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Beer Butt Chicken Cooker Interesting..

A friend sent in a submission to The Daily Telegraph (Local newspaper) today, and it was actually submitted..
[quote=[url=http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=325279&storyid=1363845]The Daily Telegraph[/url], 21st May][b]ANGRY Matt finds a suitable outlet for his road rage:[/b]

Thank you to the lady driving the Toyota Corolla who was nice enough to cut me off while I was trying to change lanes just near South Hurstville McDonald’s traffic lights just before 2pm on Thursday.

Your kind attitude on the roads left me stuck behind a parked car for over a minute while I waited for a large enough gap in traffic. Is it just me, or do some drivers actually try to be aggressive and cause an inconvenience for others?” [/quote]

Go Matt!

[quote]NOW THAT Google’s IPO is running, the company is on the verge of being sued by the family of a man who invented the word ‘Googol’ to describe a very big number.

Professor Edward Kasner came up with the word Googol, apparently at the suggestion of his 9-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta.

He used the term in the 1940s in his book, Mathematics and the Imagination. For the record a googol is 10 raised to the 100th power – or the number 1 followed by a hundred zeros.

In 1955 he died and much later a search engine called Google was born. His relatives claim that Kasner must be spinning in his grave. They believe Google has gained financially at their expense and they want to become IPO insiders to put his soul to rest.
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Read More: Googol may sue Google

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People are just looking for new ways to make money :rolleyes:.

There are also some interesting comments on Neowin.net about this.

Bug in Google? Seems that Google’s automated page removal tool allows any site to be removed..

Its rumoured that the 4th generation of Apple iPod’s may contain video capabilities. I know i will be purchasing one then..

I want a mini remote control helicopter!

Microsoft is still working on XP Service Pack 2, although typically, Microsoft makes few or no feature changes to a product once it enters the near-final Release Candidate stage.

For those that don’t know, William Hung tried out of American Idol and was [b]heavily[/b] criticised by the American Idol judges. Alot of other people I know have also been criticised him recently too. I would agree that he isn’t the best singer, but that in my opinion is not a good enough reason.

You know why William is so popular? Its because he wasn’t affraid to give it a go. He didn’t and still doesn’t care what other people think.

If you seriously think about it, he is able to draw crowds and has numerous fan websites on the internet, so doesn’t that mean he is also popular and in some ways good?

His Website: William Hung – A Real American Idol!

Why do they sterilize the needles for lethal injections?

Why is it that doctors call what they do “practice”?

When it rains, why don’t sheep shrink?

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk I have a work station…

Why is abbreviation such a long word?

If they arrested the Energizer Bunny, would they charge it with battery?

Why is the alphabet in that order?

I don’t have a solution, but I admire your problem.

If a tin whistle is made out of tin (and it is), then what, exactly, is a fog horn made out of?

If quitters never win, and winners never quit, what fool came up with, “Quit while you’re ahead”?

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

Why are they called apartments, when they’re all stuck together?

Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?

Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

If you throw a cat out a car window, does it become kitty litter?

If corn oil comes from corn, where does baby oil come from?

If it’s tourist season, why can’t we shoot them?

What do they use to ship Styrofoam?

When you choke a Smurf what color does it turn?

If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make a sound?

Why in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?

Why do you press harder on a remote control when you know the battery is dead?

Why are they called buildings, when they’re already finished? Shouldn’t they be called builts?

If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?

If you got into a taxi and the driver started driving backward, would the taxi driver end up owing you money?

Why are there 5 syllables in the word “monosyllabic”?

Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?

Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

Why isn’t there mouse-flavoured cat food?

If ‘con’ is the opposite of ‘pro’, is Congress the opposite of progress?

This probably won’t interest most readers, but I just thought i would [i]blog[/i] about it anyway.

I have been designing and implementing a new language system into MyBB for Release Candidate 3. The system is fairly simple, each language contains a series of files for each section of the board. For example, admin/index.php gets its language ‘bits’ from languages/english/admin/index.lang.php. This file is “included” by the language parser and is then converted into PHP class-style variables (ex $lang->test).

The language file structure is as follows:
[code]$l['test'] = "foo";
$l['bleh'] = "bar";[/code]

This allows the easy manipulation of language files, and the creation of new ones.

More complex language bits are also supported, for example..
[code]$l['test'] = "There are {1} sheep and {2} dogs";[/code]
Which when parsed will be replaced with the respective variables. (Using PHP’s sprintf function).

Right, well now I am off to continue making the Admin CP language compatible.

I have been going through old folders and hard drives over my home network here and i found the following two images. The first, is from the famous “off the mark” collection by Mark Parisi. The second image got sent to me a while back. (I’m not sure what newspaper it was from either).

The thought had not crossed my mind until tonight. Maybe i can [i]blog[/i] to my [i]blog[/i] using my mobile phone and the Multimedia Messaging System (MMS) with the ‘Send as Emai’ option. I know this would be possible with WAP, however Virgin Mobile Australia does not currently support WAP (Although rumours hint that it is coming soon).

The procedure, even though it sounds farily simple would end up being complicated. First I would need to write a script which would handle piped emails from a certain address to determine the message to be [i]blogged[/i] as well as any other attachments such as images, and audio. I would then need to design a new section of the blog, probably shown on the side bar which lists recent phone [i]blogs[/i].

The only problem is, it doesn’t look like the ‘Send as email’ option is working. I fired off a test message via MMS to my normal mailbox, and i have yet to receive it, and the phone is yet to display the confirmation message.

I think this would be rather [i]nifty[/i] if I could get it all to work properly.. Imagine me being able to bore you even more whilst I am at school..