26th April 2008 | Category: Who Knew?
Normally, not a chance in hell. But with the invention of SMS and Internet speak things have changed a bit. Correct spelling in job application is not required for Lilcat website. On the contrary, you may have a better chance if your resume is full of Lolspeak.
If you are still scratching your head about Lolcat and Lolspeak, then you are one of the few who missed the last year’s Internet craze about the kitty photo blog on Wordpress.com called I Can Has Cheezburger. It consistently featured on top list until this year’s craze Stuff White People Like came along. The Lolcat site typically would feature a picture of a cat with a caption in Lolspeak: an adult trying to be funny by mimicking a below average second grader spelling skill with an immature first grader sense of humor. But it seems that is what people love. Now Lolcat has a job opening and 250 people applied for it. The owner of the site cannot go over all the applications, but the filtering has nothing to do with spelling. In fact bad spelling may be a sign of hidden sense of humor that seems to be crucial for the success of such sites. The job itself was posted under the heading Kittehs Want Moar Workerhumans.
The job requires one to sort though over 9,000 daily submissions. Love for cat is not essential.
25th April 2008 | Category: News, Tech
That is what AT&T would like us to believe. The company says unless a lot of money is spent on network infrastructure we will run out of bandwidth by 2010. But before you panic remember AT&T may be to coming up with these dire warnings for selfish reasons and they may have little to do with helping the average people like us.
One possibility is that they want to jack up the price. It will go something like this: some of the spending in the infrastructure will be passed on to the consumer as a premium service. That means unless we pay up we will get a reduced rate service under the current plan. Today’s regular service will be tomorrow’s premium. Then there is the net neutrality debate that is raging in capital hill. Companies like AT&T would love to charge different price for different traffic. That way they can make more money. That argument goes like this: the bandwidth is limited and to make sure everyone gets a fair share companies like AT&T should have the right to allocate who gets how much. Sounds logical until we realize it is just another way of controlling price to make more money. People are already complaining that companies like AT&T are engaged in prioritizing traffic giving preference to data from certain source and ignoring others.
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25th April 2008 | Category: Who Knew?
This was not a mistake. Drivers in Philadelphia got a real break from high gas price when a local gas station offered a special price of 76 cents a gallon for gas. The promotion was tied to the occasion of 76ers making it to the playoffs.
This is the first time in past three years Philadelphia 76ers are in the playoffs. A local gas station owner wanted to mark the special occasion with a promotion that drivers can really celebrate. Starting at noon, the station offered gas for 76 cents a gallon. That is almost one fifth or 20% of the normal price of $3.69 a gallon. The drivers did not want to miss the opportunity and started lining up from early morning at 6:30am. By noon there were more than hundred cars waiting in the line. But there was a catch. The offer was for limited time only: 76 minute to be precise. About 100 cars got the deal before the 76 minute was up.
It is not clear how the person who was in front of the line but missed the deal felt.
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