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Elephants go through six sets of teeth in their lifetime, but only the third and fifth are actually ivory…. the other sets are plastic, gold, crayola, and gypsum.

Repeatedly Forwarded Email Loses Original Point

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:53:00 -0600

February 3, 2009

CHICAGO, IL — Area man Frank Atherton received an email from his grandfather, retired accountant Dwight Lundquist, titled, “Fwd: FW: Fwd: Fw: FW: Fwd: FWD: FW: Fw: Fwd: FWD: OBAMA CAN’T BE TRUSTED MAYBE!” Lundquist was presumably the 11th person to send the email along since it was written on January 24. Unfortunately, the email had been forwarded so many times that Atherton had a difficult time deciphering its contents, even after carefully removing numerous forward marks and merging sentences.

The email contends, “President Obama is trying to set up a permanent government under his control and will use the FCC to do something with taxes or stem-cell funding. Or, maybe FEMA. Yeah, FEMA.” The third paragraph casts this warning, “Now, on some Thursday or Friday in August, maybe October, it is strongly urged that you DO NOT DRINK WATER FROM THE TAP. No wait, DO NOT WATCH YOUR LOCAL EVENING NEWS. I think.”

Email expert Charles Rumack of Netron, Inc. concludes, “Clearly this email as it was originally composed had a clear warning of some kind about the Obama Administration, but the ten-paragraph argument has degraded considerably. For example, paragraphs four through seven are simply a bunch of ‘@’ and ‘#’ symbols in random patterns.” Rumack says this happens all too often with emails that are forwarded with abandon. “It’s like making a copy of a copy of a copy in a Xerox,” he adds, “Eventually, it looks like garbage to the human eye.”

Atherton admits to receiving three to four forwarded emails from Lundquist each week, but says this is by far the most incoherent. “This is definitely worse than the one from last summer about how sugar or any sugar substitute will give all humans or rabbits cancer in maybe a few years.”

Starts lame but hits 99 shades of awesome at the 1:56 mark

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:11:00 -0600

Starts lame but hits 99 shades of awesome at the 1:56 mark

via Wil Wheaton

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:42:34 -0600

via Wil Wheaton

Backflip on a Big Wheel via Kung Fu Monkey.

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:20:05 -0600

Backflip on a Big Wheel via Kung Fu Monkey.

Grampa has the most AWESOME record collection…

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:15:37 -0600

Grampa has the most AWESOME record collection…

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A T-shirt for the struggling reality-challenged person in your...

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:25:00 -0600

A T-shirt for the struggling reality-challenged person in your life.

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ZOMBIE ZOMBIE Driving Clip Simon Gesrel Xavier Ehretsmann (via...

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:33:06 -0600

ZOMBIE ZOMBIE Driving Clip Simon Gesrel Xavier Ehretsmann (via JeanCarpentier)

My enduring love and affection for ’80s-era G.I.JOE (not to mention John Carpenter’s The Thing) is only sweetened by this masterpiece of stop-motion animation.

Gather 'round the campfire...

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:53:38 -0600

In case you’ve been living under a rock,the guys at 37signals have some fantastical tools for group collaboration. Sure there’s backpack, basecamp, and highrise, but campfire has been a real boon to the brainstaple group. A web-based chat and collaboration site, multiple users can freely chat online with image and post previews, transcript and file logs, as well as integrating with other 37 signals products.

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