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Printers Will Never Just Print!

Kim — Thu, 07 May 2009 04:35:02 +0000

This video will be hilarious to anyone who has ever had to print anything, ever. It just seems that printers will do everything there is to do but actually print your documents. Not without a fight, anyway.

(Warnings for violence against an innocent keyboard and rough ink cartridge removal.)

Watch Your Printer is a Brat on CollegeHumor

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Off-Topic: True Blood Season Two Sneak Previews Are Up!

Kim — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:39:29 +0000

…and not a second too soon. Fangirls (and boys) rejoice! Is it Sookie time yet?

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Embed a YouTube Video in Wordpress Without Going Insane

Kim — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:26:13 +0000

It’s one of those bloggy quirks. You’ve done it 80 times before, even like, once last week at least. But you’ve gone and forgotten how to embed a video again. Relax. Bookmark this page.

Go to the video’s page and get the embed code there. Pretend Wordpress doesn’t have a button to embed YouTube videos. Just ignore it forever, because that button will cause you nothing but grief. As an added bonus, you can customize the appearance of the video border to match your blog. Nifty!

But oh, no! The video is too small when small and too big when bigger. What to do? In the embed code, go to this part:

“true” width=”660″ height=”525″>

Open up your little calculator widget and divide each number by, for example 75 or 125%. Then replace those numbers with their reduced/opposite of reduced numbers. There. Easy, right?

(The comic is a classic from XKCD, one of my favorite sites.)

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Too Much Twitter?

Kim — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:09:30 +0000

This funny video (warning- mild profanity, may be NSFW), while overlooking Twitter’s better points, is pretty funny.

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Memes 101: The Internet’s 99 Greatest Hits

Kim — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:23:49 +0000

Via Time.com, a list of 99 pop-culture reference points since the internet became memetic. Just in case someone, somewhere is still Rick Rolling anyone.

Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You’re a Loser or Old or Something. (Warning: links may contain some off-color language, questionable humor, and seriously poor aesthetic judgment.)

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Cool Brain Tricks: Synaesthesia

Kim — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:23:32 +0000

Although fairly few people are truly synaesthetic, I found this video blog* on CNN to be really interesting. While most of us (myself included) can’t identify with the complexity of synaesthesia, it’s still pretty cool when a scent triggers a memory or vice versa.

I personally avoid most video stories, but I find the CNN iReports to be pretty interesting. This one in particular is very well narrated and engaging.

*Opens to a video player.

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Virtual Valentine’s Day ‘09

Kim — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:30:35 +0000

Your Virtual Assistant is on moderated assisting duty whilst I spend a long weekend celebrating Virtual Valentine’s Day.

I don’t want you to get bored, so please:

Make a baby with anyone via VW;

Stay hype on the stimulus situation and just say no to coffer looting!

Become an expert on Artisinal Ice Cream.

Add some steampunk cred to your desktop with these cool icons!

And bring chapstick.

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Apropos of Nothing: Lofthouse Cookies

Kim — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:09:34 +0000

Everyone in my household is addicted to these soft, fluffy, sweet harbingers of cookie-ecstasy. I feel honor bound to implore everyone not to walk past them at the supermarket because they have the ability to cure disease, wipe your hard drive of malware and painstakingly launder your delicates. Lofthouse Cookies got Barack Obama elected- true story. They’re the kind of cookies people get angry with you for bringing places because no one can stop eating them.