YouTube Travels

WTTW gets pwned by Max Headroom. Link. Via BoingBoing.

CBS News report following the WTTW pirate video incident. Link.

Oh Gnoes!~!1 You can't drive a stick! Link. Thanks, Jnova!

Kid + big rubber band + ATV = severe neck injury. Link.

I admit, sometimes I forget which side the gas tank is on too. Link.

I racks my brains when I think about the Leader. Link. Thanks, Ben!

When Caller ID Isn’t Enough

We got a phone call today from an 800 number but the name was UNKOWN. We normally will not answer the phone unless we recognize the number or the caller abusively calls many times. I Googled the number and found a site called www.whocalled.us which allows folks to collaborate on unknown phone numbers and try and identify them. I discovered it was Sears calling me. They didn't leave a message on the machine, idiots.

Link.

Keepin’ it old school: The Amiga Lives on

If any of you have ever used an Amiga, then the image above will send rage through you. You've probably encountered it more than you'd like to admit and even though it didn't quite work that time, there's something you probably forgot to do– and you tried and tried again. It became a passion; a labor of skilled love that you endured until it accomplished the task. You were then exhausted but satisfied.

For those of you that don't know, this image is comparable to the Windows blue-screen-of-death. Basically, it's caused by faulty software that ultimately brings the machine down. In earlier versions, it didn't say “Software Failure” instead relying on “Guru Meditation” alone to convey it's message. Your choice was to either reboot (most did) or to attach a debugger and figure out why it failed (I never did this).

This screen capture was grabbed from the UAE (Unix Amiga Emulator) for the Mac (excuse the German) in which, yes, it even crashes in emulation. Please, hold your applause until the end.

The reason I've posted this is because I've pulled my Amiga from the basement and have been copying my old floppies to images and ultimately storing them on CD-ROM as I fear the oxide on the discs will cause them to be unreadable (some already aren't readable now).