Life In The Office is a fun blog on one of my favorite TV shows, The Office (not to be confused with the former BBC show, which I also love, but in a different way ;-).
Life In The Office
They Haven’t Got Mail
I’ll start with an obvious statement: e-mail has become a vital communications medium in all facets of society. So it came as a surprise to me when Newsweek reported that during the course of congressional investigations into government responses to Hurricane Katrina, it was revealed that: Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security Donald Rumsfeld and Michael Chertoff “do not use e-mail.” Granted, they have aides and staff to manage and filter e-mail traffic, but to be totally divorced from such an essential means of communication, and, more importantly, documentation of events and correspondences is unconscionable. Unbelievable…
Desktop Earth
“Desktop Earth is a wallpaper generator for Windows. It runs whenever you’re logged on and updates your wallpaper with an accurate representation of the Earth as it would be seen from space at that precise moment.” Very cool…
What’s Up?
What’s Up? bills itself as “an indispensable tool for the global newsjunkie,” and I think that’s pretty close to the mark. A global map continually refreshes with “hot spots” of news that you can click on for more information. Pretty neat concept…
Last Tomcat Recovery From Combat Mission
A couple of weeks ago there was another sad milestone in the history of the Grumman F-14 Tomcat:
A chapter in naval aviation history drew to a close Feb. 8 aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) with the last recovery of an F-14 Tomcat from a combat mission.
Piloted by Capt. William G. Sizemore II, commander, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 8, Fighter Squadron (VF) 213’s aircraft 204 was trapped at 12:35 a.m. and marked one of the final stages of the Navy’s transition from the F-14 to F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet.
As I’ve mentioned before, the Tomcat is my favorite military aircraft, so seeing it go through its “sundown” phase has been a bit sad…
1,300 Cereal Boxes Coverpop
Jim Baumgardner has created another cool “coverpop,” a random collection of like objects that you can mouse over to zoom in on and see more details. This time he has created a coverpop of 1,300 Cereal Boxes, which he points out is “The equivalent fiber of one box of Colon Blow” (embedded QuickTime video of the Saturday Night Live commercial). Very neat; definitely check out the other coverpops on his page (some of which I may have linked to before)…
Least Patient Kid Ever
The kid in this video is pretty damn scary. Too bad it’s in German and I can’t understand much of what he’s saying; probably for the best, though…
Quailtardgate
I couldn’t resist… 🙂
Cheney Shoots Three Presidents in Oval Office Mishap
Steve Martin offers his comedic take on Cheney’s recent shooting incident in HuffingtonPost:
Vice President Dick Cheney, while hunting wild geese in the Rose Garden, accidentally shot President Bush twice, once in the heart and once in the head. “I didn’t really shoot the President twice,” said Cheney. “The second time I shot him, I was president. It wasn’t until my third shot, where I accidentally shot my own foot, that I had shot the president twice. I was officially injured and unable to govern, when Dennis Hastert came in, and stepped on the butt handle of the rifle causing it to swing up like a rake and shoot his hair off. I guess I’m officially responsible for that too, meaning I shot the acting president for a total of three occupants of the oval office. I’m not proud, but it is a record.”
Flash Bookmarklets
Flash Bookmarklets (and the site in general) has a bunch of nice bookmarklets, but my favorite is seek bar, which places a pause button and seek bar under Flash videos when run.
For those of you that haven’t used bookmarklets before, in Firefox you simply drag them to your bookmarks or tool bar, creating a link or button that can be run later.
