Archive for August 2nd, 2005

August 2nd, 2005

paying in pennies

United Press International – The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper
A man who tried to get even by paying a traffic ticket with $120 in pennies got upstaged by a North Dakota judge who made him stay until they were counted.
Judge John Pearson told the newspaper he thought Zukowski’s anger [...]

August 2nd, 2005

ie7

Even people who love microsoft hate IE7
Via /.
Paul Thurrott, a journalist that usually writes about all things windows related (and sometimes about Apple affairs too), made a call in a recent article to boycott Internet Explorer, due to Microsoft’s approach (continued in IE7) of not supporting web standards: ‘My advice here is simple: Boycott Internet [...]

August 2nd, 2005

mod_msff

Unlikely dot Org / Code / mod_msff
Best
Apache
Module
EVER
msff = Microsoft Free Fridays
if you are using IE, and its a Friday, apache servers with this module will return a “Its Microsoft Free Friday” instead of the normally requested web page
I am experimenting with this, mostly to see if i can get it to work
but I am too [...]

August 2nd, 2005

700lbs of books

Amazon.com: Books: The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection
If i knew how to read, this is an awesome “instant library”
but other than that I dont know who would actually buy it…

August 2nd, 2005

From the Hell Freezing Over Department: A two-button mouse from Apple

Apple – Mighty Mouse
headline stolen from fark
but honestly, it still looks like a shitty mouse and not the simple, 2 FUCKING BUTTONS AND A SCROLL WHEEL that people with real computers have, instead of having to buy one after they get their computer