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Archive for September, 2006

Airport Security

How long can you last as an airport screener. Make sure you keep up with the constantly changing rules, and don’t let those baddies in!

shockwave.com

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Posted in website 12:01 pm by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Sling

Silly and fun. This should keep you entertained for a bit

sling.ezone.com

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Posted in website 10:55 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Scoopvid

Looking for a video, but don’t know whether it is on Youtube, or Google Video, or Comedy Central, or MSN video….

Problem solved.

Search all of them at once at Scoopvid, using a simple, quick AJAX interface.

scoopvid.com

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Posted in movie, website 10:23 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

What is it?

Baby Rocker

This week’s winner is Josh Rogan!

This weeks contest is a little bit tougher, so the prize is going to be a little bit better. This week the sticker will be upgraded to a magnet and sticker!
Put your guesses in the comments to win our fabulous prize. You must be a registered user to enter.

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Posted in contest 12:01 pm by MILITANTPLATYPUS

<no>circles</no>

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Posted in timewaster 4:04 pm by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Farecast

Farecast takes a look at prices on US flights, and lets you know if now is the time to buy your tickets or not.

The site also uses AJAX to make it really easy to see how customizing your flight details will effect the price of you tickets.

farecast.com

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Posted in website 12:14 pm by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Yarg!

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Posted in news 9:32 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Hey ya II

I don’t know if this is a ‘thing’, but here is another one.

some lyrics NSFW

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Posted in Found 12:01 pm by MILITANTPLATYPUS

a grammatically valid sentence

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

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Posted in rAndom 10:33 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Monday Morning News

HP spying more elaborate than reported

iTunes 7 is a Lemon Say Users

Woman is fitted with ‘bionic’ arm

DVD chips ‘to kill illegal copying’

Adobe Acrobat Reader upgrades, adds new tricks

T-Mobile May Become “Real Boy”

Update: Images of Microsoft’s Zune in Action

Security

.eu registry suspends 74,000 domains

Spamhaus fined $11.7 million; won’t pay a dime

Code posted for new IE attack

Mozilla Patches Critical Firefox, Thunderbird Flaws

Platypus News

Some more changes to the games page over the last week. The search function has been smoothed out, and you should now be able to find what you are looking for. I also added support for .dcr games, which means the variety of games should increase. GAMES

My computer at home caught a virus this week. I have tried Symantec, Adaware, Bazooka, Spysweeper, and Hijackthis to get rid of it, and it still persists. I am going to have a couple of words with Symantec and Spysweeper (the services that I pay for) but I may be looking at an fdisk and reinstall!

News of the Weird

Don’t Ask Oprah To Run For President; She Might Sue You

Student finds brief fame as Terracotta Warrior

Problem Solved: (1) Darrell Rodgers, 40, was treated at Bloomington (Ind.) Hospital in August after shooting himself in the left knee because he felt he had to try something to end the pain there (pain possibly from having shot himself in that knee 10 years earlier). [Herald-Times (Bloomington), 8-12-06]

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