These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 03/28/08 … please enjoy:
Legs manual wins odd title prize | BBC NEWS
A self-help guide called If You Want Closure In Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs has been voted the oddest book title of the year. Joel Rickett, deputy editor of The Bookseller, said of the winner: “So effective is the title that you don’t even ne
The Accurate Watch Reminds You Of Unavoidable Death | OhGizmo!
The only things that appear on the face of this watch are a simple second hand along with hour and minute hands that read ?remember you will die.? Seriously, how morbid is that? I don?t think anyone is really going to forget the fact that they will
John McCain’s First Presidential Ad | YouTube
With such a head start (and such a good ad), I have a feeling Democrats will have a very hard uphill battle this year.
Alien Sociology | Space.com
According to Hollywood, Earth is surely one of the galaxy’s “top places to visit before you die.” Cinema aliens come here often enough that the State Department should probably set up passport control. Of course, that’s fiction. But in the last hundred y
Medical transcriptionist melts keyboard with fingertips | Boing Boing
“We have a medical transcriptionist on staff who has been using the same keyboard for the last 8.5 years. My co-worker replaced it yesterday, and when he first showed it to me I thought someone had taken a blowtorch to it! The most frequently used keys ha
Prepare for the Worst, Because Solar Storms Are About to Get Ugly | Wired
Every 11 years or so, the sun gets a little pissy. It breaks out in a rash of planet-sized sunspots that spew superhot gas, hurling clouds of electrons, protons, and heavier ions toward Earth at nearly the speed of light. These solar windstorms have been
Make Ur Lolcat Famous Contest | I Can Has Cheezburger?
From the site: “Jones Soda wanted to put a lolcat on their clever soda bottles across the country. So we asked if we can run a contest to find that special lol. (It?s like American Idol, but we don?t has to listen to ur singing voice.)”
Made You Look | Adobe Photoshop Express
Adobe’s new Photoshop Express… 2 GB of storage space, a gallery, and an online version of Photoshop. Oh, and it’s free. Could you ask for more?
MacBook Air gets seized in 2 minutes flat | Engadget
At PWN 2 OWN, famed iPhone hacker Charlie Miller showed the MacBook Air who its daddy really was. Miller visited a site which contained his exploit code which then allowed him to seize control of the computer.
What worms, virus and spam attacks look like in 3D | Vallywag
On April 7, the Varnish Fine Art gallery and bar in San Francisco will host an exhibit called Infected Art. The works represent what worms, virus and spam attacks such as Storm, MyDoom and Netsky look like when put through a “computational art” algorithm.
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Over the past couple days I’ve noticed an influx of what appear to be spambots with IP Addresses such as: 38.100.41.100 , 63.247.78.178 , 69.63.112.114 , etc. After first thinking about blocking the addresses manually, I stumbled upon Bad Behavior.
This plugin is supposed to stop sites from being scraped, when plugins like Spam Karma aren’t enough. We’ll see how this works… give it a try if you suddenly see a huge amount of requests coming from certain IPs.
I’ve about had it with spammers, now. I don’t know what more I can do to prevent them from posting their inane spam comments on my blog without making everyone register (which I don’t want to do). All I know is that I shouldn’t have 172 IPs blocked from my site… each one a confirmed spammer, drives me insane! Argh!
Okay, that’s all… just wanted to shout about it. Are there any good spam solutions out there for blogs? Or am I stuck doing this the way I am… one spammer at a time?
So I checked my e-mail today so that I could clean out all the spam that normally fills it up, and I see a shiny little e-mail from a small company called “Microsoft” (you might have heard of them). Anyway, it seems they like me enough to invite me to the Longhorn Beta team! Wow! Here’s a snippet from the e-mail:
Dear Microsoft Beta Tester,We are pleased to offer you an early preview of Windows, Code-Name “Longhorn,”
by extending this invitation to join the Longhorn beta program. [...] Longhorn Beta Program participants will preview software for the next generation of Windows as well as Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.What is Windows Code-Name “Longhorn”?
The next version of Windows, Code-Name “Longhorn,” promises to be the most secure and intuitive Windows release to date. It delivers on the promise of allowing people to use their computers more effectively and confidently to achieve their goals and pursue their passions. It offers new tools to help protect the integrity of your system and your information, easier ways to find, visualize and organize your information, and provides better integration across
applications, devices and systems. [...]
Thank-you for your participation, and we look forward to hearing from you!
Sincerely,
The Windows Product Team
That’s just awesome… I’ve been an official Beta Tester for about 3 years now (although I tested Windows XP through Dell when I worked there) and this is my first full OS Beta! Happy happy, joy joy!
That’s just awesome… I’ve been an official Beta Tester for about 3 years now (although I tested Windows XP through Dell when I worked there) and this is my first full OS Beta! Happy happy, joy joy!Let’s see… not much else has happened, work is work… I feel like I’ve been coding this Access program forever now! My current block? I can’t figure out how to hide all the toolbars except the ones I want to be shown. Grrr!
Well, that’s all for now… time to go take my lunch break. Until next time, be excellent to each other!
