First up in the parade of stupidity for today is that famous trio of me, myself, and I. I managed to rip about half the fingernail off my right index finger, so typing and mousing is a bit slow and error prone at the moment. Why does it make the stupid list? Because I wasn’t paying attention when I released the spring clamp and boing – it sprang along with some skin and part of the nail. Boneheads of the world unite!
Next up we have a pair of “only in your dreams” stories. First is one from a technical blog and the second from a medical blog.
From the c0t0d0s0.org , the blog of Joerg Moellenkamp comes this suggestion for a new web 2.0 (and a little swipe at the popularity of twitter ):
When you look at the Web 2.0 ecosphere, you will recognize, that the most unlikely services wins. Or did you really expected that one of the most used services allows you to send 140 chars in a time when 10 GBit/s per lamda is quite normal? Well … i have an idea for a Web 2.0, too: It´s called http://www.iknowwhereyourcarparks.com.
It´s a solution for a worldwide problem: Your girlfriend or your boyfriend found a new significant other and you need the position of the car to proof your eternal love by cutting a heart into the tyres of the car? You want the job of a colleague thus you have to mob him out of his job and want to place some horse shit on his car when the sun burns? No problem …. http://www.iknowwhereyourcarparks.com is the solution.
You just place a request into the service: At first you describe the car. License plate, colour, type, exact model of the car and possible locations. As much as possible. But just the licence plate and the colour is displayed to others Then you specify a reward and you pay it via PayPal to the service. Interested people can lookup searchrequests in their region. When they find it, they have to describe the car. When all conditions match, the money is transferd to the account of the finder. The service is financed by a service fee of 5% per transaction.
read the rest of Joerg’s article here . I really like Joerg’s blog, even down to the punish name which is a play on the disk device name from Solaris .
From the pen of #1dinosaur at dinosaurmusings comes this suggestion about the plane crash in the Hudson River:
New evidence just in about the recent airliner water crash being termed the Miracle on the Hudson, in which a US Airways jet was disabled by a flock of birds before being forced to make a watery landing in the Hudson river, with no fatalities thanks to the skill and courage of the pilot and flight crew:
The latest reports are stating that the birds involved, a “flock of geese,” were Canada geese. This is clear evidence that the incident was in fact an act of terrorism by Canada against the US.
Calls for the Department of Homeland Security to investigate the incident ought to be forthcoming.
So now you have it. All the stupidity that I care to type for now.
P.S. You did realize that both of these are tongue in cheek farces didn’t you? They are!