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Archive for June, 2007

Tricklife



Shortcuts, how-to’s, and just generally how to get things done. Most of the videos are pretty well done, and some of the tricks actually work!

tricklife.com

Posted in hacks, movie, website 10:03 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

New Games!



Since I am out the rest of this week, I added the new games early. Enjoy!

8 new games this week, check em out!

GAMES

Posted in games, site info 2:11 pm by MILITANTPLATYPUS

What is it?



CIRCLE KABOB

This week’s winner is Mesdag!


Put your guesses in the comments to win our fabulous prize (a militantplatypus sticker). You must be a registered user to enter. The winner will be announced next week when I return.

Posted in contest 12:01 pm by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Souvenir



Is it me, or is Bush wearing a watch?



Is it me, or is Bush no long wearing a watch?

Judge for your self after the jump.

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Posted in movie, news, rAndom 9:38 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Liar liar!



I have heard about ways to read people, and tell if they are lying or not, but this graphic, and the companion site does a really nice job of breaking it down, and explaining it in a way that is easy to remember.

blifaloo.com

Posted in Science, hacks 9:05 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Vitaly Samarin




Click image for bigger, or follow link for more.


svitart.n-tek.ca

Posted in art 9:12 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Finnish traffic tickets


HELSINKI, Finland — Jaako Rytsola, a 27-year-old Finnish Internet entrepreneur and newspaper columnist, was cruising in his BMW one recent evening. “The road was wide and I was feeling good,” he later wrote. “It’s nice to be driving when there’s no one in sight.”

But this road wasn’t empty; a radar-equipped police car was clocking his speed. The officer pulled over Mr. Rytsola’s car and issued him a speeding ticket for driving 43 miles an hour in a 25-mile-an-hour zone. The fine: $71,400.

The staggering sum was no mistake. In Finland, traffic fines generally are based on two factors: the severity of the offense and the driver’s income.

Read the rest: stayfreemagazine.org

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Posted in news 9:02 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Monday Morning News

  • Militantplatypus is going on vacation!
    I am off to Maine to see my best friend get married. I will leave this Thursday, and be back to blogging next Tuesday. I will make sure to put a bunch of posts in the pipline, and I also have another blogger that you should check out in my absense.
  • A Dog or a Cat? New Tests to Fool Automated Spammers
  • Google files antitrust complaints against Microsoft: report
  • Indian Offshoring Firm… Offshoring To Mexico
  • Skype goes out to mobile phones
  • Microsoft hints at general plan for IE 8
  • Adobe blasts Apollo into beta through AIR
  • Security

  • Yahoo releases critical security patch for IM
  • Best Buy Lawyer Admits He Falsified Documents in MSN Case
  • Yahoo weighs in on free speech in China
  • Freeware of the Week

  • azureus - All your BitTorrent needs
  • News of the Weird

  • Randy sniffer dogs get the sack
  • In West Des Moines, Iowa, Rob Lowe’s golf ball hits state bird in mid-flight
  • Spectacular: Last year (according to a March 2007 Associated Press report), a computer technician for the Alaska Department of Revenue accidentally erased a disk containing all the data for paying the state’s 600,000 residents their annual oil-revenue dividends, and a duplicate disk was also erased, and the fail-safe backup tape was discovered to be unreadable. It took two months of around-the-clock work for state employees to re-computerize all paper records. [CNN-AP, 3-20-07]
  • Posted in Monday Morning News 8:34 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

    Line Super Follow




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    Posted in art, timewaster 3:35 pm by MILITANTPLATYPUS

    Moving Day

    Posted in Friday Funny 11:19 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS