Because bastards like this guy keep buying stuff from them. He’ll sometimes spend hundreds of dollars a week on stuff from spammers, and is disappointed because he only gets about 17 spam a day. I wish I had his e-mail — I’d make sure he got the 500+ I get a day forwarded to him.
Don’t forget your medication
Otherwise, you might end up running down the street with a severed penis shouting at people:
A man who ran naked down the street with blood gushing from his severed penis yesterday mutilated himself, said RCMP in this Okanagan city. Police received a report at about 2 p.m. of a man running down the street, screaming “Repent, repent, fornicators.”
The 33-year-old Penticton man, who was wearing only a tuque, was later found with his penis and testicles severed near a construction site.
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The man’s severed parts were later found in his home and taken to hospital.
You love your cat too much when…
…you spend money to buy something like this for them.
The Best of Photojournalism Online
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.
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.