Error: Printer on Fire via Digg
Remember when…a combination of paper, dust, printer cleaning fluid, a printer drum rotating at 2400 RPM and the inevitable paper jam would sometimes cause a fire? And Unix had a special error code for just that condition. And to think how you would mock the PC LOAD LETTER message for being stupid.
Principles of Economics, Translated via Freakonomics blog
A hilarious spoof of Mankiw’s Ten Principles of Economics. Best line: Microeconomics is when economists are wrong about specific things. Macroeconomics is when they’re wrong about general things.
Astronaut has ‘Wasabi Spill’ in Space via /.
Not sure what kind of wasabi they’re using. The stuff I’m used to seeing doesn’t squirt or spill in any meaningful way.
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