Steve Jobs held an interesting graduation speech to this years graduating class of Stanford University. In it he proclaimed that dropping out of college was one of the best decisions he ever made because it forced him to be innovative: PALO ALTO, California — Steve Jobs told Stanford University graduates Sunday that dropping out of [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Humor'
A Gamers’ Manifesto
May 30th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Humor, Video Games
Some guy has written on his top 20 peeves about modern video gaming. He makes some good points: The Sony Playstation 3 is going to cost $465.00. In the desolate economic climate of post-apocalyptic 2006, I’m thinking that’s going to be a lot of money. Now, it’s true that at E3 Sony was boasting the [...]
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Super Size Me
May 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Humor, News
A restaurant in Pennsylvania apparantly now offers the worlds biggest hamburger: NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – Starting last weekend, a Pennsylvania restaurant put a 15-pound burger on its menu, claiming the largest burger available anywhere. Dennis Liegey, the owner of Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, 120 northeast of Pittsburgh, said the “Beer Barrel Belly Buster” [...]
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Prayer Calls Driving People Mad In Cairo
May 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Humor, Middle East, Religion
The BBC reports this amusing story: Just before dawn, Cairo resident Muhammad Ahmad is jolted out of his peaceful sleep by a thunderous azan, or call to prayer, roaring out from huge speakers attached to a very modest mosque two streets away. A few moments later a second, even louder muezzin’s voice joins in – [...]
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Monkeys To Join SWAT Team?
April 24th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Humor, News
AlJazeera reports on a new test in the US to evaluate the use of monkeys on SWAT teams: A US police department in Arizona intends to follow through on a proposal to train a capuchin monkey for high-risk police operations. A Special Weapons and Tactics (Swat) veteran from Phoenix, Sean Truelove, has researched the possibility [...]
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Ryanair Run By Cheap Ass Mo Fos
April 23rd, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Humor
Ryanair has now banned employees from recharging their mobile phones at work. Apparantly they see this as stealing power from work. With these new rules they expect to save 41,90 euros on a yearly basis, which comes down to a whopping 1,5 eurocent per employee. An interesting fact: Ryanair made 226 million euros profit last [...]
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Penguins Have To Go Through Security As Well
April 23rd, 2005 · No Comments · Humor, Security
Well, it looks like Microsoft has taken over the TSA. Here are a few pics of some penguins having to go through airport security.
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Battle Of The Consoles Epic
April 22nd, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Humor, Video Games
For all of you who have ever owned a 16bit sysem (Ah, THOSE were the days), you should watch this excellent flash movie. This is made in a really cool retro Final Fantasy style, and has the Sony PSP battling all our old favourites in an all-out battle for gaming supremacy. Be warned though, it [...]
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Cool Bender Casemod
April 19th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Cool Geeky Stuff, Hardware, Humor
Just came across the following Bender (from Futurama) casemod on slashdot. Features include an optical drive in his mouth that you slot CDs into! Respect! The site also includes a full tutorial on how to build this thing. If you speak norwegian that is….. =================== UPDATE: For a new english version of the page click [...]
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Simpsons Quote Of The Day
April 18th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Humor, Middle East, Quotes, TV
I’ve just watched The Simpsons 16×15 (Future-Drama) and came across another excellent Simpsons quote I thought I’d like to share: “Sex on prom night is as American as our 51st state, Saudi-Israelia” Script writing at it’s best. This portrays the feelings of many Arabs towards America’s relationship with the Middle East at the current time.
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