January 2009
35 posts
Design Fail →
Shared by Matt
Another Arguably Phallic fail. These shouldn’t be as funny as they are.
Submitted by Fail Fail
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Ubuntu stores cleartext passwords?
I have a serious security concern, unless I’m talking out of my ass.
I just tried to change my password in Ubuntu 8.10, and got this error message:
$ passwd Changing password for matt. (current) UNIX password: Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: Bad: new and old password are too similar
How can it know my old and new password are similar (not the same) unless it’s...
“In economics, the exam questions are the same every year. They just change the...”
– Slashdot Comment
“Just had my first pee of the Obama era. It was a golden stream of hope.”
– Some dude on Twitter, who apparently is following me. I’ve no idea why.
The glass is half… →
The glass is half…
Graph by Keeskind, via our GraphJam builder.
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Drought Fail →
Submitted by Jason Z
Drought Fail →
Submitted by Jason Z
Wikipedia to add peer review? →
Ughhh… guys this sounds like a bad idea!!
It looks like it could be very lightweight peer review, but it goes against the whole point of Wikipedia, and the whole reason it got so big.
Is this a sign of maturity? (ie. Now we have captured all human knowledge, it shouldn’t need to change very much, so we can slow down).
I do not like this.
Microsoft resumes crack smoking →
New DRM service for mobile music; Gives an entire interview of joke responses.
(Is this like … a serious interview? It reads like an Onion piece).
“If I were to be the CEO of Google or the founders of Google I would be very...”
– Jorge Cauz, President of Encyclopedia Britannica
Not too happy that his former customers made their own encyclopedia, with blackjack and hookers.
If “the best search engine in the world” is doing it dude, then clearly that either is the best their algorithm can do, or else...
The Onion Predicts →
An Onion article from 2001 (as Bush was about to be inaugurated) predicts the effects of Bush as president with frightening accuracy. Did they know they were being foresightful, or were they just having a laugh?
Courtesy Tim
“1. Create protocols/formats/standards/specifications which are not inherently...”
– Slashdot post, explaining quite clearly how Microsoft works
10101010101 →
I could listen to this song all day →
I listened to “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” like ten times drawing this comic. Then I got sick of it so I started listening to “Georgia on My Mind”. *** RSS readers, I wanted to talk to…
“The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’. There is no...”
– John C. Dvorak, San Francisco Examiner, 19 Feb. 1984
“Microsoft rewards training over understanding. And that alone should be reason...”
– Slashdot Comment, silanea
Google's new favicon →
At least this one is more subtle.
The one they chose (which they say was based on the above) is so bright and icky.
“Nick: “You have brothers?”
Matt: “Yes, and a blog.”
– Conversation relating to my brothers getting annoyed with me whenever I post my own quote to my blog.
“Anonymous Coward: “Come on people! Zeroing a disk drive only removes half...”
– Slashdot comments
OLPC Goes To Shit →
I’ve recently been getting quite riled about the OLPC or “XO” laptop - specifically the decision over the past year to move from a custom and entirely free “Sugar” environment (based on Linux) to a standard Microsoft Windows+Office PC, defeating most of the point of the project. I’m just about to give up and say, “oh well, I hope this organisation dies a...
Word of the Day - etypiphany
noun
WatchApple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
RMS doesn't use the web... WTF? →
Top 500 worst passwords →
From Mark Burnett’s 2005 book Perfect Passwords: Selection, Protection, Authentication, a table of the “Top 500 Worst Passwords Of All Time.” (via Beschizza’s Twitter) UPDATE: As…
Bazaar - Selectively Erase History →
If you want to throw away certain revisions of a Bazaar history (including the lasting effects of those revisions), this is how you do it. (Requires bzr-rebase, which is experimental).
(Scroll down to the starred/grey post, which is the answer).
Modern Struggles: Changing Your Nabble Email...
I just successfully changed my registered email address at Nabble*, from xxxyyy@gmail.com to xxx.yyy@gmail.com. Hooray! (I wanted to do this because, while gmail sees both as the same address, I would like to make posts from my canonical address, xxx.yyy@gmail.com).
Took a bloody while and a lot of forethought though. Here is my story.
Sign in as xxxyyy@gmail.com.
Change email to...
December 2008
29 posts
Better Programmer Art →
GameDev.net article