Category Archives: Useless

Subway responds with worldwide cheese tessellation!

June 1, 2010

Due to the recent popularity of a submission to Left-Handed Toon’s, Subway has responded by saying that as of July 1st all of their cheese will be tessellated on their sandwiches, providing all Subway customers with “wonderful dairy coverage.” The article by Left-Handed Toons was originally submitted by Josh on July 14th, 2007, but has [...]

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Cheese: the Sub way

April 14, 2010

[via dump.com]

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Happy Friday! Here are a couple funny videos I saw this week

February 5, 2010

I love the Intel commercials! Pretty funny, especially from an engineers standpoint. [thanks Teresa!] Possibly NSFW! Drops an F bomb, but hey, so do people at work… [Thanks Karim!]

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How to deal with data loss

February 2, 2010

I bought my friend a 1 terabyte external hard drive for Christmas so he could back up all his stuff. I invited him over last week so I could get some of his files off the hard drive. Before I copied it however, I was going to remove all the .DS files from his file [...]

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best elevator music ever…

January 25, 2010

Thanks for the link Karim

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A little perspective for Monday morning

January 25, 2010

As another week of hard work rolls around, I thought it might be appropriate to put things in perspective with a little game. Enjoy!

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Thanks but no thanks

January 24, 2010

http://www.rxlist.com/chantix-drug.htm

How many Gigs of data do geeks consume in a day?

January 11, 2010

Apparently, the average American consumes about 34 gigs of data in a day, or 3.6 zettabytes for the entire U.S. Here’s the breakdown from DownloadSquad.com: But I second the question that they pose at the end of their article: how many gigs of data do geeks consume? Maybe somebody can figure this data out by [...]

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Microsoft at CES… I knew something was missing…

January 6, 2010

If you’re like me, you’re excited about CES but don’t have the bank to buy a ticket. Instead, you’re watching the Engadget Live blog feed and getting the updates every 15 seconds – in picture and text form. While watching this, I also noticed this hilarious post by kyleve on Twitter: “I knew something was [...]

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This weeks Pure Genius award goes to:

November 29, 2009

27bslash6.com The stories posted on this site are hilarious. I haven’t read through them all but here are my favorites at the moment: “It’s like Twitter. Except we charge people to use it.” The ducks in the bathroom are not mine. Matthew Apartment 3a. Enjoy…

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Hacking a parking meter

August 2, 2009

http://google.com

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A cool iPhone 3G S design

June 19, 2009

This is a well done design idea for the iPhone 3G that was released well before the announcement that the externals of the iPhone were not going to have any design refresh. I really Apple would have done something different to make the iPhone 3G S stand out, but maybe they’re holding off an external [...]