Archive | January, 2009

Zombies Exist! They Are Highway Workers

29 January 2009

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Zombies are among us. We just did not know the zobmies were associated with highway departments. This portable traffic sign near the University of Austin in Texas was hacked according to Fox News.   i-hacked.com has the details (and provided the photo): some commercial road signs, including (this one), can be easily altered because their instrument [...]

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Super Bowl Euphemisms Time of Year

23 January 2009

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Super Bowl. Super Bowl. Super Bowl. There I said it: “Super Bowl!”  Ha. The NFL so closely restricts the use of the words Super Bowl that companies resort to using euphemisms in place of the real words “Super Bowl.” Wikipedia notes that one use of euphemism is “to avoid revealing secret, holy, or sacred names to the [...]

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Nerdy Way of Measuring Change From the White House

21 January 2009

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A websites robots.txt file tells search engines what they should and should not index.  When the robots.txt file lists a path or file as ‘Disallow,’ then the search engine will not index that location and it will not show up in searches. The robots.txt for the Bush White House website was nearly 2,400 lines and [...]

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Bailout Bowl – Football Bowl Games Sponsored by Bailout Recipients

7 January 2009

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Tax dollars have been hard at work  play.  Some of those high profile sponsors of college football bowl games were big recipients of TARP bailout money.  Who is enriched? Follow a simplified money trail.  Your tax dollars … to the government … to banks in the form of a bailout … to ad agencies … to [...]

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