Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
So that would be why I couldn’t post the last few days. Just an FYI, I’m usually off on Mon/Tue or Tue/Wed, and when I’m at home I don’t post as much.
Anyway, I’ve gotta figure out why my home network is being stupid (I think it’s my router/switch). But I’ll post a bunch today, I promise. 🙂
H. Bruce Miller is a columnist for a local community site, Bend.com (he was a former Bulletin columnist, I remember). He recently wrote a hillarious column, translating the 12,000-page UN report on Iraq into language George W. Bush can understand: Dr. Suess.
A sample:
I am Saddam.
Saddam I am.
I am the ruler of Iraq,
The country that you would attack.
You are Bush.
Bush you are.
The fame of you has spread afar.
From the Jokeaday.com mailing list.
“I’ve started referring to the proposed action against Iraq as Desert Storm 1.1, since it reminds me of a Microsoft upgrade: it’s expensive, most people aren’t sure they want it, and it probably won’t work.”
— Kevin G. Barkes
Dori Smith did a comparison of editors and how much code they produce. “The goal was to produce a simple Web page containing just a single linked image that rolled over to another image.” The summary of the results:
What does this tell you? For WYSIWYG editors, Dreamweaver is still king (it’s the ONLY WYSIWYG editor I would consider using — ever) and FrontPage will always suck (it is a Microsoft product, after all). But I prefer to hand-code my pages in Homesite.
Grabbed via Lockergnome.
Their search engine is already pretty cruddy, but here’s another reason to avoid Lycos. The FBI, in a “groundbreaking technological initiative in law enforcement” is going to be placing pop-up banner ads on sites on the Terra Lycos network (which includes those annoying personal pages hosted at angelfire.com and tripod.com, as well as Wired News). These ads are going to be featuring pictures, messages, and reward information for America’s Ten Most Wanted fugitives.
At least the guy they plan on featuring in the ads initially isn’t as scary looking as some of the other folks on the list. Think about it: Would you go back to a site that threw the image of a scary fugitive in your face? Those guys would give me nightmares, and I’d (personally) avoid a site that did that. Hopefully Lycos has thought this through a bit.
If you’re a riddle/brain-teaser hound, this is your site. The answers are buried in the forums on the site, so it makes you think about the answers. There are probably a few thousand riddles there.
What a fun little waste of time. Grabbed from 3bruces.com:
The object is to propel a mound of fecal matter with your ping-pong paddle so that it connects with the rotary air circulation device. Once you get some practice, try spring one off the stapler or landing one in the coffee cup. Even better yet, go for a “Mac attack” and ricochette one off the iMac screen into the blades. They did a fairly good job of creating a sound effects for the moment when the caca hits the old ventilador too – so how can you lose?
The head of the government’s Total Information Awareness project got a taste of his own medicine and will hopefully realize how STUPID this idea is (not only that, but a complete invasion of our privacy). As noted in this Wired News article, the head of the TIA project had all of his information exposed in a SF Weekly column. The information was all public record, so it was perfectly legal what the columnist did, but (hopefully) it will make Poindexter (yes, that is his name) realize that it doesn’t feel all that good to have your privacy violated. From the aforementioned column by Matt Smith:
Optimistically, I dialed John and Linda Poindexter’s number — (301) 424-6613 — at their home at 10 Barrington Fare in Rockville, Md., hoping the good admiral and excused criminal might be able to offer some insight.
Why, for example, is their $269,700 Rockville, Md., house covered with artificial siding, according to Maryland tax records? Shouldn’t a Reagan conspirator be able to afford repainting every seven years? Is the Donald Douglas Poindexter listed in Maryland sex-offender records any relation to the good admiral? What do Tom Maxwell, at 8 Barrington Fare, and James Galvin, at 12 Barrington Fare, think of their spooky neighbor?
According to the Wired article, his phone number, information, address, and even satellite imagery of his home has spread like wildfire over the net (similar to what happened to our spamming friend). Phone-phreaking hackers even supplied details on the Verizon switch serving the admiral’s home so they could play with it as well.
I hope the admiral feels better. I’ve believed my entire life that tax-payer dollars should NOT be going to shmucks like this guy, but that’s another rant, another day.
From Fark. Girl’s hockey team gets a male goalie. “It’s nice to be surrounded by women,” says the kid. Well duh. Full Story.
