Top 22 worst named places in the world!

22. Cockburn, Western Australia
Although this name is often pronounced "Coburn" by those who stand to lose from its awfulness, who actually reads that when they see this word? Oh, how it burns.

21. Twatt, Orkney, Shetland Islands, Scotland
The Shetland Islands, pronounced "Shitland Islands" if you have an accent like mine, make up a happy little area north of Scotland where it's too cold for trees to grow. I am related to approximately half the population of the Shetland Islands, share a last name with a quarter of them, and can probably trace my ancestry back to Twatt if I try hard enough. The pride!

20. Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, New Zealand
Locals call this hill in Hawke's Bay "Taumata" because... Well. Just because.

19. Muff, Ireland
We here at Drivl love puerile humour. They have a town called Muff. Har har har.

18. Looneyville, Texas, United States
Little Looneyville was named for storekeeper John Looney in the early 1870s. But who gives a shit. This is a hilarious name for a town in the state that brought us Dallas, the Bush Twins and Waco. How awkward must that be when you go to college? "Hey guys, my name's Sue and I'm from Looneyville!"

17. Titty Hill, Sussex, England
Falling squarely into the extensive Stupid Place Names From England category, Titty Hill is probably located just north of...

16. Thong, Kent, England
Which actually is south-east of...

15. Gravesend, Kent, England
Oh, come on, England. Graves End? What a nasty, depressing little name. You could have at least gone all the way with this one and called it Corpse Feet.

14. Wetwang, Yorkshire... yep! England again!
Okay, so I'll cut England some slack. It's an old country. You know, if the United States is Google, then England is IBM. Their country is older than fucking dirt. They can't be blamed for having names that sound funny in 2007. But this is kind of ridiculous. Wetwang? I'm surprised they don't have towns called Squishy Vagina or Infected Scrotum.

13. Spread Eagle, Wisconsin
If I were mayor of Spread Eagle, I'd be making diplomatic advances towards the city leaders over in Wetwang to form a Sister-City relationship. Or maybe more of a Platonic-Friends-City relationship. After that, we'd just take thing slow and see what happened.

12. Bald Knob, Arkansas, United States
Well, I guess it's better than Hairy Knob. I assume England already has that one covered.

11. Cockup, Cumbria, England
Cumbria is a county in the very north-west of England. What the backwoods of Alabama are to America is what Cumbria is to Britain. They talk funny up there. Thus, it isn't thoroughly surprising that they have a town called Cockup. What do you call someone from this place? A Cockupper? Cockupeleite? Cockuppian? Cockupican? I suppose it's mildly better than Wetwangger.

10. Whiskey Dick Mountain, Washington State, United States
As hard as America tries, it can't compete with Britain's high standards. This was a good effort, though. Well done, Washington.

9. Hookersville, West Virginia
Undoubtedly named before "hooker" meant "prostitute who picks men up on street corners," Hookersville combines two crimes of place-naming. One, a dirty sounding adjective (they couldn't have chosen "Pleasant"? "Sunny"? "Happy"?) And two, they added "ville" to the end of the town's name. Affixing "ville" to the end of a town's name is like dressing your silly little dog in a cardigan and letting him carry his leash around in his mouth. It just makes the poor animal look fucking stupid.

8. Hell, Michigan, United States
The people in this town at least seem to have a good sense of humour about their home's unfortunate name. Although, I'm sure there's some midwestern idiots in Hell who get all offended and defensive when the town shows up on lists like this. I'm looking forward to reading their insightful emails and comments.

7. Toad Suck, Arkansas, United States
So that's what they do down in the big AR.

6. Middelfart, Denmark
I guess it's not so funny to them, but how do we know that "Seattle" doesn't mean "Big Fat Stinking Turd" in Danish? That's right, we don't. And it probably does.

5. Horneytown, North Carolina, United States
Its proximity to Hookersville, West Virginia is no coincidence. I also assume that, like Hookersville, the naming of Horneytown took place before "horney" meant "aching for a hot piece of ass" with an extra "e". But I'm starting to wonder why, pride and tradition aside, the townspeople in these little places never saw it fit to change their homes' names? Do they enjoy being ridiculed by the entire English-speaking world?

4. Shitterton, Dorset, England
I wonder if they bleep out the first part of Shitterton's name if it's mentioned on TV in America?

3. Disappointment, Kentucky, United States
Le sigh. Never mind. You live in a small town in Kentucky. At least it was appropriately named.

2. Fucking, Austria
The idiots who live in Fucking, Austria had a vote in 2004 to determine whether or not they should change the town's name, and you know what they did? They voted against it, preferring instead to put up with international ridicule, numerous stolen road-signs and horrific Google results.

But the hands-down winner, again from New Zealand is:

1. Whakapapa
Why is this the worst place name in the world? In Maori, the native language of New Zealand, the "wh" sound is pronounced "f". Say it aloud in your office and see what happens.

Another fantastic usability innovation

I don't know why but I've been stumbling upon amazing usability innovations lately. Here is another one. Every stair has been converted into a drawer as well.

This is fantastic use of space. Imagine. This will reduce the clutter for those extra cabinets to store all the bedsheets, shoes, stuff which you don't use regularly and what not.

Some Australian guy designed it and is selling it in Aus as well !

Fantastic innovation I must say.

Its summer and I can come late in office

During the winter months when I come in the office I generally wear a hard leather jacket. I am one of those who is awake will 1-30 am in the night and just cant make it on time in the office the next day. When I come late, people are already there in the office and have removed and hung their cloaks on their seats. When I come in late, I am the only person with the jacket and hence its immediately clear to everybody that I've come late. Too Bad.

Summer comes and things change. We no longer need to wear those jackets. A simple shirt and pant is good enough as an office attire. So when I walk in late, folks generally end up thinking that I had gone for getting some water or may be I'm coming in from the canteen after having my breakfast. This gives an added boost to come late.

Wow. I love it.

Coolest idea I've seen in a while !

I've pulled this from another blog I'm copy pasting it here.

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Sometimes I’m amazed at the creativity of some people who earn a good living filling needs that anyone could do. I was at a gathering today when I struck up a conversation with a man who described his job as a “commute helper.”

“OK, what exactly is a commute helper?” I asked

“I help people have a smooth and quick commute,” he replied.

“How do you do that?” I asked

“I sit in their car, ” he said with a smile.

This is what happened. If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, the commutes in certain sections are absolutely horrendous. This guy was sitting in a traffic jam one morning watching all the people in the carpool lane drive by while he was moving at snail’s pace. He decided that he needed to get someone else in his car so that he could get to work in a timely manner using the carpool lane, and at first thought that his only option was to start a carpool.

As he thought about it more, however, he thought that he (as in himself and his body) was actually a valuable commodity and he could sell himself and that is exactly what he did. He walked to the freeway entrance and held up a sign that said,

“Traffic is bad. Spend 2 hours or pay me $10 and get there in 20 minutes”

He said the first day he was picked up within 15 minutes. When he got dropped off, he walked to the other side, held up his sign and got paid to go back the other way too. On a typical day he makes 2 to 3 round trips during the morning commute rush hour and 3 - 5 round trips during the evening rush hour. If there is an accident and traffic is really slow, his price doubles. He clears $100 - $300 a day sitting in a car so others can get to work and home faster!

I just had to laugh when I heard his explanation and how brilliantly simple it was.

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This is the most innovative idea to make a buck I've seen in some while. I generally blog stuff that I find interesting. This is one more.

The text has been pulled from

http://www.pfadvice.com/2006/06/21/creative-job-commute-helper

You go on dreaming, imagining beautiful things for the coming days, the future. But in moments when danger is imminent, then suddenly you become aware that there may be no future, no tomorrow, that this is the only moment you have got.
So times of disaster are very revealing. They don´t bring anything new in the world; they simply make you aware of the world as it is. They wake you up. If you don´t understand this, you can go mad; if you understand this, you can become awakened.

I know none of the readers will understand it. But I do. And hence this post.

User revolt at Digg.com and after thoughts

On May 1, 2007 there was a huge revolt by Digg.com users.

The reason: A story was posted by one of the users which detailed how a HD-DVD security key was cracked. The cracked key was also apart of the Title of the story.

Since Digg.com is favorite for Geeks (and mine too) this quickly came to notice of many users and started getting diggs by the loads. Now, when the HD-DVD company folks got a sniff of the fact that their DRM was cracked, they forwarded a Legal Cease & Desist notice to Digg.com to bring that story down with immediate effect. Fearing a legal lawsuit the Digg.com staff deleted the story without any reason given to the user who posted it.

With this all hell broke loose!

Till this day Digg.com prouded itself to be Democratic site where users decide everything. However, when it brought down this story (which in turn was posted by the user) the million odd users of Digg went berserk. They couldn't take the fact that the Digg staff considered a potential lawsuit threat more important than their freedom to post and digg the stories. As a backlash for the next 24 hours every story on Digg was a variation of the original deleted story and each of this story went ahead to get more than 10, 000 diggs each. This is what I call Badass!

This shows how pissed the users got. The Digg front page was quickly swamped with the HD-DVD stories and nothing else.

I as a big fan & a self confessed neo-Geek was following this saga with morbid fascination. This is the first time I've seen an online revolt at such a unprecedented scale.

This was nearly equivalent to bunch of Shiv-Sena goons storming the Pune electricity board and beating the hell out of electricity board officers for having done a crappy job of providing electricity to the city.(Yeah, I supported this act of Shiv-Sena ! And I'm proud of it)

The saga finally ended when Kevin Rose (founder of Digg) bowed down to peoples demand and resurrected the deleted story . In his blog post he finally agreed that Digg will fight a lawsuit if needed but will not succumb to MPAA copyright crap!

This saga one again strengthens my trust in Democratic society and power of the people.

Freedom has to be defended at any cost! Way to go Diggers!

What do you guys think of this ? So you support my view ? Please comment and let me know.