Year: 2006

Worst emails ever, by British tabloid The Sun to celebrate the 35th anniversary of electronic mail. I’m not normally a fan of The Sun or anything, but this is just naff!

The 25 funniest analogies, compiled by high school English teachers. The plainest evidence that “writing what you know” is sometimes a terrible policy.

Forensic artist illustrates what Michael Jackson should look like now, if he had not had surgeries. No side-by-side comparison with the actual Michael jackson, but nevertheless that’s just spooky.

The “Engineering Estimate”. What you need to do to a programmer’s estimate of time required for a task in order to get much of an idea of when it will actually get done. This is pretty damn accurate in my experience.

Microsoft-SuSE: little more than a protection racket shakedown. You know, from the moment I saw Steve Ballmer I was never able to shake the impression that, unlike, say, Gates or Allen, who were geniuses in their own right, Ballmer was more of a frat boy, the strip-club going, parasitical street thug. And now the thug is telling people “nice business you have, would be a shame if anything happened to it.” You can cower and pay him for ‘protection’, or you can kick him in the bollocks. Choose wisely and vote with your feet, I say.

Man “shoots himself in the head” while in a police cruiser with his hands handcuffed behind his back. Is it just me or does something seem to be amiss with this story? How does a policeman search a guy and find baggies of coke and pot on him, but misses a large .40 caliber S&W pistol? Is the dead man alledged to have pulled the weapon out of his ass? I can’t wait to see what Philadelphia police has to say on the matter.

China admits harvesting organs from executed prisoners for sale in foreign markets. This has been the subject of rumors before, and has always been steadfastly denied by the Chinese, until THAT became impossible. A bit like W and his warrantless wiretap business. No wonder he gets on so well with Beijing.

White House site highlights its trip to Vietnam by showing the pre-1975 South Vietnamese flag. Then again this is entirely excusable — it’s pretty obvious that no one in the Bush Administration ever went anywhere near Vietnam before in their lives!

This is not how you want your new product presented on CNN. Then again as the saying goes, “you can’t polish a turd.” In related news, it turns out that Zune isn’t compatible with Windows Vista and won’t play tunes that Microsoft has certified as “plays for sure”. It’s also bigger and heavier than an iPod. Frankly I don’t know what, if anything, Zune has going for it.

If time travel were possible at all someone would have invented a time machine a long time ago. Think about it.