I won’t say it’s cute but it does what it supposed to do well. Although I wish it would be wireless or something.
Come on it makes a great lawn mower design. Your neighbors would love your humor:
[via Gizmodo]
Insurance agents can sell you anything. You could insure virtually everything I guess. I heard pianist Clayderman, who’s really popular among women, insured his fingers or something. Well, if you’re afraid of alien abducting you, you probably can consider an alien abduction insurance.
The insurance policy is redeemed if the insured person is abducted by aliens. British Insurance manager Simon Burgess, known for being involved in the bizarre end of insurance, said “Of course, the burden of proof lies with the claimant. Let’s face it – insurance is so tedious that if I can enlighten my dreary life with a bit of humour every now and again, I will.” A policy normally costs around $150 per $1.5 million in coverage as of 1998. Policy offerings vary from $10,000 to $10 million. Some companies offer policies for alien pregnancy, alien examinations and death caused by aliens. (more…)
An undercover BBC investigation has exposed how young African footballers are being conned out of thousands of dollars. Gavin Lee explains how Isaiah Akpan fell victim to a Nigerian scam.
‘I was victim of Nigeria football conmen’
“The memory of that incident always kind of shocks me,” says Isaiah Akpan.
Mr Akpan, like thousands of soccer-mad African teenagers, puts his details on sports networking websites.
He shakes his head as he recalls the gamble he took in the hope of achieving his dream of football stardom in the richest league in the world, the English Premiership.
Instead of taking the first step to sporting fame and fortune, he fell victim to conmen who left him penniless - stranded and alone in a foreign country.
“They promised a club but did not mention the specific name of the club,” he recalls.
“They said that I would have to go for a trial in Singapore in Asia. Then after two three months they would transfer me to UK.”
Mr Akpan was told that as a formality, he would first have to pay a $500 (£250) registration fee.
But, after Mr Akpan handed over the money, the men disappeared.
He was left stranded and alone in a foreign country with no money to get home.
I haven’t heard good things from Nigeria, only frauds basically like the rather famous Nigerian Letter 419 fraud.
Okay time to use your blain, I mean brain. Albert Einstein explaining the equivalence of energy and matter.
At first I thought it was German or something. But nah, it’s English.
I prefer to place my uploads into /media/ instead of the default /wp-content/uploads/
So I changed it, but the link is always incorrect for some strange reason:
WordPress uploads files to wrong folders
WordPress uploads file to /media/ but continues to link my images to /wp-content/uploads/. To resolve this issue, specify the folder path manually like I did. Somehow the problem is gone. I wonder if it’s a bug or what.
Before the WordPress 2.6 upgrade, WordPress 2.5 was handling this just fine. Meanwhile, you can learn more about a WordPress 2.6 easter egg.
version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.
If you have Google Gears:
Enable Google Gears in your WordPress blog
Google Gears saves some JavaScript in your local computer so that you don’t have to download them again and again when you launch your editing interface. The great advantage to it? You basically can click on the Insert Link button and the dialog box appears with no wait no fuss.
The above, in my opinion, is my favorite new feature of WordPress 2.6. That said, Uzyn, hello Uzyn, time to migrate back to WordPress, haha5…