Friday, February 15, 2013

Infomercial Gifs

http://www.buzzfeed.com/julianbrand/40-gifs-of-stupid-infomercial-people-6eof


100 Cats In Ikea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=vCB7RqGS684

"Let's take 100 cats, release them in Ikea, and see what happens."

Greatest thing the human race has ever done.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Massive Police Shootout in Cleveland Despite Lack of Criminals

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/02/massive_police.html
A November car chase ended in a "full blown-out" firefight, with glass and bullets flying, according to Cleveland police officers who described for investigators the chaotic scene at the end of the deadly 25-minute pursuit.

But when the smoky haze -- caused by rapid fire of nearly 140 bullets in less than 30 seconds -- dissipated, it soon became clear that more than a dozen officers had been firing at one another across a middle school parking lot in East Cleveland.

At the end of the scene, both unarmed -- and presumably innocent -- people in the car were dead.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Florida Man

https://twitter.com/_floridaman

"Real-life headlines about the world's worst superhero."

Friday, February 1, 2013

Blank screen if kids yell too much

http://superuser.com/questions/545329/blank-screen-if-kids-yell-too-much
My kids (4 and 5) yell a lot when playing games on our Linux box. I found an effective cure for this: I've told them that the computer doesn't like loud noises. So when they get loud, I ssh into the box and run:
chvt 3;  sleep 15;  chvt 7
This turns off the screen for 15 seconds. They get quiet, but not to the level that I would be happy with. So I need to continue this educational process, but I'm getting tired of doing this manually.