July's Community Credit Prizes
If you are not familiar with Community-Credit.com, it is a site for allowing people to put in the technology community events that they attend or do. With each event, you get points and each month my buddy David Silverlight awards prizes for the preceding month. I was just checking out the prizes for July, and they are hilareous. David has done a really good job in getting really cool and weird prizes. My two favorite prizes are:
- 1st prize. Somebody annoying you in your cubicle? Blast em!
The USB Missile Launcher is the ultimate deterrent against those annoying people who lurk around your desk because they've nothing better to do. The Launcher holds three foam missiles, and Missile Command is located on your desktop (which is a great deal more convenient than having it buried under Cheyanne Mountain in Colorado - but that's Norad for you). You simply use your mouse to control the launcher which rotates and tilts as you zero in on your victim, that, despite being deeply childish, is immensely satisfying. The Missile Launcher fires its three foam missiles sequentially as you hit the 'Fire' button, and though collateral damage is minimal, the fun factor is exceedingly high. We just love USB toys. - 15th prize. So, you think your job is bad...
You think your job is bad? Try being a Sherpa, a Saddam Hussein Double (now unemployed), or the person who operates the "It's a Small World" ride. Satirist Justin Racz has spanned the globe to find fifty jobs worse than yours, so we can all feel better about our own. Fully illustrated, featuring color photos of the undesirable and unfathomable, Fifty Jobs