This video from the Broward Couty Sheriff's Office shows why you should always keep your car doors locked. Even when you are outside the car pumping gas. A thief can come up next to your car and steal valuables right off the passenger seat. Not something to be freaked out by, but the solution is so simple that it makes sense to lock up.
Is everyone else as disturbed as I am by the new Orville Redenbacher ad?
The guy is dead for Christ's sake, have a little decency and don't make him shill for the next 500 years. A hundred times worse than the dead guy Diet Coke ads from a few years back .
Almost nine years ago, my website (before it was even vate.net) had its brush with greatness. On a baby-fresh Internet where viral audio wasn't even labelled yet, my friend Nancy sent me an e-mail with a HUGE 1.25 mb file (can you say 56k modem?). It was from a Radio show in Minnesota where they test a guy to see if he will send free flowers to his girlfriend . . . or to someone else. Well the prank worked out even better than expected, and the results were both hilarious and pathetic (aka "good content"). So Nancy also sent it to the Washington Post for their new Internet column "The Navigator", but there wasn't a website to link to. So I agreed to post it on my site, and the rest is history. I don't remember how much traffic it generated, but since there were about 100 people online at the time it would be laughable by Youtube standards. But still, I'd like to think that in some way I had a part in harnessing this incredible new technology so people could waste time at work. Enjoy.
Talk about not getting the point. This post on the Gothamist is about a woman who saw a guy flashing her on the train and she took a camera phone picture of him and posted it on the Internet. After the story is the standard series of comments on the incident. But in April, 2006, "John Adams" an admitted flasher was apparently doing some weird Google search and decided to turn the comments section into his own personal blog. He discusses why flashing is really an OK thing to do and why flashers are really good people at heart. They aren't bad like "wierdos" or "rapists". In fact, according to Adams, they will even help you out with your rent if you need it (7/1/06). Read and be skeeved.
I created a "WebJockey" site in 1996 featuring my stream of consciousness impressions of the Internet, so I guess I've been blogging since before the term was coined.
