“Everyone on planet Earth has had their bike stolen at some point in their life. This website is dedicated to cataloging everyone of those stories.”
SomeoneStoleMyBike.com
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.rar 32MB. A distributed real-time co-located high-frequency trading platform… A very low latency (microseconds) event-driven market data processing, strategy and order submission engine.

Update: Some Readers Don’t Know What the Hell Any of This Means
In short: I gamed Google and tricked people who were looking for the stolen Goldman Sachs software to come to my site… So I could see which organizations they were involved with. It’s a mystery to me why more organizations don’t hide what their people are doing online (ask any 12 year old computer …

A Racine man must give a deer head he took from a roadside carcass to wildlife officials, a state appeals court ruled today.

According to the ruling from the 2nd District Court of Appeals, John Longo found a dead deer on the side of the road near his home in February 2008. He loaded it into his truck, took it home and ate it. He had the deer’s head mounted and hung it in his home, court documents show.
Longo, now 69, didn’t immediately return a message left at a residential …

A Twitter user who has effectively spammed himself senseless reaches out to us for help. And we’re going to oblige. The only trouble is, he’s making yet another error in judgment, because my guess is this is going to make things worse.
Ryan Barr started a petition on Twitter to ask AT&T to “offer reasonable iPhone 3GS upgrade prices.” And even though it’s unlikely that AT&T cares even a little bit about this or any other petition, it’s getting some traction. Nearly 10,000 people have “signed” it. (Read more at: …

Branding at every touch point with the customers is the only way to go.
CD Baby gets it: link

If you’re looking at this article, then you are one of us, one of the sick, the demented, the easily amused procrastinators of work and pleasure.
Sure, we could be doing something worthwhile right now–finishing reports or grading papers or looking for that app bug–by why would we, really? There’s so many things to do online, things that you can never, ever do in the real world.
Below are thirty-three absolute time-wasters, things that will eat up your time and spit it out like carnivorous animals on a vegetation-only planet. (Waste …

Introduction

Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.
– Napoleon

In the interests of creating employment opportunities in the Java programming field, I am passing on these tips from the masters on how to write code that is so difficult to maintain, that the people who come after you will take years to make even the simplest changes. Further, if you follow all these rules religiously, you will even guarantee yourself a lifetime of employment, since no one but you has a hope in hell of …

JPMorgan Chase & Co. stands to reap a $29 billion windfall thanks to an accounting rule that lets the second-biggest U.S. bank transform bad loans it purchased from Washington Mutual Inc. into income.
Wells Fargo & Co., Bank of America Corp. and PNC Financial Services Group Inc. are also poised to benefit from taking over home lenders Wachovia Corp., Countrywide Financial Corp. and National City Corp., regulatory filings show. The deals provide a combined $56 billion in so-called accretable yield, the difference between the value of the loans on the …

Excellent list from sloshspot:

The Guy/Gal who Loves to Brag
The Network Marketing Guy/Gal
The Seo Guy/Gal
The Rebounder
The High School Friend That You Weren’t Really Friends With
The Person Who Always Tries to Chat With You. The ‘Chat Rat’
The Group or Cause Inviter
The Poker
The Liker
The Guy That writes About Political Stuff
The Relationship

Read more with witty descriptions and great photos at sloshspot .
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“We didn’t pay 37 million zlotys ($11 million) for the largest elephant house in Europe to have a gay elephant live there,” Michal Grzes, a conservative councilor in the city of Poznan in western Poland, was quoted as saying. (More on Reuters UK)
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