Casiello Family Weblog

It’s just like the Iditarod, with a few minor differences.

Like, people instead of dogs, shopping carts instead of dogsleds, and New York City instead of Alaska.

Otherwise, it’s pretty much identical.

Check out the third story. The lineup for Reno Galena High’s starting lineup:

Caitlin, Caitlin, Caitlin, Caitlin, and Kaitlin

Kaitlin?! There’s always a wise guy!

Try this – go to MSN Maps

Enter these values
Start:
Address in: norway
City: haugesund
End:
Address in: norway
City: trondheim

Click “Get Directions”

That’s one heck of a detour!

From Norway to Norway, via the UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden.

(via devnull)

It turns out modern pro wrestling may be more like Roman gladiators than we thought.

– New theory says Gladiators were pampered stars not abused slaves
– Gladiators earned so much from sport that Emperor capped their salaries

(via Metafilter)
It’s Mordor. With a |

Folks have been grabbing screenshots from the Lord of the Rings movies and making animated gifs out of them. Like

Catapult

Boromir’s Invisible Phone

(via MetaFilter)

Sam Loyd’s Cyclopedia of Puzzles scanned and put online into the public domain!

The Angry Chicken – a pretty funny ad for running shoes, demonstrating the sport of parkour – or free-running. Apparently, the shoes being advertised are not particularly good for parkour, but when has that stopped advertisers?

(via MetaFilter)

U.S. Wraps Up Search for Banned Weapons in Iraq

Now maybe those guys can help OJ find the real killer.

A vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, discovered in October of 2004 has been upgraded to ‘extremely critical’, since it allows an attacker to put and run programs on your computer even if you just visit a (malicious) website.
it allows an attacker to put and run programs on your computer even if you just visit a (malicious) website.

More here.

And here.

Microsoft has released patches – if you’re not set up to automatically download critical updates, here’s how to make sure you’re updated.

Of course, if you’re not running IE, you’re all set – this one can’t touch you.

(via ACM TechNews)

Japanese roboticists claim that robots will win the soccer World Cup by 2050 UNLESS ANAKIN CAN DESTROY THE ORBITING CONTROL SHIP IN TIME!

It’ll probably take a little longer to program the robotic hooligans to destroy the stadium afterward.