Archive for the ‘Internet’
Overheard at Work
“So, my daughter is going into the third grade this year and guess what they’re teaching her… Cursive! Who the hell writes in Cursive?! What a useless skill. It’d be so much more valuable if they taught them all how to set up Wordpress or something useful!”
What a Bummer!
Well, that was a bust! I guess the Mozilla servers couldn’t take the bandwidth. I’m not sure if you tried to download FF3, but I had issues most of the day. I was finally able to get my copy around 5pm PST.
Sorry Mozilla — better luck next time. Make sure that you can [...]
$31,000 per minute
According to CNet, for every minute that Amazon is down globally — it would cost them approximately $31,000 in sales. This is based off their yearly revenue numbers from last year.
That being said, Amazon has been down in the US since 10:30 am PST (about 1 hour and 12 minutes at the time of [...]
Dolphins Playing with Bubble Rings
A co-worker shared this with me and I had to post it on The Diatribe because it’s just so freaking cool. It starts out pretty simple, but watch until about half-way in when the dolphins start re-sizing the rings and spinning them. Outrageous!
Planetary Exploration
There are a lot of neat ways to look at photos online these days, but I just found a new one called “Tag Galaxy” which will explore Flickr’s photo database using a planetary theme based on the keyword or tag that you want to see.
To give it a try, visit TagGalaxy and enter any [...]
New best of the web
Best of the web hasn’t been around for a while.. so, I came up with a new option courtesy of >a href=”http://reader.google.com”>Google Reader. Any items that are marked as shared will appear in the headlines to the right.
The link in the top nav now points somewhere good now, too — to my Shared Google Reader [...]
Improv Everywhere
You may have seen these guys before — they’re a troupe known as Improv Everywhere that does improvisational randomness at fun public places. Some of their previous mischievous projects included: Installing a bathroom attendant in the Times Square McDonalds, invading Best Buy with hundreds of volunteers dressed in blue polo shirts and khakis (standard Best [...]
