My coworkers have HTTP error code jokes. But they’re much funnier.
Saw it on Mod’s.
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Microsoft Works Possibly Becoming Free and Ad-Funded
Ooo this is a great idea. Give Works away for free and possibly make MORE money from it through advertising! Wonder what took so long. . . Come to think of it, it probably won’t happen for a while still =p
Microsoft Works 9.0 — which will be the new product’s name, if Microsoft opts to stick with its current nomenclature — might also debut at some point as Microsoft-hosted low-end productivity service, as many have been speculating. A hosted version of Works would give Microsoft a head-to-head competitor with Google Docs & Spreadsheets and other consumer- and small-business focused services, analysts have said.
For the time being, however, the new version of Works will be ad-funded, according to Satya Nadella, the newly minted Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Search & Advertising Platform Group. Nadella told me during an interview on July 27 that Microsoft recently released the new ad-funded version of Microsoft Works.
Temp Pets
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Crazy Captchas
Cat Teaches Dog To Roll Over
From 1992! Wowzer that’s an old video.
Oscar the cat predicts patients’ deaths
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours. His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means they have less than four hours to live.”He doesn’t make too many mistakes. He seems to understand when patients are about to die,” said Dr. David Dosa in an interview. He describes the phenomenon in a poignant essay in Thursday’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine….No one’s certain if Oscar’s behavior is scientifically significant or points to a cause. Teno wonders if the cat notices telltale scents or reads something into the behavior of the nurses who raised him.
Nicholas Dodman, who directs an animal behavioral clinic at the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and has read Dosa’s article, said the only way to know is to carefully document how Oscar divides his time between the living and dying.
If Oscar really is a furry grim reaper, it’s also possible his behavior could be driven by self-centered pleasures like a heated blanket placed on a dying person, Dodman said.
Nursing home staffers aren’t concerned with explaining Oscar, so long as he gives families a better chance at saying goodbye to the dying.
Harry Potter Epilogue to the Epilogue!
J.K. Rowling gives details on events following the epilogue in book 7 in an exclusive at MSNBC! Woohoooooo! I really want to quote some of the pieces, but I don’t want to spoil it for anyone who hasn’t read the book yet. Check out all the details here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19959323
And she is reportedly writing an encyclopedia! http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/19935372/
Urban Typography
Share Your Personality Quirks And Little Ocds
I think that everyone else is much weirder than they allow themselves to come off. That means that no one’s really that much weirder than anyone else, which means we’re all . . . normal. Yet very weird. This site celebrates our collective normality.
I’m just beginning to put together, but please have a look and leave some ideas, suggestions, or bugs!
Harry Potter Book Leaked To BitTorrent
This can only mean more spoilers are going to be posted online. I need to protect myself =\
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, the latest and last of the wildly popular Harry Potter books that is due to go on sale this weekend, has hit BitTorrent. Various torrents of the novel consist of photographed pages (as above) with reading quality that isn’t perfect, but for desperate fans readable enough. Whilst the validity of the hype surrounding Harry Potter may be subject to debate, what the leaking of the book does demonstrate is that the days of the mainstream media and publishers strictly controlling the dissemination of information has well and truly past; simply where there is a fan with a will, there is a way.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/17/the-latest-harry-potter-book-hits-bittorrent