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SOS: the signal that has saved thousands turns 100 - Times Online
In the past century, “SOS” has become a firm part of popular culture used in everything from DIY programme titles to Abba hits. But it began life in a far more serious setting after being adopted by the international community on July 1, 1908, [...]

If the internets start to bore you, here are some sites that keep me entertained lately.
passive-aggressive (and just plain aggressive) notes — a little bit funny ha-ha, a little bit, you know, “funny”
The title pretty much sums it up
FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments
hilarious pictures
Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats [...]

The Daily Show Full Episode | Thursday Jun 26 2008 | Comedy Central
Did you know that you can watch entire episodes of TV shows on the Internet? You can. Kevin is watching Lost (waste of time). I am watching the more worthy “Daily Show” and it is hilarious. This doesn’t go [...]

I haven’t posted any recipes in a while, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been baking.
The bananas that Kevin bought had been sitting in the fruit basket for a while and we decided that last night was do or die night.
Banana Espresso Cookies

4 ripe bananas (or overripe)
3 tb molasses
1 stick butter
1/2 c sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup [...]

I’ll be honest. I read the internet at work. My job occasionally has downtime and when it does no one is being harmed by a quick blog read or blog post.
Lots of blogs are starting to get video posts, and I don’t approve. BoingBoing TV or whatever? I don’t think I have [...]

George Carlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On June 22, 2008, Carlin was admitted to St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, California complaining of chest pain. He died later that day at 5:55 p.m. PDT of heart failure at the age of 71.
George Carlin was pretty damn funny.
Seven words you can’t say on TV (wow he [...]

Joe. My. God.: Maine LGBT Rights Repeal Bid Fails
A conservative Christian group has given up its attempt to mount a referendum drive to wipe out all protections for LGBT citizens in Maine. The Christian Civic League of Maine in an e-mail to its supporters said that it was giving up because it has “neither enough [...]

I’m Voting Republican

via JMG

Generate Design | Sommelier Wine Glasses by Maxim Vel?ovský
Somewhere between college and careers, our standards of drinking cups drastically changed.

A bit of fancy cropping and it almost looks like a “normal” cup. Granted, I have always hated plastic cups of any kinds, but especially non-disposable ones; I can’t stand using them. I like [...]

Tab Mix Plus Dev-Build 0.3.6.X-Tab Mix Plus
You will need the dev build to use Tab Mix Plus in Firefox 3 for now.
Rows of tabs are something that should be an option without an add-on, but that’s what we have TMP for.
My settings (under Tools, Tab Mix Plus Options, Display) are
Tab Bar

When tabs don’t fit width: [...]

Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008
They are trying to get the world record for most software downloads in 24 hours starting at 1pm when Firefox 3 is released.
I am running RC2 now, and it is so fast and stable.
Clicking this in the next 42 minutes will result in the FF2 page, wait until after 1 [...]

5:01 PM - Towleroad, More than gay news for more gay men
At 5:01pm today, history will be made as gay and lesbian couples begin marrying in California, led symbolically by the marriage of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, the couple of 50 years who were first married in San Francisco City Hall in 2004
(their 2004 [...]

The US has them. I don’t really have the energy to address them though; so go to towelroad or joe. my. god. for your fix.
Kevin started listening to happy hardcore trance again lately, so I dived back into my music collections for some trance / house music that I also enjoy.
I think the hardest [...]

Slate V - The Closest Marriage, Literally
Writers David Plotz and Hanna Rosin give it a try, inspired by an Arizona Buddhist couple.
I don’t normally watch videos online because they required sound, and sound makes it seem like I am not doing work (even if I am multi-tasking). I watched this video at home, so [...]

Newegg.com - Transcend 4GB Micro SDHC Flash Card Model TS4GUSDHC6 - Flash Memory
I somehow managed to break my 2GB microSD card when I dropped my phone or something. Either way apparently solid state memory stops working if you break the chip in half, whatever. I lost some pictures, but most of the cool [...]