Snopes.com reports on an obit in the New Orleans Times-Picayune requesting that memorial gifts for the deceased “be made to any organization that seeks the removal of President George Bush from office.”
Category: Cool links
Techies vs. managers
Nathan Cochrane has a wonderful parable explaining why techies are always losing their way and why managers can’t seem to help them find it.
For the luciferous among you
Olive Press links to a project that chronicles rarities of the English language. As the site itself points out, the name of the project accurately describes its mission: Luciferous (illuminating, literally and figuratively) Logolepsy (an obsession with words) means “an…
The meaning of life
It’s all here. With video.
Kids and ancient video games
Nathan Cochrane describes what happens when today’s kids play the first video games. Funny stuff. The gamers thought that the 1981 hit that established Nintendo as more than a company that could print playing cards, Donkey Kong, was “gay, but…
Get Farked
I keep forgetting to link/bookmark Fark.com, which is always cool and frequently hilarious, especially the comments area.
50,000 years BC VCs
NanoBot blogger Howard Lovy takes an amusing look at what would’ve happened if the inventor of the wheel tried to get venture capital funding in caveman times. Your project is too high-risk, with little promise of return on investment within…
One Hell of a story
A buddy of mine I’ll call Gee keeps a Web site called hellonearth.com, which existed in happy obscurity until a band called Hell on Earth announced somebody would commit suicide during one of its concerts. Suddenly all manner of goofiness…
The life of a music writer
Simona Rabinovich at Media Bistro, on how music writers are like groupies: Despite the groupie’s lowly status among pretentious intellectual and hipster circles, both the groupie and the music journalist in truth share many traits, chief among them an insatiable,…
Link payback
These are bloggers who’ve linked to Prints the Chaff but aren’t included in my current lists of links. I’m going to add a “link payback” category and add these names to it. David Akin, Canadian biz reporter. baileybug, Florida amateur…