Posted on October 6th, 2004%
A London animal shelter couldn’t figure out how the dogs were getting out of their kennels each night, so they set up surveillance cameras to catch the culprit.
The culprit was Red. Red is a dog. He would unlock his kennel’s door each night and open the kennel doors for his cellmates. A slideshow is available, courtesy of NewsNet5.com.
Now, if this was my dog, she would escape her kennel and leave the other dogs locked up. At least until all the treats were eaten…
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Posted on September 13th, 2004%
To prove that thirty-year-old technology still has a place today, Atari is releasing the Atari Flashback Classic Game Console – essentially a new console video game that has two controllers and twenty classic Atari games built right in. This is not intended to compete with the likes of the PlayStation 2. Rather, it is intended to give people who yearn for the retro games of the Atari 2600 and Atati 7800 something to satisfy their yearning.
Note that the games included are the video game console versions and not the arcade versions – meaning 16-color graphics and pretty stale gameplay will be the norm. Then again, if you throw on your bell-bottoms and find some old recordings of Wolfman Jack to put on the stereo, you just might be sent back in time some 20 to 30 years, and you just might enjoy yourself.
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→ Read More: You can go back: Atari Flashback™ Classic Game Console
Posted on August 19th, 2004%
The big news in technology today is Google’s IPO. To celebrate, I went to Google’s shopping site, Froogle. One of the fun things about Froogle is that it displays on the home page “A few of the items recently found with Froogle.” I refreshed the home page a few times and looked for fun an interesting items. Here’s a few:
kung fu hamster: Yes, you can own your very own Kung Fu Dancing Hamster! Apparently there are many different versions of this fun toy/killing machine. It runs for $8 to $10. No information if this search was originally submitted to Froogle by my friends over at AngryHamster.
spork: The legendary school cafeteria utensil and weapon, the spork clearly still has fans. Incredibly, the Froogle search for spork found not the garden-variety plastic version, but a titanium weapon for attacking your potatoes and flinging your peas. Priced around $9.
moon shoes: Just the pictures of these things . . .
→ Read More: A few rounds of Froogle
Posted on April 28th, 2004%
Yes, you really can sell just about anything on e-Bay. One guy is selling his ex-wife’s wedding dress, which he tells you he originally spent $1,200 on. (Or, as he says, “This dress cost me $1200 that my drunken sot of an ex-father-in-law swore up and down he would pay for but didn’t so I got stuck with the bill”.) The bid’s up to $15,100 as of the time I am writing this blurb. Check out the item at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4146756343. If the fact that someone would buy a used wedding dress originally worn by a large Texas woman for over ten times its original price isn’t ridiculous enough, just take a look at the pictures of the dress and the guy’s description of the item… and his updated description… and his yet again updated description… Clearly, lots of people have lots of spare time on their hands (and, as it seems, spare money).
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→ Read More: Sell your ex-wife’s wedding dress on e-Bay
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