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Friday, December 16, 2005 Flashblock updated for Firefox 1.5. I forgot all about flashblock. It makes the web usable again. Also: Chromecleaner helped speed up my load-up time. @ 10:50 AM CST [Link] Thursday, December 15, 2005 CEO of Second Life turns players over to feds. If I'm reading this correctly, the CEO of the company that owns the Second Life non-game MMO is upset someone programmed a self-replicating in-game "bomb" using Second Life's LSL language to crash one of his virtual parties. He claims this is the equivalent of a Denial of Service attack and proudly turned in the names of the players to the FBI. If this is true, then this is really despicable. This is like calling the cops because some online player killed your character and took your sword of hurting or something. Seriously, get a life. If some online object created in a game ends in litigation or criminal charges, then things have gone a little too far. I really hope this is a hoax. If not, this could turn out to be a bad precendent for the video game industry, all because some CEO's ego was bruised. @ 08:43 AM CST [Link] Wednesday, December 14, 2005 Jimmy Wales: Don't cite Wikipedia. Short but interesting interview with Wikipedia's founder. Wales makes some good points, but I don't think wikipedia will ever stop being a 'work in progress.' The endless back and forths will continue, not the mention all the little pranks. I couldn't imagine any teacher accepting a citation from wikipedia, but I don't see why they shouldn't accept other encyclopedias. Wales really has it out for Britannica. Case in point: Comics creator Steve Ditko's bio page has a pretty large mistake on his page. As of Dec 14th it says "He is also an exponent of Ayn Rand's philosophy Objectivism and a practicing Chaos magician." He's not a practicing Chaos magician. Screenshot here as of the 15th:
He is actually a big Ayn Rand guy, but he's not an occultist. That's actually Grant Morrison. @ 01:20 PM CST [Link] Why adults shouldnt be using the children's chairs at the Apple store. That's quite a caboose.
Other photo here. @ 11:40 AM CST [Link] Girl, you got circuit fever. Circuit fever! Cute ASIMO update. @ 07:37 AM CST [Link] Stem cells + cancer vaccination = cure? Interesting read over at CNN about a woman who is now cancer free after being part of a cancer vaccination trial. @ 07:33 AM CST [Link] Another Warcraft funeral. Live slowly, die old, and have thousands of virtual avatars who just finished up an 8 hour Molten Core run send you off with "OMG cya man!" borders on the cheesy, if not the disrespectful. Then again, a virtual world full of mostly teenage players has its own ethics, mores, and traditions. Also: Tasteless myspace deaths page taken down. @ 07:29 AM CST [Link] The disturbing sounding feel good story of the year: Nose Found In Dog's Stomach successfully sewn back onto boy. Also: Sadly, dogsinthenews.com is no more. @ 06:51 AM CST [Link] Monday, December 12, 2005 160 dollar load balancer. Looks like quite the deal. Or if I wanted a spare computer and its fan noise laying around I could try this with Linux. @ 05:12 PM CST [Link] My christmas card this year. Its late in the game. I wonder if kinkos can turn this into a dozen or so cards. It probably needs captions. "Not this time Satan!" or "Here's your Happy Holidays right here!" "I'm coming for you Claus!"
@ 05:10 PM CST [Link] Cute overload. Okay, finding a fawn on your back porch is incredible if not unlikely, but there's nothing cute about an indoor flying squirrel. Subconciously, I started reaching for the broom when I saw that image. @ 05:07 PM CST [Link] Sunday, December 11, 2005 So long. All modern comedians owe Pryor (and Carlin, Bruce) for their careers. Was Eddie Murphy anything but a water-downed, less threatening, Pryor? Dave Chappelle's 'white man voice' and most of his act is pure Pryor. Pryor art, eh?
@ 11:00 AM CST [Link] See what programs are accessing your hard drive. Handy utility, especially if you want to discover what is causing those myserious disk accesses. Also: Tcpview, does the same thing, but for your network connection. @ 05:23 AM CST [Link] How not to end an interview. What kind of a question is that? That's so odd. Either there was a killer follow-up question or this interviewer had some agenda. @ 05:13 AM CST [Link] [Archives] Search entries: |
