Ladies and gentlemen, we are in the presence of immense amounts of idiocy. If you haven’t been around the tubes for the past few days, here’s a recap:
Someone posing as “malcor” (blog since removed) claimed to have hacked Glenn Wolsey, a reasonably prominent Mac blogger, and replaced his site with a page linking to the Malcor blog, with a picture of a rotton apple with a worm crawling through it. Next, MacApper was posted on …
I’m going to take a leaf out of the Book of Gruber.
Mark Cuban is the Jackass of the Week.
Ars Technica has everything I would say in response to this article so I’m not going to go over it again.
Mr. Cuban, I would do some research. Not all Bittorrent traffic is warez. And it shouldn’t be so hard for Comcast to keep bandwidth up — not to mention the US is pretty far behind in terms …
A while back I posted about automatically scrolling between internal links with some jQuery magic (which in turn was based on a tutorial by Learning jQuery) but one problem with it was that there was no way for the user to link to the anchor.
The problem was that because the function has to return false in order to keep the browser from jumping straight through to the anchor and skipping the animation. So I added …
Now that I’m browsing without Adblock, I’ve noticed the ads that Last.fm sprinkles on its pages, and I thought of something:
What if the ads were targeted specifically for your music tastes?
It probably wouldn’t be too hard — Last.fm already taps into its database of your music taste to calibrate the “Taste-o-Meter” comparing your “musical compatibility” with your friends. So why wouldn’t it be a reasonably simple task to pick from different genres of ads and …
A screenshot of what my workspace looks like right now. The wallpaper is one from Windows Vista, and while I can’t say I like Vista itself, it has some cool wallpapers.
I even set my wallpaper to the black Windows Vista Ultimate one sometimes just for kicks. As for the icons on my desktop, the less the better, and I’ve switched it around to display the labels to the …
Wikipedia has a list of the 599 additives that cigarette companies put into their products. Why do people even begin smoking? Jesus. Ammonia, you know, the horrible-smelling stuff you use to clean your house? It’s on that list, for crying out loud.
And, kids, whatever you do, don’t do this:
