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The American oil company Exxon has put out two hysterically funny ads to fight the “CO2 equals global warming” argument. The scary part is that they are dead serious. Or as others comment: “We can’t parody this, because it’s already a parody.”
Watch for yourself here: http://streams.cei.org/
“This movie was built with data collected during the 147-minute plunge through Titan’s thick orange-brown atmosphere to a soft sandy riverbed by the European Space Agency’s Huygens Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer on Jan. 14, 2005.”
Although just a computer animation, it is based on the actual data from the radiometer. If you have time, download this high resolution version of the movie [91 MB] instead. It is rather impressive.
# There’s no such thing as a “word processor”, or a “spreadsheet”. There is Word, and Excel, respectively. It’s inconceivable that there could ever be a computer without them.
# Internet Explorer is more commonly known as “the Internet”; when you say “open the Internet”, you mean opening IE. You have no idea what a “browser” is, or that there are alternatives to IE.
# If you receive an email from a long-lost relative in Nigeria, it’s probably legit. After all, he’s got the same last name as you!
# Email messages should be kept forever, and in the Inbox. Even ads for penis enlargement pills (you never know when they might be useful, after all). When, after a while, your mailbox “breaks”, you simply get yourself another one, and tell everyone that you’ve changed email addresses.
# If a geeky friend, relative, neighbor or co-worker, fed up with fixing your computer, suggests that you use some weird “fox fire” thing instead of the Internet, say no. Refuse to even listen. Who is he to think he knows better than you
http://sites.dehumanizer.com/computers/
If you have play any kind of text based adventure games, or especially the first, Adventure, this will make you laugh till you cry:
Oval Office
You are standing inside a White House, having just been elected to the presidency of the United States. You knew Scalia would pull through for you.
There is a large desk here, along with a few chairs and couches. The presidential seal is in the middle of the room and there is a full-length mirror upon the wall.
What do you want to do now?
(…)
Read the rest here:
http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/001561.html
“The atmosphere of the average workplace is to productivity
what flames painted on the side of a car are to speed.”
- Paul Graham
http://paulgraham.com/opensource.html
The story of how the 3M Post-It notes came about:
Twenty-Five Years of Post-it Notes.
One of the problems the inventor Art had: ‘[He was] working in the Commercial Tape division, but Art’s notes didn’t look like tape.’
Fra Aftenposten i dag:
Du har kanskje ikke merket den 11 uker lange heismontørstreiken. Men det gjør byråkratene i Regjeringskvartalet. Snart vil flere heiser og rulletrapper i Oslo stoppe opp. Heismontørene varsler opptrapping.
A Brit being ironic about his bathroom, or does he indeed think bathroom carpets is the way forward? You decide for yourself:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-1162292,00.html
Just found an awesome page with downloads for the adventure of all adventures, Adventure!
Here’s maps and several updated versions:
http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/e_downloads.html
Have fun and remember the Magic Word! 
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