A MetaFilter member has told some wild stories in the past about the presence of malware attacks at their place of work, and is now compiling them all on a new blog called Targeted Email Attacks. Before you click away, I want to explain how crazy this story is. The person that runs the blog …
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Not what it says on the tin
I'm walking down the snacks aisle at Costco today during our bi-annual trip and I couldn't help but notice the extreme sizes of chip bags. You can buy several pounds of tortilla or corn chips in bulk, but there's one bag at the end of the aisle that jumps out at me for its sheer …
Content sausage factories
This is new to me: seeing a friend's awesome (and creepy) halloween cooking idea (which is kind of shocking and disgusting looking even though it's good food inside) show up in content mills I hadn't previously heard of, like 2leep and odditycentral. The 2leep links show up at the tail end of posts at Inquisitr …
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 …
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Oprah Vette
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #666; }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 10px; margin-top: 0px;color:#999;} Oprah Vette – Tampa Bay Possee, originally uploaded by karrelbuck. Why god why?
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 …
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 …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 