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Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 9:47 pm
by Jason
Dwindlehop wrote:http://www.jpdavin.com/weirdsearches.html

A high-quality list of search queries that people have performed to get to the website of John Davin, a senior in CS at CMU.

"dead babies homepage"

WTF?
Found this on his website.
"A girlfriend is like two 18 unit courses." -Zach

What makes me feel pathetic is this guy did everything I wanted to do. He's done more and done it better.

Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 10:45 pm
by quantus
Dwindlehop wrote:http://www.jpdavin.com/weirdsearches.html

A high-quality list of search queries that people have performed to get to the website of John Davin, a senior in CS at CMU.

"dead babies homepage"

WTF?
Can you parse the referrer logs to get a similar listing for mohtalim?

Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 12:48 am
by VLSmooth
The Fourth Vana'diel Census:
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/survey/index.html

Basically lots of amusing FFXI statistics 8)
We have actually broken through the 500,000 mark for paying customers with at least one character.
FINAL FANTASY XI has more than 1,200,000 registered characters.

Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 2:59 am
by quantus

Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 3:00 am
by quantus
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/wabc_0 ... sfire.html

Cell phone ignited gas fumes at a gas pump in New Paltz, NY? At least that's what the local fire chief says...

Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 7:45 pm
by Alan
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4979103/?GT1=3391

Police in Italy get a Lamborghini.

Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 9:52 pm
by quantus
I wonder how long it'll be 'til they wreck it in a chase...

Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:18 pm
by Jonathan
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?obje ... 0DD453A5DE

The story Bush wants you to be incensed about.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/16/inter ... ner=GOOGLE

The story you should actually be incensed about.

For Colin Powell: I condemn both the torture of dudes and the killing of dudes, no matter their ethnicity.

Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:36 pm
by quantus
http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=info&id=1808540499

If you eat fast food more than once a week, see this and rethink your diet. Even if you don't eat fast food, it's worth the less than 2 hours of your time. It's funny, interesting, and somewhat disgusting all at once.

Oh, how many pounds do you think this guy gained after the first week of eating only McDonalds? (note: he restricted himself to walking the average distance most people in this country walk per day as well.)

One last note, Texas now has 5 of the top 10 most obese cities.

Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 12:29 am
by Jonathan
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/fac ... os/gm.html
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/fac ... os/us.html

Some random data, courtesy of the CIA.
USA:
14.14 births/1,000 population (2003 est.)
8.44 deaths/1,000 population (2003 est.)
Germany:
8.6 births/1,000 population (2003 est.)
10.34 deaths/1,000 population (2003 est.)

Why are Americans having so many babies?

Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 1:00 am
by Jonathan
http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/ ... e_prog.php

Gary Benchley, Rock Star, does it again. He may have to consider being a rock star/writer if he keeps this up.

Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 2:05 am
by Dave
is that where the guy ate McD 3 times a day for an entire year to show he would get fatter?

Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 3:05 am
by quantus
Dave wrote:is that where the guy ate McD 3 times a day for an entire year to show he would get fatter?
Replace year with a month and then you're right. I doubt this guy would've lived through a year of eating McCrap. Hell, he was doing a good job of destroying his liver after a month. He was consuming on the order of 5000 calories a day!

The movie was inspired by people who are going after McD's and food producers in general because they're feeding us crap. The courts said, that in order for a person to win the case, they'd have to prove that McD's intends to hook people into eatting out all the time. Of course, any business wants to get people addicted to their product, but like smoking, fast food is deadly when had often over long periods of time. One might argue that too much of anything is bad, and you'd probably be right. Still, McD's has a culture of ingraining into kids that it's cool and fun and everyone's doing it, which carries into their adult life kinda like brain washing.

Interestingly enough, the movie branches out to show that schools are serving the same preprocessed crap to kids. The schools also turn a blind eye to the kids just buying fries or sodas and assume they brought something healthy from home (which is preposterous). Anyways, this poor behavior has caused some school districts to start banning all sorts of vending machines. The food industry has been battling this move saying that it's unfair, but they're more concerned with how this affects their bottom line than the health benefits for our nation's children.

Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 8:23 pm
by VLSmooth
FFXI Vana'diel Clock:
http://www.hori.ne.jp/ffxi_vdck/index.html

The clock displays:
  • Vana'diel date/time (this is probably dependent on having earth time set to JST though)
  • Earth date/time
  • Moon cycle
  • You can set 4 timers - by either VD time, Earth time, countdown or other alarm
  • 4 alarm themes (from the 4 country theme songs)
  • a high quality pearl white exterior!
  • blue LED face light
Info courtesy of jonnyram's LJ

Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 10:06 pm
by Jonathan
http://www.wibsite.com/wiblog/dull/

The dullest blog in the world

Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 1:34 am
by VLSmooth
The Automated Online Role-Player
http://archive.gamespy.com/fargo/august ... ndex.shtml

Frighteningly amusing...

Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 3:12 am
by Jonathan
http://www.dokaka.com/works.html

For your listening pleasure, I have mirrored "Smells Like Teen Spirit," as his site is ass-slow. Interestingly enough, this is exactly how I sing along to pop songs.

http://www.jonathan.pearce.name/mohtali ... kaSlts.mp3

Tucu-tucu!

Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 12:34 am
by Jonathan
http://www.babycenter.com/babyname/names2003.html

You've got to be kidding me. Aidan?

Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 12:44 am
by quantus
Dwindlehop wrote:http://www.babycenter.com/babyname/names2003.html

You've got to be kidding me. Aidan?
Wheee, only Joseph, Dave, Jonathan and Jason are on the list. The rest of you have sucky names :P

(in case amber reads this board too, her name doesn't suck either)

Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 1:12 am
by Jonathan
http://www.mixedreviews.net/extrahelpin ... nute.shtml

New York Minute is the harbinger of the downfall of American cinema.