This is what happens when you don’t have your authentication on your CMS setup properly. Whoops…
Month: March 2006
Don’t Shoot The Puppy
With my bent on torturing animals, have fun with this little flash game where you have to avoid blowing the puppy to pieces (and it’s a lot harder than it looks).
Why I Should Never Have A Cat
Because I would undoubtedly do something like this to it. Just look at the poor thing stagger like it’s drunk…
You Know What’s Sad?
Over the years, this site has had 8683 published comments. The thing that’s sad? The automatically incremented comment ID number in the database for this site is 22887. Which means I’ve had 14,204 spam, duplicate, or otherwise deleted comments (and I generally pretty much let anything get published, unless it’s spam or a duplicate). That means for every 1.6 spam comments, I get a regular comment.
Luckily, MovableType 3.2’s spam blocking settings sends the bulk majority of the comments either to the junk folder or sets them to unpublished status, so they’re not appearing on my site and they’re not sapping server resources on rebuilds, but it’s still annoying (and I can’t install mod_sec or other things like that, as they’ve caused some issues in the past and have slowed things down too much).
Update on 4/9: 8780 comments published, 26,630 total, so 17,850 spam (big attack last night — all dumped into the junk folder, as they were all that Mike Furir spam and I had that stuff blocked a long time ago during the first wave of attacks.
‘”While My Guitar Gently Weeps” On The Ukulele
I’ve been told (as I don’t play guitar) that George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” is a pain in the butt to play on guitar. So you can only imagine the talent it takes to play it flawlessly on a ukulele.
Tom Cruise Is A Nut Job
Yeah, I know, that headline is fairly obvious, but here’s some more evidence (and more evidence that anybody who believes in Scientology is cracked):
Tom Cruise’s pregnant fiancee Katie Holmes will be reminded to keep her vow of silence during birth — by signs plastered around their home.
The couple — following the Scientology tradition of a silent birth– had the posters delivered to their Beverly Hills mansion.
The 6ft placards will be placed so Katie can see them in labour.
One reads: “Be silent and make all physical movements slow and understandable.”
Oh, but it gets better. Some more snippets….
Followers believe it is traumatic for babies to hear their mother scream or groan when giving birth. They think it can cause “psychic” damage, which takes years of therapy to overcome.
[…]
The doctrine stresses newborns cannot be poked or prodded for medical tests or spoken to for seven days.
So if there is something wrong with the baby, no medical attention can be given to it for seven days — assuming it survives that long. Nor can the voice he’s been listening to in the womb for the last nine months — his mother’s — be heard for seven days.
The comments on the article are hilarious, one commenter writing that they should have those signs to keep silent wherever Tom goes so he’ll keep his mouth shut. Or how one said “Perhaps Katie Holmes could hold Tom Cruise’s testicles throughout the birth and see if he remains silent!!!” I think you should just cut his nuts off so he doesn’t make the mistake of breeding ever again.
Worst Decisions In Video Game History
There are some wonderful memories on this list including Nintendo’s decision to dump the Playstation, the Hot Coffee mod, the enormous Xbox controller, and more.
Some People Need A Hobby
Like this guy, who was attempting to spend his entire Spring Break in a Wal-Mart. He lasted 41 hours. And now because of his stunt, he’s famous.
At least he could tell some good stories afterwards. <pretending to be anti-Wal-Mart>The thing is, though, because of Wal-Mart’s labor practices, we all know that there are probably employees that were there the entire time he was, trying to feed their family on their minimum wage jobs.</pretending to be anti-Wal-Mart>
Thanks Cheryl for the tip.
Windows Vista Build 5342 Screenshots
I’m personally not big into all the big and bubbly stuff that it slowly appearing in Vista in more and more builds, but there are some cool looking features in this newest build. Thanks Greg for the link.
Changing Tires Can Be Dangerous
Especially as this commercial shows. Thanks inteviktig for the link.