Archive for May, 2005

Starbucks Gossip: Four months after its introduction, how is Chantico selling?

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

Starbucks Gossip: Four months after its introduction, how is Chantico selling?
Somehow I didn’t think Chantico would sell well. Seems to me like a terrible waste of markeitng resources to promote something like this.

I’m getting mixed reports. What’s the report from people working behind the bar at Starbucks? Are the people who posted positive Chantico [...]

Star Wars Wiki

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

Main Page - Star Wars
Useful site when you’re debating some of the nit pickier details of the movies.

This is a coordinated effort among Wikipedians to provide more detailed Star Wars content. While Wikipedia is for more general, encyclopedic knowledge, the Star Wars Wiki is for Star Wars fans who wish to learn/provide more about the [...]

IGDA - Articles - Why Crunch Mode Doesn’t Work: 6 Lessons

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

IGDA - Articles - Why Crunch Mode Doesn’t Work: 6 Lessons

When used long-term, Crunch Mode slows development and creates more bugs when compared with 40-hour weeks.
More than a century of studies show that long-term useful worker output is maximized near a five-day, 40-hour workweek. Productivity drops immediately upon starting overtime and continues to drop until, [...]

Longmire does Romance Novels

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Longmire does Romance Novels - Your Submissions
This is some seriously funny shit.

A lot of you felt the LOVE, baby, and sent in covers you came up with… and they’re very funny!

B3TA : FEATURES : Phallic Logo Awards

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Phallic Logo Awards
Possibly not safe for work. Depends on if your boss has a sense of humor or not.

The game designers across the nation are playing is; can they design a logo and get it approved without the client realising it’s a big spurting penis?
We asked our readers to send in the best cock [...]

MySQL & PHP Cheat Sheets - ILoveJackDaniels.com

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

MySQL Cheat Sheet - ILoveJackDaniels.com
PHP Cheat Sheet - ILoveJackDaniels.com
These could be handy, I guess; moreso for the beginner. It’s very similar to the C++ cheat sheet I have on my bookshelf at work here. Gives you a list of functions, regex’s, dates, modifiers, keywords, etc.

Stuck at Prom

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Stuck at Prom
Some ‘nice’ clothes for prom.

You can view all of the contest entry photos by clicking the “Entry Pages” below. You can also sort the entries by state using the dropdown menu above. Click the image of magnifying glass below to view larger images.

Teaching High School: Why English is Hard to Learn

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Teaching High School: Why English is Hard to Learn

I have seen this many places and it can be found many places on the web, but since I am a foreign language teacher and the students always say, “Why can’t everyone just learn English?”, I thought it would be a good idea to put this in [...]

WikiTrivia

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

WikiTrivia
Tough game.

??? was a failed dot-com. Founded by Bob Bernard in the Chicago area, it specialized first in AS/400 IT consulting. It grew steadily, for about 15 years, including some acquistions, such as US-West, a California-based web consulting firm, after which Bob Bernard decided to rename the business marchFirst, Inc. a …

capnwacky.com | Unfortunate Star Wars Costumes

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

capnwacky.com | Unfortunate Star Wars Costumes
Also, check out these tags on Flickr:
revengeofthesith
episode3
rots

Sure, Darth Maul. Sure, you’re going to master the lightsaber. Just like you said you were going to master the guitar and now it just sits there in the living room gathering dust. The only thing you ever mastered was a box [...]