We all know that
Google constantly crawls the Web with help from
spiders... but I guess zombies seriously scare the $hit out of the tech giant!!
Showing some timely techie humor, the search giant has updated its robots.txt file for Halloween. For the technologically uninitiated, search engines trying to index Web sites look for robots.txt files for instructions about whether they're permitted access to particular pages.
The Google robots.txt file on Friday begins with the following term:
User-agent: zombies
Disallow: /brains
Generally this sort of thing it's called an Easter egg. But I guess in this case it's a Halloween egg!!
For more funny easter eggs, head over to eeggs.com
Happy Halloween!!
OK, so here's a question I'm pretty sure you don't know the answer to: Which is the oldest video game??
Pacman?? Naaah.......
Mario?? Naaah...... Its gotta be
Pong right?? Naaaaaaaaaaah ....Well here it is: Its
Tennis for Two, a game which was developed by, brace yourselves for this, a Nuclear Scientist!!
After writing about
GTA recently, lets now head in the opposite direction.“
Tennis for Two” started off as a science experiment, created by
William Higinbotham for the annual visitor’s day at
Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York and was never meant for commercial purposes. His aim wasn’t to kick off the multibillion-dollar game industry — he just wanted to “liven up the place” with his invention. And in pure Geek-ishtyle, he did it by modding a oscilloscope that was meant to be used to study stuff like particle projectiles!!
Hundreds of people lined up to play “Tennis for Two” on Oct. 18, 1958. Players saw a side view of a tennis court on an oscilloscope screen and used an aluminum controller to serve and volley the “ball,” a bright dot that left trails as it bounced from one side of the “net” to the other.
To celebrate the game’s
50th anniversary, Brookhaven gave players another shot at “Tennis for Two.” On Friday, the lab opened its doors to the public from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., displaying “Tennis” alongside more modern game hardware, including the
Nintendo Wii, the
Sega Genesis and the
Atari 2600.
Here's a video, of the first video game ever!! Enjoy!!
God bless Prof. Higinbotham's soul!!
Now here's a story that'll most definitely be made into a movie: and I mean a full on
Italian Job kinda flick.....
Danny Ocean would've been proud of this one!! Here goes: A crook robbed an armored truck outside a Bank of America branch in Monroe, Washington, by hiring decoys through the popular site
Craigslist to deter authorities.
It gets even better: He Escaped...... For good!! "A great amount of money was taken", Monroe police said, but did not provide a dollar value. Hmm... must've been quite a few greens eh??
Craigslist is a site that provides local classifieds for jobs, housing,personals, services, events, and anything else you can think of. But this is by far the most innovative use of the classifieds site!!
Here's how it all happened: At around 11:00 a.m. local time on
Tuesday, the
21st, the robber, wearing
a yellow vest, safety goggles, a blue shirt, and
a respirator mask went over to a guard who was overseeing the unloading of cash to the bank from the truck. He sprayed the guard with pepper spray, grabbed his bag of money, and fled the scene.
But here's the hilarious twist. The robber had previously put out a Craigslist ad for "
road maintenance workers", promising wages of
$28.50 per hour. Recruits were asked to wait near the Bank of America right around the time of the robbery-- wearing, what else??
yellow vests, safety goggles, a respirator mask, and preferably a blue shirt. At least a dozen of them showed up after responding to the Craigslist ad. As it turns out, they were simply placed there to confuse cops who were looking for a guy wearing a virtually identical outfit.
I guess one can safely claim that the economy really is in the toilet when someone this innovative is robbing banks. I for one say let the guy keep the money. His plan was just too ingenious. Let's call it even. What say you'll??
I came across the ad that was for a prevailing wage job for $28.50 an hour --One Of The Unwitting Decoys
