A Peculiar Blog

Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, is now claiming that TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chips that are installed on many new motherboards will make it impossible to pirate game software.
While it’s true that the TPM chips he’s talking about will present a seriously increased challenge, there’s no doubt at all in my mind that determined hackers, [...]

Wanna see something funny? Take a look at the stair lift website for Jameson Medical, Inc. Once the page loads, hit your “Page Down” key once.
You’ll be greeted with an animated .gif of a lady on a stair lift chair, up she goes, then it cuts to a wide shot of a roller [...]

Looking to inject another bit of humor here, I ran across this little gem on YouTube. It’s Pepsi’s 2008 Super Bowl ad. The YouTube Description reads:
A unique and hilarious commercial illustrating a popular joke in the deaf community. Created and enacted by deaf members of the Pepsico workforce, EnAble.
I have to agree, it’s [...]

It occurs to me that I don’t often post much humor here so I thought this would be a perfect time to share this gem from a few years back. It was a Super Bowl commercial of course and like many of them it’s funny as all get out.
Just the same though, I don’t [...]

Like a lot of people, even though I hate political ads and don’t care for having to listen to excess amounts of this or that politician busily talking about how they’re better than this or that other one, I got this hilarious picture in my mind. Ok, *I* thought it was funny, your mileage [...]

Many people are familiar with the Shakespeare line from Romeo and Juliet:
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet.
Now I don’t know about most people but once in a while I actually think of that line, partly because I like Shakespeare, partly because I’ve seen [...]

When I saw the url www.thejunglestore.com it made one of those mental word association things (you know, “It’s a jungle out there”) and I just HAD to take a look. Well it certainly IS a jungle out there alright… a *stuffed* jungle. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any one place that has [...]

That’s right. The North Korean leader called himself an “Internet Expert” during summit talks with South Korea this week. It came when the South Korean leader asked that a South Korean company operating in a North Korean city be allowed to use the Internet. Kim Jong Il replied
“I’m an Internet expert too. [...]

In the course of surfing around there are times when you run into things that cant help but to make for some really interesting mental pictures. Take for example the phrase Pigeon Forge vacation rentals. The first thing that came to my mind was vacation rental properties in one of those theme towns [...]

In my last entry I said that injecting some humor once in a while helps to lighten the mood and remind people that you’re just another person. Well, I’m taking a minute to practice what I preach.
Here I present a little goodie that my wife found and linked on her blog along with several [...]