My New Favourite Web Site

Fight back against phishers at PhishFighting.com, a site that allows you to input a phishing scam URL and then pollutes the database with 500 fake username/password entries.

Brilliant!

posted on 30 March 2006 at 1710computing0 commentstrackback

Why We Do It

People like this and this sometimes make me wonder why I bother answering feedback e-mails at all, and then people like Warren Jones restore my faith in humanity:

Dear Chris,

I’d just like to say thanks for all of your help. Even though you were unable to fix the problem, I greatly appreciate all of the time and thought that you spent on the problem. If you worked for a software company, I’d certainly go through their catalog looking for things to buy. Now I’m going to call Earthlink. After that, if they can’t help, I’ll look again for someway to contact Fox News to see if they are aware of a problem with their website. Thanks again for all of your help. Oh, yes, I’ll certainly be recommending Camino in the future. I just wonder why I had never heard of it before I went on a search through Google for Browsers that were designed for Macintosh computers.

Sincerely,

Warren Jones

posted on 28 March 2006 at 2226computing0 commentstrackback

Speechless

I’m a member of the team that develops the open-source Camino Web browser. Aside from fixing bugs in the browser itself, my primary duties are doing triage in Bugzilla (assigning bugs to the proper component, testing to see if bugs are reproducible, etc.) and helping the lead developers keep on top of our feedback list.

Bearing in mind that Camino is free and is an all-volunteer effort (no one is paid to work on it), this feedback e-mail came in this morning:

I know you’re open source revolutionaries, but you’ll catch more flies with honey.

Four totally liberal news sources for your preloaded news sites and nothing even MOR let alone Fox??

You just reveal yourselves to be agenda driven with no good reason. Other than driving your personal agenda.

For the record, our default news bookmarks are the BBC, CNN, the International Herald-Tribune, and Salon.

Gosh, what a liberal freakin’ agenda.

Guy could stand to take his own advice. Which, of course, he didn’t do, as three minutes later, this showed up:

No multiple home pages? Least not that I can find? And you, a movement within the Firefox umbrella org expect us to move from Firefox just to get faster loading??

Too high a price my friend. I don’t want have to reconstruct my web workspace from memory everytime I reboot……

And I can’t believe we can’t have both.

A HUGE oversight.

What was that about flies and honey again?

posted on 27 March 2006 at 1132politix0 commentstrackback

Dumbass of the Day

Five easy steps to certain Darwin Award victory:

  1. Buy gunpowder and other explosives.
  2. Build your own grenade in your basement.
  3. Detonate it, presumably without sufficient planning or protection.
  4. Die from your wounds.
  5. Win Darwin Award.

Red FormanRed Forman Dumbass Rating: Hyde (Dumbass) Hyde (Dumbass) Hyde (Dumbass) Hyde (Dumbass) Hyde (Dumbass)

posted on 24 March 2006 at 1320humour0 commentstrackback

Moving to Darwin

I’m packing up and moving to Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia as soon as possible.

posted on 22 March 2006 at 1504sci-tech0 commentstrackback

Dumbass of the Day

Shawn LeFlore, a 33-year-old Texan, was pulled over in Dallas on Tuesday for having an expired vehicle registration. Believing he was wanted (guilty conscience?), LeFlore got out of the vehicle and ran, ending up waist-deep in mud in a nearby field, where he died of exposure as police tried to pull him out some two hours later.

Key quote: “Toxicology results [are] pending.”

Red FormanRed Forman Dumbass Rating: Eric (Dumbass) Eric (Dumbass) Eric (Dumbass) Eric (Dumbass) Eric (Dumbass)

posted on 21 March 2006 at 2322humour0 commentstrackback

Ninja Update

Chuck Norris reads Chuck Norris facts on “The Best Damn Sports Show Period”.

Listen for the great one at the end.

posted on 17 March 2006 at 1631humour0 commentstrackback

The Great Revolving Door

The Detroit Lions have kicked the quarterback revolving door into high gear once again. For the team that has won exactly one playoff game since 1957, change is basically an annual event, and as usual, Mitch Albom sums it up nicely.

Looks like another long season for the Lions and their remaining fan base.

posted on 17 March 2006 at 1400sports0 commentstrackback

Fun With Wood

Awesome iPod case (very expensive) and Bronzed Baby Booties of the, erm, 18th Century. I’d love ‘em both.

posted on 14 March 2006 at 2312sci-tech0 commentstrackback

Choose Your Own Dumbass of the Day

Remember those “Choose Your Own Adventure” books? Well, you readers get to Choose Your Own Dumbass of the Day.

In this corner, wearing the blue shorts, we have Unlucky Car Thief Michael Chapman, who stole a car, drove out of town, and stopped to ask for directions at the car’s owner’s father’s house.

In the other corner, wearing a stunning red ensemble, is Anonymous Irresponsible Mother in St. Paul, who, rather than expressing concern over the fact that her three-year-old “found” a handgun under a couch cushion, removed its clip and tossed it back on the couch for Junior to play with. She forgot to clear the chamber, and Junior shot her in the leg, presumably by accident.

Red FormanRed Forman Dumbass Rating: Hyde (Dumbass) Hyde (Dumbass) Hyde (Dumbass) Hyde (Dumbass)

posted on 14 March 2006 at 2259humour0 commentstrackback

Tom vs. Saddam

Who would you rather not spend a night in a tent with: Tom Cruise or Saddam Hussein?

And the winner is Tom Cruise by a nose.

posted on 10 March 2006 at 2338humour0 commentstrackback

The King of Engrand

He speaks the King’s Engrish, of course.

posted on 09 March 2006 at 1231humour0 commentstrackback

Truth in Advertising

Watching CBS tonight and a Pontiac commercial comes on…

In 2006, great design separates Pontiac from its competition.

Yep, that’d be about right. Anyone remember the Aztek? That separated Pontiac from its competition, all right.

posted on 06 March 2006 at 2102car0 commentstrackback

Vehicle of Future Darwin Award Winners

Gotta be the Acabion GTBO. This Geneva-debuted prototype motorcycle-cum-car is capable of a claim top speed well in excess of 450 km/h (280 MPH) and at saner highway speeds, has a full-fuel range (24 gallons) of 1500 miles. Even at top speed, it gets over 14 miles per gallon!

Forget the personal jet. What we need is the personal superhighway, with this thing. “NO EXITS NEXT 100 MILES!”

(via Jalopnik)

posted on 03 March 2006 at 2105car0 commentstrackback