Also: 10 Things Your Grocery Store Doesn’t Want You to Know, Stapling ribbons to condom packets is not the smartest idea, Top 10 mistakes in the Apple iPhone interface, Russia shuts down AllOfMP3.com, anti-marijuana pill is harmful to humans. Read on. Lots of great links today.
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LISTS: 10 Things Your Grocery Store Doesn’t Want You to Know
To make yourself a smarter shopper, learn about the top tricks and other secrets lurking at the supermarket.I knew most of this, but it’s an interesting list, and EVERYONE should know everything on this list.
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COMEDY: Stapling ribbons to condom packets is not the smartest idea
Uhhh… How fucking stupid can someone be?
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APPLE FUD: Top 10 mistakes in the Apple iPhone interface
It’s not perfect!And the parts only cost $220 anyway…
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But http://www.mp3sparks.com has quickly popped up to do the exact same thing — sell you mp3s far cheaper than iTunes or eMusic.
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WAR ON DRUGS: Anti-Marijuana Pill is harful to humans – don’t take Acomplia / Rimonabant!
It’s quite an affront to freedom to prescribe somebody a medicine designed to take away the ability to feel a certain kind of happiness, even if that happiness is being stoned on marijuana.I’m glad to hear this pill is failing and is dangerous.
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CENSORSHIP: Bong Hits 4 Jesus – The Game
A flash game where you must choose whether a student banner is censorable, or not, under the new “Supreme Court Bong Hits 4 Jesus” ruling.Pretty fun and insightful (for 5 seconds).
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This is scarily creepy. HUGE company employs people without medical benefits, takes out life insurance policies on them, then collects money when they die!VERY VERY VERY creepy!
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SOFTWARE: UltraMon – Smark Taskbar
I’m annoyed that with 2 monitors,the taskbar only exists on one.
So I got this.
It creates a taskbar on every monitor
Each monitor’s taskbar ONLY displays othe programs on THAT monitorAwesome!It installs without you having to answer any questions and
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COMICS: Marvel’s “Civil War” storyline in 30 seconds
COMIC BOOK SPOILERS!!Here is a “30 second” summary of Marvel Comic’s “Civil War” plot. The one that ended up with Captain America being dead.
So you don’t have to read it
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PicLens: full-screen web-browsing
A FireFox plugin that lets you view any image full screen. Specifically made with Flickr, Facebook, Google/Yahoo Images, Friendster, and Picasa in mind.Clicking “All sizes” and trying to make images fill up the screen is work.
Let this plugin do it.
Claire's blog 
July 5, 2007 at 5:53 PM
Oh man that condom thing is hilarious!
July 8, 2007 at 12:42 PM
Yea, it takes a special type of retarded sometimes! :)
July 10, 2007 at 7:07 PM
I am still particularly disturbed by Wal-Mart profiting off the deaths of its own employees, who it resists giving health care too.
I mean, they can either make money, or loose money, so capitalism dictates that something like this should eventually come to be.
There’s a lot more ROI on an insurance policy than a health care policy!