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Posts from July 2004

The Everyman Photo Contest - 2004 Amatuer Contest Rules

The Everyman Photo Contest - 2004 Amatuer Contest Rules. Deadline is 10/4/2004.


Myserious Billboard…

Since Mike is the type that writes his own IRC clients in Python for fun, he should be amused by the story of the Myserious billboard. At least I was. [via Melissa.]


freeiPods.com… Yes, Free…

Years ago, there was a company called FreePC.com. The premise was that you signed up for their free computer, and they sent you one - with banner and spy software, so they could monitor your surfing habits. I didn’t own a computer at home at the time, and I was happy to sell [...]


eBay Me, Baby!

Normally, I avoid eBay like the plague. Not because I hate eBay. Oh no. No, no, no… I love it. Too much. I have never been an eBay junkie because I see the writing on the wall and I would be trying to win every auction I found any remote [...]


Can You Make It Stop?

A freaky optical illusion. Can you make it stop? [via Hicksdesign]


TypePad Loves Me Again!

Just the other day I was ranting about TypePad. It would never let me log in, so whenever I try to comment on MT sites, my comments end up in moderation mode. I’m sure Kristine and Meredith just love me for that.
However, the fabulous Shelley (in her role as a MT staff member) [...]


Rocco Shut Out of His Restaurant…

When I finally got a chance to view the season finale of “The Resturant”, I discovered that President Reagan had died that day and the programming was messed up. I never got to see the finale. However, it’s still no surprise to learn that Rocco is Shut Out of his “Restaurant”. Yeah, [...]


Four Inmates Flee Jail, Return With Beer

Four Inmates Flee Jail, Return With Beer. Why bother escaping when you have beer?


The Lapinator Homepage

Can’t take the heat of your laptop? You need the Lapinator!


Mmmm… So Fine…

Thanks to Claudia, I found the movie! I found it! It’s So Fine, from 1981. Man, I wonder if that’s out on DVD - it is a riot. Just look at those jeans! The whole “craze” starts when Ryan O’Neal somehow rips one of the pockets off of his jeans [...]


iTunes Link Maker

iTunes Link Maker.


I Want Pink Hair…

The “Beauty School Dropout” scene in Grease - you know, the one with Frankie Avalon singing to her about how she should go back to high school - is really, really strange at 2 in the morning.
And how about the Greased Lightning scene? If I can’t have the pink hair, I want a [...]


FREE BOOK! FREE BOOK!

I can’t believe that in 3 hours, no one has had any questions for my guest author, M.J. Rose and the Virtual Book Tour. Let me point this out… if you ask an interesting question, you get a FREE BOOK! A really good book too! Free! Just for asking a question!
Come [...]


The Halo Effect…

I am thrilled to be a participant in today’s Virtual Book Tour for M. J. Rose’s latest book, The Halo Effect. As I mentioned yesterday, this book has been a true page-turner, the kind that you hate to put down because you can’t stand the suspense of what is going to happen next. [...]


Oh no, you will BugMeNot…

Someone was looking for this the other day, but now I don’t remember who. If you need to bypass compulsory web registration (like the NY Times website), BugMeNot.com can hook you up with a way to log in without creating a new account.
Meanwhile, their own Registration page is priceless. “If you are an [...]


I Feel the Love…

Kymberlie posted for 24 hours yesterday for Project Blog in order to raise money for Heifer International. She called us mid-afternoon to ask us for inspiration on what to post. Unfortunately - we were short on inspiration at the time. She finally found her niche though and offered up a ton of [...]


Testing …

Another fabulous feature of WordPress is that I should be able to write posts that appear in the future. If it works like I thin kit should, then this post should appear at 11:07, all on it’s own. I’m writing it at 10:54. Now I just have to wait and see…
By the [...]


I’m Easily Amused…

While spellchecking an e-mail that I was sending through Thunderbird, it told me that “Firefox” was a misspelled word. Now really, if you were designing a software package, wouldn’t you make sure that the name of your other software package wasn’t considered a misspelled word? Come on guys … Firefox should be in [...]


not martha : marble magnets

I often dream of making these marble magnets someday…


A Little Linguistic Quirk…

Isn’t it funny to think about how some things stick? Mike and I were watching the ending of the Tour de France, and Lance Armstrong was wearing an earpiece.
Mike asked, “Is that a Walkman in his ear?”
It wasn’t, it was only one cord, so I am sure it’s some device he uses to talk [...]


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