Could be useful: How to Get Rid of Things. A snake oil, cure all, for modern times? We offer advice about stuff like pest control, physical health problems, mental health problems, housekeeping, personal hygiene, computer repair, stain removal, and much more. All of this served up with a healthy dose of scathing sarcasm and self-deprecating humor by a couple of poor college students who've been around the block.

How do I say? Good time scene tape as opposed to crime scene barricade tape? Very cool. Via The Design Files

A collection of advisory videos offering tips for making it through the current economic slowdown. To be taken with a pinch of salt... if you can afford it, that is. It seems you can't turn on your television, listen to the radio, or read the newspaper these days without hearing some new story about another bank collapse or whole neighborhoods getting decimated by foreclosures. We hate to ruin your ... Read full entry

One day all the gaps in our knowledge will be filled. This article was published in 2005 and is still doing the rounds... no pun intended. The comments accompanying the article, most of them made this year, are funnier than the original article. Toilet paper has a natural curve, a way of being that lends itself to certain orientations on the toilet paper spool. If handled with skill and ... Read full entry

On the topic of invasion of privacy (or the perception thereof), and being filmed or photographed without prior permission or knowledge, it is 60 years since US TV show Candid Camera was first broadcast. The premise of the show involved concealed cameras filming ordinary people being confronted with unusual situations, sometimes involving trick props, such as a desk with drawers that pop open when one is closed or a ... Read full entry

"I work from home... therefore I do nothing." The reason I have done virtually nothing here at disassociated this afternoon is because... I've not been here this afternoon. I've been out having coffee and chatting with a fellow freelance content producer, and comparing notes. Ordinarily I'd link to her website, but it will soon become apparent why I won't today. She was telling me about a would-be "client" of hers, who wants ... Read full entry

A not so short story about making a cup of tea. Great reading... if you're taking an extended tea break.

One way to avoid retirement, or at least handing over control of your companies to someone else, create a conglomerate like entity and somehow bring it to life... "And so, ladies and gentlemen, I have thrown into action a complicated sequence of company mergers and buy-outs, and a logarithmically positioned series of investments, that now mean all my main subsidiary companies form a unique pattern across the globe. It's ... Read full entry

This week's "say what" moment is courtesy of Microsoft marketing executive, Brad Brooks, speaking about an advertising campaign intended to restore consumer confidence in the Windows Vista operating system, who is quoted as saying "software out there is made to be compatible with your whole life." "We've got a pretty noisy competitor out there," Brooks said of Apple whose "I'm a Mac... and I'm a PC," commercials criticize Windows ... Read full entry

Or wheel of misfortune as the case may be. :)