Tag Archives: Crazy Stuff
Google execs keep $1 salaries
Google execs keep $1 salaries | Tech News on ZDNet Top executives of Google have once again agreed to be paid annual salaries of $1 each in 2006, counting instead on stock options and grants of the company’s volatile stock for their pay. In a regulatory filing on Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange […]
10th Super Bowl submission rejected
Hot Points – A blog by Go Daddy founder and president Bob Parsons Apparently GoDaddy has been trying to submit a TV commercial for this year’s superbowl. However, even their 10th submission has been rejected by ABC. Or maybe it’s the NFL. The NFL apparently has the right to review every TV commercial considered for […]
Heidi’s Legs
One of Heidi Klum’s legs worth less than the other You have to wonder who made this determination. Not a bad job to have though, evaluating super models’ body parts. I’d like a piece of that, please. I originally read about this at Dvorak’s Blog at, to quote the man himself, dvorak.org/blog. One of Heidi […]
Alaskan Volcano Set to Erupt
St. Augustine, a volcano located approximately 300 miles southwest of Anchorage has been showing signs of erupting. The Alaska Volcano Observatory has two live cams showing the volcano and a ton of seismic data available, too.
Apple sues German firm over ‘spod’
This is seriously ridiculous: A German tech company has found itself on the receiving end of legal action by Apple over the word ‘spod’. The company behind iTunes has filed a preliminary action in a Hamburg court against Liquid Air Tab, the company behind Spodradio, a service which allows users to download podcasts to their […]
Slut-o-Meter
Slut-o-meter evaluates the promiscuity of the subject you enter by comparing the number of Google search results with and without “safe-search” enabled. A complete slut would return unsafe results and no safe results. Alternatively, a clean name should produce the same number of safe and unsafe results. Try it out for yourself. Interestingly enough, my […]
Terrorists clone phones
Canadian telecom service provider Rogers Communications has been the victim of numerous number-cloning operations by the terrorist group Hezbollah — in which even the phone number of CEO Ted Rogers was “borrowedâ€? — but steadfastly refused to address consumer complaints about the problem, insisting that customers were liable for outsized bills. However, all that changed […]
The British Cheese Board??
The age old myth that cheese gives you nightmares has finally been laid to rest this week following the release of a new study carried out by the British Cheese Board. The in-depth Cheese & Dreams study, a first of its kind, reveals that eating cheese before bed will not only aid a good night’s […]
Mini-golf courses are terrorist targets
Local officials said Thursday they were shocked to learn that Emerald Hills Golfland, a three-acre theme park with two miniature golf courses, had been placed on a Homeland Security watch list. “The moment we realized it was on the list, it was taken off,” said San Jose police officer Rubens Dalaison, who handles “critical infrastructure […]