Spicy wings, anyone?

Perfect for those who go to work without having breakfast.

This one’s so realistic you would actually think about eating it.

Real crispy.

Cholesterol-free barbecue.

Fast food USB drives for a fast food nation.

Can this sushi USB drive get any more realistic?

The LED light on top is a bit off-putting, but this mince pie still looks good enough to eat.

All we need now is the creamy fondue dip and we’re good to go.

Cops are gonna be all over this one.

For those who can’t indulge their sweet tooth, here are USB drives to make you more miserable than ever.

Check out the sticky appearance.

Keep this one away from your kids, cause it looks just like a real biscuit.

Nothing like a brewski to wash down the meaty ones above.

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Oh well. In any case, I just thought I’d spend a few moments trying to identify some popular web cams out there. Alas, amongst the smut there were surprisingly few interesting webcams out there that seem to have picked up a following.

Here are some of the entertaining or interesting cam related search terms I encountered:

1. toilet cam

For some strange reason, some people love seeing other people answer the call of nature.

2. free dorm shower cams
3. bathroom cam
4. college girl shower cams

“Porky’s”, without the hole in the bathroom wall.

5. adult action cam

I’m pretty certain people searching with these keywords aren’t looking for gunfights, swordfights or hand-to-hand combat scenes featuring adults.

6. security cam sex

I bet most of the sex seen through this cam is staged, but people get off from watching them anyway.

7. mature cams

MILFs!!!

8. peaches cam

Who would want to look at a can of peaches? Ohhh, that peaches. I get it.

9. dressing room cam

Anyone, and I mean anyone, could be starring in any of these cams.

10. peep cam

This is the safe and smart way for voyeurs to do their peeping. At least they’re sure no one’s gonna poke ‘em in the eye or something. No more clambering up windows like this guy:

11. secretary cam

Images of Maggie Gyllenhaal getting spanked by James Spader suddenly entered my mind upon seeing these words.

12. live deer cam

For people with a deer fetish.

13. ghost cams
14. live ghost web cams

Somehow, many people believe some of the ghostly crap that these cams provide.

15. tanning bed cam

I just don’t get this one. Are there really people who like watching men and women tan themselves to a crisp?

16. Baghdad cams

People who look for this kind of cam probably hope to either see a car bomb go off, or see some Iraqi woman flash the camera.

17. sizzling cams

Unless the sizzling here comes from a hot plate, hardly anything sizzles in footage from these cams.

18. revenge cam

Watching other people’s girlfriends or wives having sex on-cam with people other than their boyfriends or husbands is fun, until the girlfriend or wife in the footage turns out to be yours.

With the whole world practically online, the number of suckers for hoaxes has increased exponentially. Most of the time, all it takes is one email or one photo to turn even the most highly educated of people into ardent believers in dead fairies, aliens running their own websites, or killer bananas.

Listed below are 12 of the greatest Internet hoaxes of all time. And yes, I was a sucker for at least one when it first came out. As the wrongly-attributed quote goes, there’s one born every minute.

1) 9/11 WTC Tourist Guy Hoax

This is the hoax that had me and millions of people all over the world. With emotions running high over the 9/11 attacks, it is but natural that a picture of a clueless male tourist posing on the World Trade Center observation deck with one of the hijacked planes ominously approaching from behind would grab so much attention. And considering that it started appearing online a mere two weeks after the attacks, this is probably the most tasteless and cruel joke I’ve ever come across.

2. Killer Bananas Hoax

The Center for Disease Control purportedly issued this email “warning” sometime in 2000: “several shipments of bananas from Costa Rica have been infected with necrotizing fasciitis, otherwise known as flesh eating bacteria. Recently this disease has decimated the monkey population in Costa Rica. We are now learning that the disease has been able to graft itself to the skin of fruits in the region, most notably the Banana, which is Costa Rica’s largest export.”

Mark Wahlberg’s character in “Planet of the Apes” sure could have used some of those bananas.

3. “Tommy Hilfiger is a racist” Hoax

A vicious email that circulated sometime in the 1990s said that famous American fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and said something like “If I’d known that African-Americans, Hispanics, Jewish, and Asians would buy my clothes, I would not have made them so nice.” Never mind that Hilfiger has never appeared on Oprah until May 2007, and that the establishment of a Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington D.C. is a cause close to his heart.

Naturally, the designer lost money because of the rumor. And his efforts at tracing the origin of the email proved fruitless.

4. Bill Gates Is Giving Away Money!

There are numerous variations of this email about Bill Gates personally contacting people and giving money away, and all you have to do is forward the email. It’s still in circulation, and I bet you $245 this has got to be the most forwarded email ever. At least that’s the amount that was promised me for every person that I send it to that forwards it on.

5. Bonsaikitten.com

Some MIT grad students succeeded in twisting the panties of animal rights activists and the FBI in 2001 when it put up this site which taught people how to shape a “bonsai cat” by squishing a kitten inside a Mason jar using muscle relaxant and feeding tubes. It was all a prank of course.

6. The $250 cookie recipe

Neiman Marcus is known for its pricey items, but this story of a $250 chocolate chip cookie recipe it offers is downright ridiculous. The tale of a woman and her daughter being charged that amount just for the recipe of the store’s delicious cookies has actually been around for decades, and the wonders of email guarantee that it will be around for decades more.

And oh, Neiman Marcus now offers its cookie recipe on its website—for free.

7) The KFC Hoax

According to an email that spread in 2000, Kentucky Fried Chicken has officially changed its name to “KFC” because it no longer used real chickens, but “genetically manipulated organisms.” That had “no beaks, no feathers, and no feet. Their bone structure is dramatically shrunk to get more meat out of them.”

If you stopped eating at KFC because of this, then good for you and your health. Now all we have to do is circulate an email saying that McDonalds uses earthworms in its burgers or something and we’ll see a significant drop in stroke and heart attack cases everywhere.

8. The Helius Project

Not yet totally and definitively debunked as a hoax, but come on! An alien maintaining a website and communicating with people? Typically enough, many people who have communicated with this “alien” believe that The Helius Project is the real thing. Click here to make contact.

9. Deodorant Causes Cancer

This is probably one of the most convincing forwarded emails ever, and I still have it in my inbox. A woman who was at a health seminar purportedly forwarded a message warning that deodorants can cause breast cancer. The American Cancer Society said this isn’t true, but enough people believed it that the number of people using deodorants went down and the number of smelly people subsequently went up.

10. The “Panic PIN” hoax

The “Panic PIN” hoax is a hoax many people wish wasn’t one. As the story goes, bank customers being forced by robbers to withdraw money from an ATM can alert the police just by entering their PIN in reverse order. Chalk this up to “too good to be true”.

11. Dead fairy hoax

It’s been 90 years since two English girls fooled the world with their pictures of fairies, but not much has changed, really. People are as gullible as ever. Early this year, a website featured pictures of what it claimed to be the mummified remains of a fairy, complete with ears, wings, hair, skin, teeth. Naturally, there was an overwhelming response from fairy believers, who say they’ve also seen something like that before. Even when Dan Baines, the website’s owner, ‘fessed up that it was all a joke, the believers just didn’t believe him. He sold the “remains” on eBay for 280 pounds.

12. “Osama Bin Laden has been captured” hoax

Another hoax that we wish were true: Osama Bin Laden had been captured, says an email that spread in November 2004, that the Bush Administration was just holding the announcement off until right before the 2004 presidential elections. It’s September 2007, and nary a single strand of Osama’s beard has been apprehended.

I’m not really sure if that goes for everyone in the tech business, but it sure is true for the 12 people listed below, who are being paid enough money to buy them a small country. If not a country, at least an island. One with pirates for sure. Man I wish I owned some pirates…

On top of their base salaries, the tech executives who made it to this list actually made a killing through stock compensation, hence, the extra zeros on their already fat paychecks.

1. Steve Jobs, CEO Apple, $646 million

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2. Omid Kordestani, SVP Google, $289 million

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3. Terry Semel, ex-CEO Yahoo, $174.2 million

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4. Michael Dell, CEO Dell, $153.2 million

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5. Larry Ellison, CEO Oracle, $72.4 million

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6. John Thompson, CEO Symantec, $71.8 million

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7. John Chambers, CEO Cisco Systems, $71.3 million

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8. Eli Harari, CEO SanDisk, $38.98 million

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9. Richard Templeton, CEO Texas Instruments, $22.04 million

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10. Stephen Bennett, CEO Intuit, $20.88 million

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11. Mark Hurd, CEO Hewlett-Packard, $20.33 million

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12. Samuel Palmisano, CEO IBM, $17.6 million

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It’s possible I missed some heavy-hitters, know of any ULTRA crazy salaries for technology executives that I missed? Know of any of them that wouldn’t mind missing their salary?

By the way, would you want to know what they bought with their megabucks?

Here are a few pictures of some expensive toys these mega-moguls have bought:

Larry Ellison’s Yacht

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Larry Ellison’s Woodside Villa

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Steve Jobs’ Historic Jackling Mansion

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Michael Dell’s Austin Mansion

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That’s right. Long before the iPod, the iPhone, the iMac, the iBook and many other high-end gizmos Apple is currently known for, there was the Macintosh. It was launched in 1984 through an unforgettable commercial deemed by many to be one of the greatest of that decade. Directed by Ridley Scott, the commercial was inspired by George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984”, and effectively ushered in the new age of personal computers.

Here’s a video of that landmark commercial, as well as other Apple Computer commercials from the 1980s. Some are funny, some are downright silly, but they sure make for some good nostalgic viewing.

The 1984 Macintosh Commercial

Test Drive A Macintosh

Apple IIc Commercial

Apple IIc Nightmare Commercial

Another Apple IIc Ad

Apple II Commercial – Positive Influence

Sexist Apple Computer Ad