Don’t overpay for wooden spoons

While idly browsing through Buy.com’s web site today, I came across a “hot deal” for a wooden spoon.

$16.40 for a wooden spoon? You’ve got to be kidding! Tack on shipping and it’s nearly $23. Do people really pay that much for a wooden spoon? Sure, it’s a Paderno wooden spoon (I guess that means something), [...]

Weapons of Sole Destruction

The latest in military technology is here!

Shoe picture from http://www.shoeoutlets.com.

Sometimes, search results bring unexpected surprises

While working on a project today, I needed to incorporate an animated AJAX spinner image. I knew there was a web site that had lots of them, but I couldn’t remember the domain name, so I did what most people do: I turned to Google.
Here’s a screenshot of Google’s search results for the terms ajax [...]

Miles per gallon - a (humorous) perspective

Just got this one via e-mail…
A recent study found the average American walks about 900 miles per year.
Another study found Americans drink, on average, 22 gallons of beer a year.
That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon.
Kind of makes you proud to be an American.
Methinks I’ll be having a Guinness [...]

Naming CSS properties, HTML properties… and fighting five-year olds

It started innocently enough when I stumbled across a blog post over at PoshCSS, How many CSS Properties can you name in 7 minutes? Curious, I took the test.
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That took me to another test: How many HTML elements you can name in five minutes? I took that test, too.
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This in turn took me to the [...]