California-based car dealer, or mega-dealer, known for commercials with his dog Spot, which would actually be a bear, a seal, a tiger, a killer whale, or anything but a dog. I remember them from my time in SoCal in the Air Force, and was a bit startled to learn he was still in business in the 21st century. The silly commercials are archived at
mydogspot.com.
My personal favorite was the column about finding the enormous brassiere encrusted with zebra mussels. I keep picturing the people who found it looking at each other and saying, "we must notify Dave Barry about this immediately."
"Easter eggs" in software are text or graphics information hidden by the developers, and displayed by some undocumented series of steps. Sometimes they're just a list of the developers' names. Movie DVDs often have Easter eggs hidden in the menus now, usually extra video content.
As seen, sort of, in
Thunderball,
The Green Berets,
Alias, and
The Dark Knight 2008 Batman movie with the late Keith Ledger. Also called Skyhook. Just read the article, and try to imagine riding the silly thing. Abandoned, sensibly, after the deployment of longer-range helicopters.
Restaurant featuring Single, Double, Triple, and Quadruple Bypass Burgers with from one to four half-pound beef patties respectively, plus cheese and bacon; Flatline Fries cooked in lard; counter persons and cooks in scrubs and lab coats; and waitresses in skimpy "nurse" outfits. Members of the medical profession are not amused.
Johnsonville Brats Big Taste Grillhttp://www.bigtastegrill.com/
The world's biggest barbecue grill: 65 feet long and 26 tons, travels in the form of an eighteen-wheeler semi-trailer. After I put up this link, it came to my town and I got to see it, but I had to be at work during the time they were actually cooking.
Flash-dependent page, best on broadband.
In the mid-90's Mike Doughney registered the then-unclaimed domain name peta.org and put up this site on it, much to the consternation of PETA, the "animal rights" group. That domain was disputed and suspended for a while, but is now being used by PETA. The page is unmodified from 1996, and many of the links are broken.
Dave Lister, Arnold Rimmer, The Cat, and Kryten ... three million years in the future. If you ever get a chance to see the episode called Backwards, don't miss it; the big payoff is the last gag at the end.
"A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers"; a tongue-in-cheek proposed protocol for sending Internet data packets by carrier pigeon, dated 1 April 1990, cataloged in the real Internet RFC database.
I used to think the term referred exclusively to films made by Sergio Leone with the young Clint Eastwood, but it's actually a bigger category. If you ever get a chance, see
My Name is Nobody with Henry Fonda, and without Leone or Eastwood. I thought it was hilarious, especialy tacked on at the end of a series of the Leone/Eastwood ones, as the old Neptune theater in Seattle did once.
A Web comic strip online daily since 1997, featuring the antics of the crew of a fictional
ISP. My favorite character is Dust Puppy, a strange fuzzball with eyes and feet, but no hands, supposedly spawned from effects of electromagnetic fields on the dust and fibers that collect in the bottom of a computer case after a few years.
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