Wikileaks busts Gitmo propaganda team who were apparently editing wikipedia and trying to influence digg and other "social news" sites.
The part that scares me is that this is probably happening all the time. And unless you've adopted a page and made yourself responsible for it's content you probably wouldn't notice.
There should be a way to rate changes to an article. Maybe like a digg system, as long as captchas are still effective we can keep …
I almost got into a fight with a guy at Comp USA. Well that's a lie. I just didn't want to buy the $180 fancy Belkin router with the lcd display and curvy exterior.
"Does it have better range?"
"Yes"
"Then the linksys? or compared to the cheeper belkin"
(Which I might add I did buy, it's got an amazingly simple setup and a very strait forward instructions that I would trust my mother with. Never mind I skipped all that because I had to set it up …
Boy it's been a long time..
Well back at it then.
I've been spending some time with wordpress while setting up my mothers new website. She wants to make it do all sorts of fancy things and she doesn't want to learn html or have to deal with php. The php (the language wordpress is written in) I can understand. Who wants to learn a programming language when all they want to do is make a web site...
Alright I'm not sure if I was being sarcastic or n…
Seriously... I don't know why I didn't learn this in school.
I wonder what the other side is?
I almost have a new home.. that is to say, I almost have an overpriced place to stay in someone else's building. In fact the reason I don't yet is because some guy who spent 3 hours showing us the place and negotiating with the landlord for a lower rate (this is probably the only good thing he did and it was because he made a mistake.) wants $6048 for his troubles and I don't want to pay him right away.
I cant either, we did this entire thing thi…
Having recently received a major sunburn to a large area of my back, my ears perked up when I heard this story covered on "60 Second Science"
July 31, 2007: 60-Second Science
Caffeine, Exercise May Protect Skin From Sun
Studies with mice found that moderate amounts of caffeine and exercise lowered the skin cancer risk from UV light exposure. Karen Hopkin reports.
Listen here, it will only take a minute.
They said the mice they observed had abou…
I'm home again, still had one more day off. I called the real estate lady, and my landlord for the lease extension. Should have the later sorted out by tomorrow evening.
Oy...
It's good to be home. =)
-Francis
And hopefully my blog will never will be rated. I'm going to write the way I want to and if it pisses off your fucking parents then so be it. But come on, how many readers can I really have anyway? And how many would have parents who would still give a damn what they read on the internet. At the very least I'm more tasteful then the stile project.
But lets get back to the point. While my blog may not be for general consumption (I have a very limi…
I've had some time to write, but I chose another topic besides my self, I'll fill you all in on my trip, just not now.
-Francis
JULIET
Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me, what says my love?Nurse
Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and a
courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, and, I
warrant, a virtuous,--Where is your mother?JULIET
Where is my mother! why, she is within;
Where should she be? How oddly thou repliest!
'Your love says, like an honest gentleman,
Where is your mother?'
I love Shakespeare. I also love Shakespeare inspired shirts.
Anyone got one? I need to move 4 people (including myself) in by the end of September.
We're leaving one of our ISP's here at work. And I was asked to take care of it. We're still on contract but they broke it long long ago. I'll have logs of downed an unacceptably high latency connections and all the excuses they've given us over the months. But I need to start the ball rolling by writing a letter. This is what I have so far...
To: Towerstream
Subject: Termination of Service
John,
We'd like to leave your shitty fucking service …
The Union Forever
Words and Music by Jack White
Consists primarily of extracts from
The film "Citizen Kane" released in 1941
Written by Orson Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz
This post mostly written by Patrick Ferris and stolen from Broken Bricks
Update A video showing a lot of these parallels.
It can't be love ¹
For there is no true love `2
It can't be love
For there is no true love
Sure I'm C.F.K. `3
But you gotta love me `4
The cost, no man c…
There was this convention in New York last weekend that if I had more time (or were two people) I would have gone to, but I was just too tired. It was called the "MoCCA art festival" and from what I can gather it was amazing. Hundreds(?) on artists from most of my favorite webcomics attended. I could have met them all. On the other hand I went to the Cony Island Mermaid Parade instead and got to see Adam Savage among hundreds of other crazy inter…
This is my weekly top artists at Last.fm. Not at the time of this writing, but as of right now.
Removed
Last.fm is a music tracking service that lets you see what you've listened to and recommended what's good. Part of their terms of service is that all your data is yours, free to delete and copy and access at all times. (Google has a similar outlook but I still haven't seen ways of getting all your data out..) Now because that ticker is bound to…