February 2006
6 posts
Why DO "Corn Pops" come in that Foil bag?
Wikipedia has the answer! The cereal is also known for going stale much faster than other cereals and is packaged in a different bag than normal cereals to keep it from doing so.
Great to know. I also now know that they’ve changed the name to just “POPS” as of January 2006… thanks to the Colbert Report. Stupid.
Emoticons -> Iron Dots?
Damn, that’s a good idea. I remember those things from arts and crafts, like with the wax paper and everything. Hilarious.
Rules of the Road.
“In most early motor vehicles the driving seat was in the middle. Later some carmakers chose to have it nearest the centre of the road to help drivers look out for oncoming traffic, whilst others chose to put the seat on the other side so that the drivers could avoid damaging their vehicles on walls, hedges, roadside gutters and other obstacles. Eventually the former idea prevailed.”...
Mobile17 mentioned in Popular Science magazine.
Thanks to Corey ‘toronadonut’ of Albany for sending me this beautiful scan of a recent blurb involving ringtones. Visit Mobile17?
PayPass?
Last week sometime, my bank froze my debit card because someone somehow got the number and charged $1.27 to it. Thanks, ya’ jerk!
So this week they sent me a new one, and it happened to have this new “PayPass” feature that works nowhere provided by Mastercard. I’m happy to say that in the future this will save time, especially when buying gas, but hurry the hell up! Right...
Safari Tip (for Mac Users)
I just found this out. If you hold down Alt/Option when pressing enter for a URL, it’ll download the file/page instead of going to it! Neat… we’ve needed something like this for a while.
EDIT: Ryan says that it also works in Camino and Firefox. Word up.