Head and Shoulders, what are you thinking??? Hair like this is worth a lot more than a million dollars. You could easily make dozens of child-sized "Cousin It" costumes out of that mane.
The current Woot-Off Alert Level is YELLOW, which, barring the unexpected end of Woot as we know it, will be the lowest the Alert Level ever drops.
In the wake of last week’s long overdue and massive Woot-Off, we were prepared to lower the Woot-Off Alert Level to Green this week, since it will likely be at least a month until we see another Woot-Off. Or so we thought. Always a step ahead, the sneaky team at Woot reminded us that they have a streamlined, Twitter-based version of a Woot-Off at their disposal: the Woot Happy Hour. Though they launched it last March, it had admittedly fallen off our radar. Until yesterday, when just as we were preparing to drop the Woot-Off Alert Level to Green (“no risk of Woot-Off”), the Woot Twitter Account lit up with Happy Hour deals. Sure, there were no Bags O’ Crap, but there was (mini) Wooting-Off none the less. In our relaxed, Green-level state we let our guard down. This kind of shameful lapse will not occur again. Continue reading ‘Like the Terror Alert (er-”Homeland Security Advisory”) System, the Woot-Off Alert Level Will Never Fall Below Yellow’
Yesterday, just hours after the first rumors of the feature surfaced, Google announced they were adding the ability to make phone calls to their flagship Gmail email service. We’ve tried out the feature a bit and it works almost exactly as advertised: from right within Gmail’s chat area you can initiate phone calls to any US or Canadian phone number for free. It’s pretty great. Except for the fact that if you’re using Gmail and it’s chat feature there’s probably a better way to get ahold of someone. Does that big a slice of the population of Gmail users not have a phone? The whole thing just seems, well, odd to us. Don’t get us wrong, we love Google Voice–it’s a fantastic way to manage multiple phone numbers. Continue reading ‘Google Ads Phone Calls to Gmail. Yay?’
We propose an immediate emergency airlift of signs like this one to the affected area. They've never once helped us, but maybe they'll work in China...
We’ve all been there: one minute you’re cruising down the highway, listening to some early Weezer without a care in the world when all of a sudden everything stops. For no apparent reason traffic then slows to a crawl, and all you can see ahead of you is an endless line of cars and trucks. Sometimes it’s only for a few minutes, but sometimes it can take hours to go just a couple of miles. Oftentimes there’s an accident or construction near the end that provides an explanation for the whole affair, but all too many times there’s no reason at all for traffic to come to a crawl. It’s incredibly frustrating and has ruined not a few weekends/vacations/trips to the airport. Continue reading ‘Nine-day Traffic Jam Continues in China-Suddenly Our Traffic Doesn’t Seem So Bad…’
Yes, we'll even flash this tool-ish hand sign as long as they promise not to play any of their post 1996 "material."
For people of a certain age, Weezer represents an interesting musical paradox: how can one band be responsible for some of the very best music and so much of the very worst music? If you came of age in the 1990′s you know exactly what we mean. Weezer captured the feeling and youthful angst of disaffected suburbia in a way that none of their contemporaries could. Sure, everyone aspired to beNirvana, but the genius of Weezer was that everyone already was Weezer. And Weezer was us. Continue reading ‘Weezer to Tour Performing Only First 2 Albums. Also, Hell Freezes Over’
It’s Friday. Do you know what’s popular in Denmark? Prior to today, we would have said something along the lines of “bad pop music?” We’d of course be wrong, however, because apparently the big new thing in Denmark is something called “rabbit hopping.” Despite what you may think, it’s exactly what it sounds like. Rabbits. Hopping. And it looks kind of awesome. Continue reading ‘Video of the Week: 2010 Rabbit Hopping Championships’
The Internet security "experts" at McAfee think this is the most dangerous man on the Internet, which makes us think they don't know about Mark Zuckerberg.
It must have been a busy day at McAfee headquarters in Santa Clara. First, Intel announced they were going to buy the popular maker of antivirus software for $7.68 billion dollars. On an ordinary day, this alone would be big, big news, and indeed, the chattering classes are already calling it both a great deal and a potential bust. But something much bigger also happened at McAfee today, because they released their fourth annual list of the most dangerous celebrities to search for on the internet, based on the percentage of search results that McAfee has classified as containing malware. The list is, as always, an interesting blend of both hotties that the dirtier minds of the internet might be trying to ogle as well as mainstream stars that the less-than-security-savvy might be likely to search for. Here’s McAfee’s top 10 list with our insightful comments: Continue reading ‘McAfee is Bought by Intel, Releases “Most Dangerous Celebs” Report: Are These Related?’
The Woot-Off Alert Level is RED, which means a Woot-Off is in progress!
The tension was just too much. Something had to give. After nearly two months without a Woot-Off, and three weeks after the Woot-Off Alert Level was raised to Orange (“High”), the storm has finally broken and a Woot-Off is upon us. What took so long? We can’t be sure, but Occam’s razor tells us that it’s most likely the simplest explanation, which means that this all had something to do with Amazon’s acquisition of Woot at the end of June. Maybe some kind of Amazon (Amazonian?) indoctrination/onboarding process had to happen before a Woot-Off took place. Even better, maybe they were working to acquire a stock of really high-quality woots (Amazon cast-offs perhaps?) before launching their first Amazon-affiliated Woot-Off. Maybe they were waiting for France to get its website together. Maybe the folks at Woot just like to take it easy in the summertime. Continue reading ‘Woot-Off in Progress: Woot-Off Alert Level Raised to RED’
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