“Hi, my name is Richard Chopp, but my friends call me Dick.”
Nice And Secure
If you can’t make your site secure, just put an SSL icon at the bottom of the page’s design, like these guys did. Thanks NTK.
He Must Have Really Screwed Up
When the five-dozen roses he sent her didn’t seem to help, a Florida man ran a full-page ad in the local paper (to the tune of $17,000) trying to win his wife back (who left him two weeks ago). A picture of the ad is here. Link via Romenesko.
This Is Frightening
This woman has managed to collect over 1,000 My Little Pony dolls, as well as over 1,000 Pony-related items.
The lady’s even got more pictures on her eBay profile with MLPs stacked to the ceiling of her house.
This has all the workings of a really bad horror movie. Anybody have a title for the screenplay that is better than my “Attack Of The Ponies”?
Why Copy Editing Is Important
A new young monk arrives at the monastery and as with all new monks he is assigned to help the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand.
He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript.
So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up.
In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies.
The head monk, says, “We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son.” So, he goes down into the dark caves underneath the monastery where the original manuscript is held as archives in a locked vault that hasn’t been opened for hundreds of years.
Hours go by and nobody sees the old abbot.
So, the young monk gets worried and goes downstairs to look for him.
He sees him banging his head against the wall, and wailing, “We forgot the “R”!
“We forgot the “R”!
“We forgot the “R”!
“We forgot the “R”!
His forehead is all bloody and bruised and he is crying uncontrollably. The young monk asks the old abbot, “What’s wrong, father?” With a choking voice, the old abbot replies,
“The word is celebRate!”
“The word is celebRate!”
“The word is celebRate!”
“The word is celebRate!”
Thanks Barney for that.
URGENT: Patch Your MovableType Install
Even if you’re still running 2.6x, you need to get this patch installed. It fixes an ugly vulnerability that allows your MT installation to be used by spammers to send out mail (similar to a formmail script hole).
I actually noticed this about nine months ago but nobody seemed to notice or care. Glad to hear SixApart is finally listening to folks and has the right kinds of folks there to make sure this kind of crap doesn’t ever happen again.
Richard Simmons on Whose Line
I rarely miss an episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and I’m really disappointed that I missed the one with Richard Simmons. But thanks to this wonderful thing called the Interweb, I can view it at my leisure. I can’t say that I’ve laughed that hard in a very long time.