Tin Foil Soldier

Best Buy Calls 911 On Customer Asking For Refund - Consumerist
The clerk tells him there’s state and federal laws against refunding money. Our guy calls him a fool.
Manager comes and says the guy can have a substitute disk or leave, or else the manager will have him arrested for trespassing.
Guy laughs.
Manager calls 911…
Best Buy’s motto [...]

Balthasar was brought down from what I think was someone hammering me with comment spam
I added this to my .htaccess
deny from 82.137.247.131 # spam hammering
deny from 82.137.247.132 # spam hammering
I think this should fix it, I hope
I don’t see how several thousand comment spams in a few hours could be helpful to anyone, those bastards!
Tin [...]

Dallas Food - What’s Noka Worth? (Part 1)
In the coming days, we’ll search for the answer to one simple question: Are Noka’s chocolates worth the money?
short answer, no
but it is a really great 10 part investigation into a company that charges up to 2,080 DOLLARS a pound for its chocolate.
via BB

Development Blog › WordPress 2.0.5 - Ronan
October 27, 2006
WordPress 2.0.5 - Ronan
By Matt. Filed under Releases.
It’s new release time. The latest in our venerable 2.0 series, which now counts over 1.2 million downloads, is available for download immediately, and we suggest everyone upgrade as this includes security fixes. We’re breaking the tradition of naming [...]

Bloomberg.com: Exclusive
Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) — It’s Saturday night in Middlesbrough, England, and drunken university students are celebrating the start of the school year, known as Freshers’ Week.
One picks up a traffic cone and runs down the street. Suddenly, a disembodied voice booms out from above:
“You in the black jacket! Yes, you! Put it back!” The [...]

The 7-Foot Upside-Down Pre-Lit Christmas Tree at Hammacher Schlemmer
The 7-Foot Upside-Down Pre-Lit Christmas Tree
Evoking a 12th century Central European tradition of hanging a tree from the ceiling at Christmas, this unique 7′ pre-lit fir is inverted to ensure a smaller footprint for less-spacious areas, and allowing more room for the accumulation of presents underneath. Originally [...]

BBC NEWS | Europe | Italy village gets ’sun mirror’
A sun-deprived village in the Italian Alps has come up with a novel solution to fix the problem - by installing a giant mirror.
The mirror - an eight-by-five metre (26×16ft) sheet of steel - was placed on a nearby peak to reflect sunlight onto Viganella’s main [...]

ARMY VEHICLE PINATA
ARMY VEHICLE PINATA

for all the little terrorists out there ?
just wrong

COMPAQ Support Library
Compaq FAQ: Where do I find the “Any” key on my keyboard? (FAQ2859)
I wonder how often they have to refer people to FAQ2859?

Wikiquote:Quote of the day/December 10, 2006 - Wikiquote
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. ~ Elie Wiesel

Light Bulb riddle: There are three on/off switches outside of a room, only one controls an out-of-sight light bulbs in the room. You may manipulate the switches (only to the extent of turning them on and off), then you must go into the room with the light bulb and stay there until you have determined [...]

all i want is some triscuits and peanut butter
but we have no triscuits or bread or any kind of cracker
its all i have been craving the past few days lol

Overheard in New York | I’ll Take that as a ‘Yes’
Guy #1: Have you been hitting the grass again?
Guy #2: Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be orange?
there is so much good stuff over at Overheard in New York, but this definitely made me “wtf / lol” irl and what not

DIRTY MONEY By ELIZABETH WOLFF - New York Post Online Edition: Seven
I didn’t know it would be this hard to give to charity!” Scores has regularly donated to good causes such as the Police Widows and Orphans 911 Fund. But when they wanted to do something special this holiday season they got the cold shoulder.
…
But [...]

AutoRuns for Windows v8.54
This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. … You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, [...]