Sunday, December 12, 2004
QOTD
Pangrams ...
Pangrams are sentences containing all the letters of the alphabet. Pangram is in the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., with the earliest citation from 1964, although the word pangrammatic goes back to 1933.
Fun with cables
Ad for Brazillian Power company (animated GIF)
http://omgwtf.superlime.com/powercord.html
http://www.allowe.com/Humor/PowerCableSex.htm
http://omgwtf.superlime.com/powercord.html
http://www.allowe.com/Humor/PowerCableSex.htm
Sexual harassment policy (image)
Student Suspended Over Suspected Use of PHP
Topeka, KS - High school sophomore Brett Tyson was suspended today after teachers learned he may be using PHP.
"A teacher overheard him say that he was using PHP, and as part of our Zero-Tolerance policy against drug use, he was immediately suspended. No questions asked," said Principal Clyde Thurlow. "We're not quite sure what PHP is, but we suspect it may be a derivative of PCP, or maybe a new designer drug like GHB."
Parents are frightened by the discovery of this new menace in their children's school, and are demanding the school do something. "We heard that he found out about PHP at school on the internet. There may even be a PHP web ring operating on school grounds," said irate parent Carol Blessing. "School is supposed to be teaching our kids how to read and write. Not about dangerous drugs like PHP."
In response to parental demands the school has reconfigured its internet WatchDog software to block access to all internet sites mentioning PHP. Officials say this should prevent any other students from falling prey like Brett Tyson did. They have also stepped up locker searches and brought in drug sniffing dogs.
Interviews with students suggested that PHP use is wide spread around the school, but is particularly concentrated in the geeky nerd population. When contacted by BBspot.com, Brett Tyson said, "I don't know what the hell is going on dude, but this suspension gives me more time for fraggin'. Yee haw!"
PHP is a hypertext preprocessor, which sounds very dangerous. It is believed that many users started by using Perl and moved on to the more powerful PHP.
For more information on how to recognize if your child may be using PHP please visit PHP.net. Who knows, maybe I'll learn PHP here?
"A teacher overheard him say that he was using PHP, and as part of our Zero-Tolerance policy against drug use, he was immediately suspended. No questions asked," said Principal Clyde Thurlow. "We're not quite sure what PHP is, but we suspect it may be a derivative of PCP, or maybe a new designer drug like GHB."
Parents are frightened by the discovery of this new menace in their children's school, and are demanding the school do something. "We heard that he found out about PHP at school on the internet. There may even be a PHP web ring operating on school grounds," said irate parent Carol Blessing. "School is supposed to be teaching our kids how to read and write. Not about dangerous drugs like PHP."
In response to parental demands the school has reconfigured its internet WatchDog software to block access to all internet sites mentioning PHP. Officials say this should prevent any other students from falling prey like Brett Tyson did. They have also stepped up locker searches and brought in drug sniffing dogs.
Interviews with students suggested that PHP use is wide spread around the school, but is particularly concentrated in the geeky nerd population. When contacted by BBspot.com, Brett Tyson said, "I don't know what the hell is going on dude, but this suspension gives me more time for fraggin'. Yee haw!"
PHP is a hypertext preprocessor, which sounds very dangerous. It is believed that many users started by using Perl and moved on to the more powerful PHP.
For more information on how to recognize if your child may be using PHP please visit PHP.net. Who knows, maybe I'll learn PHP here?
Games
Advent calendar
An Advent calendar is a symbol of the holy season of Advent, celebrated in December near Christmas, another holiday season.
The calendar consists of 24 doors or pockets, with one opened each day starting on December 1 and ending on Christmas Eve. Each compartment can either show a part of the Nativity story and the birth of Jesus Christ, or can simply display a piece of paraphernalia to do with Christmas (e.g. bells, holly). Such is the closeness of the two holidays that Christmas is now integrated into many Advent calendars.
More info
(NSFW) Boobies advent calendar (shockwave)
The calendar consists of 24 doors or pockets, with one opened each day starting on December 1 and ending on Christmas Eve. Each compartment can either show a part of the Nativity story and the birth of Jesus Christ, or can simply display a piece of paraphernalia to do with Christmas (e.g. bells, holly). Such is the closeness of the two holidays that Christmas is now integrated into many Advent calendars.
More info
(NSFW) Boobies advent calendar (shockwave)
Army knife evolves into a new shape
The Wenger company of Delémont has dared to change the shape of one of Switzerland’s national symbols - the Swiss Army knife. Link
