Top 10 Funny April Fool Gadgets March 25th, 2009 With the April Fool's Day approaching near why should the gadget geeks stay behind? Here is a list of top 5 gadgets that are specially meant to fool people for fun.
Read the hilarious chapter at gadgetophilia.com
Sun's CEO Jonathan Scwartz Caught in Drooling April Fool PrankApril 29th, 2008 Watch Sun Microsystem's CEO, Jonathan Scwartz caught flat-footed in a drooling prank conducted in connivance with a Venture Capitalist (Ted Schlein on Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers?). Sun is traditionally known for elaborate April Fool pranks.
Silicon Valley Executive Salary Survey; Google Leads The PackMay 23rd, 2006 Meet Omid Kordestani, Sr. V.P. Google, who made merely $288,874,396 last year.
Do I Look Like VSNL / Tata Indicom?June 13th, 2008 Tell me do I look like Tata Indicom?
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Then why do I keep receiving such complaints (see below)?
Richard D. (name slightly obfuscated) wrote: This is richard from integrated stock broking services ,i had given a complaint on regarding internet problem on 12/06/2008 by morning 11, by 5.30 ur person came to my office, cheked the loop and asked my mobile number to contact,he said me to wait untill he makes the call on problem ,i closed all my running applications for checking the internet, we all waited upto 11.00 pm, but that person didnt come as well as made a call, what a bad response, i thing u didnt offered him salary or something so only he had bunked his calls and gone some where to do his personal job, so take this as my request ,pls fulfill ur techinical engineers needs,bcoz of them we are suffering the lot,i never seen this kind of comedy in my carrier.
How to Change Firefox Default Email Client to Gmail, Yahoo AOL or Zoho February 6th, 2009 Like a leopard cannot change its spots, most people do not prefer to change their email client. When you get used to the likes of Gmail or Yahoo, things come naturally.
Wonderful Optical IllusionsJuly 18th, 2005 Akiyoshi KITAOKA, Department of Psychology, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, has presented some wonderful visual illusions. Even after knowing the truth they continue to fool you.
Top 12: Best of Humor in Simple ThoughtsSeptember 24th, 2007 Simple Thoughts has always been about technology. However occasionally I like to post something humorous.
Fugitive CEO Tracked Down After 1 Minute Skype CallAugust 26th, 2006 Chief executive Jacob "Kobi" Alexander, who turned fugitive, has been tracked down in Sri Lanka by a private investigator based on a one-minute Skype call he made from Columbo. Alexander, aged 54, faces fraud charges over a stock options scandal involving the voicemail software firm he founded, Comverse.
My Experience With Stephen Glass PhenomenonJune 19th, 2007 Stephen Glass became infamous in 1998 after being exposed for fabricating large amount of his articles culminating in the famous "Hack Heaven", a story of a 15 year old hacker who landed a plum job in a software company after defacing their website. Stephen Glass became the subject of a movie titled - "Shattered Glass", which I happened to see partly today on HBO.
April Fool Pranks in Sun Microsystems Over the YearsFebruary 14th, 2006 Sun Microsystems in her glory days was reputed for playing elaborate and very enjoyable pranks on executives of the company, mostly during April Fools day. Here is an extensive list compiled by Matt M Pérez.
Java Software Performance: Stories from TrenchesOctober 16th, 2005 James Gosling blogs about Java software performance myths and posts an interesting story (below). The comments contains few more stories from the trenches as they say.
The Apprentice Show Made Me Sick To The CoreAugust 12th, 2007 I was watching the finale of the "The Apprentice" show, which features billionaire Donald Trump in a glamorized reality show to choose his next apprentice. The show made me sick.
Be Cheerful Or Be Home Mandates IT FirmNovember 9th, 2005 German IT firm Nutzwerk Ltd. has come up with a solution to whining in the workplace.
True to its conservative IBM computer roots, Lenovo redesigns laptop keyboard, but just barelyJune 25th, 2009 Who moved my 'Delete' key? Lenovo did. Here's why.Lenovo put nearly a year of research into two design changes that debuted on an updated ThinkPad laptop this week.
Mayan's made salt... Are you surprised?April 7th, 2005 I have been reading on and on in different feeds how they have discovered that ancient Mayan's made salt. What's the big deal about it?
We make salt too.
March 25th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Yeah, and what about coconuts and pineapples? I god purposely designs fruits to be convenient to eat or not to be convenient to eat, why did he make these and others so tasty but so hard to get to? Are they naughty? Evil? I’m sure Comfort would simply say that this is part of god’s plan and having faith means not questioning it and not trying to explain it. Well, I realize I’m putting words in his mouth but if this were in fact his argument (I’m sure it would at least be something close to this), then he has absolutely no business (as the type of religious person he is) spouting out this garbage about bananas proving god’s existence.
September 10th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Your comments on Einstein are not entirely accurate. Einstein did not believe in a personal God but he did believe in a higher power. He certainly was no fan of atheists!
Here are some quotes, “I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being. (Albert Einstein)”
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know his thoughts. The rest are details. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press, 2000 p.202)
As far as the banana, whether we look at a modern banana or a wild one, or any other variety we would all agree that they are part of the banana family, right? This is no different than the human family, cat family, dog family etc. Creationists will never dispute evolution within a species. The big question is what did the Banana evolve from? Can you trace it back to the first living cell? Speaking of the original cell, when did the animal and plant cells split up and why?
Big Bang? the galaxy collusion is just another theory. It can’t be proven and many other theories exist in the scientific community. What I really can’t understand is where did all this matter in the universe come from and what triggered this big explosion called the “Big Bang?” Did you ever see something come out of nothing? If you can demonstrate matter coming our of nothing (just produce one gram for me) in a repeatable lab experiment I will convert.
September 13th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
[...] to have evolved from anything else”, “peanut butter jars don’t spontaneously generate life” or “bananas prove intelligent design” (warning: Kirk Cameron content, my sincerest of apologies — also, he’s disproven by the real [...]
April 7th, 2009 at 2:48 am
Hello,
Could you please provide more documentation as to the history of the banana and proper documentation of the selective breeding that gave us our current bananas? I may not know the right words to google, but didn’t really see anything that truely covered that or had any source/s to suggest reliability.
I assume you are familiar with Ray’s message, but I would be remiss not to touch on it. Ray cares about you, as do I, we do not want you to spend eternity tormented in fire. Everyone will be judged by a just and holy God, what do we have to gain from you? We aren’t asking you for money, we aren’t asking you to join a church, Ray isn’t asking you to buy his books, he offers them for people who want them and are willing to buy them, he doesn’t have a problem giving free books away, etc.
Imagine how you will feel when you wake up and realize that you are wrong? You will wish you had listened. I’ve prayed for you.
However, feel free to make fun of me or wahtever, but please do provide me with some reliable information on what the video claims about the background of the banana. I have no problem with that being the case, selective breeding has done many things, but to take something without any evidence whatsoever, would be silly, don’t you think? Odd that I wrote it that way, considering evolutionists are surprised at how few transitional forms they can find etc. (they really have no transitional forms, but they atleast even realize that they don’t have hte multitude they ought to if evolution is true). Even Richard Dawkins is intrigued by the notion of intelligent design, he just is unwilling for it to be God.
So please do provide reliable historic or scientific source, regardless of your disagreement with me.
Thank you very much - Jason
P.S. I didn’t pay close to Ray’s references to Einstein in the clip, but have seen some of his other references to Einstein, in those Ray made it clear that Einstein didn’t believe in the living God, just that Einstein (and other intelligent men) understood from creation that there must have been a creator.
July 11th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
The yellow is, far from being the mark of a right banana placed by Almighty G-d, is an artificial mark of the accelerated artificial ripening process (flooding the container with gas that ripens quickly)