Lian-Li, which makes great computer cases, unfortunately has really hard to navigate categories. Too much Flash is a bad thing.
Month: August 2003
RIAA’s tactics are going to bite them in the ass
If you didn’t already know, the RIAA (your favorite organization and mine) is suing everybody and their dog for sharing files online. Their tactics are bound to backfire. They’re already being counter-sued, and users are, generally, just ignoring the RIAA. The EFF is fighting for user’s rights, writing up guides on how to avoid getting sued. New versions of Kazaa Lite K++ block MPAA and RIAA IP blocks so you can share files without (hopefully) them finding out about it as easily, and you can even block them from coming to your site.
So is this hurting the RIAA more than it’s helping them? Hell yes.
Programming Guru or Serial Killer?
Take this quiz and see if you can tell the difference. It’s tougher than it looks. Link via b3ta.
If you’re going to make fun of a large corporation…
…make sure you at least have the fonts they use for their logos.
Fun with the airport staff
From the site:
We’d go and sit on the balcony at Terminal 3 at Heathrow Airport, directly under one of the PA speakers where we put a tape machine in a bag with the microphone poking out of the top. Then we’d look for a flight that had arrived in the last 40 minutes from somewhere where you’d expect people with unpronounceable names i.e. Saudi Arabia.
We would then go to the Airport Help Desk with a pre-written note containing the names of fictitious passengers and ask them to read out the names over the PA system.
The passenger’s names looked innocent enough on paper but they sounded like something else when read out loud.
For example: Looks like: Makollig Jezvahted and Levdaroum DeBahzted. Reads Like: My colleague just farted, and left the room, the bastard. The site has sound files as well. Good stuff.
If you’re looking for a custom license plate idea
See what other people have done first. I’m amazed the things people have come up with with such little amount of letters and characters to work with.
Does this link work for you?
OK, I’m having trouble with a server here at work, and I’m 90% sure it’s a problem with the secure certificate on the server and not the firewall (like the guy at InstantSSL keeps saying it is). Head to this link. You’ll probably get SSL certificate errors, if it lets you through, but please post a comment and let me know if it lets you through and you see some standard disclaimer text. Please post with what browser and operating system (and versions) you are using so I can verify the problem. Thanks!
Update: If you can’t get to the above address (and you’ve tried a few browsers), try this one.