Did you hear the joke about the pencil? Its pointless.

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LGA 775: A Joke And A Threat That Is No
Joke.

LGA 775: A Joke And A Threat That Is No
Joke. 06/21/2004 10:18 PM
Overclockers.com: LGA 775: A Joke And A Threat That Is No Joke. "This is a threat, the biggest threat we've ever faced. If you wait until it becomes reality, it's too late to do anything about it." Awwww.

happy pencil

happy pencil 07/07/2004 09:27 AM
happy pencil [note: flash, safe for work, portfolio]

The pencil man of Concord

The pencil man of Concord 02/10/2004 02:44 AM

People said that London was a center of theater and music but this is my second night here and there doesn't seem to be much action in town.  Perhaps it was not London, Ontario to which folks referred.  Anyway, in between test-flying Diamond Star N505WT, I'm reading Th e Pencil by Henry Petroski, 354 pages that demonstrate conclusively that at least one area of history has been justifiably ignored.

It turns out that, before setting off for Harvard College, Henry David Thoreau devoted quite a bit of time to figuring out how to blend graphite powder and clay into a pencil that could compete with the best English and French products.  He and his father were very successful pencil merchants in the 1840s.  As cheap German imports made the business less profitable the Thoreaus moved into supplying graphite powder for electrotype printing.  In 1853 Thoreau's friends asked him why he'd stopped making pencils.  He responded "Why should I?  I would not do again what I have done once."

pointless

pointless 01/27/2004 06:24 PM
pointless 0.5 released

Pencil Me In: A Calendar with PHP,
MySQL, and CSS

Pencil Me In: A Calendar with PHP,
MySQL, and CSS 10/23/2002 08:04 AM

Pencil necked chic

Pencil necked chic 07/02/2004 01:11 PM
Dweeb is the new black, according to this LA Times article about the transformed social status of geeks from outcasts to arbiters of cool. Why the author points to exposed underwear as an example of geek-originated style, I don't know -- that's a gangbanger thing, not a code warrior thing. Now, if they'd suggested pocket protectors as future haute couture accessories, yeah -- but until there are gold-encrusted ones in the Dior fall collection, I'm not totally buying the story's premise. Fun read, though. Article Link , hidden behind a dumbass site registration system that you can bypass with bugmenot.com. (Thanks, Mara!)

with only a pencil-drawn moustache

with only a pencil-drawn moustache 12/26/2003 04:15 AM
Ananova

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ACT, SAT essays under the red pencil
(USATODAY.com)

ACT, SAT essays under the red pencil
(USATODAY.com) 08/18/2004 06:43 AM
USATODAY.com - Meredith Brand can't say much about what's going on behind closed doors here at ACT Inc. headquarters: Her work deals with the closely guarded essay questions being developed for the testing company's signature product - its ACT college entrance exam.

Some Pointless Changes Around The Office

Some Pointless Changes Around The Office 11/05/2003 07:08 PM
Thanks to Lou for pointing out this Onion story. The only thing that'd make it more amusing is if the ads on that page were for Office Space DVDs....

Voltage Mod Radeon X800 Pro with Pencil

Voltage Mod Radeon X800 Pro with Pencil 05/19/2004 04:32 AM

Voltage Mod Radeon 9800 XT with Pencil

Voltage Mod Radeon 9800 XT with Pencil 05/04/2004 06:33 AM

"Hurrah! Now, I'm not normally one to be
a Luddite, but you don't get this
problem with pencil and paper, you
know?"

"Hurrah! Now, I'm not normally one to be
a Luddite, but you don't get this
problem with pencil and paper, you
know?" 08/31/2004 08:45 PM

Another Day, Another Pointless Patent
Battle

Another Day, Another Pointless Patent
Battle 04/08/2005 03:15 PM
Another day gone by and another story about some company claiming a random patent concerning a business they're not even in. In this case, it's a patent from the same company that has managed to squeeze a ton of money out of companies by claiming to own a patent on the compression of images used in .jpg images. Now they claim they hold a patent on the concept behind DVRs, thanks to a vague patent that talks about recording TV signals on computers. Once again, you have to ask two important questions: how is that non-obvious enough to deserve a patent? It was a clear evolution of the technology. Second, why do we allow the patent system to work this way when it's clearly not rewarding innovation at all, but actively punishing those companies that innovate? Meanwhile, with TiVo building up their own patent portfolio, it looks like we'll have yet another paten t cold war involving all of this nuclear stockpiling. At what point do people realize that the system is broken? It's not encouraging innovation. It's just making some patent lawyers wealthier while taking money out of research and development of new, innovative products.

More pointless drivel about horses

More pointless drivel about horses 06/23/2004 05:40 PM
Today, canter! No falling off. Wonderful feeling. Then trip to forest. Understand now why horses used as form of therapy. Start thinking if getting hooked.

Forgotten all definite and indefinite articles. Cannot formulate full sentences. Being very tired. Had two beers with friend. Feels good. Even if missed corporate summer party. But it would've been boring anyway. Always is...

Thinking of starting new blog to supplement this. Memory prosthesis -type. Need better place to keep notes, but must first solve searching problems with JSPWiki.

IRC: Pointless waste or useful tool?

IRC: Pointless waste or useful tool? 05/09/2004 11:27 AM
The New York Times has run an article ["The Internet's Wilder Side", NYT, 5/6/2004] that brings Internet Relay Chat, or IRC, to the public eye once again. The article, published Thursday, emphasized IRC's notorious reputation to a generally uneducated audience. Articles such as these are a reminder that IRC may be falling apart, succumbing to "elite" software pirates and childish flooders. So who exactly uses IRC today, and where is IRC going?

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra Voltage Mod
with Pencil

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra Voltage Mod
with Pencil 06/21/2004 07:24 AM

Fantastico 1920s Spanish stapler and
pencil-sharpener

Fantastico 1920s Spanish stapler and
pencil-sharpener 05/19/2004 03:02 PM
El Casco is a Spanish company that has been supplying desk-accessories and office products to the Spanish rail company since the 1920s. They have a line of premium reproductions of 1920s-era office tools, including a heart-stoppingly lovely stapler and pencil-sharpener (the pencil sharpener has a little window so you can peer into its guts and watch your pencil transformed). Link

IRC: Pointless waste or useful tool? ||
kuro5hin.org

IRC: Pointless waste or useful tool? ||
kuro5hin.org 05/10/2004 04:27 AM
IRC: Pointless waste or useful tool?

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spacehijackers Architecture:loads of
pointless flash

spacehijackers Architecture:loads of
pointless flash 12/05/2003 06:43 PM
Spacehija ckers Architecture:loads of pointless flash

Jordan named most pointless celebrity
(Reuters)

Jordan named most pointless celebrity
(Reuters) 01/09/2004 09:55 PM
Reuters - Forget her obvious assets -- curvaceous model Jordan has been picked as the most pointless celebrity by visitors to Madame Tussauds.

Tech And Hollywood Form Coalition Of The
Pointless

Tech And Hollywood Form Coalition Of The
Pointless 07/14/2004 05:22 AM
This has been tried before without much success, but that doesn't really matter. A group of (large) tech companies and movie studios have now teamed up to create a "coalition" to come up with copy protection schemes. Apparently, Cory Doctorow's speech about why DRM is bad for everyone hasn't had much of an impact -- even on folks at Microsoft where he gave the talk. They're included in this "coalition" that seems suspiciously short on smaller companies. It's easy to see why, of course. Those smaller companies don't want to get locked into some proprietary, expensive technology that doesn't work well and only serves to piss off their customers. It's only larger companies who seem to think that protecting obsolete business models is more important than innovating and embracing new business models.

North Korea Says Talks with U.S. Are
Pointless (Reuters)

North Korea Says Talks with U.S. Are
Pointless (Reuters) 08/23/2004 10:29 AM
Reuters - North Korea described President Bush Monday as a tyrannical political imbecile who put Adolf Hitler in the shade and said Pyongyang could see no justification for talks with his administration.

Latest Pointless Patent: Redirect Page
For WiFi Logins

Latest Pointless Patent: Redirect Page
For WiFi Logins 01/27/2004 02:24 AM
Wouldn't it be nice if we could go just one week without hearing about yet another ridiculous patent? These days, that seems to be wishful thinking. The latest, dug up by the always excellent WiFi Networking News is the fact that someone has actually gone and patented the concept of using a redirect to force you to a login page when you connect to a WiFi network. How is this possibly patentable? It seems like an insanely obvious idea - and one that plenty of companies use because it's obvious - and not because they ripped off someone's "intellectual property". The point of the patent system is to encourage innovation. The point of this patent (like so many others we've been hearing about recently) is to hold companies hostage for doing something obvious.

Pointless, Outdated Intel Wi-Fi Feature
Never Added, Finally Dropped

Pointless, Outdated Intel Wi-Fi Feature
Never Added, Finally Dropped 09/24/2004 07:31 PM
Intel bows to manufacturer feedback, and drops plans to ever add Wi-Fi access point features to its Intel Express 915 and 925 chipsets: Frankly, we never saw the reason to add these features into a desktop PC with the combination of simple Internet sharing available within Windows XP and more robust options under Linux, and the cheap price of full-featured, stand-alone access points. There are a lot of reasons why a computer shouldn't be an access point, and most of them have to do with the nature of the device: most computers aren't on all the time, aren't in the right position to offer access for a home or business, and don't have the right kind of antennas....

States Move Forward With Pointless
Anti-Competitive Dating Site Law

States Move Forward With Pointless
Anti-Competitive Dating Site Law 03/28/2005 06:33 PM
Last month, there was a story about how some online dating site that claims to do background checks on its members (though, they don't actually check to make sure the person is who they say they are) was trying to get state politicians to pass laws requiring such checks or force other dating or social networking sites to put a huge notice saying: "WARNING: WE HAVE NOT CONDUCTED A FELONY-CONVICTION SEARCH OR FBI SEARCH ON THIS INDIVIDUAL." This law is obviously completely pointless other than to try to make life difficult for the competition of this one tiny dot com dating site. However, it appears that a number of clueless politicians are buying it, and just such a law is moving forward in a number of states, with Michigan leading the way. What's amusing (though, in other ways, scary) is the rationale one of the Michigan sponsors is giving: "There are inherent dangers in the whole area of the Internet. Something needs to be done." This seems like a fairly typic al political response. Something isn't perfect, so a law must be passed -- even if it will have no impact and (if anything) likely make the situation worse, not better. Of course, for the dating site that is pushing all of these laws, it's only going to backfire on them if the law passes -- because then those other sites will start doing background checks, and this site will lose its one tiny, pointless differentiating factor. You have to wonder if they pushed for the legislation with the belief that there was no way it would pass -- but they were likely to get some press out of it. Now what will they do if it actually does pass?

"Watch carefully now. Something cynical
is happening here. With each new
pointless warning, with each new
breathless plea, those around George W.
Bush are trying to link the terrorists
with the Democrats." 7/9

"Watch carefully now. Something cynical
is happening here. With each new
pointless warning, with each new
breathless plea, those around George W.
Bush are trying to link the terrorists
with the Democrats." 7/9 07/10/2004 12:38 PM
have learned .. cynical .. Newsday

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A Joke

A Joke 02/20/2003 10:05 PM
Did you here that the Walmarts and K-Marts are closing down in the Middle East? Apparently they're all becoming Targets. (rimshot)

not a joke

not a joke 09/10/2004 12:15 AM

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Remix of W's WMD joke

Remix of W's WMD joke 04/10/2004 07:14 PM
This remix of George W's WMD joke at the White House Correspondants' Dinner is vicious, brilliant and true. 3. 6MB QuickTime Link (via Dan Gillmor)

Panda Joke V

Panda Joke V 04/09/2004 04:09 PM
One of this site's annual traditions is that I post the Panda Joke each year when I'm away for SXSW....

.Net is a Joke (Allegedly)

.Net is a Joke (Allegedly) 03/19/2003 10:26 PM

PHP Humor ... No that's *Not* a Joke
Itself

PHP Humor ... No that's *Not* a Joke
Itself 03/21/2003 09:12 AM

PHP Humor ...  No that's *Not* a Joke Itself

PHP-Con is doing humorous interviews with some of the speakers to promote the event.  Here's the one with John Coggeshall:

When was your first PHP?

John Coggeshall: Sitting in a darkened smoke filled room... I was almost out of money but a friend of mine told me she [PHP] was good for a trick or two and didn't charge much.

His comments on Perl, Java, and Visual Basic are really good.  You can read more of this over at the PHP- Con site.

PepsiCo No Joke

PepsiCo No Joke 04/15/2004 02:28 PM
PepsiCo continues to perform, but may be fairly valued.

Math Joke

Math Joke 04/09/2004 03:56 PM

I just got this via email and don't know the copyright or the origin of this. If someone knows whether I should give credit to someone, please let me know. But it's too funny not to blog.

What's the Best Geek Joke You Know?

What's the Best Geek Joke You Know? 06/24/2005 05:44 PM
Slashdot Jun 24 2005 12:27AM GMT

Panda Joke VI

Panda Joke VI 03/17/2005 03:31 AM
Back again for the sixth consecutive year, it's the Panda Joke! A panda walks into a restaurant, sits down, and orders a sandwich. He eats the sandwich, pulls out a gun, and shoots the waiter dead. As the panda stands up to go, the manager shouts, "Hey! Where are you...

Stupid language joke

Stupid language joke 02/10/2004 02:55 AM
The funniness of an US company called Makkara Sushi combined with this this scientific experiment is left as an exercise to the reader.

Nautical Geek Joke

Nautical Geek Joke 01/22/2004 03:04 AM
As previously noted, I subscribed to The Gunroom, the online home of Patrick O’Brian fanciers; in the first day there have been two not-bad jokes. This one concerns a pirate’s parrot who got a bad case of sunstroke and was heard crowing Pieces of seven, pieces of seven. Which was clearly a parroty error.

Obscure Finnish joke

Obscure Finnish joke 02/01/2005 09:48 PM
Siinä tulevaisuus. :D
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