Sunday, June 17, 2007

random 2

  • world's smallest pacman game

  • The Toronto Star reports that 3 Courier Companies [Federal Express, United Parcel Service and Purolator] in 2006, compiled 33,716 tickets, worth approximately $1.5 million. That's about 130 tickets every workday, or roughly one ticket every four minutes during business hours.

  • slide show of ironworkers 840+ feet above street level in Philadelphia.

  • Montreal Canadian goalies

  • You can use Google Q&A to input info to Google Spreadsheets. Details here.

  • michael lee points to this everything you ever wanted to know about tying shoelaces site.

  • We have passed the summer solstice. From now on, every day gets shorter... isn't that a pleasant thought!

  • Dave Burchett points to a study which says that Saturday - June 23 is the happiest day of the year... and nicely debunks the calculations.

  • mullet madness: I thought these were long gone - except for some out of date hockey players.
  • New DespairWear #1: "Irony"
    Introducing the most ironic shirt ever created.
    Despair's new Ironic Tee achieves a kind of droll, transcendent brilliance that's certain to appeal to cynics, chemists, disaffected college students, and ironists across the globe, even as it strikes fear into the hearts of those lesser vendors of ennui, angst, and pomo-snark clothing who litter the Internet- you know of whom I speak! via Jason Powell.

  • Review of word processors:
    MAJOR WORD PROCESSORS
    OpenOffice.org/StarOffice
    Microsoft Word 2007
    WordPerfect X3
    SECOND-TIER WORD PROCESSORS
    TextMaker
    Atlantis
    Papyrus WORD
    AbiWord
    Ability Write
    EIOffice
    PolyEdit
    602 Text
    ONLINE WORD PROCESSORS
    Google Docs
    ThinkFree Office Write
    Zoho Writer

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