wtf?

Check out these Baskin Robbins Shakes of Death. For the record, just one of these meets the recommended daily allowance of awesome. And diabetes.

Now I want to go get a milkshake. That Chocolate Oreo shake looks delicious :)

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3.2 ghz core 2 duo
4 gb pc2-6400 ram
10,000 rpm sata hard drive

so why is iTunes still so incredibly slow?

A few weeks ago i purchased the MacHeist II bundle, a program that hooks up mac users with great deals on software and earns money for charity in the process... This year they donated almost half a million dollars. I've got no beef with MacHeist. I do, however, have a problem with Yazsoft, the vendors of Speed Download, which was included in the MacHeist bundle.

You see, Speed Download, like most applications, automatically checks for updates. In fact, Speed Download installs them automatically as well. This worked out just fine until version 5.0 was released. Right on cue, Speed Download installed the update and popped up a notification that I should relaunch the application.

The difference between this and previous updates is that version 5.0 was not included in the license I purchased. Without warning, without confirmation, Speed Download "updated" itself to a 21 day trial version. I entered the registration information, which I purchased less than three weeks ago as part of MacHeist. But since this update was from version 4 to 5.0, my old license was no good.

if you work in customer service, and your company just shipped a damaged product to a customer, don't tell the customer "why don't you ship it back, and we'll check it out. if it proves defective then we'll replace it."

you just called me a liar. that's a good way to make me want to shop somewhere else.

a while ago gthing noticed that utah's latest pyramid scheme MLM opportunity, goyin, had an unintentionally comical—and not very search engine friendly—website.

well, it looks like they've outdone themselves. their website now sports no real text at all—not even in meta tags. and they top it all off with a really annoying flash based splash page.

somehow, in just over a thousand characters, they managed to earn zero SEO points, work in an Internet Explorer css hack, fail XHTML validation, make their site completely inaccessible to anyone with a screen reader, and annoy the crap out of me. great job, guys.

the complete landing page source code after the jump.

apparently somebody from Kingston Upon Thames was searching for "cach the poo" and ended up at my blog. huh?

the things you learn from server logs.

adobe (macromedia) flash is a very powerful tool which is, unfortunately, mostly used for evil.

flash is really good at embedding media, creating charts and graphs, making slideshows and games and all manner of great content.

it's a really, really, really, bad tool for your logo or website navigation or anything else that would be better done with html/css/javascript.

if you use flash to make a splash page for your site or build an entire website out of it, you should be kicked.

check out flash sucks: it's an interesting read.

I implore you: use it right, and only when absolutely, positively, unquestionably and undeniably necessary.

as an added bonus mike (the guy i quoted above) points out an html one-liner that brings internet explorer 6 to it's knees...

last night i was talking with sam from gthing. we discussed search engine optimization, CSS magic, and all sorts of nerdy stuff (pretty much par for the course)... and we talked about guns.

our coversation touched on each of the following five observations:

1. a lot of people carry a loaded handgun as a concealed weapon.
2. one common place to conceal said handgun is the crotchital region.
3. most of these people keep a round chambered.
4. some people even carry these concealed weapons, "cocked and locked".
5. a google search returns over 101 thousand results for "accidentally shot himself in the groin"...

i've lost my faith in humankind.

Today at work, I went downstairs to microwave my dinner. As I passed the vending machines, I noticed that, as is sometimes wont to happen, there was an ice cream cookie sandwich precariously balanced at the end of one row. Upon closer inspection, I realized that it would actually take quite a bit of force to dislodge it, and so concluded that today wouldn't be a free-ice-cream-sandwich day for me.

So I splurged and actually bought one (it put me back an entire dollar), and continued preparing my dinner. About this time another hapless soul wandered past, and was also caught by the lure of free ice creamy goodness. He gave it a valiant effort, I have to give him that.

so they have this national "do not call" registry.

that's great.

know what i would love to see? a national "I'M 22 YEARS OLD AND DON'T NEED YOUR EFFIN' VIAGRA SPAM!" registry. that would be genius.

what do they think i'd need it for?