Tag: weird

  • hold on, i can look that up

    A list of things that I have wondered about while not at home, from the Wikipedia pages in the URL history of my Blackberry: Adult Swim Apple Baseball Citric acid Couscous Dacquoise Lever Little Feat Mortadella Ottawa Praline Tour de France I wonder why I was looking up Little Feat?

  • Butter many privates

    Someone over in Engrish found a Chinese food menu which had been translated to English character by character with no regard to content, and posted scans. Seriously some of the best Engrish ever.

  • first, draw a safe on a cardboard box

    New from O’Reilly/Syngress: How to Cheat at Designing Security for a Windows Server 2003 Network. I realize that “How To Cheat At” is a book series, but how could a title like that get past an editor and the book’s author without any red flags being raised?

  • saw this in a toy store just the other day

  • All blog hits, all the time!

     megpickard has helpfully scanned and posted the cover of the latest compilation CD, Now That’s What I Call Blogging 62. Now if you’re like me, you haven’t taken NTWICB #61 out of your playlists for months, and your podcast listeners are starting to get a bit tired of it — no more! Now you’ve got […]

  • the founding fathers fought for your right to not have to go over bumps

    Americans Against Traffic Calming really writes its own jokes. (I found that while looking for general traffic-calming stuff after reading about this living room in the road in England.)

  • true motivation

    “Validating your copy of Windows not only keeps your business in good hands, it can put your hands around a great cup of coffee by using your $5 Tim Hortons Gift Certificate.” Canadians like their Timmy Ho’s, but that’s just bizarre.

  • mmmmm

    Hungry? (Be sure to note the “similar items” section. Also, if you weren’t around on the innarweb when this was current, be sure to also see dogs in elk.)