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Archive for the 'Misc' Category

Comic Strip Generator

Posted: Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 @ 5:37 am in Misc | 1 Comment »

Strip Generator is the shit.
Here’s an example I made for the Unilang website forum. Cool that they use PNG images, as they are standard and unencumbered by patents. Sorry, it’s inside humor, but you get the idea:

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Thursday-Night Schadenfreude: Crazy Pammy In Tears Edition

Posted: Thursday, August 9th, 2007 @ 11:31 pm in Misc | 6 Comments »

LOL, readers:
While probing the murder of car salesman Collin Thomas outside the showroom of Universal Auto World in Lawrence, L.I., in January, cops unraveled what they said was a massive scam at the dealership.
Employees at Universal allegedly stole and bought identities, then used the IDs to obtain at least $1.3 million in financing for [...]

The Internship from Hell

Posted: Friday, July 27th, 2007 @ 1:32 pm in Misc | No Comments »

A 22-year-old Ohio IT intern says he’s being made out to be the “scapegoat” in a case of 800,000 stolen Social Security numbers.
The problem started with the fact that the “offsite” backup tapes usually spent the night in somebody’s car:
A 22-year-old intern said today he’s the “scapegoat” for the loss of over 800,000 social security [...]

The creepiest face ever?

Posted: Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 @ 6:07 pm in Misc | No Comments »

Readers, have you ever seen a creepier human being than this?

That’s Curtis Michael Allgier, a prison inmate who allegedly killed a corrections officer during the course of an escape attempt yesterday.
I like tattoos, and have three of them myself, but come on — who would do this to their face? Only somebody who felt [...]

Annoying

Posted: Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 @ 5:37 pm in Misc | No Comments »

Michelle Malkin has revamped her blog. Her RSS feed now consists of nothing but hyperlinks (“Read this post >>”) to the blog posts themselves, so that you have no choice but to visit her site if you want to read her dreck. That is an incredibly annoying practice.

I hope I’ve tickal your mind a little

Posted: Monday, June 4th, 2007 @ 11:19 pm in Misc | 4 Comments »

Even though I live in Pittsburgh now, I still keep an eye on the Washington City Paper for its feature stories, which are sometimes fascinating. You should check out the latest cover story, “Letters From An Arsonist”. Here, a serial arsonist reveals some of the reasoning behind his choices of properties to burn [...]

Corporate communications are da bomb

Posted: Thursday, May 31st, 2007 @ 7:29 pm in Misc | 1 Comment »

Look at these two faxes, readers. The one on the right was what showed up at Bank of America branches across the northeast US. Not suprisingly, the picture of a disembodied arm lighting the fuse of a bomb got some folks a little nervous:

In a scene reminiscent of the Cartoon Network bomb scare [...]

Cemetry Gates

Posted: Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 @ 2:47 pm in Misc | 4 Comments »

Keats and Yeats were not on this guy’s side:
A night of drinking and tombstone tipping ended for a 22-year-old Merrillville man when one of the monuments came crashing down on his legs, police said.
Police said a security guard found Michael David Schreiber passed out and pinned under a 1,000-pound headstone shortly before 8 a.m. Sunday [...]

The Stalin Car

Posted: Sunday, April 29th, 2007 @ 2:55 am in Misc | 10 Comments »

Just in time to celebrate the first of May, readers, here’s the “Stalin Car.”

Uh… happy motoring, comrade.

Make me think (plus: Make me puke)

Posted: Saturday, April 28th, 2007 @ 9:23 pm in Misc | 8 Comments »

Gordo, the proprietor of appletree and a frequent contributor to The Liberal Avenger, has, far too kindly, named DPF as one of the “Blogs That Make [Him] Think” (as part of a meme that’s been circulating recently). Gordo is a fantastic blogger and one of the smartest people on my blogroll, and praise from [...]