies!
(img) ロケット鉛筆 – Rocket Pencil – interesting I must say.
(img) パクリ疑惑 – Mr. and Mrs. Smith in Japanese?
(img) 降りられないwan – Puppy scared of falling down – SO CUTE!!! ~kawaii~
‘Star Trek’ star Shatner sells kidney stone – Shatner, famed for playing Captain James T. Kirk, commander of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise in the original “Star Trek” TV series, sold his kidney stone to online casino GoldenPalace.Com for $25,000. The money will be donated by Shatner to Habitat for Humanity to build houses for the poor. If I was a celebrity, I wonder if I could sell boogers and poop. For charity of course.
Hamster, Snake Best Friends at Tokyo Zoo – Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one’s a 3.5-inch dwarf hamster; the other is a four-foot rat snake. Zookeepers at Tokyo’s Mutsugoro Okoku zoo presented the hamster — whose name means “meal” in Japanese — to Aochan as a tasty morsel in October, after the snake refused to eat frozen mice.
The Scanner Photography Project (from /.) – Building homemade digital cameras from low-end flatbed scanners. I didn’t think much of this project at first, then I saw his gallery. It’s just amazing! His site’s been slashdotted, so you may need to check it out through one of the main mirrors linked from his homepage.
MythBusters: Lost Experiments – interesting TV show.
Some Students Use Net To Hire Experts to Do Their School Work (from /.) – Wow! Cheating to a whole new level. CS students hiring coders to do their homework. You can’t tell from the site how much was paid for the help, but usually it’s well less than $100.
Artemyst sent me this photo of a
Cute Bunny (from Frostdesign)