Monthly Archives: February 2003

More ready.gov infographic fun

myimages/readyinfographic-pf.jpg” alt=”” hspace=”10″ vspace=”10″ align=”right”>Silly me, of course I should have realized that the FARK’ers were going to be all over this. One of the best FARK photoshop contests ever.

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Astronaut Dinosaur

He is 65 million years old and was at one point the king of the Cretaceous period. Now he likes tacos and is traveling the world. Scott Listfield takes pictures of dinosaurs, and creates paintings about astronauts and dinosaurs. Astronautdinosaur.com … Continue reading

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No rides, just a lot of standing around in line

Communist chic hits mainstream. Massine Productions GmbH hopes to recreate a 10,000-square metre (107,600 sq ft) replica of East Germany, complete with surly border guards, rigorous customs inspections, authentic East German mark notes, and restaurants with regulation bland East German … Continue reading

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The best episode of Nash Bridges ever

Specifically, what happens in Nashville when the bridges ice up and drivers forget to slow the hell down. Watch the video, sit back and let the hilarity ensue. [via Fark]

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Uninstall instructions for NewsMonster

Just as a FYI for folks playing around with NewsMonster and want to delete it. Annoyingly, there’s no uninstaller for it yet, but these instructions seem to work correctly.

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A modest proposal for NASA

Just realized something… Is there anyway we can get Mars to be included in the Axis Of Evil? There would have to be an invasion…

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Anti-bot warfare

Mark Pilgrim outlines some anti-bot strategies in “How to block spambots, ban spybots, and tell unwanted robots to go to hell“

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Space shuttle crash description in Niven/Pournelle’s Inferno

A thread on rec.arts.sf.written excerpts a weirdly prescient description of a space shuttle re-entry crash from Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s Inferno: “One of those days,” Corbett said. “First, a twenty-six hour hold while we replaced one of the solid … Continue reading

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Customizing Mail.app attribution lines

A recent article in comp.sys.mac.comm talks about how to change the attribution line in Mail.app (using OS X 10.2.x). Edit /System/Library/Frameworks/Message.framework/Resources/English.lproj/Message.strings in TextEdit. Change REPLY_MESSAGE_PREFIX and REPLY_MESSAGE_24HOUR_PREFIX to whatver you want, such as “%%@ said:\n\n” Save your changes Don’t forget … Continue reading

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Winning the infographic parody war

The Fed’s ready.gov web site o’ paranoia is just oozing tons of infographics ripe for the picking. The nation’s parodists have been working overtime. See the results here, here, here, here, and here. Once you’re done with the tour, be … Continue reading

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