`Within hours, it went from flame war to an Internet Jihad minus guys with Ak-47’s and camels. Practically the entire Ytmnd community, combined with a sizeable chunk of Somethingawful.com, 4chan.org and Newgrounds.com descended upon the Ebaumsworld livechat, forums and techsupport. Chaos ensued, with beastly ping floods, DoS and chunks of code apparently uploaded onto sections of Ebaumsworld. Predictably, it also aroused the interest of numerous script kiddies, who are currently running a competition to see who can wipe out Ebaums world completely.’
`Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.
It’s no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity. [..]
Buried deep in the new law is Sec. 113, an innocuously titled bit called “Preventing Cyberstalking.” It rewrites existing telephone harassment law to prohibit anyone from using the Internet “without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy.”‘
‘I’m aware of the made up declarations about me that have recently begun to appear on the Internet and in emails as “Chuck Norris facts.” I’ve seen some of them. Some are funny. Some are pretty far out. Being more a student of the Wild West than the wild world of the Internet, I’m not quite sure what to make of it. It’s quite surprising. I do know that boys will be boys, and I neither take offense nor take these things too seriously. Who knows, maybe these made up one-liners will prompt young people to seek out the real facts as found in my recent autobiographical book, “Against All Odds?” They may even be interested enough to check out my novels set in the Old West, “The Justice Riders,” released this month. I’m very proud of these literary efforts.
~ Chuck Norris’
Followup to Chuck Norris: Top Thirty Facts.
`Michael wrote up a special how to and guide for MAKE about a robot you can program and control over the web right now! – “Before you roll your eyes and tell me about all the other robots you’ve seen on-line and at robot shows, let me tell you why this one is different. You have to program it, or it won’t do anything. And by that I mean you ssh into the robot, write a program, compile it on the robot, and run it on the robot.” Here’s how it works and how to try it out…
Log into the robot via ssh. Do this now: it’s live, online. The robot is at robot.linuxrobots.org, user robot, password robot.’
`One of the frustrating things about websites that use Flash video is that they rarely provide links to let you download the video files for offline viewing or transcoding/syncing to portable devices like the Sony PSP, video iPod, or Creative Zen Vision.
Case and point: Google Video and YouTube. Neither of these websites allow you to download the video files. This type of lock-down is soooo Web 1.0.
I decided to dive into Greasemonkey and create a couple scripts to expose download links on Google Video and YouTube webpages [..]’
`There are hundreds of firefox extensions on the web. Which ones do you use? Here is my attempt to collect the 50 best and popular firefox extensions which make your browsing, downloading and navigation in Firefox as easy as possible, while harnessing the full power and features of Firefox.’
`As I look back at the year in news, it’s clear I should have focused more on people having sex with horses.
That’s the conclusion I reach after reviewing a new list of the year’s top local news stories. Only this list is not the usual tedious recounting by news editors or pundits who profess to speak for you readers. This is the people’s-choice list. [..]
What’s more, four more of the year’s 20 most clicked-upon local news stories were about the same horse-sex incident. We don’t publish our Web-traffic numbers, but take it from me the total readership on these stories was huge.
So much so, a case can be made that the articles on horse sex are the most widely read material this paper has published in its 109-year history.’
For those who don’t know, BackOrifice is a backdoor program that lets people take control of a computer. Fun stuff.
Anyways, have a look at the first picture, then the second. Funny. π
`As the joke goes, on the Internet nobody knows youre a dog. But although anonymity has been part of Internet culture since the first browser, its also a major obstacle to making the Web a safe place to conduct business: Internet fraud and identity theft cost consumers and merchants several billion dollars last year. And many of the other more troubling aspects of the Internet, from spam emails to sexual predators, also have their roots in the ease of masking ones identity in the online world.
Change, however, is on the way. Already over 20 million PCs worldwide are equipped with a tiny security chip called the Trusted Platform Module, although it is as yet rarely activated. But once merchants and other online services begin to use it, the TPM will do something never before seen on the Internet: provide virtually fool-proof verification that you are who you say you are.’
`German police have confiscated five warez servers with 6 terabytes of illegal copies of movies and games in the German town of Coburg on the fringes of northern Bavaria. The servers, with names as Temptation and Paradise Island, were accessible to over 1,200 people for 30 to 120 per month. Police arrested at least one 26 year old.
[..] The servers ran for over a year, during which at least 130 terabytes of illegal movies and games were uploaded.
GVU says that the servers are part of a European network of 50 “release groups”, who issue the latest movies and games through closely knitted warez networks. GVU believes that in Germany alone 300 people are involved with these crimes.’
This is two posts for the price of one. π
This fellow has built a robotic fish and has links to some articles and photos about the fish:
`The world’s first autonomous robotic fish are the latest attraction at the London Aquarium.
Biologically inspired by the common carp, the new designs can avoid objects and swim around a specially designed tank entirely of their own accord.’
As well as the fish, he’s also built a web page that is state-of-the-art for the year 1994. Including small, pixellated graphics and horribly annoying flashing text. Takes me back a few years, it does, yet it’s dated August 2005.
Maybe he let his robot fish code his page for him? That’s about the only explaination I have. π
(2.7meg Flash video)
see it here »
`Pop babe Britney Spears and her dancer husband Kevin Federline are reportedly apprehensive about a sex tape of theirs that is going to be made public.
According to the Sun, a member of the singer’s entourage is believed to have copied one of the couple’s personal video tapes, allegedly recorded while Britney was still expecting baby son Sean Preston, and is threatening to release it. [..]
During her pregnancy, Britney confessed her sex life was at its best.
“I think it’s the best. Sex is crazy good,” she confessed.’
I’ll link to it when it comes out, if I can find it. Also, I’m going to throw the phrase “Britney Spears Biphallic Sex Tape” in right here just to see how the search engines react. π
`We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on our website GWEI.org. With this money we automatically buy Google shares via our Swiss e-banking account. We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself – but in the end we will own it!’
‘Actually, he isn’t. The whole thing was one big joke, and people are buying it left and right. You probably didn’t, because you found this page, but lots of people are stupid enough to buy into this shit.
Someone made a thing about midgets getting killed by lions, I ripped that off, hosted it over here, and tried to have some fun while I was gone taking a class.
It worked. Check and mate.’
Followup to the Bruce Pastuer Murder Thread post. I finally bothered to look a bit more into it. Shoulda done it in the first place, but I’m lazy and I don’t really care that much. π
Some guy called Bruce loses his mind over an argument in an internet forum. Shoots two people who insulted him then goes on the run. Keeps posting on the forum with wireless net access whilst on the run.
More on the internet murders here.
‘British soldiers serving in Iraq crashed defense ministry computers in London last week after officials downloaded a spoof video the troops had made of a chart-topping song.
The soldiers’ four-minute video take of the 1971 hit ‘Is This The Way To Amarillo’ had officers laughing out loud back at London headquarters as they e-mailed copies to each other. [..]
In the spoof video, a soldier looking like Kay marches through a British base in Iraq calling on fellow troopers to join him, including two dressed only in underwear, webbing and rifles.’
And you can see the video here.
(4.1meg Windows media)
see it here »
`Here at /8====>, we’ve already combined two things essential to live, strip clubs and food. Now it’s time to put sex and video games together in a pair we like to call The SeXBox. The second you start playing with this while on XBox Live, it turns into teledildonics!
This mod didn’t take any engineering. There’s nothing new or amazing that we’re doing with this, hell, we really didn’t even think of the method first. However, we DID involve sex, so we win!’
`Every so often I do a monthly check-up of my hit stats for evilzug.com. Its always cool to see what kind of traffic my site is getting because I often forget that there are people out there, looking at my stuff, on a daily basis. But this month, something is just unusual. I cant place it yet, so I keep looking around.
I notice a spike of traffic from Yahoo image search. This is peculiar, as I dont really have a lot of images on my site. Hmm
This catchs my eye!’
I experience a similar thing with biphallic images. Several orders of magnitude down the scale though.
Just wait until I post some actual pictures tho. π
`Every year we grow more and more dependent on the Internet. But would you know what to do if your connection suddenly went down?
No one knows when the Internet will fail. It could happen at any time, leaving you bereft of your e-mail, your sports scores, and your Blogs. Therefore, it’s important that you and your family have a contingency plan for just such an emergency. If your connection to Cyberspace were to ever get severed, you should at least be prepared. We have included a few key points that should assist you if that were to happen.’
`I honestly can’t understand why all women aren’t lesbians. There’s simply no excuse for why women are attracted to hairy, sweaty, stinky, men.
And yet I’m a straight male but I want a strong man to fuck me in the ass, lick my asshole and suck my cock and my balls, and I want to do the same thing to him.
Straight, though.’
`Fast payment and good communication. thanks
Reply by mizzelphug: Liar. I paid with paypal and EVERYTHING was automated. I didn’t even email you.
[..]
Cute items! Fast shipping! Thank you! AAA+++
Reply by mizzelphug: I got them out of a gumball machine. Thank USPS for the fast shipping, not me.’
Links to some interesting web cams.
Follow-up to Google Search for ‘inurl:”ViewerFrame?Mode=”‘.
This search string pops up hundreds of unprotected webcams around the world. At the moment I’m looking at the foyer of some building somewhere. It’s empty. π
I think it’s hit the mainstream news today some time, so people might start tightening up their camera security.
Probably not tho. You know what people are like. π
And! It seems some of the cameras can actually be controlled. I think I just pointed someone’s surveillance camera at a different building.. π
‘How can so many supposedly media-savvy operators – even members of the intelligence community – still be so easily fooled? Don’t these people have assistants with subscriptions to HBO or, at the very least, access to the outside world?’
There’s been recent earthquake activity recorded at Mount St. Helens. Here’s the live camera of the mountain, so we can all watch and wait for disaster. It’s just static at the time of post. π
see it here »
