Hey, all you hobbyists!

Here’s a project we can ALL fall in love with!

Tired of all those LCD TVs everywhere?
Want a break from advertisements while you’re trying to eat?
Want to zap screens from across the street?

The TV-B-Gone kit is what you need! This ultra-high-power, open source kit version of the popular TV-B-Gone is fun to make and even more fun to use.

Be the first one on your block to have one of these!

Wallpaper!

I just resized a few of my favorite photos for use as wallpaper. Feel free to pillage! There are two sizes for each photo: photos in the left column are sized 1320 x 990 pixels, for those of you with really BIG screens, and on the right, photos are sized 1200 x 900 for those of us with normal screens. :p

Just one example of the FINE ARTISTRY you’ll find on this page:

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I’ll be adding more as I get around to resizing things. Stay tuned for more adventures!

Human Resources

I knew those HR guys had a manual

…This was Human Resource Exploitation Manual — 1983.

If the KUBARK manual is the culmination of years of experimentation in the field of torture, then the 1983 manual is the result of 20 years of tweaking the KUBARK’s contents. Both are based along the same lines. Artificial light, isolation, unfamiliarity and disorientation through solitary confinement and sensory depravation are the steps to inducing a detainee…

What? To work at tedious & stultifying tasks for hours on end in sensory-deprivation cubicles for barely enough money to sustain oneself until the next shift?

Oh. This is from…

HowStuffWorks.com Is There a Torture Manual?

Ad Campaign Appeals To Young, Hip, Influenced-By-Ad-Campaigns Demographic

All too true, albeit lifted entirely from the Onion:

NEW YORK—According to new market research, a multimillion dollar broadcast, radio, print, billboard, and online viral campaign launched Monday by the Axiom Marketing Agency tested “off the charts” among its target market of hip, urban 18- to 34-year-olds who base their actions and opinions entirely on the suggestions of ad campaigns. “This is exactly the type of customer we’re looking to reach,” said the campaign’s chief strategist Ben Jacobs, 28. “It’s showing tremendous impact on the cool, media-savvy rebels who distrust authority, prize alternative culture, think outside of the mainstream, and are willing to base their actions entirely on advertising images presented to them on TV. How dope is that?” The campaign, which advertises a new, youth-oriented version of Raisinets called Raisin d’Etre, is expected to make an impressive showing at the upcoming Counterculture Ad Fair sponsored by Procter and Gamble and held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Dilbert as Documentary

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For those people who find Dilbert a little obscure…

I remember during the dot-com daze, recruiters wanted Java programmers with more years of experience than the language had even been in existence for. Last year, I saw an ad on Cragslist for a web developer, requiring someone to have six years of experience in Ruby on Rails. Let’s see what Wikipedia has to say about this:

Ruby on Rails was extracted by David Heinemeier Hansson from his work on Basecamp, a project management tool by the web design (now web application) company 37signals. It was first released to the public in July 2004. In August 2006 Apple announced that it would ship Ruby on Rails with Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, which was released in October 2007.

Obviously, you had to be way ahead of the curve for this position. I was tempted to apply just to see what would happen.

I’m Bad. I’m nationwide

I like to check Hitslink to find out where in the world people are surfing in from. Yesterday (and today), I noticed that I was getting a lot of traffic from a site called “opencongress.org“. I went to take a look at the site, and discovered my Wikilinks posting was excerpted on the front page of their blogroll. OpenCongress is a congressional watchdog group, and is a joint project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation. I recommend that you check out their sites.

Oddly, this was one of the posts that (mysteriously) did not appear in the Opera Community blogroll. I have no idea why this, and one other post, Returning to my roots, were conspicuously omitted by the blogroll.

Some pictures, for your dining & dancing pleasure:

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