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The second “Ask Tucows” chat takes place at chat.tucows.com tomorrow starting at 12:00 noon. This is your chance, to talk to various Tucows staffers (Yours Truly included) and ask questions, make comments or suggestions and get to know us better. Just point your browser at chat.tucows.com — no client software or plug-ins are necessary.

Once again, here are the details:

• Where: http://chat.tucows.com
• When: 12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m. Eastern / 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon Pacific / 16:00 – 19:00 UTC

For those of you who’d like to see a transcript of the first “Ask Tucows” chat, it’s here.

See you there!

Here’s yet another reminder of the “Ask Tucows” Chat taking place on Tuesday, May 2nd from 12:00 noon to 3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (that’s 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon Pacific and 16:00 – 19:00 UTC). That chat will take place on our brand-new chat page:

chat.tucows.com

The “Ask Tucows” Chat is a chance for you to “talk” to various Tucows employees and ask questions, make suggestions and get to know us better; it’s also a chance for us to get to know you better. The last one was a success; if you missed it, you can see the transcript here.

Hope to chat with you next week!

[via Justin Mason] You might not find this funny, but I do: a comparative graphic showing how rocks would be depicted in various video games [1 MB]. Some samples:

Everyday rocks:

The same rocks, as seen in Duke Nukem 3D:

and in Katamari Damacy:

and in the text adventure Zork:

We’re coming up on that time again: the next “Ask Tucows” online chat takes place in just one week — Tuesday, May 2nd.

The first chat was quite successful and went well over the “official” scheduled length. Based on the response and length of the conversation, I have decided to lengthen the “official” time of the chat; it will take place on May 2nd from 12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m. EDT (that’s 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon Pacific, or 16:00 to 19:00 UTC).

I’m working out the last of the chat details right now; I’ll post them shortly.

If you missed the last “Ask Tucows” chat, a transcript is available online at Tucows Developer News.

Whenever an airplane manufacturer releases a new model plane, they always trot out special versions showing planes equppied with cocktail lounges, massage stations and sleeping berths. However, the airlines who purchase these planes see things differently: their goal is to pack as many people as possible on a flight. Seat space has diminished by 3 inches on average since 1978 and now Airbus is proposing making the term “cattle class” less a figure of speech by proposing a standing-room concept.

I am reminded of the South Park episode where Mr. Garrison invents a new vehicle that is controlled by four suspiciously penis-like handles, one of which goes into the driver’s anus. “It’s still better than the airlines,” one character says. The vehicle, a parody of the Segway, is such a success that the airlines go bankrupt and have to be bailed out by the government.

Maybe we should write to the airlines right now and say “If you install those standing-room seats, I’m never flying with you again.”

No matter which university or college you attend, student governments are preety much the same. They’re comprised largely of proto-wonks looking to have a taste of power, pad their resumes, have their own offices (and office sex) for the first time, make a few thousand bucks while doing so and most importantly, validate their own inflated senses of self-importance.

One of the finest examples of this is Ryan Holt, Vice President of the student government at the University of South Carolina, who is now immortalized in this video of him freaking out because someone had played a prank on him — they filled his office will balloons. “Look at me being serious!” he yelled, not realizing that his rant would be turned into a domain name, lookatmebeingserious.com.

Why did the rebels have such a hard time with the Empire? The Japanese cops didn’t have too much trouble taking down Darth Vader… [YouTube link]