I would’ve really liked the white “Nation of Millions” shirt with the giant P.E. crosshair logo on the back, but who’s choosing? The product description on this one is not to be missed.
Archive for the 'Unintentionally' Category
CNN covers the denouement of the Wendy’s Chili Fiasco.
“Thankfully, law enforcement thwarted their successful efforts at theft,” said Deputy District Attorney David Boyd.
Well, which is it? Successful or thwarted? It can’t be BOTH, law enforcement.
If you’re trying to figure out what the story is with the Aqua Teens’ Foreigner Belt, to whom can you turn>? Why, Foreigner Files dot com, of course.
This still doesn’t answer my “what’s that song I hear in the mall that samples ‘Urgent’” question, of course, but at least it settles one argument.
What I need now is an SUV desktop to put my ribbon icons on. If only someone would make an antimagnet.com sticker into an icon. I would change the default MP3 file icon to this.
First the U2 [X] Apple iPod, now the Gwen Stefani [X] HP camera.
Other musician-consumer goods collaborations I am also eagerly awaiting:
- LL Cool J [X]
PanasonicLasonic radios [Lasonic made the huge ones with about a hundred different, useless but impressive looking knobs and dials] - the Freeway [X] Norelco beard trimmer
- Raymond Watts [X] Hormel canned ham
- Haze [X] Krylon spray paint
I still have yet to try the 50-Cent Vitamin Water, though.
Please remove the Last Name pronunciation. ONLY Japanese users should fill this.
[- Apple Certifications site, when I tried to put "Like it sounds." in the 'Last Name Pronunciation' field. Hey, it said it was required only for Japanese users, but it didn't say others couldn't fill it in.]
And not a moment too soon, William Shatner’s magnum opus finally becomes available on the iTunes store.
It figures that as soon as I go to install the WP Hashcash plugin to hopefully head the comment spam off at the pass, I go checkout ioerror.us [home of the SpamAssassin WP plugin] and find I can’t post because my IP is on a SPEWS blacklist. So I’m freaking, then I read the SPEWS entry… they have all of Local Cable Monopoly blacklisted. Whew.
Quietly last winter, OCLC began beta testing a service called Open WorldCat, in which Google and Yahoo searches of authors and book titles would return a link to a page listing libraries near the searcher’s ZIP code [when the ZIP was entered by the searcher].
Longtime readers of this enterprise may recall a time when I wished aloud for exactly such a service. So I thought I was doing a good thing when I posted to Metafilter about this open beta test, but the way in which PageRank works has unintentionally made the page I created the number one hit for the phrase “find in a library” + either of the two authors I mentioned on that page, ahead of the WorldCat results to which I was trying to draw attention.
