Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
From Obscure Store:
August 16 is the big day. “We have all the same emotions everyone else does. We just decided to put guidelines to it,” says the 26-year-old bride-to-be. “We knew that if we starting touching, things were going to start happening.”
Full Story. My guess is they’ll be doing more than kissing later that night.
A fascinating read from k5 entitled “Selling cars in the U.S. – the inside scoop.” It was written by someone who was a car salesman for 4-months, and describes, in great detail, what really happens at a dealership. Link (and previous one as well) from BBspot.
If you’ve ever looked at your running processes in Windows (commonly known as the task list) and wondered what some obscure entry was on there, bookmark this site now. They discuss the relevence of some of those hard-to-identify .exe files, and how to turn them off, as well.
From MetaFilter, no matter what you’re looking for, you’ll probably find something interesting in the absolutely free 12 million article database, PubMed. For example: Duct tape. Webbed penii. The obvious. Memory and castration. Kroger store-brand pasta sauce. Killer pancakes.
This site has got a bunch of wacky stuff.
I was reading through Oregon Blogs, and found there’s actually another blogger here in Bend. So there’s a whole two of us now that are at least listed (I’m not quite sure where High Desert Skeptic is based, but I’m sure he’s in Bend or close by here). Anyway, Jon Abernathy and chuggnutt have been blogrolled.
According to this list of the oldest 100, symbolics.com is the oldest .com domain name, registered all the way back in March in 1985 (I can’t currently get to their site). BBN.com is the next one on the list, over a month later. There was a total of six domains that were registered in 1985, and then a bunch of the big players hit in 1986 (Xerox, HP, Sun, Intel, IBM, GE, and AT&T, just to name a few). An interesting history lesson, indeed.
This is a world record I hope is never broken, but the fact that they give an option to is stupid. Screenshot from NTK.
OK, this is now on my bookmarks as one of my handy design tools. Have you ever looked at a design, and wondered what typeface it was? Or, in my case, I was looking at a design I did a LONG time ago, but no longer had the digital copy handy, so I didn’t know what typeface it was. Lockergnome’s Windows Daily came to the rescue with a great tool. Answer twelve simple questions about your mystery typeface, and there’s a good chance it’ll be able to identify your font.
After two-weeks of telling the folks at InstantSSL telling me the firewall at work was at fault, and me spending the entire two weeks telling them that my firewall isn’t at fault, they finally got onto the server themselves, and lo-and-behold, they screwed up. But it took them 48 hours to figure out how they screwed up. And it was what I was telling them all along: The root and trusted certs they sent me were screwed up, or the cert they generated for me was generated based on the wrong trust.
Sure enough, it was a combination of all of the above. Regardless, it’s working now, but feel free to tell me if you can’t get to this URL (or check out our office’s Web cam, if you’d like) with it being a trusted, nice, and happy SSL site.