“Copyright enforcers should learn lessons from the war on spam”
Two of my favorite targets in a single (and pretty good) article — bonus! 🙂
Archive of posts filed under the Amusing/Interesting/Appalling category.
Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
Church Signs
There are two churches on a small stretch of a particular road we travel often. One of them usually has a Christian-oriented (but often humorous) saying on its sign. Recently it had a humorous saying that was somewhat… unexpected: Forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them more. Annoying people isn’t supposed to be a Christian attitude …
“Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog”
I like most of what Joss Whedon comes up with (the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series and Firefly, for instance), so when I heard that he was involved in this site, I had to check it out. I’m not sure who plays Dr. Horrible, though he looks very familiar (he might be one of the …
Spam Idiots
Maybe spammers don’t need to have even average intelligence to make money at it? I’ve gotten a large number of spams recently (all caught by SpamBayes with no real difficulty) that have one sensationalistic headline in the subject line, and a completely different one in the body of the message. Case in point: Subject: Facebook …
“Unbreakable Fighting Umbrella Splits Watermelons, Defends Presidents”
Impressive! (Sorry for the lack of posts recently, I’ve been extremely busy upgrading a large decade-old program to use the STL and Boost libraries. I should be done with the first stage in a couple more days.)
“Bruce Schneier Facts”
I love this extremely-tongue-in-cheek page I stumbled across today: “Bruce Schneier Facts: Things you might not know about Bruce Schneier“. Some of them (like this one) would only be understood by other people in the computer security field, but others are accessible to nearly anyone. I especially like this one. (Bruce Schneier, for those who …
“…the most useless thing I have ever seen.”
Yes Chris, it probably is. But you’ve got to admit, it does look neat. 🙂
“Carrier Pigeons Bringing Contraband into Prisons”
An interesting application of the famous RFC1149, if nothing else. But some of the comments below the story are priceless.
“Are the ice caps melting?”
A lesson in Bad Science from NASA (predictably on Global Warming again): if the facts get in the way of your favorite theory, ignore the facts.
“Now that Vista is now the only Windows you can buy preinstalled…”
Apparently a lot of people have decided to avoid Windows Vista. Good for you, guys! 🙂