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In response to the electronic shipping notification patent described in The Week in Patents, a friend told me about an interesting bread refreshing patent (US6080436). The novel method described in this patent should not be confused with toasting the bread, and any similarities are coincidental!

Actually, it is a nice patent because it is so short and to the point (check the claims), and I guess this is why the examination process was so short. Still, you really have to wonder how this was granted by an examiner!

Honestly, I am not sure if this post is more appropriately filed under “Patents” or “Humour”!

I received this humorous, if not somewhat innovate, spam email promoting a casino today:

hi bud, ok I`ll give you my trick but if you give it someone else I`ll fuckin kill you :)

you know in roulette you can bet on blacks or reds. If you bet $1 on black and it goes black you win $1 but if it goes red you loose your $1.

but I found a way you can win everytime:

bet $1 on black if it goes black you win $1

now again bet $1 on black, if it goes red bet $3 on black, if it goes red again bet $8 on black, if red again bet $20 on black, red again bet $52 on black (always multiple you previous lost bet around 2.5x), if now is black you win $52 so you have $104 and you bet:

$1 + $3 + $8 + $20 + $52 = $84 So you just won $20 :)

now when you won you start with $1 on blacks again etc etc. its always bound to go black eventually (it`s 50/50) so that way you eventually always win. But there`s a catch. If you start winning too much (like $1000 a day) casino will finally notice something and can ban

you. I was banned once on royal casino. So don`t be too greedy and don`t win more then $300 a day and you can do it for years. I think bigger casinos know that trick so I play for real money on smaller ones, right now I play on vip casino www.casino-url-removed.com for more

then 6 months, I win $200-$300 a day and my account still works. You`ll find roulette there when you log in go to “specialty” section. And don`t you dare talling about it anyone else, if too many people knows about it casinos will finally found a way to block that trick. If you have any questions just drop me a line here or on skype.

c ya

Cool – so the Roulette tables at the mentioned web sites have no green squares!

Now where did I leave my credit card…

Tags: Spam

I read an interesting article over the weekend questioning the value of many web start-ups. See Sun shining on the party of the big tech chase.

It is interesting, because I certainly am sceptical of the high levels of attention that some web companies are attracting. I also think that there is the potential that these companies form the next bubble to burst. (This might take a while though due to all the other bubbles bursting at the moment ;)

I think that this video explains it best:

It is very humorous, but it is also grounded in reality! Either way – enjoy it!

Some Friday afternoon humour (click to see large version) …

The Procrastination Flowchart

It is almost scary how true it is!

I heard of the concept of Google Bombs long ago, but I only discovered today that this was their name :)

Some of the cited examples are very funny :D

Tags: Google

One of my ongoing hobbies is trying to understand if RESTful APIs really are better than SOAP APIs, or are they just the latest fad :)

So I found this imaginary dialogue very humorous: The S stands for Simple!

Enjoy ;)

After writing about Maths yesterday in Reforming Second Level Education in Ireland, I read this facinating article today: Homer+Bart×maths = prime formula for comedy genius.

I am particularly impressed with Mersenne prime numbers, perfect numbers, and narcissistic numbers!

OMG WWII on FACEBOOK! – a modern adaptation of world war II for the american teenager.

Very funny ;)

Tags: Facebook

A very humorous article about iPhone users and their sexual partners: Yo, here’s a vulnerable snap of my iPhone.

I particularly like the last paragraph :D

Tags: Sex

I came across the Bielefeld Conspiracy today, and I was not familiar with this term.

I was rather amused when I read about it in Bielefeld Conspiracy.