That's.....that's a really good idea. I've nothing but crap pinned to my taskbar anyway. Time to freshen things up, I suppose.

We're gonna find out they did it, there will be a token punishment that in no way affects the sale of Officially Licensed Tom Brady Onesies, Hairpieces, Chainsaws, Spare Tires and whatever else the league decides to slap a logo on. People who love the Pats will still love the Pats. They will defend themselves by…

I read somewhere that the creator of the GIF format pronounces it "Jif", and that's good enough for me.

From a professional standpoint, the hostess should have accommodated the guest. If she was unable to seat them where they wanted to be seated, and they were as visibly upset, she should have gotten a manager immediately. That's just how things are done, and were I her manager we would've had a short talk in the office…

Am I the only one who loved Theme Park but never cared about Theme Hospital? Nothing particularly against it, I just never got into it. I'd be super-dupes happy if they re-released Theme Park.

In any case, it's time to see if I still have Origin installed. I only use it when they give away games like this, so the…

Caught pixel piracy on sale, and it's fun for a while but gets sort of repetitive. They just updated right after christmas, though, so I'm hoping that means a regular stream of more content (ideally, sea monsters).

Dungeonmans is fun. It's got all the trappings of a roguelike, but the academy system is nice. For those…

I've thought about this, too, and in my mind I always explained it as the sky remaining static while the world, which is a 2-d plane, rotated. Problem is, I play on PC, which makes the world a 2d plane that is infinite in all directions, leaving no room for a sky. This is where my theory fails miserably.

I wonder if the volume of zigzagoons is a result of people getting them, then dumping them right back into the trade system. That seems like it would be an easy fix on the individual level. Don't like what you got? Trade it again until you get one you want. And the market is flooded with 4 million zigzagoons and one…

This is both funny and appropriate.

I used to use a cactus clock to automate melon farming entirely. Not sure if they still work in the newest update, though.

I miss mods. My PC barely runs vanilla nowadays, but the days of running tekkit lite and fully automating the production of every vanilla food was a delightful challenge.

I mean, there's no sign that says 'Please do not bring a razorback hog into the restaurant and allow it to eat from the cash drawer as though it were a feeding trough', either....

When McDonald's first started doing McCafe, a friend tipped me off that they actually had an espresso machine and weren't just doing flavors. So I ordered an espresso at the drive through once. Bless her heart, the young lady first questioned if all I wanted was espresso, then proceeded to deliver me, for $2, a small…

I started at a pasta place in 08, and we were just feeling the first swell of the GF wave. We didn't actually advertise GF foods, but we had them, and we had one copy of a GF menu that we would photocopy for guests on request.

Favorite feature of all the Kinja blogs I read? BCO. Okay, here goes

#1: I, too, worked with Tanya, Ollie, Bene and Gina, and we had a store policy to use hilarious mispronunciations as often as possible. This led to confusion for new staff as we were low calling things like Chicken Ganaruchi soup (Chicken Gnocchi) and…

I'm actually bouncing up and down in my chair with excitement that I can post this as a relevant reply to something.

"Granted, it's possible he was leaving the tip in the hopes that his server wouldn't stab him to death, being confused that not every city operates the same way Baltimore does."

I have no doubt in my mind that Joe Flacco could get stabbed in Pittsburgh if he tried. I'm from Pittsburgh. The hate is deep and irrational…

are you proposing Sony bounce traffic back to the DNS server the ddos traffic comes from? Keep in mind the DNS server is an unaware middleman in all of this. Someone pretending to be Sony says "send me this gigantic file, plz". Thinking the request is legit, the server fulfills it. Your solution, as I understand it,…

I think the most interesting part of this is the way they leverage traffic so that the attackers aren't limited to the bandwidth available to them. Being able to dump 10 bytes of traffic onto the target for every one byte of actual data you upload is an impressive use of resources. That, and recognizing the login…