Music software that shuffles entire albums and plays them end to end before switching to another random album.

I used to ask “what did you do?” when there was a guy just buying a bouquet. Got a few chuckles.

So in Seattle last week there was a man who accidentally shot himself in the leg while driving his car. He called 911 because he obviously needed help, but tried to tell cops that he was shot by a stranger while driving. They asked why there were no entry holes in his car, and I think he went to jail for being a dumbass.

Anyway, how do we know JFK didn’t accidentally shoot himself and then try to cover it up because he was so embarrassed.

I grew up in Virginia. When I was in the 3rd grade, Jim Gilmore won on a “no car tax” campaign in 1998. Funny how we still have car tax hmm…

In the original, you pulled them out, but parents probably got sick of losing the teeth.

Edit: This concept is demonstrated in this historical document https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-aEpGsH0a8

The children yearn for crocodile dentistry.

The best smelling one.

I just re-read Man in the High Castle which was written/takes place in the 60s.

One of the characters wants to know the name of the naval vessel that is currently in port in San Francisco. To do this, he has to call the local newspaper office on a telephone and ask them. Then they call him back with the answer.

Many parts of the book are anachronistic (because in this alternate reality, the Nazis are colonizing Mars), but I believe that part was accurate because I don’t know how else you could get that information.

TIL thanks

I assumed they were generally against the concept of sex not strictly for the purpose of reproduction.

• Auswitch statement
• V2latile variable
• Goebboolean
• Zyklon C++
• Left shift, Reich shift
• Open and close Parenzer
• Iron Cross-compiler

I’m aware. Just funny that you can’t have sex for fun apparently when you’re pregnant.

While not every player is not privy to the nightmare of every person in their game becoming with child, those who have the bug are finding a large number of Sims randomly marked as pregnant.

Who the fuck wrote this?

Once a character is pregnant, they can’t Woo-Hoo anymore,

Never pegged The Sims for being so Puritain.

Old Spice was not long for this woeld.

This is a really incredible product. Unlike a lot of engineering-for-kids stuff, this provides just enough assistance to get out of the way, and I imagine it’d be a blast to play with as a kid.

As someone who used to get blisters trying to cut cardboard with scissors, I wish I had this as a kid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation

a theory which suggests that people typically adjust their behavior in response to perceived levels of risk, becoming more careful where they sense greater risk and less careful if they feel more protected.

I think it’s interesting that in 2005, the internet had a ton of popups and scammy ads that told you “you just won a free iPod!” and everyone knew that was a thing. There was even a gag about it in Scary Movie 3 (2003):

Yet you don’t hear people complain about that as much today. It’s like so much of the internet has been cordoned off into walled gardens that most users don’t see pages out in the open.

Will it overflow? Will we have a -32768chan?

Based on the description, my guess is that the script solved the problem of having the line interrupted by only doing a single 56k transaction per phone call.

Lots of times, phone calls were billed $$$ for the first minute and $ for every minute after that. If her script only did one transaction per call and not even using the full minute, that could add up fast.

And, given that it took a month for the bill to come, she could have been doing something wrong even during the day. Nobody would have noticed until the bill, and the 1am calls stood out the most when the bill finally came. Maybe there was a local exchange that didn’t require long distance?