Wash-Rinse (Don’t) Repeat

 Last weekend my shiny new iPod shuffle went through a full wash cycle and a tumble in the dryer afterwards. Surely it was dead I thought, but I soon found out from others who suffered a similar traumatic incedent all the little shuffle needed was five days drying time (head phone jack up) to let the deadly moisture escape and presto, it came back to life and sounded just as good as the day Tabatha bought it for me!

Moral of the story: Check your pockets before you toss your clothes in the hamper!

Call my Lederhosen!

Lederhosen, love’em or hate’em but if you’re a thigh slapping, beer drinking Bavarian you must wear them.

This pair, shown at the CeBit computer fair in Hannover Germany features a built-in mobile phone.

In Russia Boots walk you!

A Russian military secret until 1994, these gasoline powered boots are basically pogo sticks that strap to your shins.

Twirl a Squirrel!

This is pure genius! Be sure to watch the ending…

Speaky English? Remove unnecessary language resources from Mac OS X

 Your Mac shipped from the factory with a plethora of language files that you will probably never ever use. Run* Monolingual and free up some valuable disk space by removing those unnecessary language resources.

Download Monolingual

* It’s always a good idea to do a full backup before running any system altering application, use at your own risk!

Would you hire this man?

 

Ah Tattoos, back when I was a kid you would only see them on sailors and prison convicts but now that there are over six billion people on the planet you have to do whatever it takes to stand out of the crowd and get noticed.

(Imges from: http://modblog.bmezine.com/2006/11/13/you-call-yourself-a-misfits-fan/)

Thanks Fuzzz

Canada Revenue Agency Suspends Online Tax Filing

 

A few months ago Keebler blogged about how ePass was a piece of swiss cheese just waiting to be p0wned. Now it looks like someone in Ottawa woke up to this fact and wisely shut down the service to prevent a disaster, just in time for Tax season too!

CRA commissioner Michel Dorais didn’t offer any speculation on what might have caused the problem, but suggested there was no indication that hackers or computer viruses were involved. He added that to protect people’s personal information, the system had to be turned off.

“There is no indication that this situation was caused by intrusion, hacking, or computer virus,” said Dorais.

“The security of taxpayer information remains paramount as we strive to understand and correct this situation.”

Technicians have been working ever since to figure out the source of the glitch, but there’s no word on when a fix might happen.

citynews.ca

Just say No.

Some of you may be too young to remember Nancy Reagan’s Just say no campaign during the 1980’s so here’s a little bit of history, youtube stye…