a social worker comes to our door. tall, tubby, bald, with a suit on. he shakes my mom’s hand, then offers his hand to me. i shake it too, and introduced myself. social worker, upon exiting: “i reckon you’ll get a visit from someone today” “who?” “a delivery” we had had visits from an unknown…Continue Reading…
Re:It’s amazing (Score:5, Interesting) by JaredOfEuropa (526365) on Sunday April 11, @06:14AM (#8829850) (Last Journal: Saturday January 31, @03:25PM) How even though given the anti-intellectual culture of the US we are still the only ones able to land this very successful rover I think one of the factors contributing to the success of the US,…Continue Reading…
Funny Flash animation: see.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) 11/04/04 – Link fixed. I downloaded a local copy and uploaded it to my server.
“A company wanted to hold off on upgrading Microsoft Office for a year in order to do other projects. So Microsoft gave a ‘free’ copy of the new Office to the CEO — a copy that of course generated errors for anyone else in the firm reading his documents. The CEO got tired of getting…Continue Reading…
All five of the major music companies are discussing ways to boost the price of single-song downloads on hot releases – to anywhere from $1.25 to as much as $2.49. It isn’t clear how or when such a price hike would take place, and it could still be months away. Sales of such singles –…Continue Reading…
Whoa… Much toxic computer waste lands in Third World Investigators who visited the waste sites in Guiyu, China, in December witnessed men, women and children pulling wires from computers and burning them at night, fouling the air with carcinogenic smoke. Other laborers, making $1.50 a day and working with little or no protection, burned plastics…Continue Reading…