Archive for the 'Other' Category

How to solve a sudoku

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Sudoku puzzles are crazy popular these days. For those who don’t know what a sudoku is (source: wikiHow):
Sudoku is an addictive game sweeping the world. It is very fun to play, but can be tricky at first. The object is to put the numbers 1-9 in every row, column, and 3X3 square block.
If you [...]

Cyber Monday is a marketing myth - big surprise!

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

From BusinesWeek.com’s “Cyber Monday, Marketing Myth”:
Do a Google search on “Cyber Monday,” and you get as many as 779,000 results. Not a bad haul for a term that was created just a week and a half ago to describe the jump in online shopping activity following the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. While Black Friday is the [...]

Threadless $10 t-shirt sale today

Monday, November 14th, 2005

Sometime today (Monday, Nov 14), Threadless will have another one of its $10 t-shirt sales! These sales usually overload the Threadless servers. This time, though, they are only announcing it to newsletter subscribers to help keep the load down a bit.
I need to do my best to resist this time, but I might have to [...]

Jack Thompson accused of violating legal ethics and turning courtroom “into a circus”

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

Wouldn’t that be interesting to see Jack Thompson lose his license!? Maybe the guy could spend some time getting a grip on reality.
Anti-videogame campaigner Jack Thompson has appeared in court to defend his right to practice law in Alabama, following accusations that he violated legal ethics ahead of a civil case against companies involved in [...]

Abercrombie and Fitch moves up from boycott to girlcott

Friday, November 4th, 2005

The famously controversial and annoyingly trendy Abercrombie and Fitch just moved up the getting banned ladder. The clothing chain has been boycotted plenty, but this time the ban has had a sex change and is being labeled a “girlcott.” I’m all for wordplay so I’m glad the boycotting girl group … err … girlcotters decided [...]

Have a safe Halloween!

Monday, October 31st, 2005

Just want to wish everyone a Happy Halloween!
Don’t focus just on having fun and making it a happy one though. You need to do your part to make it a safe one for everyone.
I heard on the news last week that Halloween is the second deadliest holiday (after the 4th of July) for drunk driving [...]

MIT students prove Myth Busters wrong

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

There was an episode on Myth Busters where they tried to light a boat on fire to test a Greek/Roman myth. The MBs were unsuccessful, but the MIT students were not! Here’s the scoop…
Ancient Greek and Roman historians recorded that during the siege of Syracuse in 212 BC, Archimedes (a notably smart person) constructed a [...]

Cure for hiccups

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

Who hasn’t wondered what the real cure for hiccups is? Holding your breath? Getting scared? Not sure those ever worked for me, but I have not tried this suggestion yet.

New South Park season starts tonight on Comedy Central and new blog on SPS

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

From the SouthParkStudios.com website:
From the Comedy Central Press Release:
A Global Warming State of Emergency is declared in South Park this Wednesday, October 19 at 10:00 P.M. on Comedy Central
Global Warming is determined to be the cause of the massive flood that destroys a neighboring town. It’s a brand new episode of “South Park” [...]

Funny article: “Jack Thompson Tried To Arrest My Boss”

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

Went to slashdot and saw a post about some guy (Jack Thompson) trying to get the cops to arrest the Penny Arcade guys. That lead me to reading this article over at the gamepolitics livejournal, which then lead me to reading the article referenced in the title of this blogalicious entry. This article is from [...]