Orange County Register

Yes, Hump Day Timewasters are the total opposite of the new focus of this blog but hey, I hear people love it. And I am very grateful to iGirl for maintaining this blog in my absence. So, in honor of iGirl, here’s another installment of our weekly endeavor to make you laugh, have fun and in all cases waste time.

Freak friends out and send them an upside-down e-mail. Sites like Flip, by Reverse Fad Productions, turn anything you type upside down. Just cut and paste the reverse text into an e-mail and you’re sure to get a ‘How’d you do that?’ response.

It uses Unicode, the computer “language” that assigns a number for every character. But beware, upside-down lettering doesn’t work with everything. Some e-mail and instant messaging programs I tried resulted in gibberish. But it does work in Lotus:

To waste even more time, visit the Hump Day archive.

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