Published June 19th, 2007
WARNING: Video May Be Contagious
stick with it thru the first couple minutes
Archive for the ‘humour’
Published June 17th, 2007
Your Weekly This-Is-True Video Newsletter
We bring you today the first in what will be an ongoing series of weekly video newsletters courtesy of the crew from This-Is-True. Those of us who read the newsletter know it simply as "True" and you can subscribe to the free weekly email newsletter yourself here at the This-Is-True homepage. WD has been a reader for many years, recently upgrading to the paid version.
"This is True is a weekly syndicated newspaper column by Colorado humorist Randy Cassingham. True reports on bizarre-but-true news items from legitimate newspapers from around the world (never "tabloids"). Each story ends with commentary by Randy — a tagline which is humorous, ironic or opinionated. An online pioneer, True has been publishing on-line weekly since June 1994."
The video below, which we will bring to you each week at WD, is the sit back and relax, video version of the free email newsletter.
If you like what you see, you should consider also subscribing to the sites sister publication, The True-Stella-Awards newsletter. Published less frequently than the regular True, it is compelling reading that documents outrageous real life legal cases that really do make you ask "What the HECK is going on in today’s world". The name originates from the 1992 real life legal case, that became urban-legend, of 79 year old Stella Liebeck who spilled a McDonald’s coffee into her lap, then sued McDonald’s for the burns it caused, and was awarded US$2.9 million by a jury. Read the REAL facts of the case here…
Published May 13th, 2007
Dog Number Three Is A Genius
He deserves SOME kind of prize for this effort I reckon
At least a gold-star for initiative 
Published May 10th, 2007
WD Is Retiring From Work Early
Unless you’ve ever registered an internet domain name it unlikely you’ve ever come across ICANN. They’re the body charged with overseeing the hand out of internet domain names in the TLD’s of .com, .net, .org etc… Whenever you register a domain name in one of these TLD’s you pay an ICANN fee as part of the domain registration process. No biggie. It’s not much money. As you’re about to find out.
So anyway, I was over at my favourite domain register GoDaddy last week registering a couple of domains and I noticed there was a CREDIT on my account for USD$0.09… nine whole cents.
Turns out that there was some changes to the ICANN fees and I got back three cents for each effected domain I have registered. Now I did think about investment strategies for some time. I called my broker. I called Donald Trump. I called George Bush. They all said the same thing. "Boy… you’ve got to SPEND money to MAKE money…" So as you can see, I immediately reinvested the USD$0.09 refund on the purchase of a new domain for a new site I’m working on.
Thanks GoDaddy. Thanks ICANN.
You’ve made it all possible… 
Published May 10th, 2007
Test Drive With A Difference
The story goes that this guy (the pilot) had just purchased this new helicopter, using a portion of cash far larger than his brain. And he has also just recently gotten his pilots license to fly helicopters. (possibly from a cornflakes packet)
The story also goes that they urged the guy NOT to pilot his new toy home. But he insisted and as the saying goes, the rest is…
Published May 10th, 2007
Look At Me, I’m So Awesome At Drifting
Not much to say about this one really.
Just keep watching…
Apologise for the amount of quick and lazy video posts.
We’ll get back to some more substantial content shortly.
Published May 10th, 2007
Be Responsible, Be Creative, Recycle
With PC’s becoming more powerful and MUCH cheaper day-by-day, we all face the problem of what to do with the old boat-anchor that takes forever to boot up and even longer to get anything done. You could just chuck it out on the footpath and let urban-nature take it’s course. Or you could get some creative ideas from todays video.
Published May 5th, 2007
Worlds Scariest Billboard
So I’m out doing regular Saturday afternoon things about town and walking back to the WD Mobile with my bounty from the hardware mega-store. I turn a corner and THIS jumps out at me. If you think this picture is scary, then let me tell you it’s NOTHING compared to being in the presence of this… this… THING. 
And this is not a small sign. It’s a good 4-5m high and 10-12m across. But you want to know the SCARIEST part of all… There’s another one, just like it, facing the other direction, presumably to scare the same highway commuters as they return home each night. As if they didn’t have enough to deal with already.
You can click HERE to view the actual location of WSB in Google Maps. So you’ll know where NOT to go. You can see it just above the centre, above the redish dirt, and the white walking path. That’s it, casting it’s evil shadow as it points out towards the unsuspecting traffic. And if you’re feeling extra brave you can click on the image above to view the GIANT version. Go on.. I dare you.
Published May 5th, 2007
This Must Have Taken Ages To Do
So now we know what happens in movie theatres between session while we’re all standing outside waiting to see the latest greatest box office success "Snakes On A MF Plane" or "Rambo Part VII - Babmbi’s Revenge".
For those of you too young to truly appreciate and remember the phenomena, you can read all about SPACE INVADERS here on the intarwebs, which itself seemed as far fetched as videos games back in 1978.
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE
You can CLICK HERE to play the original
SPACE INVADERS right inside your browser window.
Go the FULL SCREEN option too.
Published May 2nd, 2007
VOTD: WorkSafe Training Video #016
I must admit it DOES look like fun…
But Dude… NO HELEMET !!! WTF
Here’s hoping the computer controlling the arm is not running Windows®
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