Matthew Woodward // * CFML, Grails, and Java Developer
* Principal IT Specialist, US Senate
* Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Member
* All-Around Geek
I believe the correct phrase to use here is, "Oh snap?"
Experts predict that the penultimate catastrophe will occur at approximately 7:15 p.m. Thursday night, when the social networking tool Twitter will be used to communicate a series of ideas so banal they will instantaneously negate the three centuries of the Renaissance.
This would be funny if it weren't true.
The long spike protruding from Ajax impales him with an ooze of green blood and Flash advances upon the dying villain with a golden scimitar.
Killed by Ajax. Just like the rest of us.
"Mullet with headlights." Absolutely brilliant.
inject_hotmail.com writes "The results are in: it's faster to send your data via an airborne carrier than it is through the pipes. As discussed Tuesday, a company in South Africa called Unlimited IT, frustrated by terribly slow Internet speeds, decided to prove their point by sending an actual homing pigeon with a "data card" strapped to its leg from one of their offices to another while at the same time uploading the same amount of data to the same destination via their ISPs data lines. The media outlet reporting this triumph said that it took the pigeon just over 1 hour to make the 80km/50mile flight, whereas it took over 2 hours to transfer just 4% of that data."
Reminds me of the old "never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway" quote.
When I saw someone auto-tuning themselves through their iPhone on the latest Auto-Tune the News I didn't realize the iPhone app was real. Annoying, yet hilarious.
