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Someone wants me to install adblock

Recording of me trying to follow a link in a Salon article today. Somehow I wish there was a code of online advertising ethics that stated One Must Never Obscure Content With Advertising but I’m not holding my breath for that happening anytime soon.


The craigslist check con, and its aftermath

From Wikipedia’s entry on Con men and popular cons:
Stolen Cheques. A recent twist on the Nigerian fraud scheme, the mark is told he is helping someone overseas collect “debts” from corporate clients. Large cheques stolen from businesses are mailed to the mark. These cheques are altered to reflect the mark’s name, and the mark is [...]


Vista, the five year old’s OS

I got a Mac Pro yesterday and the first thing I wanted to do after it was setup was to install Windows in Parallels, so I could test out my sites in IE/Win. I started on windows over ten years ago and only started migrating to the mac in 2002. About six months ago I [...]


Oprah Vette

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Oprah Vette - Tampa Bay Possee, originally uploaded by karrelbuck.
Why god why?


Posted
26 April 2005 @ 7am

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Unclench people! Unclench!

For some reason, someone took my recent tongue-in-cheek post way, way too seriously.
I feel like a person that told a knock-knock joke at a party and in response got a 15 minute lecture on the nature of door design, acoustics, and various wood grains that affect the sound of knocks from a materials engineer that [...]


Posted
23 April 2005 @ 12pm

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The Plague!

While trolling usenet looking for strange documentaries, I found exactly that. This piece is very odd: it’s a 30 minute video of a news desk practicing for an all out terror attack on the US (featuring real news guy Forrest Sawyer). They are imagining that someone deployed the black plague in New Jersey, detonated a [...]