Internet portal Yahoo may want to think about changing its advertising slogan from ‘Do You Yahoo?’ to ‘You Do Yahoo’. In e-mail messages that began going out last week, Yahoo advised its users that their account preferences had been changed, by Yahoo, to indicate that they wanted to receive advertising solicitations through spam, snail mail and telephone
E-mail security hardware maker IronPort Systems will announce next week it is buying anti-spam firm SpamCop for an undisclosed sum, and plans to invest more than $1 million into the company to keep it running. An interesting business proposal, considering that IronPort makes a specialised computer with the reputation as the fastest way to send millions of junk e-mail messages
A masked man who robbed a Modesto bank Monday forgot to cut eye holes into his disguise, occasionally lifting up a corner of the flannel cloth to see his feet as he fumbled his way through the heist, and crashing into the Oak Valley Community Bank’s steel door frame on the way out. And yet despite his stupidity, he still managed to get away
A cheque sent by Israel’s ambassador to compensate the family of a student shot in the head by the country’s defence force has bounced
Do you know what to do if your internet connection goes down? This article includes many helpful tips, including a functional use for AOL disks
I haven’t bought strawberries from the green grocers for years. The fruit was getting larger and larger, but the trade off for size was loss of flavour.
My travels today took me by a small strawberry farm that sells to passing motorists, so I now have a bag of large, fresh, delicious strawberries. And they’re mine, all mine.
Luckily for me, the dogs don’t like them. A good thing considering that I nearly lost fingers when the Husky discovered that he liked dates as much as I do.
Don’t try this at home boys and girls… PowerLabs is where a serious electricity geek keeps track of his many rail guns, disk shooters, Tesla coils and related projects, documenting them with video, stills, blueprints and tutorials
A new species of baleen whale has been discovered. The stunning find, made after researchers studied the body shape and genetics of a few leviathan skeletons gathering dust for the last 25 years in a Japanese museum, brings the total number of known species in the main genus of baleen whale to eight
A growing movement aims to stop or regulate software that surreptitiously monitors computer use
A US civil rights group fears legal threats from Diebold, an electronic voting company, are having a chilling effect among ISPs, students and voting rights advocates
Cunningham MP Michael Organ has claimed that the Howard government’s mealy-mouthed subservience to the United States has been exposed by British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s persistence. ‘While our government washes its hands of Australians David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib, Mr Blair has apparently won agreement from US President George Bush that nine British nationals detained in Camp X-Ray at Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay can be returned to the UK for trial’
A must for the Monty Python fan: leave your mark in the sand with the weirdness of Spam thongs.
Everything Linux has an entire section devoted to silly USB devices, but the dumbest one has got to be the USB xmas tree light that will flash through six festive colours. It’s nauseating enough to cause co-workers to snap and insert the device into one of your bodily orifices.
T-Shirt Hell is guaranteed to have a shirt to offend everyone.
I’m fascinated by magnets and the Green Man has been teasing me with a shiny new one… behold the cow magnet. They’re not for attracting cows. Cows eat everything from grass and dirt to nails, staples and bits of bailing wire. Cow magnets attract these chunks of stray metal that would otherwise lodge in the honeycombed walls of the recticulum, threatening the surrounding vital organs and causing irritation and inflammation, known as Hardware Disease.
Home Secretary David Blunkett has refused to grant diplomatic immunity to armed American special agents and snipers travelling to Britain as part of President Bush’s entourage this week. In the case of the accidental shooting of a protester, the Americans in Bush’s protection squad will face justice in a British court as would any other visitor, the Home Office has confirmed
If you’ve hung around the Internet long enough, chances are you’ve encountered the Goatse guy — google it if you’re curious, but don’t say you weren’t warned. Slashdot has added whole volumes of code just to keep users from tricking each other into opening this photo. That said, someone is fond enough of the image to create a Goatse case mod. In a far more tasteful display of case modding style, Joe LeBlanc turned a junked Mac into a G4 Cube Aquarium
marry, and it gave the state legislature 180 days to make same-sex marriages possible. The Pagan Prattle has an amusing counter to the fundie mantra of biblical marriage
China has announced a government-funded project to promote an alternative to DVDs and attack the market share of the global video format. The rollout of the long-planned project, known as EVD, or enhanced versatile disc, was timed to coincide with the beginning of what China calls the golden sales period — known elsewhere as the Christmas shopping season
The new 20-inch iMac has been released. That’s right, the flat panel iMac now comes in 15 “flat screen”, 17 “widescreen” and 20-inch “cinematic” screens.
$3,898.00 AUD will get you the new 20-inch iMac with a super drive (DV-R/CD-RW), which I think is pretty good. For under 4 grand you’ve got a dvd burner and nice big screen, and you know the screen/video card combo is good cos it’s a mac.
That’s just one of the reasons I like macs, good quality screens and video cards are just fucking standard. No fucking around with inferior video card and a reasonable monitor, or just shit monitor and a half-assed video card like in Microsuck land. Hey and don’t say oh just get good stuff put in it
, I’m a fucking designer. I just want to get a good machine that I enjoy using, I’m not a geek who wants to spend every spare second of my time needing to beef up inadequate design machines.
Rant over.
So just what happens when two hardcore gamers break up? All goes smoothly until the custody of saved Xbox games throws a spanner in the works:
Justin is a man of action. He promptly called customer support. “I have two Xboxes,” he said breathlessly. “A memory card that’s too small and an ethernet cable. Lets try to figure this out…”
“So you’re telling me it’s not possible for my ex-girlfriend to take with her her own saved games? I can’t believe that! You make it sound like hacking my Xbox is a good idea!”
Generate your own battle cry.
I got lumbered with the not terribly fear inspiring:
I’m going to reduce you to ash, and sell you as spice!
I was a wee bit miffed, picturing my enemies on the battlefield being in serious danger of dying from laughter. But then Brian cheered me up by pointing out:
If somebody was screaming that at me, and the wind whipped their duster/trench/overcoat open to reveal dozens of tiny Schillings or Lawry’s bottles, I’d turn heel and bail.
The teeny spice bottles are a given. So, provided I remember to wear the trenchcoat and drag a wind machine into battle, you will all bow before me in fear.
Federal Democrat spokesperson for IT, Senator Brian Greig, has accused the federal government of using its proposed anti-spam legislation to favour groups with conservative agendas, allowing religious and political organisations to flood e-mail in-boxes with spam and deny other groups the right to respond
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