Fun Zone

From Sean Alexander:

This video was supposedly made to promote the upcoming Internet Explorer 7. No confirmation, but worth watching no matter what its for.

IE7_Big.wmv (7.8MB)
IE7_Medium.wmv (2.9MB)
IE7_Small.wmv (1MB)

The State of California is holding more than $4.8 billion in Unclaimed Property. These assets have been turned over to the State for safekeeping by banks, businesses and other organizations as required by law. There is no charge to file a claim for Unclaimed Property. Last year, more than 239,000 accounts were returned, and the average amount received was almost $1,000!

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Roedy Green in his funny article "How To Write Unmaintainable Code" says: In the interests of creating employment opportunities in the Java programming field, I am passing on these tips from the masters on how to write code that is so difficult to maintain, that the people who come after you will take years to make even the simplest changes. Further, if you follow all these rules religiously, you will even guarantee yourself a lifetime of employment, since no one but you has a hope in hell of maintaining the code. Then again, if you followed all these rules religiously, even you wouldn't be able to maintain the code!"

The funniest tips I found are these:

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What is the domaine name used by "The longest list of the longest stuff at the longest domain name at long last" site? You don't know? here it is: thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com. Oh yes it is!

This site has the world's first banner ad:

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A "hello world" program is a computer program that prints out "Hello, world!" on a display device. It is used in many introductory tutorials for teaching a programming language and many students use it as their first programming experience in a language.

Wikipedia has a page that shows the hello world! program in about 200 programming languages. Here are the shortest and the longest hello world! program I found. The shortest is written in APL and the longest is written in Redcode:

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1) Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
2) You don't care if someone is talking about you behind your back.
3) Your bathroom lines are 80% shorter.
4) Old friends don't give you crap if you've lost or gained weight.
5) When clicking through the channel, you don't have to stall on every shot of someone crying.
6) You don't have to lug a bag of useful stuff around everywhere you go.
7) You can leave a hotel bed unmade.
8) When your work is criticized, you don't have to panic that everyone secretly hates you.
9) The garage is all yours.
10) You never have to clean the toilet.

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'Dynamic Images' are images that you can customize or add captions to, often to create a funny situation or to illustrate a joke. There are many sites that offer such service for users. Here are 2 examples:

This one is from imagegenerator.net:


And this one is from hetemeel.com:

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Default settings are timesavers. Unfortunately, if the default settings don't fit your needs, you may find yourself customizing them. When setting your windows options it is always recommended to accept default parameters unless you know what you are doing:

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The EpochTimes has reported this unbelievable story. A Chinese man can't be photographed. The local police department was unable to take an ID photo of him.

No image of Ye Xiangting showed up in the computer photos, and there is still no clear explanation for the result.

They took images of Ye Xiangting with other people. They were stunned when the other people showed up in the computer images, but not Ye.

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Bill Gates' Secret Blog, have you found it? It exists and it is very secret. It has 3 posts since Wednesday, January 23, 2002. May be you are 100% sure that Bill Gates blogs about software an Microsoft. You're wrong! He blogs about cheese !

I wonder who is behind such idea?

Seriously, folks - stop means stop in Park Ridge, Illinois.
From Neatorama Blog

From Omri's Computer Humor Page.

(sung to The Beatles "Let it Be")
When I find my code in tons of trouble,
Friends and colleagues come to me,
Speaking words of wisdom:
"Write in C."

As the deadline fast approaches,
And bugs are all that I can see,
Somewhere, someone whispers"
"Write in C."

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Check out the Interactive "Trendy Magic" site and see if the rabbits will get you also.

Notice: Trendy Magic is not responsible for any corruption caused to your brain from access to this site, including trauma by rabbits.

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"How to turm windows into linux" is a step by step guide to turn your Windows into Linux.

Try the guide and tell me if it works!

The guide is here: http://fun.drno.de/flash/howto_turn_windows_into_linux.swf

Tech Support: "I need you to right-click on the Desktop."

Customer: "Ok."

Tech Support: "Did you get a pop-up menu?"

Customer: "No."

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I came across the "Strange facts" site where there are many unbelievable things. I donno if all the stuff out there is true, but one thing is sure, the stuff is funny.

Some strange laws:

- In Kentucky, it's the law that a person must take a bath once a year.
- In Miami, it is forbidden to imitate an animal.
- It is against the law to mispronounce the name of the State of Arkansas in that State.
- It is against the law in Connecticut for a man to write love letters to a girl whose mother or father has forbidden the relationship.

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I read today an article at ZDNet writed by Andrew Donoghue and entitled "Why everyone should date a geek". He tells that the wife of Microsoft's top blogger Robert Scoble has come up with ten definitive reasons why geeks are worth getting up close and personal with. The post of Robert Scoble's wife is entitled "In Defense of Geeks or Ten Reasons Why You Should Date a Geek". She is absolutely right with the 9th reason, I'll check the computer first.

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What is the perfect microsoft keyboard? You don't know? Think again! What are the most used keyboard keys on a microsoft windows system? What keys are used when you want to get the tasks manager, when it sucks, when you want to reboot or you want to login on some other MS systems?

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In the Global Rich List site you can enter annual income and click "Show me the money" you will get your position in the list.

Every year we gaze enviously at the lists of the richest people in world.
Wondering what it would be like to have that sort of cash. But where
would you sit on one of those lists? Here’s your chance to find out.

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