'Sorry celebrities'

(from Yahoo!)
Mr T says seeing the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina has led to a change of dress - not a change of heart: He's getting rid of the bling!

He "saw some, I call it 'sorry celebrities.' They'll go down there and hook up with the people to take a photo-op. I said, 'How disgusting.'"

And "If you're not going down there with a check and a hammer and a nail to help the people, don't go down there."

So he's now got a heart of gold, not a chest-ful.

I pity the fool...er...next hurricane...

Knock-on

(via haha.nu)
Impressive demonstration of the power of the network effect...ahem

And these guys have waaaay too many CDs.

Human animation

(thanks to the ever interesting haha.nu)

The leg animation is especially brilliant:

The Spider of Doom

(thanks Daily WTF)


Recipe for Disaster

Acquire the ingredients
1 government website
1 contractor
1 Content Mangement System development contract

Mix in proper order
Allow employees to paste Edit-links into publically accessible pages
Allow the Googlebot to "bypass security" by
---a) not storing cookies
---b) not parsing Javascript
Allow the Googlebot to follow all "Delete Page" hyperlinks

And viola! You have successfully created a delicious disaster.

This goes well with "Find-an-old-backup" [you] pudding for dessert, and a glass of "Blame the Employéé 2005".

There is no spoon

(thanks Gizmodo)

Hammacher Schlemmer have a new self-stirring mug.

They do mention re-mixing tea and coffee to prevent sugar from settling out of solution, but more interestingly they mention honey - which is difficult to mix adequately in the first place. Result!

$29.95 for a set of two. That works out to about R220 - not bad! Of course shipping from the USA to South Africa won't be cheap.

And it runs at 3000 rpm!