Category: Random Links

Links that I’m reading/watching/listening to/thinking about

  • Impress women.

    As soon as I say that, I find something interesting. What happens when a Perl coder and a quilter fall in love?

  • Jedi

    “Jedi Knight” is NOT an official religion. The whole story was wrong. Check it out. (Sorry, Martin.)

  • Yikes

    “Welcome to my weblog. I hope you enjoy it. I just got fired for it.” Holy crap. That’s one hell of an intro, buddy. This guy’s got me hooked.

  • Disappointing.

    Forget that whole robot quiz… What enquiring minds want to know is, how good in bed are you? This site purports to tell you what somebody’s like in bed based on what they’re like out of it. It’s sorta like those quizzes that guess whether you’re gay/straight or male/female. The more people that take it, the better they get. You’re supposed to feed it details of somebody you’re interested in, but instead I pretended to be a guy appraising myself. My rating was a disappointing 3 out of 5 balls. But maybe I was being too harsh on myself… (P.S. Hi Dad!)

    Edited 09/04/2025: Sadly, the link is dead and not archived.

  • Blair

    It seems I’m not the only one who thinks Tony Blair kicks ass. I’d vote for ‘im. 🙂

    And who else thinks it’s ridiculous that a third of Americans can’t identify the leader of our nation’s biggest ally??

  • Osama excuse

    Steve calls out all the companies using the “Osama Excuse” to explain bad performance and profits. They actually trotted that one out to us last week during the whole redundancy crisis. After the meeting (where it was mentioned twice), I asked someone else who’d been there what effect the tragedy could possibly have had on our business. We couldn’t come up with anything.

  • Sadness

    Damn The Onion. I actually feel sad for the Yoplait billboard!

  • Ebert

    I’ve been on a Roger Ebert craze lately. I just like the way the man writes. He’s also redeemed himself in my eyes a little bit with this article on the Internet.

    “The Internet is in economic crisis, but its brilliance and audacity continue to amaze me. The stories of its decline are stories about money, not technology or communication. If millions of investors felt compelled to throw their cash insanely at Internet investments that made zero economic sense, is that an indictment of the Internet, or a demonstration that they were greedy herd animals?”

    I’ll be so happy once the Net returns to the “everybody giving away something for free” model and all the capitalist pigs go home. (That’s a bit extreme, but I’m enjoying the fact that I can now make such statements without being a dotcom-working latte-sipping hypocrite.) 🙂

  • Ebert

    Some readers call out Roger Ebert for ripping on Zoolander.