Tripp Fenderson

From the “What not to put on your website’s home page” department:

1. Under construction messages
2. Really STRANGE features like the one in bold below (although from a technical viewpoint, I am interested in how they accomplished this)

Oops. Someone must have glossed over the fact that their domain name could be read as “retail the rape”.

[Found on http://realpeoplerealstuff.com, which offers an interesting twist on classified ads. Check it out.]

Want to get fired the easy way? Have your boss or HR staff find a photo of you in a compromising situation.

Of course, there’s no need to actually put yourself in that situation and that’s where getyourselffired.com comes in.

Simply choose your situation, upload a photo of yourself and ta-da, you’re ready to get fired!

Once that’s done, job search site itzbig.com hopes you’ll stop to find your next job.

Vice President Dick Cheney spends an afternoon fly-fishing (wink) on the Snake River in Idaho.

Full image here.

Originally posted here.

[source: ]http://xo.typepad.com/blog/2008/04/whats-dick-chen.html]

drop.io - create simple private exchange points called “drops” for any kind of media by way of web, email, phone, fax, or widgets.

Now that’s handy.

Hell yeah - the return of the rock anthem!

Feast your eyes on the latest from White Gold (sure, it’s an ad for milk - but let’s leave aside that pesky detail for the moment). It’s milktastical! It’s the kind of thing you want to listen to when hanging out with Zaphod Beeblebrox and drinking Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters.

(and is it just me or do you think the bass player is a hotter, younger version of Oprah?—did I just write that??!)

Want more? You got it --> http://www.whitegoldiswhitegold.com/

Did you hear? Adobe is launching a FREE version of Photoshop online! How awesome is that?

https://www.photoshop.com/express/

Wait though...not so fast. You may want to review their terms of service first—particularly this troublesome little note about you granting them full rights to use your content any way they darn well please.

8. Use of Your Content.

Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed.

Thanks but no thanks, Adobe.

That sounds so wrong.

Oh Mr. Gorton’s Fisherman, what DID you do to those little fish? Can we still “Trust the Gorton’s Fisherman”?

Boston.com put together a good multimedia piece about Converse shoes and the company’s 100th anniversary this year.

Who doesn’t love a pair of Chucks?

Being the evil leader of the Decepticons isn’t what it used to be. New Zealand’s The Dominion Post reports that on Friday, Megatron was sentenced to six years and six months in jail for importing ecstasy and conspiracy to import methamphetamine.

Megatron Eardley-Wilmot, originally named Nicholas, legally changed his name after an accident left him with a serious head injury.

Read the full article here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/4414941a12855.html

[thanks Rich]

This or this?

Who do you think will get these first? The military or Xbox gamers?

Researchers at the University of Washington managed to embed an electronic circuit and LEDs directly into contact lenses, which seemed to look good on rabbit eyes. Though the circuit is not functional and the lights don’t light up, the development shows that future applications like direct video to the eye may indeed be possible.

[University of Washington press release]