Be Cheerful Or Be Home Mandates IT Firm

July 24th, 2007 I came across a very interesting ad from Toto introducing Washlets to the US market. It employs nudity, specifically smiling asses to drive home its point - Washlet makes your ass happy.

September 13th, 2005 A 31 year old Dutchman returned from work to find a strange car in the drive of his home in Pieterburen, near Groningen. Two children were sitting on the back seat so the man asked them where their father was and was told that his father was inside, "robbing" the house.

October 2nd, 2006 Remote XT technology, a UK firm designed a cell phone security system which sets off a high pitch scream, permanently locks the handset and finally wipes all data if the cell phone is stolen. They hope it will halt the spiraling rise (190% increase) in phone theft.

June 13th, 2006 Spencer Katt has an interesting (read funny) take on future Google products (and then there are mine). They are: 1.

March 7th, 2007 From the depths of MySpace I found this gem. Enjoy. Yoga Action Squad: Episode 1Add to My Profile | More Videos Yoga is not about mysticism.

August 30th, 2007 He Ling from China has the best solution. Jiang Ming of Chengdu city promised his dear wife, He Ling, that he would not go on the Internet anymore and would spend more time at home to take care of their newborn son.

July 7th, 2006 Google has passed Microsoft in popularity since beginning of 2005. What is even more surprising is their rate of growth and slow decline of Microsoft.

January 29th, 2009 LOS ANGELES - The photo of the Lupoe family on their now cancelled Facebook account showed the smiling faces of a happy American family. Their tidy new home in a Los Angeles suburb seemed like a poster for the American dream.

April 23rd, 2009 Craigslist suspect supporters organize on Facebook BOSTON — Police have said it was the Internet that got him in trouble, but now supporters of the man who has been accused of killing a masseuse he met through Craigslist are going online to rally around him. A new Facebook group called "Phil Markoff is Innocent Until Proven Guilty" describes itself as a forum to rally against the media and a culture "that has forgotten that people like Phil are suspects, not killers." Markoff, a Boston University medical student, is charged in the April 14 killing of Julissa Brisman, a 25-year-old masseuse he met through Craigslist.

August 30th, 2005 TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 50's, 60's and 70's! - I found it in Craigslist thanks to John C. Dvorak. What the post doesn't mention is that such kids were also not on Ritalin and they did fine.

February 20th, 2009 Standing at the edge of the lake, a man saw a woman flailing about in the deep water.  Unable to swim, the man screamed for help.  A trout fisherman ran up.  The man said, "My wife is drowning and I can't swim.  Please save her.  I'll give you a hundred dollars."  The fisherman dove into the water.  In ten powerful strokes he reached the woman, put his arm around her, and swam back to shore.  Depositing her at the feet of the man, the fisherman said, "Okay, where's my hundred dollars?"  The man said, "Look, when I saw her going down for the third time, I thought it was my wife.  But this is my MIL."  The fisherman reached into his pocket and said, "Just my luck.  How much do I owe you?" Well we won't go that far but we can certainly give you 10 ways to annoy the hell out of her through 10 funny and interesting iPhone apps. Oh you can share it with your mother in law too.

April 1st, 2005 A guide to software nirvana.