Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
Ok, I’ve posted this before, but my POPFile hit 99.01% accuracy today at the office.
The only false positives (legitimate email flagged as spam) I get now are poorly written requests for my companys advertising rates.
You can download POPFile for free here: http://popfile.sourceforge.net/. It works with most email clients, but not webmail.
Ken sent me this too: http://198.78.65.123/nokia/nokia.mpgA short ‘commercial’ for Nokia phones with video capture ability.
One of my company’s university newspaper sites ran an interesting article today about a student who’s photo slide project was ‘shut down’ in a student union gallery.
May not be suitable for viewing at work, since the slide in question contains partial nudity (which is why I’m posting this article in the first place).
This was sent to me by Ken, who found it on Dave Barry’s blog.
http://www.lilmynx.com – Product site for a portable stripper pole. Just $700 will buy you the Pro model, which comes with ‘everything’ you’d need to ‘install’ your ‘portable’ pole.
They even have nice photos of it in use!
QuickTime movie – see how easy it is to install? Just drill a hole in your ceilingafter you locate a joist, screw in a long support screw/hook, and you’re in business.
Portable…sure…
OK, it’s not really funny, as it hurts quite a bit when those little buggers take over. The only reason I linked to this as it reminded me of a similar story from my high school running days. I was up at the Steens Mountain Running Camp for my 3rd year. A big part of the camp is the cross-canyon run — where you and a bunch of runners from schools all over Oregon and the west coast team up into groups of about 8 or so and run a point-to-point race through knee-deep sagebrush, bushes, and barbed-wire. You know you need to find the finish line — you don’t exactly the right way to get there, but you know you need to find the school bus about 4 miles away. It’s a hell of a lot of fun, and you have to start and finish as a team.
Since I was the most experienced member of my team that year, I was given the task of leading the way, and I knew a fairly quick (though excruciantingly painful) path to the buses as I had run the race a few times (the teams had a staggered start so everybody pretty much took their own route). We made pretty good progress considering we were the last team to start, and we had passed a good chunk of the teams. With about a mile to go, we were on pace to break the course record, until we plowed through a set of bushes and I managed to boot (yes, kick) a bee hive that was hidden in some bushes I was tromping through. The thing went flying, the bees got pissed, and I was stung 6 times in my right leg. Everybody on my team (minus one guy) was stung, too, at least once. Several of the teams behind us had followed our lead, but then ran into the same pissy groups of bees. We missed the un-official course record by about 30 seconds because of that little slow-down. My leg was swolen up for the rest of the day.
The Dallas Morning News Reported: “The service was fast, the judgments even hastier. Never did Jacqueline Mercado imagine that four rolls of film dropped off at an Eckerd Drugs one-hour photo lab near her home would turn her life inside out, threaten to send her to jail and prompt the state to take away her kids.”
The story details how one family’s snapshots at bathtime and while breastfeeding led to a felony porn charge.
“To Richardson police, who arrived at the store that afternoon and apparently made up their minds from the content of the pictures alone, this was nothing short of a felony case of child pornography. ‘We thought they contained sexuality,’ says Sergeant Danny Martin, a Richardson police spokesman, explaining why two Richardson police detectives began pursuing a criminal case. ‘If you saw the photos, you’d know what I mean.’
“The couple’s lawyer says, ‘These aren’t pictures that were peddled on the open market. This wasn’t on someone’s website. This is just a mother who took a roll of film and left it off at Eckerd’s. The state used them to arrest her, indict her for a felony and take away her kids.'”
The charges were dropped, but the couple’s kids are still under state control.
This is, honestly, one of the most idiotic things I’ve heard. Everybody takes pictures of their baby and kids, and many times, they’re naked. Makes me want to go set fire to all the pictures I have of my daughter as a baby, in case they could be used against me for a felony court case. Not only that, but the mom still can’t see her kids.
Link from Al’s Morning Meeting.
I guess I should, because those wacky e-mail addresses could cost you a big job (and no, that’s not actually on my resume, but I’m sure that spam spiders will start sending crap to it now).
It’d be bad enough of your mascot is a Trojan, but it’s nothing like going to school at C.O.N.D.O.M..