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Category Archives: From the hip

Opinion pieces. If I sound grumpy, it’s because I shoot from the hip; which usually mean I talk out of my ass.

Put the kettle on, shall we?

I was curious knowing more about the Lipton brand of tea, and the Yellow Label Tea in particular (I’m sipping on a cup while I type). So I ventured over to Wikipedia and this stood out to me:

Available in over 110 countries, Lipton is particularly popular in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Africa and parts of Asia.

So you say Lipton isn’t particularly popular, where? Antarctica?

Long Tail

Since the meme of the month is “long tail”, I’m just gonna say it: Long Tail.

“Everyone Needs a (Press) Release”

Do you have to be a dick to be a member of the press?

Don’t you need to have balls to be a member of the press?

To Lay the Headline

I don’t know if Wired editors spend just as much time figuring out clever headlines as I do. But this time they managed to get an occasional snicker out of this AP piece: “Enron’s Lay Dies Suddenly”.

My first thought was, what ladies?

Joke – Coulter style

Ann Coulter “Have Ann Coulter been analy gangraped yet? If not, why?”

Domain Registry of Assholes

Looks like the business that call themselves Domain Registry of America is once again sending out their scam letter trying to fool people to renew their domain registrations and transfer them to DRoA, despite the fact they are already registered with another registrar. Please don’t do business with them!

I have no idea why they think I would perceive it as a good idea to pay their 26 Euro per year instead of 15 U.S. Dollar I currently do over at directNIC. DirectNIC is great, they include a lot of free services that other would try to monetize (yes, I hate that word) in one way or another, and as a New Orleans based business they even lived through Katrina without closing down.

What A Day

April 1, 2006 was the day when even the Slashdot-crowd realized it was pointless to post comments…

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