I am the ghost of groovymother.com. Woooooo!

Massachusetts Land Records

Search the complete land-history records (mortgages and deeds) for Massachusetts. Find out how badly your friends and family are in debt!

hpsetdisp.pl

An old hack, rediscovered: Change the “00 READY” message on HP printers. I used variants of this at uni (“00 RAEDY” and “PAPER UPSIDE DOWN” were favourites of mine), and at AnagramOfPanties (in those glorious bubble days, I ran a script which displayed the current stock price on printers).

3 Fantasy Twitterers: Replies to @CathleenRitt

If you could follow any three possible twitterers, who would you choose? I’d go for @yooouuuk, @sjobs and @bez.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Official Website

Comedy Central has launched a complete archive of The Daily Show since Jon Stewart took over in 1999. It’s a wee bit wonky (I haven’t had much luck searching for old “Even Stephven” segments), but promising.

OK/Cancel : Please cancel my Google

This is ace. A random blog entry on OK/Cancel is coming up as the number one hit on Google for “cancel google”. Observe the comments thread, and fear for humanity.

“pollyanna209 wrote: help get google off my computer you have no right pushing google without permission from me i pay the bill for comcast and i want internet explorer back this is rude of you people!”

Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters | The Onion

“For a majority of likely voters, meaningless bullshit will be the most important factor in deciding who they will vote for in 2008.”

This License Key Rated R for Strong Coarse Language

The problems with randomly creating strings… “It turns out that one day in the not-too-distant future, our random number generator gets filthy. On that day, one out of every 128 licenses generated will start with the F-bomb.”

Twitter: Oauth

Blaine at Twitter has implemented OAuth authentication, the first (I believe) live implementation on the web. I hope to have this rolled into Twadget in the next week or two, so I can stop asking for usernames and passwords.

The Elements of Style Illustrated

Grammatical pedantry combined with a cute picture of a basset hound on the cover? IT’S LIKE THEY’RE INSIDE MY HEAD!

Threadless T-Shirts - Hoody Sale! 25 Dollars for 24 Hours!! TUESDAY ONLY!

Perfectly-timed sale — It’s getting a bit nippy out! Threadless hoodies are dropping from $40 to $25 for one day only. I’m currently deciding which ones I MUST HAVE!

Schrute Farms in Honesdale, Pennsylvania - B&B Reviews - TripAdvisor

TripAdvisor cameos on The Office this week.

People Getting Punched Just Before Eating (SNL Digital Short)

I’m mildly ashamed of just how funny I found this. “BELIEVE IN YOUR DREAMS”

The Information Freeway :: A map of the planet

Very nifty Google Maps-like tiled-and-draggable front-end to the Open Street Map data. I was surprised how detailed the data was for my neighbourhood, but I guess I shouldn’t have been, given the high geek-density round here.