And this is the perfect gift for the guy who has everything. Except a pacemaker, that is.

Mental note: Never go to Australia

From Schoolboys took Viagra at lunch…
The Sun newspaper quoted a source at the school as saying: “By the time the afternoon lessons began, there was no hiding what they had done.”

Oh, yes. This is exactly the sort of positive association we want people to have with American culture.

Stop the madness! A University of Florida study shows that salaries are heavily biased towards tall people. On average, each inch of height is worth an extra $789 per year. $789!!! That means that my husband has nearly $10000 more earning potential than I do, based ENTIRELY ON HIS HEIGHT.

I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part. Does anybody have access to a 1964 Lincoln Continental?

British Pathe Film Archive has 3500 hours of video and 12 million still images covering news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970. If you aren’t sure where to start, check out the Top 20 most downloaded clips.

Kids try out classic games like Pong, Donkey Kong, and Tetris. Kind of depressing.

Kirk: What is this? [Picks up and twists the paddle controller] Am I controlling the volume?

Sterling sentence construction from Hazing Claiming Younger Victims…

Stevens, of Sayville, N.Y., has spent most of the 25 years since her son, Chuck Stenzel, died in a sports fraternity hazing fighting to bring an end to the practice.

How many times did you have to read that before it made sense?

“You want a piece of me?” Cows Gone Wild!

Original post from 9/26/2003…
Macromedia bought a Segway a while ago, but it’s been living up at the San Francisco headquarters (motto: We’re So Much Hipper Than You). The company threw a party up there on Thursday, so they sent busses to pick up the Redwood Shores employees.

While we were up there, a few Redwood Shores people slipped away from the sushi and fondue on a daring mission to swipe the Segway for us. (Cue Mission Impossible theme.) It was secreted away on the bus by the time it pulled away.

And now (Bwa ha ha!), we have one at work.

People have been tooling around the office all day. There have been a few casualties. Bonnie has a collection of plastic bits that used to be attached to the Segway. One of them used to be a kickstand. The other two are of mysterious origin. One of them is rather disturbingly spotted with dried blood; rumor has it that there was a mishap in the elevator late last night that resulted in a scraped knuckle or two. There are also telltale black scuff marks on several of the cubicle walls.

A handful of us took turns riding it on the way to the local deli. Nothing produces instant celebrity faster than possession of a Segway in Silicon Valley. We were giving interviews and fielding questions the whole way.

Update…
Within the span of one week, the Segway was completely destroyed (and there’s a suspicious hole in a wall outside of one of the conference rooms) and is in for service. Reportedly, somebody got hit with the recall problem.

Before catastrophe struck, we took some movies of people riding around the office. Here are a couple of me (they’re a bit large, but I can’t be bothered to fix that)… one and two.