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Category: Humor
National Goof-Off Day
Why am I always the last to know? Perhaps I’m not… did you know that today was National Goof-Off Day?
So tell me, how do you plan to honor this auspicious holiday?
Anti-Social Networking Software
With all the buzz surrounding the value of the social network and how Web 2.0 companies are positioning themselves to help connect people, where do you turn when it’s time to call bull****? Feeling a little too connected? Too accessible? Jason Calcanis found the answer… it’s the new isolatr, currently in beta.
Website testimonial: “People always used to approach me to try to talk about this or that. I wanted to punch them in the throat. Now they leave me the hell alone. Thanks isolatr!”
And being an IM freak, I really enjoyed their v0.01.4 preview of the IMolatr, their inflexable instant messaging client. “With IMolatr you are always listed as away, and if people try to contact you IMolatr will actually set their hands on fire!”
isolatr: helping you find where other people aren’t.
Yahoo! Announces Acquisition
Greg Yardley scooped everyone on this one.
Yahoo! Announces Acquisition of Company Before Its Foundation
SUNNYVALE, CA, Jan 11, 2006 (YARDLEYPRESS) — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YAHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced the acquisition of an unnamed Web 2.0 company three days before it was to be founded. “Yahoo! is committed to generating mass quantities of free public relations by acquiring more pre-revenue, pre-business plan companies than any other global Internet company,” said Chris P. Bacon, Director of Hype Production.
“We’ve been acquiring companies earlier and earlier – before VC funding, before revenue, and in some cases before the completion of their products,” explained Hugh Jorgan, newly-appointed Vice President of Pre-Business Development. “By buying companies before they’re founded, we move directly to the natural conclusion of the trend.”
Read the complete story. It wouldn’t be funny if it weren’t so close to reality.
Trend Report on 7 Deadly Sins
According to Wikipedia, the seven deadly sins were introduced by St. Gregory the Great. He ranked them from least serious to most: lust, gluttony, sadness (later replaced by sloth), avarice (greed), anger, envy and pride.
If we assume the blogosphere to be a microcosm of the world at large (which we can’t really, since it reflects those geeky and vain enough to bother creating a blog in the first place)… but IF we assume so, could we use the blogoshpere as a prediction market for the seven deadly sins? What sins or hot (or not)?
Fortunately, Intelliseek’s BlogPulse tools reveal the answer. As you can see from the report, pride and anger compete for the top spot, with lust surprisingly a distant third. Presumably, bloggers as a whole are an angry, proud lot with an occasional lusty desire.
Sloth and gluttony fall at the bottom of the heap. Maybe bloggers by the very fact that they bother to blog at all are less inclined toward sloth. I suspect gluttony would be ranked much higher if the keyword and it’s variants were replaced with more commonly used synonyms.
Check out more amusing trends at BlogPulse.
This is not an act
Being active and highly visible in the world of instant messaging, I get some interesting and sometimes amusing messages from complete strangers (with an emphasis on “strange”). Today I had the following conversation with an Ingrid who seemed to think I was impersonating some actor:
Ingrid says:
happy new year
Jeff says:
hello and happy new year to you too
Ingrid says:
hi, ….sorry im asking but why you use that photo? inst (sp) you
Jeff says:
yes, that’s me
Ingrid says:
no!. is an actor!
Ingrid says:
well im have dinner, bye!
Jeff says:
no, it’s me
In the words of William Shakespeare, “All the world’s a stage…” I’m curious though; what actor does she think my display picture looks like?
technorati tags: humor chat IM
Happy Thankgiving (for Engineers)
For the first time in many years, we’re not hosting Thanksgiving dinner. I’ll be traveling to my brother-in-law’s home in Fallbrook my fill of turkey, football and family.
I know that many of you are engineers (or think an engineer), so I’ll offer help for today’s culinary projects: Michael Chu’s Cooking for Engineers. Chu is a hardware application engineer for a semiconductor manufacturer who brings an analytical touch to the kitchen.
You might think Cooking for Engineers is just a gimmick, but Chu takes it very seriously. He even features a patent-pending tabular recipe card format that actually makes pretty good sense to me.
I’m going to try the Garlic Mashed Potatoes.