Monday, January 16, 2006, 03:51 PM - techFoo
The Web's Download Disasters, Inaugural Edition
When we first started crawling the Web looking for bad downloads last year, we weren't sure what we'd find. Today, a million Web sites and 140,000 download tests later, I can say with confidence that there are some great programs to be downloaded out there. I can say with equal confidence that there's also plenty of train wrecks waiting to happen to your PC.
Wallpaper, screensavers, and smileys; you've been warned.
Unless you use Linux, UNIX, or a Mac.
Then you'll just laugh.
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Monday, January 16, 2006, 02:03 PM - techFoo
A Selfridges spokeswoman said the courses were one-to-one "iPod Survival" sessions and follow questions from its dimwitted customers on how to use iTunes, installing and deleting videos, creating playlists and downloading Podcasts. The courses are given either in-store or on a home visit.
P.T. Barnum would be proud.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006, 03:36 PM - techFoo
Far out in the Nevada desert, miles from prying eyes, is a secret Air Force facility that has been known by numerous names over the years. It has been called Paradise Ranch, Watertown Strip, Area 51, Dreamland, and Groom Lake. Groom is probably the most mythologized real location that few people have ever seen. According to people with overactive imaginations, it is where the United States government keeps dead aliens, clones them, and reverse-engineers their spacecraft. It is also where NASA filmed the faked Moon landings.
However, for humans whose feet rest on solid ground, Groom is the site of highly secret aircraft development. It is where the U-2 spyplane, the Mach 3 Blackbird, and the F-117 stealth fighter were all developed. It has also probably hosted its own fleet of captured, stolen, or clandestinely acquired Soviet and Russian aircraft. Because of this, the United States government has gone to extraordinary lengths to preserve the area’s secrecy and to prevent people from seeing it.
The also have a great article on JFK and the Missle Crisis.
Linking them on right for further reading...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2006, 12:00 PM - politiFoo
AJC cartoonist Mike Luckovich asked this question:
An 11th grader's reply:
Her pimp hand is strong...
Hat Tip Michelle Malkin
UPDATED: From the comments:
By devildog
January 3, 2006 04:01 PM | Link to this
Danielle, first of all, thank you so very much for your support. That is what keeps us going over there. I was there for 8 months during the biggest battle of any city since Vietnam. I’ve seen the worst. We play by ALL the rules, they don’t. I hope the fallen can see what is written here because they would be very proud of you taking a stand. You are the reason we do what we do and you are the reason my brothers will never die in vain! Thank you so much. It was an honor to fight for you and your freedom to take that stand. I will always be grateful to you for that and I know my fallen brothers would tell you thanks if they could! I wish the very best for you and your family.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2005, 07:39 PM - politiFoo
Pitts and PFC Shane Ailant just returned from boot camp a few weeks ago. Up against the new recruits, Pitts said Beltran stood no chance.
"No sir, not at all, sir," Pitts said.
The Marines chased Beltran nearly a mile before cornering him.
A big Hoo-rah to these two Marines. Can you imagine the look on Beltran's face after outrunning Mall security and two deputies, only to have to heve these two join the chase? I see a USMC "Priceless" moment here...
Merry Christmas men.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005, 04:29 PM - techFoo
#1 – Users Lie
Oh yes, they do. Don’t think you’re immune either. Have you ever been on a tech support call, convinced that you know the problem and the guy on the phone says something like “Would you put in the recovery CD, restart, and scan your memory?” “Oh, I’ve tried that,” you say with eyes rolling. Believe it or not, sometimes we crazy admin peeps suggest these fixes because they work. When a user is protesting my assessment, the best is to politely insist them to do what was asked until the doing is done.
#2 – Email is the Lifeblood of Non-Techies
I love my non-techie bretheren—I mean, how else would I know what happened on the OC and Gilmore Girls?—but at the end of the day, email is #1 in their book. Now a lot of it is business related, and certainly that shouldn’t be taken lightly, but most likely they were waiting on a warm, fuzzy message from their daughter or sister and really needed their email back up ASAP (“I’m waiting on a proposal!” they screech — see #1)
Read it all.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005, 04:21 PM - blogFoo
Deliciously bad...
· He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
Joseph Romm, Washington
· She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.
Rich Murphy, Fairfax Station
· The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
Russell Beland, Springfield
· McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty Bag filled with vegetable soup.
Paul Sabourin, Silver Spring
· From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and "Jeopardy" comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.
Roy Ashley, Washington
· Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.
Chuck Smith, Woodbridge
· Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.
Russell Beland, Springfield
· Bob was as perplexed as a hacker who means to access T:flw.quid55328.com\aaakk/ch@ung but gets T:\flw.quidaaakk/ch@ung by mistake
Ken Krattenmaker, Landover Hills
· Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
Unknown
· He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
Jack Bross, Chevy Chase
· The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
Gary F. Hevel, Silver Spring
· Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man."
Russell Beland, Springfield
· Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
Jennifer Hart, Arlington
· The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can.
Wayne Goode, Madison, Ala.
· They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth
Paul Kocak, Syracuse, N.Y.
· John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
Russell Beland, Springfield
· The thunder was ominous-sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.
Barbara Fetherolf, Alexandria
· His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free
Chuck Smith, Woodbridge
· The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.
Unknown
Hat Tip OXymoron via Michaele Malkin
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Friday, December 2, 2005, 09:46 PM - blogFoo
Archive data to follow.UPDATED: Switch over is complete. Archive availiable for this year only; I'll be adding the rest later. I wanted to switch to this as I have decided to orphan the blogFoo software I was writing. Simple PHP Blog uses flat text files for the data source, and serves pages much faster.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005, 05:30 PM - politiFoo
Hat tip: Michelle Malkin
UPDATED: If you liked that, try Who Said It
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Monday, October 31, 2005, 05:30 PM - blogFoo
Tate's First Law: The person who pulls into light traffic, disregarding the rate of travel of the existing vehicles, will turn almost immediately.| [ 0 trackbacks ] | permalink
Thursday, October 6, 2005, 04:30 PM - blogFoo
Wasn't sure whether to add them as a blog or a comic....UPDATED: NewsBusters is a Blog, Gaggle is the comic.
NewsBusters
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Monday, October 3, 2005, 04:30 PM - politiFoo
This looks about right...
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