Yesterday, TidBITS reported on an interesting development in Seattle: Seattle’s City Council has passed an emergency measure to ban free Wi-Fi access within city limits, following testimony from experts and fire officials regarding their investigation of last week’s explosion at the popular “Beans, Beans, The Magical Fruit” coffeehouse.
Category Archives: humour
best sign of March
In a This Is Broken-style moment, david yee catches a UPS Store in a bad moment.
Canada Revenue minister April Fools’ locals
John McCallum told CBC radio he was launching a pilot project in Ottawa called “E-file or Else,” with long delays and even a 5 percent surcharge for paper filers.
boing boing parodies
coupla neat boing boing parodies from yesterday: Gakker: My call for sanity regarding the fair use of the brick Bricks have many legitimate uses, including shelter, crowd dispersal, and brief grandstanding against Israeli tanks, so why all the focus on the very few which are heaved through shop windows to allow for the sharing of …
we <3 sciam
Scientific American has a great op-ed satirizing creationism: There’s no easy way to admit this. For years, helpful letter writers told us to stick to science. They pointed out that science and politics don’t mix. They said we should be more balanced in our presentation of such issues as creationism, missile defense and global warming. …
when computers crash
one guy was not happy when his machine died: “There was one restaurant manager who was so upset with his laptop that he threw it into deep fryer,” Norman said. “That destroyed the laptop … and deep fryer, too.”
plagiarist laura k. pahl aka laura k. krishna
So this guy catches a plagiarist, Laura K Pahl, then tries to cover it up by changing her name (but doesn’t change the URL). Ooops. And Laura goes to Lewis University. (And he didn’t change James Gaffney’s name.) Yay Google cache.
japanese movies
Any movie that starts with 50 japanese schoolgirls jumping in front of a speeding train is by default messed up.
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The Credit Card Prank II
what does it take for someone to verify your signature on a credit card?