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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I websurfed, weak and weary,
Over many a strange and spurious website of 'hot chicks galore',
While I clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning,
And my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour.
"'Tis not possible," I muttered, "give me back my cheap hardcore!" -
Quoth the server, "404".

Milk! Must get milk!

'Got Milk?' Pours Humor into Advertising

California Milk Processors Board unveiled a new TV and Internet campaign crafted around a fantasy world of extreme milk deprivation.

“Get the Glass” campaign, (Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco) introduces the Adachi family. A humorously desperate family trying to grab the heavily guarded last glass of milk on Earth.

In a series of seven TV spots as well as a 3D flash animation board game, the family is seen trying secure that last glass of milk assumes Holy Grail status.


The first spot, which aired March 19th, shows a cold glass in a fridge heavily guarded by security cameras and robots in a maximum-security facility. The Adachi family, plagued by brittle nails, cavities and PMS (thewy just had to add that one didn't they?), are hiding out in an "undercover" van outside when they deploy their ten-year-old son to run away with the glass of milk... because the chances of success for a ten-year-old are much better than say a 40 year old women with PMS.

Want to be a Milk zombie? Take the challenge online where you too, must overcome health problems in the quest for the last glass of milk.

California Milk Processors Board said it spent $1.25 million for TV and Internet advertisments.

Product Development

Techie wipes out $38 billion fund

Everyone has heard the dumb computer user jokes. I’ve told several of them myself. But it’s time for one really good Techie screw up.

JUNEAU, Alaska -

Imagine wiping out a disk drive (computer hardware that holds information) containing a business account worth $38 billion. That’s what happened to a computer technician reformatting a disk drive at the Alaska Department of Revenue. Can you just imagine his/her face when the s/he realized the problem? I don’t think “oh shit” would cover it.

While the tech was doing routine maintenance work, the technician accidentally deleted information for an oil-funded account which just happened to be one of Alaska residents’ biggest perks …but it gets better. The Tech also mistakenly reformatted the backup drive, as well. Any good knowledgeable and prepared company IT Team wouldn’t worry too much because hey! “we still have the back up tapes that we did last month.”

No, the department discovered its third line of defense, backup tapes, were unreadable.

“Nobody panicked, said Permanent Fund Dividend Division Director Amy Skow.

I call Bullshit!

“ we instantly went into planning for the worst-case scenario,” said Amy Skow.

Over the next few days, as the department, the division and consultants from Microsoft Corp. and Dell Inc. labored to retrieve the data, it became obvious the worst-case scenario was at hand.

Nine months worth of information concerning the yearly payout from the Alaska Permanent Fund was gone: some 800,000 electronic images that had been painstakingly scanned into the system months earlier, the 2006 paper applications that people had either mailed in or filed over the counter, and supporting documentation such as birth certificates and proof of residence.

And the only backup was the paperwork itself — stored in more than 300 cardboard boxes.

The computer foul-up ended up costing the department more than $200,000.

Future Telecommuting Positions

Airline buddy dies, get bumped up to First Class

LONDON (Reuters)

British Airways crew members moved the body of the elderly woman from the economy section where she had died after take-off. The woman's daughter was also upgraded and spent the rest of the nine-hour flight from Delhi to London grieving next to her dead mother.

A passenger in first class woke up to the shock of finding himself sitting near a corpse on the a British Airways flight.

"The corpse was strapped into the seat but because of turbulence it kept slipping down on to the floor," Trinder, a businessman, was quoted as saying. "It was horrific. The body had to be wedged in place with lots of pillows."

British Airways has apologized for any distress suffered, according to the reports. The Mirror quoted BA as saying: "We apologize, but our crew were working in difficult circumstances and chose the option they thought would cause least disruption."

Ten commandments of cell phone etiquette -(Slide Show)

Today in this modern society, we live in and the proliferation of cell phones we see people talking anywhere and everywhere. However, for boring issues being bothered in the bathroom is very annoying and outright disgusting. Many individuals think nothing of using their cells phones in public places, such as the subway, restaurant, or even in hospital waiting rooms. While cell phones have made our lives easier, they have also made it possible to annoy others.

With the wide availability of ring tones for your phone, many people are often choosing those that are loud and unique. However, just because you like it, doesn't mean anyone else will. Another important thing to consider when using your cell phone is to keep your conversations short and simple.

You will also want to remember that if you are in a public place, you do not want to talk about your personal business or say things that others should not hear or that you don't want repeated. You never know who could be listening in when you talk on a cell phone in public.

One of the worst possible things you can do when text messaging is to be driving. Believe it or not, there are people who try to make sure they are pressing the right buttons and completely forget they should be looking at where they are going. This needs no explanation to say what could happen.

- Lilo

Cell Phone Crafting
What to do with a cell phone you have no use for.