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all caps email results in firing

tamarack — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:01:07 -0800

email etiquette: ALL CAPS CAN GET YOU FIRED. Vicki Walker of Auckland is raking in the law suit moneys after being fired for creating "disharmony in the workplace by using block capitals, bold typeface and red text in her emails". via slashdot and cbc techbytes

Redundant trainer

ericbop — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:41:19 -0800

Now we know what Mike Post has been up to lately. It's a treadmill. Powered by your feet. That you run on. Outdoors. On the road. Kind of like...running...on the road. The mind boggles.

Prog Rock Special - part 1

philip-random — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:17:58 -0800

It’s been a long, weird and expensive week all over. Why not stay in tonight and watch guys (mostly) with long hair playing strange and difficult music from a long lost decade? Gentle Giant, King Crimson and Hawkwind just not enough? How about a little more (or perhaps way too much) Van der Graaf Generator, Can, FM, Roxy Music, Edgar Winter, Captain Beyond, Guru Guru and, of course, Jethro Tull and Yes. Warning. Some of these are not complete versions. You may be confused.

Virtucon alone makes over 9 billion dollars a year!

gman — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:07:10 -0800

Emirates Palace, a seven-star Hotel in Abu-Dhabi, is offering up the world's most expensive vacation.

At least the shipping's free.

MaryDellamorte — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:22:36 -0800

You can own your very own AOL 1.0 floppy disk for the low price of $4,995.00. Think this is absurd? Well, it's been done before.

Guitar + Trampoline

loquacious — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:39:50 -0800

Guy playing a guitar on a trampoline.

"I can only assess your mutual knowledge in a subjective context."

divabat — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:11:30 -0800

Applications for UK visas are being denied for ridiculous reasons, says an independent monitor report. Among the reasons: never having been on holiday before, "failing to complete pivotal areas of Section 6", and "plan[ning] a holiday for no particular purpose other than sightseeing. BBC readers contribute their stories - from potential bridesmaids being told that they were only going to marry English men like their sister was doing, to not having good enough German.

This ski mask gets extra points for thoughtfully including a faithful replica of this man’s weeping cold sores.

dobbs — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:58:20 -0800

The Museum of Kitschy Stitches - A gallery of notorious knits.

This is my Viagra Amendment, ladies

amberglow — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:55:57 -0800

"Now members. Let me firm up my position..." --from part of a speech in the Texas Legislature, by the unfortunately named Gene Seaman. Practice What You Preach will be airing this ad (with commentary) in Texas, trying to stop the proposed Anti-Gay-Marriage Amendment. (embedded WMP)
Practice What You Preach believes that the institution of marriage is under assault in Texas from the twin epidemics of divorce and domestic violence. We are not a gay-rights group. We are mainstream, straight Texans who want the legislative leadership to stop making cheap political points by ignoring real problems.

Homepages of the insane and ridiculous

mathowie — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 10:58:25 -0800

Home page of Franz Stephan Strambach (translated to english) and his page about astronaut Resnik, also known as "the guy that threatened to slam a stolen plane into Frankfurt's tallest buildings" a few days back.

mathowie — Fri, 24 Sep 1999 10:29:41 -0800

This is one of the stupidest company ideas I've seen in ages. At work yesterday, this company 'Ad Car Us', spammed everyone's car windsheild with a note asking if you'd like to get paid to carry their bumpersticker. If you go to their site, you can see sample images. This is really stupid. Pay people a few bucks to make their cars look ridiculous, what a great revenue model kids.