This popped up in my Facebook suggestions.
Gotta love the algorithm.
I have no idea why Occam's Razr is getting the traffic it does from around the world.
Challenge for the Birmingham people - where would the following appear on the chart:
1) Milos
2) Checkers
3) Guthries
4) _________
You've got to start early if you're going to raise your children right.
I used to program on "The Wonder Computer of the 1980's."
Now there are cell phones that cost that much, that do so much more.
The commercial holds up well, until the end when you get to the Gorf and Omega Race references.
(I think my brother is still holding onto those cartridges...)
Smoking Near Apple Computers Creates Biohazard, Voids Warranty
Unless you've just arrived in 2009 on a time machine, you know that smoking isn't good for you. Did you know, that smoking isn't good for your computer, either? It's true, at least according to Apple. Two readers in different parts of the country claim that their Applecare warranties were voided due to secondhand smoke. Both readers appealed their cases up to the office of God Steve Jobs himself. Both lost.
Back in April, Derek copied us on his e-mail to Jobs:
"I took my mid 2007 apple macbook (black) into the Jordan Creek Apple Store in West Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday, April 25th, because I had been experiencing some issues with it overheating, and figured the fan was bad. After some initial testing, they took the computer in for work under my Applecare plan, which has over a year remaining on it.Today, April, 28, 2008, the Apple store called and informed me that due to the computer having been used in a house where there was smoking, that has voided the warranty and they refuse to work on the machine, due to "health risks of second hand smoke".
Not only is this faulty science, attributing non smoking residue to second hand smoke, on Chad's part, no where in your applecare terms of service can I find anything mentioning being used in a smoking environment as voiding the warranty."
via consumerist.com
I know how to fix this.
People who want to buy a MacBook or an iPhone should gather the required cash and place it in an area where it can absorb significant quantities of second-hand smoke.
Then, document the use of that cash as being a part of your purchase.
See if Apple's policy will void the transaction.
(I wonder if anyone has told Apple that 90% of U.S. currency contains traces of cocaine...)
Slate magazine is just one of the countless media outlets convulsing with St. Vitus' Dance over that demonic succubus Sarah Palin. In its reader forum, The Fray, one supposed Palinophobe took dead aim at the former Alaska governor's writing chops, excerpting the following sentence from her book:
"The apartment was small, with slanting floors and irregular heat and a buzzer downstairs that didn't work, so that visitors had to call ahead from a pay phone at the corner gas station, where a black Doberman the size of a wolf paced through the night in vigilant patrol, its jaws clamped around an empty beer bottle."
Other readers pounced like wolf-sized Dobermans on an intruder. One guffawed, "That sentence by Sarah Palin could be entered into the annual Bulwer-Lytton bad writing contest. It could have a chance at winning a (sic) honorable mention, at any rate."
But soon, the original contributor confessed: "I probably should have mentioned that the sentence quoted above was not written by Sarah Palin. It's taken from the first paragraph of 'Dreams From My Father,' written by Barack Obama."
The ruse should have been allowed to fester longer, but the point was made nonetheless: Some people hate Palin first and ask questions later.
From Jonah Goldberg
Isaac Pigott // We all communicate.
Sometimes, I get paid for it.
My big thoughts are at Occam's Razr.
My little thoughts are at Twitter.
This is a good place for the
things that fall in between.
