Crap and Crapability

From Yahoo News: Oddly enough: SANTA FE, N.M. - Just in time for Christmas, Snaphappy Fishsuit Mokiligon got a gift from the state Court of Appeals: a name change. The Albuquerque resident's new name will be Variable. With a name like Snaphappy Fishsuit I would change it as well. And at least the new name is better than foobar (in the army sense of the word)

kuro5hin has the nominees for the 2004 Asshole of the Year Awards

I packed some liquid Italian delicatessen Sunday before a flight early Monday morning. Security was a high priority, as I wanted to make sure it did not break and damage the other contents of the suitcase. The engineer in me was pretty proud of my invention: 2 metallic espresso coffee containers and some bubblewrap made a very secure container for my gift. Too secure... Airport security probably went on red alert when my tube went through the metal detectors. I'm just glad they did not do a full body cavity search when I landed. Still waiting for the suitcase to arrive. Hope they're not organizing a SWAT team to meet me when I finally get to pick up the suitcase.

There are a lot of useful USB devices out there but I'd rather pass on the USB Eye Massager. USB Eye Massager is the latest-designed health care Product specially for the Person which long time use their eyes, Such as the Computer operator. The product could relax the stress of the Eyes. and make your whole body in the situation of the unstressing by the product vibration. I use my eyes the whole day, thank you very much, and hope to do so for a long time to come. This thing looks just plain wicked and more like a torture instrument than something that makes me relax. The guys at EC21 definitely has a lot of fantasy: USB Plug In Piezo-Ionizer For Computer ...

The tranquilizing effect of bubble wrap. Just what the doctor orders when your boss drives you crazy. Put on the headset and click away. You can also try the insane bubble wrap version without a headset if you want to break the balls of your cubicle colleagues.

All the big search players are working on desktop search: Google Desktop Search Yahoo will release a version based on X1 early next year MSN Toolbar Suite Scoble has posted a Desktop Search Reviewers' Guide. My top evaluation criteria are: Quality of search results Speed Price MSN Desktop search - KOWhy include other crap like a password manager, pop up blocker etc? These are separate products and features that I makes sense to use independently of the desktop search feature. At the moment I'm using Maxthon which offers all the features anyway. I didn't get very far with the evaluation though as the setup gave me the following error: MSN Toolbar ...

I knew that playing with fire was dangerous but it looks like playing with lava is even worse: Exploding lava lamp kills man A 24 year old man left a lava lamp on his stove, and it exploded. A shard of glass pieced his heart, killing him instantly. Via [Boing Boing]

These links have been "maturing" in my inbox for a while. None of the links are work place, or kids, or wife, safe (I guess you'd better stop reading...) Real Doll As the name says: it is a doll that is as real as it gets. For $6.500 you get to configure size (of everything), hair (everywhere), tattoos, tan lines and whatever else turns you on. For the budget conscious shopper there is always the electronic concubine: Visualize a decapitated (but stacked) quadruple amputee after multiple rounds of kitten bonsai, and you get what this looks like Not even Santa has to stay lonely on Christmas eve with the inflatable reindeer Via BoingBoing and other sources that ...

Having a lot of money has it's benefits. Yahoo reports on Bill Gates fight against spam: Bill Gates receives four million e-mails daily, most of them spam, and is probably the most "spammed" person in the world. But unlike ordinary users, the software mogul has an entire department to filter unsolicited e-mails and only a few of them actually get through to his inbox, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said here Thursday...Steve Ballmer said he was "probably also amongst the most spammed people in the world" because he gave out his e-mail address -- steveb [at] microsoft.com -- in all his public speeches. "I receive many pieces of spam (but) only about 10 of ...

Man, this makes me feel old: Only old people use e-mail in Korea Leading the big change, unprecedented in the world, are our teens and those in their 20's. The perception that "email is an old and formal communication means" is rapidly spreading among them. "I use email when I send messages to elders," said a college student by the name of Park. For 22-year-old office worker Kim, "I use email only for receiving cellphone and credit card invoices." A poll conducted by Chungbuk University computer education professor Lee Ok-hwa on over 2,000 middle, high school and college students in Gyeonggi and Chungcheong provinces in October revealed that more than two-thirds ...

I didn't know there were many computer geeks with tattoos but bmezine has large collection of Geek tattoos The perfect Christmas gift for a web developer:And for the gadget freek that has it all:

What happens when there are too many Project Managers and too few technical people? Via [Randy Holloway's Weblog]