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Come and follow Mii

Mission Bay Community Church is providing a Jeses Mii for anyone who brings a Wii or Wii remote.
This Easter Sunday, we will provide anyone who attends church with a Jesus Mii for their Nintendo Wii console. Just bring your Wii Remote or Wii and we’ll transfer a Jesus Mii to your system.
Then you, too, can [...]

Best slashdot comment ever

“Of course any comparisons between Fidel Castro and RMS are absurd. One’s a bearded, long-winded Communist dictator who tolerates no dissent; the other one speaks Spanish.” — Anonymous Coward, in response to Richard Stallman stepping down as Emacs maintainer

CD Cover Meme

I found this on Flickr a few days ago.
Make your own CD Cover with the following steps and rocket yourself to mulit-platinum status and start fending off the groupies!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of [...]

find Chuck Norris

Via Andre Noel (Planet Ubuntu):

1. Go to Google
2. Type “find Chuck Norris”
3. Click on I’m Feeling Lucky

Top ten things in the air

Apple watchers are trying to guess the meaning of “There’s something in the air” on Apple’s tantalizing Macworld banners. Here are some possibilities.

Apple is buying Adobe and adding AIR to the iPhone and building it into OS X

Wireless syncing of iPod & iPhone with Macs

Rent movies wirelessly directly from the Apple TV

Bluetooth headphones for iPod [...]

Santa Claws

Sez Meowy Christmas!

Little Bobby Tables

Today’s xkcd comic was one of their best ever.

Hitler or Falwell

Via Boing Boing: A simple game of Godwin’s Law. Guess whether each of these quotes is by Hitler or Jerry Falwell.

My feelings as a Christian point me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter.

This ‘turn the other cheek’ business is all well and good but it’s not what Jesus fought and died [...]

Microsoft Celebrates Sale of 100th Zune

CARS: “Just days after Apple’s announcement that it had sold 100 million iPods, Microsoft’s Zune celebrated a milestone of its own. According to a press release issued by the company today, its 100th Zune was sold to 13-year-old Dieter Ebersbacher in Shreveport, Illinois, and is a sign of its success in the marketplace.
‘The sale of [...]

Apple introduces iRack

This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen

Wading through 3 feet of s**t

A brilliant comic from Everybody Loves Eric Raymond that perfectly captures the essence of OpenSUSE 10.2, one of the most bloated Linux distros I’ve seen (via Ubuntu Blogs)

bush hid the facts

Here’s an interesting Windows bug.
1. In a new window type “bush hid the facts” (all lower case, no quotes)
2. Save the document.
3. Reopen it.

Where did the text go? Windows mistakenly identifies the file as Unicode rather than ASCII if you create a document with certain text. Almost any 4 letter word followed by two 3-letter [...]

New element discovered - Bushcronium

A major research institution has just announced the
discovery of the densest element yet known to
science.
The new element has been named “Bushcronium.”
Bushcronium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons,
75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons,
giving it an atomic mass of 311.
These particles are held together by dark forces
called morons, which are surrounded by vast
quantities of lepton-like [...]

The perfect phrase for condescendingly dismissing anything

Vista features that didn’t make the cut

Here’s a very funny article about Windows Vista features that didn’t make it into the RC.
Some of the features:

Mimesweeper

Safe Delete

Start Menu Action Field

Vista Presentation

This is a great mash-up of a Windows Vista presentation audio with a Mac OS X demonstration.

The Nerd Test

I found these tests at Glenn Reid’s blog:

Iraqi Invasion: A Text Misadventure

Via defective yeti:
Iraqi Invasion: A Text Misadventure
Revision 88 / Serial number 54892
Oval Office
You are standing inside a White House, having just been elected to the presidency of the United States. You knew Scalia would pull through for you.
There is a large desk here, along with a few chairs and couches. The presidential [...]

A new word

Rovenge (rO-’venj), n: Politically motivated retribution. The White House sought rovenge against Joseph Wilson.

You too can have a lucrative government job

Visit cronyjobs.com to secure a lucrative career both decrying and luxuriating in the spoils of Big Government! No experience necessary!