Archive for November, 2007

Disable typing over text in front of the cursor

So you’re typing in a word document and everything you type seems to run right over the text in front of it — that is, instead of inserting more letters like you’re used to the computer erases an existing letter for every new letter you type. This is called “Overtype” and it’s an evil, evil [...]

Recover Hard Drive Data by Freezing?

I came across an interesting article today — apparently it’s possible to recover data from a dead hard drive by freezing it.  The article explains that the process of freezing the hard drive causes the metal to shrink and be able to function for a short period of time.  The ridiculous number of responses on [...]

Unpublished Scripts: The Bobbafet Killer

Opening Scene: There is heavy breathing. We see out of a thin eye opening. A girl walks around the corner and a man wearing a Boba fett mask attacks. We hear screams and the camera pans over to a clock which suddenly whirls backwards. We see a dark figure putting police tape around a vending [...]

Myspace Will Censor You (AskANinja.com)

Here’s a copy of a news article from the popular website www.askaninja.com — I’m just passing on the word. Original Article: http://www.askaninja.com/node/2836 Let me start off by saying we love all of our friends and fans that we’ve made through Myspace. But sometimes Myspace the company does some gross stuff that violates the spirit it [...]

When Ninjas Attack…

So there I was standing in the middle of the desolate park armed only with my trusty video camera, surrounded by vicious ninjas. There were maybe twenty or thirty of them, all surrounding me in their stereotypical ninja formation. I should have known. Of course they would come at me from all directions, they obviously [...]

Try World of Warcraft Free

Yes, it’s true that you need to pay a monthly subscription for World of Warcraft. But there’s good news: before deciding to pay 15 dollars per month you can download it and try it for free. Keep in mind that you may need to enter credit card information when creating your trial account — Blizzard [...]

Highlight Text Vertically

So every once in a while you’ll come across a situation where you want to highlight text vertically. Why would you want to do that? Maybe you want to delete a bullet character that’s at the beginning of each line, much like the arrows at the front of forwarded emails. Wouldn’t it be convenient to [...]