Category Archives: wtf

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TMI

I used mplayer to play an mp3 at work tonight, and it occurred to me – mplayer really prints entirely too much information for any sane human being:
[In Rainbows (CD 1)]# mplayer *
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale
MPlayer 0.90rc3-2.96 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)
CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville …

September 17, 2008 – 8:14 am | By | Posted in lmao, tech, wtf | Comments (0)

Another advertisment fail.

Microsoft’s latest advertising strategy – abandon the English language.

Is that even a sentence?
Upon further research, it appears only Microsoft Silverlight users are in fact welcomed to the hello secure world(?), which strikes me as ineffective advertising if they are in fact trying to bring new people *to* their platform. Nor do bleeding-edge client-side web …

May 14, 2008 – 5:22 am | By | Posted in wtf | Comments (0)

Ten Days

Call me a skeptic, but I don’t think the company that literally invented modern electronic distributed tracking technology needs a week and a half to coordinate the resources to change an email record.
This kind of slackness would normally fall under “not trying very hard”, but given that FedEx can pick up a package from my …

May 1, 2008 – 5:23 am | By | Posted in lmao, wtf | Comments (0)

New uses for woodworking

How to build a computer out of wood and marbles:
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It’s a beautiful thing.

March 12, 2008 – 10:24 am | By | Posted in wtf | Comments (0)