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Unfortunate URLs

Every so often the company networking department takes a vacation, gets a major hangover and comes up with horrible URLs for companies...

i just saw the greatest f*****g thing!!!

i have a dart board in my basement and my brother was throwing darts at it, he trew one adn it hit the bullseye then he threw another and it stuck right in the end of the other dart in the bullseye robin hood style

Oliver: Jehovah's Witness

Our neighborhood seems to be popular with Jehovah's Witness'. We get a visit from them at least twice a year. I'll just politely accept their literature, close the door, then throw away the Watchtower material.

Here's a rundown of key teachings of JW that makes them a cult:

He has an interesting summary, along with a whole bunch of links to more information. This is great, because JWs are one of the cults I don't know all that much about because I've never known or had to deal with anyone who was in that cult, whereas I know Mormons, Christian Scientists, etc.

Russell: T9 is Amazing.

Predictive text technology is really cool. Yesterday I got to see how useful it is because my friend was typing a location into his awesome satellite guided navigation system thingy in his Infiniti and after every character only the characters that would be a valid next character were available to enter.

News.Com: Amazon to decide soon on free shipping

"It's effectively a major price reduction," he said. "We've had it in place long enough to collect a lot of data about how it affects customer behavior, and that's how we'll make the decision."

Amazon will announce during its quarterly earnings conference call Jan. 23 whether it will continue the program, revert to the previous policy of free shipping on orders $49 and above, or move to a price point somewhere in between.

"We're always going to have free shipping," Bezos said. "Customers get what customers want, and they've been very clear that they want free shipping."

"I've been asked for at least six years, 'How can you guys make any money on the Internet with the pricebots (automated price comparison sites) out there?'" Bezos said. "My answer has always been, yeah, it's one of the things that makes our job challenging, in the same way gravity makes Boeing's job challenging...What we have to do is offer the best customer value proposition we can, and we'll come out favorably in those comparisons."

Check out this interview with Jason Isaacs who plays Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter.

The screenshots of jEdit 4.1 look really awesome. I'll have to try it again when version 4.1 is out of beta. Lets hope the FTP plugin works this time!

These are some cool shirts.