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This appeared in my inbox along with an add for cheap viagra: The course was taken towards the north-west, and the next day the screw of the frigate was at last beating the waters of the Pacific: The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor…
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Just one more reason for Americans not to get up off their increasingly fat asses.
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BBC News: Gamer buys $26,500 virtual land. This is absolutely blowing my mind. Some dude has spent an assload of money on an imaginary island that exists only in the imaginary world of an online RPG, Entropia. The article also contains this nugget: “Earlier this year economists calculated that these massively multi-player online role-playing games…
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SHHH! Handy little cards to hand out to annoying cellphone users/a>, courtesy of the Society for HandHeld Hushing.
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Unintentional Porn makes appearance on Algonquin College website
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Nail. Head. Hit it. 43 Folders tells us about the Five Mistakes Band and Label Sites Make. These rules certainly apply elsewhere on the web as well – hey flash developers: Guess what, people really do want to Deep Link. Just in general? Don’t let your web designer build a portfolio piece on the back…
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Spammers are trying all kinds of techniques to get through SPAM filters these days. From putting spaces between letters of the words (get some v i a g a r a!) to deliberate misspellings (l0west prices on M3DS) to what I like to call SPAM Poetry. This lovely poem appeared at the bottom of an…
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Next week, millions of college students and young professionals will head home for the Thanksgiving holidays. We’ll sit with our families in warm, candle-lit dining rooms eating stuffed turkey, reminiscing over old photographs, preparing holiday shopping lists and … Please. Let’s be frank. We are going home to fix our parents’ computers.
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I bought a new router with all kinds of neat firewall features. I had some trouble getting it all setup and getting good download speeds with bittorrent. Somewhere along the way I turned on a feature where the router would email me when it’s under attack. I thought that would be cool. Turns out that…
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Ever wonder why you get so much Spam? Because it works: As one of the world’s most prolific spammers, Jeremy Jaynes pumped out at least 10 million e-mails a day with the help of 16 high-speed lines, the kind of internet capacity a 1,000-employee company would need. Jaynes’ business was remarkably lucrative; prosecutors say he…