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I just put up a Flash section with a few animations that I’ve had sitting on my web server for a while.

Recently I came across a post on Slashdot where someone was charged .002 dollars for service, after being quoted over and over at a .002 cents rate. He got a bill where he was charged around $71 for downloading around 35 megs of stuff. At the quoted rate, he should have been charged closer to 71¢.

He called up Verizon, pointing out the error, and no one seemed to understand the difference between cents and dollars! He pointed out the difference over and over to multiple people on the phone, and still, no one understood him. The manager on the phone again confirmed that the rate was .002 cents, but then quoted him the price due at a rate of .002 dollars.

The guy’s blog is here: http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/

A shortened version of the phone call is here: http://verizonfails.ytmnd.com/

The full phone call is here: (22 minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp0HyxQv97Q

And a quick Google math check that Verizon couldn’t seem to understand: http://www.google.com/search?q=.002+cents%2Fkb+times+35893kb+in+cents

i have no clue what it’s about.

main site: http://infinitecat.com/

the person who did it says it’s “cats regarding cats regarding cats”

Here is a site listing some funny reasons why he thought Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring sucked.

some are VERY funny, such as:
“Legolas shoots arrow after arrow at his enemies, and yet the number of arrows in his quiver never decreases. I guess elves have glands on their back that secrete arrows.”

And this one:
“The mutated muscular soldiers of Mordor turned out to be hilariously ineffective soldiers, a dozen of them held off by a single dying human. Apparently they made the beasts by crossing Orcs, Goblins and the French. “

did you know that a rhinoceros horn is made of hate, accumulated and gradually hardened over the years? or that Leonardo da Vinci could simultaneously write backwards and upside-down with one hand and kill a man with the other?

you can read those, and other interesting “facts” by clicking here.