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Here in Alabama, USA we’ve just acquired the new area code “256″ which means that some lucky (and probably unappreciative) bastard will get

+1-256-512-1024

Which has simply got to be the coolest damn phone number I can imagine.
– David McNett

Can i dial 1-255-255-255255 and make every phone in the world ring?
– Tanuki

I’ve been using Gmail since the invite only beta, my first received email was 6/15/04, and overall I have 8353 emails stored, which means that:

I am currently using 896 MB (19%) of 4647 MB.

Not bad, wish Google tracked the amount of spam I’ve gotten in that time frame. What does everyone else’s account look like?

I read way too much and I visit too many random web sites. Today, I was reading the Wall Street Journal online about outsourcing the more common things in your life.

I do a search for Get Friday, one of the Indian firms mentioned, out of curiosity.

Under unusual services they have provided a couple tidbits:

• Apologizing and sending flowers and cards on their behalf to spouses or clients.
• Research on how to tie a shoe lace meant for a kid (client’s son).
• Talking to parents in our client’s stead.
• Reading bedtime stories to a young kid on phone

What kind of person thinks it would be a swell idea to have someone in India read your kid a bedtime story on the phone because they are too busy? Although, it would be fun to have everyone route their requests to a personal assistant, just to see the looks on their faces.

Found this video randomly today…. This is why I do what I do. Computers are great.

They have their very own Class A IP space assigned to them:

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IP_address_blocks

Today I found out that Jabba the Hutt is a hermaphrodite.

A hermaphrodite is an organism that possesses both male and female sex organs during its life.

Umm, thanks Wikipedia?

The Canadian Parliament’s Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs has a document summarizing all the salient points on whether lobsters feel pain.

Good reading for a Saturday morning.

Oh Wikipedia, I do love thee.

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