Funny
Keyboard error
Do you ever forget to plug in your keyboard after you’ve been fumbling inside your computer? For example, you’ve just upgraded your pc’s memory, put everything back together, connect the cables, turn on the machine and find out you forgot the keyboard? Or simply because you connect the power cable first and the computer somehow immediately boots up, before you’ve had the chance to connect the other cables? Sounds familiar? Or am I the only one? 
Anyway, when your computer boots with no keyboard attached, you get an error like this:
Keyboard error: press <F1> to continue or <F2> to enter setup.
Please tell me how!
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Found this on the Dell website:
“Q4: Is the product used in connection with weapons of mass destruction, that is, in nuclear applications, rocket technology, or for chemical or biological weapons?”
OK, suppose I do intend to use my Dell pc, printer, handheld or LCD tv for this purpose… do they really expect me to tell them that?
Google tricks
A while ago, I posted an entry about google bombing.
Well, here is something weird, is it google spoofing? Does anybody know?
Try this:
Search google for sw 53 Switch ABCD. The first 49 (!) hits are all similar pages, containing a link to Digital Revolution.
DO NOT click that link!
Microsoft has published a great “solution” , or better a work-around, for a bug in IE: Don’t click on links! Just type them in manually!
Because they are too stupid to show the correct address in the address bar (and status bar), you might be on a different site than you would expect. Therefore, you should just type the address yourself, so that you are certain where you’re going…
Click for example this link. If you only see http://www.microsoft.com in the address bar after clicking, it’s time to start using a real browser, such as Mozilla, instead of the crap you’re using now!
(Source tweakers.net.)
Miserable failure
Try this: search google for “miserable failure”. If you click “I’m feeling lucky”, you are sent directly to the first search result, being (at the time of writing) this page!
Yes, that is the Biography of President George W. Bush at the official White House site.
Update: Well, apparently, this is called google bombing.
A new action has already been started, directed towards the Dutch prime minister.
Six parents?
A strange news item on nu.nl (in Dutch): “Redhead women threatened with extinction”. It says in the article (translated by yours truly): “To get red hair, 6 specific genes are necessary, of which each parent has to provide one.”
A simple calculation tells me you would need 6 parents to get red hair! I can imagine why they’re threatened with extinction, now…
(BTW, I found an English article here.)
Concessions
I’ve often seen the term “Concessions” in combination with entry fees for a museum, zoo, or cinema. Usually, this means you get a discount if you are a student, or a senior citizen.
But in the IMAX Theatre-at-Bristol, you also get a discount, if you are unemployed! Not having a job, does have its advantages!
I only wonder, how do they check that?
Do you get some sort of pass if you don’t have a job? Or do you get a certificate if you’re unemployed? But you mustn’t forget to put that in the shredder when you get a job! And will you get a new one when you’re fired?
Alcohol and traffic…
… don’t mix.
We know that by now, don’t we?
So why do accidents like these still happen? (News item in Dutch. Translated: “Beer causes chaos on highway A2″)
Getting high on a dead dog
I am very ashamed to copy once again from another weblog, this time from mijnkopthee.nl, but again, I found this story simply too funny not to.
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