Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
Hilarious (and, despite the title, completely safe for work). In this startling time-lapse video, we see life’s wonder unfold as a brave couple bare the entire process of making a baby, from fertilization to gestation to birth. Science!
I just did a Google-search on my own name for the first time. Wow. I have a fairly common last name, but a pretty rare first name — I’ve only met one other person with the same first name in my life — so I didn’t expect very many results. And in the grand scheme …
Whenever I see unproven fear-based reports like this one, I’m reminded of all the fear-inducing reports in my childhood. Comic books were warping our fragile little minds, so when I was six, my mother threw away a huge collection of Bugs Bunny comic books that I’d been given by our neighbors before I could read …
Interesting idea. I can see how this would be a lot harder for hackers to work around, at least for the moment. But it won’t do anything against spambots that use other people to get around the problem, directly or by trickery.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you a virus… enslave it to build things for you. 😉
Wow, I didn’t realize that today’s hardware was already intelligent enough to dislike U2. 😉 (I happen to like U2’s work, at least the stuff I’ve heard, but the joke was too good to pass up.)
Uh-oh, looks like french fries are about to become “freedom fries” again. 😉
All that fear and hype, and it turns out to be nothing more than a spam-generator and password stealer? The author(s) really ought to be ashamed of themselves. An amusing bit from the end of the article: I’m personally grateful that it brought to mind a moment from the original Die Hard film. “You want …
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“Ushers in open-source era“. Um, “oops.” 🙂
Sometimes you’ve just got to ask yourself what some would-be criminal “mastermind” was thinking. This is one of them. Nine thousand?! I’m the first to agree with the phrase “if it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing,” but even I have limits. And the stupid-stick apparently whacked Apple here too — did no one there notice …
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