There is some tremendous work listed here. The link shows all the entries for this years National Press Photographers Best of Photojournalism Web division, and it covers just about every size outlet, including colleges and indy papers. It shows that you really can do some beautiful pieces in this new medium, and the perk about the Web is that we can all see the entries as well.
Month: March 2004
Port Knocking
I really wish my firewall supported this: A way of doing a “secret knock” on a firewall to get access to closed ports. I know I don’t like to keep ports open all the time, but there are times where I wish certain ones were open. So for example, if I wanted to get access to the closed SSH port (22), I could make connection attempts to closed ports 1026, 1027, 1029, 1034, 1026, 1044, and 1035 (in that order) within 5 seconds, it would then open up port 22 for a connection for 10 seconds, then shut it down if the port wasn’t accessed. Link via BB.
The Google Print Edition
If Google ever decided to publish a gigantic set of reference books, they’d probably look something like this.
Trapped climber survives on raw squirrel
Yummy. Around here, I’ve seen what those rodents get into, and there’s no way I’d eat one — cooked or raw.
Nobody wins — or even finishes — Grand Challenge
Why is this funny? Because after everything that’s been written about it, the Grand Challenge was pretty much a bust. Mike Elgan was out there and said since nobody finished they’ll probably run the race again in 2006.
So how far did the best team go? 7.4 miles — out of 142. So about 5% of the way — maybe next time they’ll make it to 10%.
I would have loved to see them succeed in this. Considering some of the brains behind this, you would’ve thought that somebody would have made it more than 7 miles. Most of the entries didn’t even make it to a mile.
However, Mike still feels it was a grand success, and he provides great evidence as to why it was a great success.
Best Movie Title Ever
I’m sure this is probably a bad translation, as it was made in Hong Kong in the 40s, but it’s still damn funny. Anybody seen it? 😉
The Thumpin’ Browser
Get annoyed when you sit in your car next to those bastards that have their music up so loud it’s vibrating your car? This is sort of like that, but with your browser.
Tattoo Clothing
Want to look like an inked-up moron (**cough**Gregg**cough**) without going through the expense and pain of getting full-body tattoos? Just buy these shirts, and scare the hell out of somebody.
Lesson Learned
A man took his wife to the Rodeo and one of the exhibits was that of breeding bulls. They went up to the first pen and there was a sign that said, This bull mated 50 times last year.
The wife poked her husband in the ribs and said, “He mated 50 times last year.”
They walked a little further and saw another pen with a sign that said, This bull mated 120 times last year. The wife hit her husband and said, “That’s more than twice a week! You could learn a lot from him.”
They walked further and a third pen had a bull with a sign saying, This bull mated 365 times last year. The wife got really excited and said, “That’s once a day. You could REALLY learn something from this one.” The husband looked at her and said, “Go up and ask him if it was with the same cow.”
The husband’s condition has been upgraded from critical to stable and should make a full recovery.
The Ultimate Biblical Insult
They won’t know what hit them when you come at them with the Bible Curse Generator.