That's How It Happened

I'm not sure what's wrong, but my inner nerd seems to have escaped. All links supremely geeky. If you're feeling especially cool, I'd ignore them and pop-back tomorrow:

Hotmail email accounts can be maliciously suspended with one unfounded accusation of spamming.

When both Google and Yahoo crashed simultaneously last week, I had pseudo-panic attacks and felt utterly alone and helpless (well it was after a long sleepless night on call), fortunately I'm now better prepared with this Guide to Contingency Planning for When the Internet Goes Down: "People in pre-Internet times used to read "books" and "magazines", written materials once created in printable format to pass the time. Some e-books are still available on paper, and may offer a short-term solution until your power is back and your broadband is restored."

The That's How It Happened Neologism Fest is proving a grand success. Get even more hyped about your potential prize by checking if your preferred username is still available with gmail.

Chic laptop bag disguised as a pizza box, and good guide to regional pizza variations.

Incredible graphs of the most popular current Yahoo photos. Good to see Rasputin's cock still riding high. This tool (NPI) could be as interesting as the Blogdex.

This stumbling drunkard flash game has been linked to everywhere in the last 6 hours, but I'll add to the hype, 'cos I got it via Nixta.

Nathaniel Hornblower's June 20th Letter to the New York Times:
"Anyway, that video is big time good. Pauline Kael is spinning over in her grave. My film technique is clearly too advanced for your small way of looking at it."
"As ever I now wrap my dead goat carcass in the soiled New York Times — and you are not forgetting to buy me a replacement! Please send that one more goat to me now!"

This piece on Playing Poker With Dick Cheney, may be the funniest post in the history of blogging.

Star Wars Origami using Japanese banknotes.

Splinter Cell was right: lock picking is easy.

A team of 1000 linguists has revealed that the Tshiluba term ILUNGA is the world's least translatable word. (But it means: "a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time".)

"The next steps the police will take involve talking to people who might help identify the criminal." Boulder police struggle to capture man who snuck into cheerleader's hotel rooms, in order to photograph his own genitals, with their cameras.

I'm unclear who would be interested in this hot tip, but as of Monday the California Dunk SB will drop in London. It will no doubt be available at Foot Patrol, Slam City, and maybe Slammin Kicks. Unlike the abysmal Carhartt Dunk SBs it's getting major hype, and this release is way way ahead of the US. This spells guaranteed eBay profit. If you can't sell them on, you could always use them to test water quality.