Category: Cool

This guy’s typewriter art is far more impressive. Thanks Barney for the link.

It’s a great cartoony design that was done by an 11-year old. Right on!

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.

Congrats to her! I’m blogging from the event 😉

“Weblogs are sometimes criticised for being the self-obsessed ramblings of people who have little to say and too much time on their hands in which to do it. But there are gems out there — including many sites created by children. Children as young as seven in one British school are using weblogs as part of their normal routine, and are doing better than non-webloggers as a result, their teacher says.” Full Story. Link from Craig.

This guy is brilliant. How in the hell can anybody go 13 episodes straight on Jeopardy and not lose? He’s amassed $440,158 so far (2nd item). Reading some of the stories on the guy he doesn’t appear to be slowing down at all. Fascinating…

Not only is my good bud Ken a Spoiled Little Bitch, but his G4TechTV rant got him a mention in a Wired article. And to think he wouldn’t have started that blog o’ his without me harrasing him to start one ;-).

A woman anonymously donated a kidney to help save somebody’s life. Then he happens to win the lottery, and what’s she decide to do with some of her money? She’s fixing the car of the person who received her kidney. Full story of this wonderful woman.

That Is All.