How to scare a file sharer

Here’s an absolutely hilarious story on how someone stopped a file sharer in a hotel from hogging all the bandwidth. If this really happened, it is one of the best pranks ever. :)

December 7, 2005 · 1 min · 33 words · DigitalHobbit

Serious competition for Flying Spaghetti Monster

As much as I love the Flying Spaghetti Monster movement, this one poses some serious competition: Church of Reality. The website contains an abundance of very well thought out pages. A lot of it is sarcasm, but there seems to be some deeper and honest motivation as well. They have actually managed to be recognized as a charitable organization by the IRS. And if that’s not enough, the website contains several pictures of the Linux Penguin and is littered with fractals....

November 7, 2005 · 1 min · 116 words · DigitalHobbit

FSM Update

I hadn’t kept up with the Flying Spaghetti Monster movement for a while. It really seems to be gaining a lot of traction. In addition to many downloadable wallpapers, they now have a whole bunch of printable brochures, flyers, posters, etc., many of which are quite well done. But the funniest happenings have to be some recent propaganda events: Keep up the good work. :)

October 29, 2005 · 1 min · 65 words · DigitalHobbit

Déjà Fubar

Andy Hunt of the Pragmatic Programmers has coined a new term: Déjà fubar | noun That sinking feeling that you’ve made this very same mistake before. Maybe even many times before. I love it (and know it well…). :)

October 27, 2005 · 1 min · 39 words · DigitalHobbit

What If God Wanted Pasta Sauce

Sparkletone did a wonderfully quirky pastafarian parody of “What If God Was One Of Us”, called “What If God Wanted Pasta Sauce”. He provides both a regular version and a vocals only version for those who want to create their own mix. (via BoingBoing)

August 25, 2005 · 1 min · 44 words · DigitalHobbit