“Seventeen Things Worth Knowing About Your Cat”
Some of them are truly interesting, some of them less so. But it’s worth a quick look.
Archive of entries posted on January 2010
“Come Back With a Warrant doormat”
Nice. We used to have an “unwelcome” mat (it said “GO AWAY”), but it wore out. This would be a good replacement.
“How to tell if you are being boring”
Unfortunately, the people who need this the most will probably never think to look at it. (I sometimes have really fascinating dreams, the kind that I wake up and think, “hey, that would make a perfect science fiction story.” Until I review them several hours later, and almost always realize that there’s nothing even vaguely …
“Redkneck Vampire Attacks Trailer Park”
Don’t mourn for the Weekly World News. It turns out that Google has preserved its corpse so that our children and grandchildren can know just how stupid incredibly intelligent we all were around the turn of the century. Thanks a million, Google, I don’t know what we would have done without you.
“How Non-Latin Domain Names Could Be Used to Steal Your Money”
This does look like a problem. Here’s an idea for an easy solution, though. In the address bar, the browser could display both the address (as it does now) and the script name. Unicode is split up into different well-defined sections for different language scripts, so this shouldn’t be very difficult to implement. In the …
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“Fact-Checkers and Certified Public Logicians”
This sounds like a really good idea. Anybody want to start a new business, fact-checking things for serious bloggers? (FYI, I would not be a customer. I’m cheap, I’m not terribly serious, and I fancy that I can check my own facts, especially as this blog has so few of them. 😉 )
“Software fraudster ‘fooled CIA’ into terror alert”
Haven’t they ever heard the old saying, “beware of geeks attempting grift”?
Internet Access
As you can probably see by the fact that I’m posting this, we’ve got Internet access back. Turns out the cable modem had gone bad. So much for blaming it on the snow. You don’t really realize just how dependent you are on the Internet until it’s gone for a day. I couldn’t pay my …
Grrr!
I. Hate. Snow. It snowed here all yesterday and all last night, on top of a huge dump from the day before. By this morning, we had to break down and dig ourselves out, or we’d’ve been stuck until the Spring thaw. Left to my own devices, I’d just hibernate, but for some reason GoddessJ …
“Angels can’t fly: Official”
And neither can fairies, according to this fellow. What a bummer. Tinkerbell and Archangel Michael will be so disappointed when I tell them about his research. 😉