If..Else Log

A 20 dollar bill which has escaped printing with a Del Monte sticker on it can be seen at the Heritage Galleries and Auctioneers site. The bill, verified to be a genuine print and in nearly perfect condition, was initially sold on eBay for $10,000 before news broke out amongst currency collectors. It has since appeared on the covers of Bank Note Reporter and Numismatic News.

As an aside, the Heritage Gallery site is quite nice esp. the item image display/zoom.

A transcript of the final moments of Asheron's Call 2 which was shut down on December 30th 2005. [via]

Clavius I: people are crying : (
Lostalot: this is so sad I can't stand it"
+Auntanua: I know, I will probably cry too in the end. It's ok.
Momm: i can barely see for the tears

This world will be shutting down in 2 minutes. Please log out.
Alty: i'm not logging out, they can boot me.
Hinhan: no good bye thing?
Aken-Lotus: awwwww"
Ch'Tau Pei: bye all

This world is shutting down NOW! Log out!
Aken-Lotus: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

The connection to the server has been lost

Jon Udell has a good entry in which he provides some recommendations for Wikipedia to take on board over the next five years.

• RSS feeds: syndicated feeds of watchlists, page edits, and statistics. Will be extremely useful for minimising vandalism, malicious edits.
• Change visualization: perhaps incorporating some of the scripts/tools resulting from Andy Baio's post
• Stable versions: An interesting idea though one that might act as firebrand. How, when and who will have the decision of tagging a stable version of a given wikipedia page? Consensus, discussion, experts?
• Trackbacks: A debatable one. Is wikipedia a resource, reference or discussion? Does this belong within wikipedia or is it a meta-service?

Flat, open roads + minimal speed enforcement = a lot of abandoned car wrecks

Spam circa 1975.

This amazing new record will soon have you picking up girls AUTOMATICALLY

I dunno, that sounds kind of dangerous…

Some idiot decides that the message board for the Cambodia's Ministry of Interior would be a good place to ask "Where can I find good sex?"…though that's one hell of a response!

The ministry of interior does not condone or support prostitution. We could arrest and lock up a sex tourist like you, if you may show up in Cambodia for sex reason. You waste our time, Charlie!

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Scrivs already has a post up on this but I have to say Wow! Awesome stuff!

You know those ideas you get when you wake up one morning and think to yourself, "You know, that'll be quite funny…". You'll then usually get some breakfast and then forget all about the idea. Well, this is what happens when you don't…

Bodhi Oser decided to print out some stickers with the word "FUCK" on them, post them on various signs and take photos of them. From then on, it snowballed and he ended up publishing a book of them.

I know, swearing isn't funny or clever… but I still found it amusing:) [via]

I don't know, just had the idea one day and thought it would be funny. So I printed out stickers in a bunch of different sizes, took them everywhere with me, and started taking photos. It quickly turned into an obsession, and I ended up with a book. So, now it's your turn, let's see what you can do. Get some stickers and take some photos. Believe me, once you start, you'll never look at signs the same way again.

There's an interview in Nintendo Japan Online Magazine in which they speak with Alpha Dream, the guys behind the Mario & Luigi series. One of the interesting things to come out of the interview was that in the period before they received the DS dev kit, they'd decided to knock up a prototype system so as to enable them to explore the possibilities.

Is it just me that finds the idea of a SNES controller on a portable games console extremely sexy?

"Hey, don't worry. There's no juice in this drink… wait, you mean that's *not* a selling point?"

Looks like the guys at Minute Maid may have missed out a step when they were making their lemonade. I wonder, would you find this in the fruit juice section?