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A friend of a friend building an airplane? How about a flying saucer? https://enjoyer.com/an-alien-cult-built-a-spaceship-in-a-mic... I first learned about this from a friend in De…

Achievement Unlocked: Invent Skynet

Please, please, PLEASE tell us that stands for Peanut Butter and Jelly! More seriously, how DID you wind up with those call letters? Do applicants get some say in the selection, or…

I'll do you one better. The first item returned by a search on "couch" is ABC-00927226, which "features a rectangular form resembling a couch, characterized by a solid, box-like st…

In three decades of surfing the web, I've never encountered more than a couple of those error messages. This set of pictures makes me wish I'd run into them more often.

Ah, The Design of Everyday Things is a wonderful book, and the source of one of my favorite epithets: It probably won an award.

The one I love is Microsoft's project manager, MS... ...wait for it... ...Project. Was charged with managing a department-wide installation about fifteen years back, now. You want …

No kidding! The FIRST thing that came to mind when I read that headline was Hofstadter's Contracrostapunctus in THAT book! Check it out! Read it! And if you DON'T find the WHOLE hi…

Thank you for stepping in, Evan! My original post was from work, and when I tried to find a reference, I was blocked from following any links! Think they recently instituted a poli…

This reminds me SO much of Atari's "Graduate Computer" attachment for the 2600. Unfortunately, I can't find an accessible link from where I am right now. Maybe when I get back home…

I first read about this back in the 1980s, in an issue of Science Digest. Couldn't find a link or reference on short notice, but here's something from the American Academy of Ophth…

Easily defeated by arranging the images vertically. Or at least, makes it a LITTLE bit harder.

Starting from March also sets up a neat pattern that can be used to generate accurate month/day values from day-of-year numbers, IF you number them from zero. You can also go back …

Kind of wish you could drop a list in there, and have it step through.

That's it. If I EVER go so crazy as to buy one of THOSE trucks the plate is going to read 'LOPOLY' I don't even care who gets it, or doesn't.

My workplace doesn't even allow us to plug in (unapproved?) USB devices, so even this workaround likely wouldn't fly here.

If you DO start in March, your days/month fall into a neat little pattern: Mar 31 - Aug 31 - Jan 31 Apr 30 - Sep 30 - Feb 28/29 May 31 - Oct 31 Jun 30 - Nov 30 Jul 31 - Dec 31 That…

Had a quick peek at the first couple of paragraphs, here. And now, I want to go back and reread some of that turgid text!

You want to know what's REALLY bad? When the whole TOASTER pops up in your face! Here's the deal: I maintain a boatload of Visual Basic (yeah, yeah) in Autodesk Inventor. That prog…

The FUN part is, if you just happen to have the same name as one of the crew, you can get a credit without being involved at all! Funny story: I usually sit through the full end cr…

Pretty sure my dad still has his. I still have memories of his working on our microbus at the time, back in the early '70s. Don't think I was even five, yet, but I remember lying u…

Related: A Catalogue of Unfindable Objects, by Jacques Carelman https://www.amazon.com/Objets-Introuvables-Catalogue-Fantast... Perhaps best known for his Coffee Pot for Masochists…

Okay, at first, I was amused with the acronym's similarity to a certain Ford model that... didn't last too long on the market. I've snarked on things like this before, and been dow…

Point given for "write my own ERP software." I work with that stuff on a daily basis, and am actually thinking of trying just that.

Indeed. First I read of him were some of his articles on stuff he wouldn't work with. There's a passage in his article on dioxygen diflouride (AKA FOOF) that would sound delightful…