The Promise Of Technology

A fantastic post from Redditer; Nuseramed answering a question posed by Reddit. Q: “If someone from the 1950s suddenly appeared today, what would be the most difficult thing to explain to them about today?” A: “I possess a device, in my pocket, that is capable of accessing the entirety of information known to man. I…
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Fill-In Curry Judge Can’t Stand The Heat. Hilarity Ensues.

If you can read this whole story without laughing then there’s no hope for you. Note: Please take time to read this slowly. For those of you who have visited Natal, you know how typical this is. They actually have a Curry Cook-off about June/July. It takes up a major portion of a parking lot…
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Funny Google Maps Trick

Here is one to kill some time if you’re bored. Go to Google Maps and click ‘Get Directions’ from Japan to China. Follow down the list of directions and pay attention to step #42! You could just click here to go straight to the directions page too… (Don’t worry, it opens in a new window…
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Back To The Future Awesomeness

Here is a cool little detail in the movie; Back To The Future that I have never noticed before. From nickrad on buzzfeed.com.

Just because…

Just because I thought it was funny! …

What If Dr Seuss Wrote Computer Training Manuals?

Here’s an easy game to play. Here’s an easy thing to say: If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!…
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Friday Funnies: Dilbert on Twitter

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Good Luck Mr Gorsky

EDIT: This story was proven to be untrue on multiple websites including snopes.com, truthorfiction.com and urbanlegends.about.com. I guess that will teach me for slacking off on research. It’s a nifty story, but not true. Neil Armstrong denies it and NASA transcripts do not include any record that Neil Armstrong made a reference to a Mr….
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Awesome Snail Graffiti

Lacking any awesome computer related news today I shall leave you with this awesome snail art. I want to go home and get my paint brush out now! I think it would be hilarious if someone found one of these in their garden.

There is a term for that!? – L’esprit de l’escalier

I ran out of time to write anything useful for today so I leave you with this awesome french phrase which I found interesting. L’esprit de l’escalier which translate to “staircase wit”. I will leave Wikipedia to the definitions: L’esprit de l’escalier (or l’esprit d’escalier) (staircase wit) is thinking of a clever comeback when it…
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