The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine. [Stuart [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Internet'
Baguette Dropped From Bird’s Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider
November 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Internet, Linked List, Miscellaneous, Uh oh!, WTF
Tags:Baguette science·bird·bread·Large Hadron Collider·LHC
The People of Walmart
August 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Creative Ideas, Internet, Linked List
Every once in a while I find myself strolling the isles of the local Walmart for one good reason: I’m curious to see what’s going on and what brings 19.7 million people per day to the warehouse-on-steroids every day.
That is, until today. I don’t think I’ll ever have to step foot inside the jungle of [...]
Tags:Entertainment·walmart·website of the day
OMG Twitter is Broken, People Are Dying!
August 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Geekery, Internet, Technology, Uh oh!
Only few understand this concept: When Twitter is down, you can’t tweet about it.
So yeah, Twitter is down and we’re all going to die.
Update: And we’re Back!
Tags:server error·twitter
Summer Sweat
July 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Internet
Every year around April fools day students minds begin to murmur the longing for summer. It’s a time of no homework, a time to vacation and time to relax. However, when summer actually rolls around the words coming from their parents mouths are quite different.
Get A Job!
It’s as if saying these three words bring upon [...]
Tags:job·summer·summer sweat·summersweat·sweat
Don’t Try Scamming Me
July 12th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Craigslist, Creative Ideas, Entertainment, Internet, WTF
I posted a computer for sale on craigslist and it seemed like someone was interested, one Diana Webber:
is your item still for sale??
Naturally I responded:
Yes. Are you interested
The next email I receive states that the person is completely OK with the price and doesn’t want to look at it, however, now this person begins sending [...]
Tags:Craigslist·mac pro·paypal·paypal scam·scam
John Hodgeman Roasts President Obama
June 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Creative Ideas, Entertainment, Geekery, Internet
This is taken at the 2009 Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner:
Tags:2009·correspondent·geek·hodgeman·nerd·obama·spock
Cleaning Up the Internet: Geocities Shut down
April 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Internet, Linked List
Yahoo finally prepares to pull the plug on GeoCities.
After careful consideration, we have decided to close GeoCities later this year. We’ll share more details this summer.
Well it’s about damn time..
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Colbert Twitters about Interview With Twitter’s head Twit
April 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Entertainment, Internet
That’s enough alliteration for this week.
Watch the video:
The Colbert Report
Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Biz Stone
comedycentral.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes
Political Humor
NASA Name Contest
Tags:biz stone·colbert·twitter
GMail’s New Autopilot to Make Email Even Easier
April 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Internet, Linked List
As more and more everyday communication takes place over email, lots of people have complained about how hard it is to read and respond to every message. This is because they actually read and respond to all their messages.
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BREAKING: Warner Brothers Acquires The Pirate Bay!
April 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Creative Ideas, Internet, Linked List, Technology
After years of hostility, lawsuits, police raids and heated invective between the two groups, the Pirate Bay has today announced they have settled their differences with US media conglomerate Warner Bros. The largest BitTorrent tracker sold out to Hollywood and the two have agreed a deal. [Ben Jones of Torrent Freak]
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