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I guess Nick saw the same billboard! Shame the taxes are so high now…

I’ve been expecting this for a while since Fox News has gone all out to discredit Barack Obama since Hillary Clinton conceded the Presidential race…

Romain Jerome have decided that watches need to have style over substance. For example, they now have the:

T-oxy Concept watch with non-stabilised rusted steel from the Titanic, which you can only admire under a glass dome filled with Argon.

And:

Day & Night which actually doesn’t tell the time, it just tells you if it’s daytime or nighttime.

All yours for a cool $300,000 bucks.

It’s been in the news recently but Kurt Denke of Blue Jeans Cable (manufacturers of low cost cables for various audio/video interconnects) got a nice Cease and Desist letter from Monster Cable, claiming he was infringing Monster’s IP somehow. He decided to respond here with a rather nice letter that basically makes rather interesting comments given Kurt’s 19 years of experience in ligitation.

“It looks like when you sent this letter, you were operating on the premise that I am not smart enough to see through your deceptions or sophisticated enough to intelligently evaluate your claims; shame on you. You are required, as a matter of legal ethics, to display good faith and professional candor in your dealings with adverse parties, and you have fallen miserably short of your ethical responsibilities.”

Today as part of our discussions we were debating whether the audio/video hyperbole will reach levels of my own phrases like “Photon Free Optical Cable” or “Negatron Free Electrical Cable”, amusing in their own right…

Ah, always good fun having a browse through icanhascheezburger.

Some days, I must look like this.

Most days, I probably look like this before my coffee.

Most cats think a meeting longer than 15 seconds is long.

“Night Watch”, “Day Watch”, “Cat Watch”…

Very funny video of some deadpan engineers explaining about cats to the average person.

I think my dad does some corporal cuddling on our cat, hasn’t moved up the ranks however…

Humorous video of when a guy finds some risqué pictures of his buddy’s girlfriend…

Found this link on FriendlyAtheist.com by Hemant Mehta, How to Ruin a Trip to the Museum where Biblically Correct Museum Tours have their own view of things. Interesting things pop up like:

• Adam and Eve walked with dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden
• Tyrannosaurus Rex ate vegetables until evicted from the Garden of Eden (what, no coconuts?)
• Fossil exhibits are artwork, not science
• Evolution is a religion or philosophy
• Determining the age of fossils by measuring the age of the sandstone they are in is considered circular reasoning
• Ignore the exhibit on radiometric dating claiming “We can’t cover everything!”

Queried about the lack of dinosaur and human fossils being found together (which would prove the whole Garden of Eden issue) the comment is “Well, there are some problems for Creationalists…”

More fun from ICanHasCheezburger…

Some games just don’t get old no matter when they were released. Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle are one of these rare games from 1986 and 1987 for the Mac that really defined the platform action game for a lot of Mac users back in the day. These days, most people don’t have hardware capable of playing it, so there’s Mini vMac by Paul Pratt (based off vMac by other smart guys) to emulate the Mac Plus so you can play it again in all the B&W glory.

Not content on just beating the game, some people have taken it to the next level by doing speed runs, limited rock, limited elixir and no Shield runs through the game, so there’s people like Richard no Yuuutsu, MacMannz and Phantom Peasant showing everyone how it’s done. The forum can be found here as everyone’s keyed up for the next installment, Return to Dark Castle which looks close to a release this year.