Chimeric Dream » news http://chimericdream.com My multi-faceted reverie Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:14:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The most useful text message… EVER. http://chimericdream.com/2011/02/the-most-useful-text-message-ever/ http://chimericdream.com/2011/02/the-most-useful-text-message-ever/#comments Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:39:36 +0000 Bill http://chimericdream.com/?p=408
  • Premature Detonation
    • ]]>     If you have read through my archives (before last month, that wouldn’t have taken too long), you know that I get a kick when terrorists’ plans go awry. On New Year’s Eve a suicide bomber was planning to blow herself up near Red Square in Moscow, Russia. Unfortunately for her, the cell phone she was planning to use as the detonator received a text from her wireless carrier wishing her a happy new year. This text set off the bomb, killing her and foiling her plan to kill innocent people.

    All I have to say to that is “AWESOME”.

    Read the full article at Wired.

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  • Hello Dolly!
    • ]]>     I just read about a dozen or so terrorists who blew themselves up earlier than planned when their bus exploded before they got to their destination. I can’t help but feel giddy about such an event. It reminds me of Achmed the dead terrorist, a Jeff Dunham puppet. See the following video starting at about 7:25 (or just watch the whole thing… it’s good).

    Achmed the dead terrorist on YouTube

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    But I have to ask this: is she really the best choice for such an endorsement? Considering when Parton was in her peak years of popularity, I would say that the people most likely to care about her recommendations are exactly the people who have no idea what YouTube is. “U-Tube? Is that kind of like a pipe bent in half?” On top of that, how likely are they to care about webslices (the primary focus of the video) anyway?

    To me, this endorsement says: “I have no idea what that interweb thing is, but Microsoft paid me to say Internet Explorer was great, so what the hell! So whether you’re a redneck, a retiree, or just lack them ‘computer skills’, give IE8 a try!”

    Video after the break.
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