If anybody out there takes photographs at all (I’m looking at you, Simone), be sure to carry around this handy document that describes what you can take pictures of, what do to if you get arrested, what to do if they ask to confiscate your film, etc… .
Month: June 2004
Canada’s New Quarter
It’s a great cartoony design that was done by an 11-year old. Right on!
Someone Needs a Hobby
A Singaporean woman has set a world record for mobile-phone texting, keying in the benchmark phrase “The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.” in 43.24 seconds, without the benefit of any predictive text utilities.
I tried it on my phone, and it took me about 1.5 minutes — to get through the first three words.
A Novel Idea to Combat Spam
It’s a well known fact that quite a bit of spam comes from the Comcast network. Now that Comcast has blocked TCP port 25 (the port used for e-mail sending), spam from their network has dropped 35%. Now if we could just convince other gigantic ISPs to do the same, life would be good. I know that geeks sometimes run SMTP servers on their home servers, but if they’re smart, they’ll just change the port used and they won’t have any trouble. I know Bend Cable (oh, sorry, Bend Broadband) blocks at least ports 21 (FTP) and 80 (HTTP) so the server I have at home that I backup files from work to runs on different ports so I can still access it. Geeks are smart — common users that have their computers zombied for spam are not.
Drunken Flash Fun
In this game, you try not to fall over while stumbling home drunk. Via Waxy.
Wired finds origin of the “Bill Gates” e-mail hoax
Just saw this in this month’s Wired magazine, and the article’s now online. Thanks to some excellent detective work, the origins of the infamous “Bill Gates is going to give you money” e-mail hoax has been found.
“How to Avoid Flamewars” by Dave Winer
Winer would be the last guy I’d picture writing this article considering how many he’s started. I think this MeFi comment pretty much sums up why people hate Winer, as do many of the comments here as well as this diagnosis. The guy has started or extended more idiotic flame wars than anybody, so you can see the irony in him writing this.
Before you know it, we’ll see “Eloquent Speech” by Mike Tyson, or Courtney Love’s “Guide to Responsible Parenting” (thanks Waxy for that one).
I won’t need a vasectomy
I’ll just keep my cell phone near my crotch.
On a side note, is it me, or do they seem to come out with a study like this every year?
Too Much Time On Their Hands
Somebody obviously has no life at all when they decide to create a PC case shaped and painted like an anime character. It’s nice work, but why?