July 2009
Why You Shouldn't Post "Improvements" You Made On...
It didn’t really work the way I said it would.
It does now, though.
Unless it doesn’t, in which case let me know.
If you’ve been using it, you might want to Settings->Safari->Clear Cache and then hit the reset link first. I had all sorts of weirdness before I did that.
“You’re fooling yourself mightily. These people on the other side of the screen...”
– portorock, who then went on to unleash quite a bit of vitriol towards numerous constructs of his own thoughts and ideas.
Taking Over the iPhones of the World, One SMS at a... →
On Thursday, at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, two researches will reveal a bug which allows an attacker to take control over the victim’s iPhone by sending a couple of SMS messages.
If you’re the victim, you will probably see an SMS message containing a single square character. Charlie Miller and his colleague Collin Mulliner, which discovered the bug, say that the...
rrrrred:
I know you guys are probably sick to death of “haha, read this transcription error” but seriously, haha, read this transcription error.
REAL MESSAGE: Hi Erica, it’s Rod Knowlton, aka Toldorknown… Google Voice is probably going to banana hopscotch cough drop the scissors out of this message… GOOGLE VOICE: hi there the trouble syndicates older noon hello it’s paul...
AP's DRM Announcement: Much Ado About Nothing |... →
Unfortunately for AP, the hNews spec bears little resemblance to AP’s claims about it. hNews is a handy way of annotating news stories with information about the author, dateline, and so on. But it doesn’t “encapsulate” anything in a “wrapper”, nor does it do much of anything to facilitate metering, monitoring, or paywalls.
It seems that there is much...
“This group, which I’ll call the Favrd Crowd, at its current state is an example...”
– A Ball of Butter - Culture engines
I kid with the out of context quote. It’s an intriguing article, in which I’m flattered to have been mentioned.
God help us all, there's a gopher front end for... →
The link is via a web based gopher client, so you don’t need to do anything special to see it. :-)
On my eighth birthday
The first leap second was added to the UTC time system.
Which more than makes up for it also being Mike Tyson’s birthday.
Shaver - Love You ‘Til The Cows Come Home...
Reblog with your birthdate, social security...
It’s a game. It’ll be fun.
Queen - Let Me Live
From Made In Heaven, a...
Dear Grocery Store Check-Out Dude:
I’ve worked retail before.
I know that no matter how much you want to be genuine with every person you have contact with, some things will just become rote and you’ll find yourself saying them without forethought.
So I didn’t mind that when I arrived at the counter with a half dozen boxes of Kleenex, Musinex, and cough drops, you asked me “How are you doing...
“Seventeen-year-old lesbian Cheyenne Cherry pleaded guilty to charges of animal...”
– Weekly Review—By Claire Gutierrez (Harper’s Magazine)
"Times" vs. "Orders of Magnitude"
Chicago is roughly five times as far from Tulsa as Oklahoma City is.
The Sun is roughly five orders of magnitude as far from Tulsa as Oklahoma City is.