Archive for December, 2005

Maybe Google isn’t so great

You’d think searching for ’search engine’ on Google would bring Google up in the first slot. It comes in at #8. Here’s the search, try it for yourself. There’s a screen capture below, just in case something changes.

If men designed wrapping paper

4 wrapping paper ideas that had to be thought up by men. I’d probably buy the mooning one if it was real.

Better be sure who you’re dating online

Daniel Anceneaux thought he had found the perfect woman online. After ‘dating’ online for six months, the couple arranged a real life rendezvous. They were in for quite a shock.

What would you do for an XBox360?

A Boston CraigsList posting blares the headline: “trade sex for an xbox 360“. The poster claimed to be a 22-year-old woman who, along with her roomate, is a “hard core gamer”. “Send me a photo of you holding the system, and tell me what I have to do to get it” says the [...]

Cardboard speakers, and they’re portable

Are your speakers just too big and heavy to carry around? How ’bout these. They are about 3 inches cubed and fold flat. And, they’re made of cardboard.

Police dog sued for illegal search

An Athens, Ohio, man is suing the Athens County sheriff’s office, naming a police dog as one of the defendants.
Wayne Green claims that an illegal search by police dog Andi lead to 50 pounds of marijuana being found in his furniture store. Green was convicted and will be sentenced next month.
The [...]

Patching a trackback bug…

I hadn’t ever noticed this before, but Wordpress has a small bug when you trackback to a page after clicking ‘Save and Continue Editing’. Instead of using the permalink, it uses the index.php?p=123 format.
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Christmas Eve arrested for filing false police report

Pasadena, Texas, police arrested Christmas Eve Hall, 19, for making a false police report after her car was stolen.
Police responded to suspicious activity when a witness called in having seen two men pushing a vehicle into a school bike rack and breaking out the back window with a crow bar.
While officers were talking [...]

Sodomy suspect loses bail after second bribe attempt

A Limpopo teacher lost his bail on Monday when he tried to bribe his sodomy victim a second time.
The as-yet unnamed teacher teaches at the high school where his victim attends. Fellow teachers became suspicious of the 40-year-old teacher when the 15-year-old received almost perfect marks on his exams. The teenager [...]

Levers the flash game

Need a diversion for your Monday morning at work. Try this Flash game. Best I can tell, you try to keep everything out of the water by balancing it just right.
So far; I’ve gotten a bowling ball, a submarine, a jug of water, a bird house, a snowman, a squid looking Christmas [...]