There was some debate todate as to the proper spelling of the word b’y. Any good geek will look up the real answer to any debate so here I am.
The Dictionary of Newfoundland and Labrador spells it “b’y.”
b’y {pronounced: BY} ~ 1. a young male person, a boy. 2. any male person regardless of age. “Have another piece of the cake, my dear, the b’ys are working”
Greenpeace has acquired William Shatner to do their dirty work.
Normally I am not a fan of groups like Greenpeace, but I like what they are doing here. Very creative.
Because HP has failed to follow through on its promise to make their computers toxic-free by this year, Shatner, best known for his role on Star Trek as Captain Kirk, has been leaving messages on the voicemails of HP employees. The message reads:
This is William Shatner speaking. You, HP, promised me a toxic-free computer by 2009. Now my friends at Greenpeace tell me that I’ll have to wait till 2011. What’s up with that?
From Digital Trends: Greenpeace Sets Captain Kirk On HP
Scientific American sheds some light on how to save gas mileage in your gas-guzzling modern-day vehicles:- Always do jackrabbit starts. It’s easy, wastes gas and makes enough noise to let your fellow drivers know that you’ve got money to burn.
- Make sure to accelerate and brake a lot as you drive, which can lower your highway mileage by a third.
- Banish the phrase “cruise control” from your lexicon, unless you’re trying to keep Tom from expounding on the history of psychiatry or from jumping on Oprah’s couch.
- Keep the tires underinflated. It’s a small thing, but every 3 percent loss in energy efficiency is a waste worth working for.
- Never, ever get tune-ups. Such vigilant lack of vigilance should squander about another 4 percent.
- Idle whenever possible. The only thing more efficient at being inefficient than this zero-mpg activity is to put the car up on blocks and run the engine with a brick on the accelerator. (If you commit to that latter effort, be sure not to do it in the garage—despite what some other members of Congress may insist, carbon emissions can be dangerous!)
- Never stow anything in the truck if you can tie it on the roof. Aerodynamic drag will also drag down the mileage. Run the air conditioner with the windows open to increase wind resistance as well.
- Never combine trips. If the supermarket and the dry cleaner are right next to each other, go to the supermarket, go home to drop off the groceries, then go back to the dry cleaner. (They probably need the extra time to finish the Martinizing, anyway.) Best time for these elective trips? Rush hour. Getting stuck in traffic is always a great way to decrease mileage.
- Finally, carry as much deadweight as possible. Pull all those back issues of Scientific American out of the basement and load them into the trunk. And the backseat. And the floor. Other magazines, newspapers and books also do a dandy job of filling space with weight that fritters away fuel. If you’ve gone digital on the reading front, try filling the car with lumber, concrete blocks or gold bars. Which may come in handy for buying gas in 2016.
From Scientific American: Tips for the Kind of Gas Mileage You Really Want
Journalist Bill O’Reilly claims that life expectancy in the United States is expected to be lower than in Canada because the US has ten (10) times as many people which translates to ten times as many accidents, crimes, etc.
That’s it, I’m moving to Iceland (population 296,700).
Just a day after I posted about Microsoft trying to steal Yahoo!’s market share with a video game Microsoft and Yahoo! announce a joint agreement that will “improve the web experience for users and advertisers.”
The deal is:
Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers.
This is probably better than Microsoft acquiring Yahoo! but it does give Microsoft access to Yahoo! patented search technologies for the next 10 years.
Yahoo! has 19.6% market share and with the recently release of Bing they have been struggling to hang onto it. Bing still only accounts for 8.4% of the search engine market.
My theory is that the majority of Yahoo users use their search service because it is integrated with all of their other great services like Mail, Finance, and Answers. That’s why they have so much more of the market than Microsoft. Bing users seems to be happy with changes Microsoft has made to its search engine(s). That may be why Yahoo! and Microsoft are working together in this manner.
From TechCrunch: Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal: The Official Press Release
Men: No Shirt, No Service
Women: No Shirt, Free Drinks
This is just discriminatory. I want free drinks!
Bing continues to try to steal market share from Google and Yahoo, this time by creating a video that challenges players to guess the search query that would return the website displayed.
In my opinion, it’s fun for one round and then I’m bored.
I have complained about how the city handles potholes, I have complained about how the city handles street cleaning, but I am yet to complain about how the city handles construction.
I am referring to the City of St. John’s lack of completing street projects.
The city has a terrible tendancy of opening up holes in the road, doing 90% of the work on that project, and then leaving a mess for motorists to avoid or collide over.
John wrote an article with signal blog about this issue today. Five Weeks and Counting. Five weeks in this case is not an extremeaccount of this issue in the city. It is the norm.
Signal Blog: Five Weeks and Counting
Everyone is familiar with the Rick Roll.
That started on 4Chan. Along with a number of other pranks and jokes. 4Chan is a community website of pranksters and hackers.
Earlier this week AT&T blocked access to the 4Chan servers. Obviously 4Chan was not happy.
4Chan started a war protesting the spread of Scientology known as Project Chanology or Operation Chanology. Protesters appear in Guy Fawkes masks at Scientology demonstrations.
Once AT&T blocked 4Chan the website community reacted by spreading a fake rumour that AT&T staged the death of its CEO in order to lower AT&T’s stock price.
AT&T quickly unblocked the 4Chan servers, but some people still claim they do not have access.
