New Car?
Thinking of picking up a new car in a bit, possibly one very similar to this one. Rockin eh?
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More Bunnies
The Shining in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies.
Dude, these bunnies scare the shit outta me.
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Security expert Bruce Schneier
Amazing interview with one of my idols (available as a text transcript or audio file) security guru Bruce Schneier, who really should be hired to run the United States Homeland Security dept.
Doug Kaye: Now a recurring concept in your book is probably typified by this example: .A terrorist who wants to create havoc will not be deterred by airline security; he will simply switch to another attack and bomb a shopping mall..
Bruce Schneier: This is, I think, really important. I just did a hearing two days ago on Capitol Hill about CAPS II, about airline profiling, and one of the things I.m always struck with is how good we are at defending against what the terrorists did last year. We.re spending a lot of money shoring up our airlines, we.re now talking about shoring up trains. And money that we spend that simply causes the bad guys to change their tactics is money wasted.
You have a red and a blue door, and the terrorists go through the red door, and you say, .We must secure the red door,. so they go through the blue door the next time. What did you actually buy?
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Me Like!
Yay, lost that extra 15 lbs I’ve been carrying around since Infiknowledge, now to pick back up the musscle weight I lost. Heh. I do all this work to get lighter, and now, I’m planning on adding 15 lbs of musscle.. haha. Yeah, sorta counter-productive, oh well.
It’s nice being a big strong guy, I love being able to help my wench out, she’s tiny, and still not quite used to the fact I’ll help with all the things she’d have to get on a chair for.
We went to the dinner theatre thing that the OAOT Social Committee set up for us. Nice shindig, I was tired as hell and sunburnt to shit, and me and Jenn even thought about bailing, but the tickets were paid for a month or so in advance, so tough luck for us if we missed it. And they way I figure it since oaot’s social committee paid for half of the tickets, it was too good of a deal to pass up.
But yeah, it was a blast, great food, and cool tunes/acting. Not bad at all especially for Moncton.
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Petition against the Canadian DMCA
There’s a petition against Canada’s proposed DMCA-like copyright law up at Digital Copyright Canada:
We, the undersigned residents of Canada draw attention of the House to the following:
THAT the Copyright Act is properly recognised as being a careful balance between the rights of creators and the rights of the public (including viewers, readers and listeners);
THAT the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously affirmed this view in CCH Canadian Ltd v Law Society of Upper Canada;
THAT digital technologies have recently given copyright holders the ability to upset the balance in the Copyright Act by preventing Canadians from accessing works for purposes that have been legally granted to them;
THAT the creation of original works is nourished by wide accessibility of earlier works, including a vibrant public domain;
THAT dissemination of cultural ideas requires that they be preserved in a form that is accessible to future generations; and
THAT historically, consultations regarding changes to the Copyright Act have mostly taken place with creators, intermediaries and only some special users (such as educators and librarians)
THEREFORE, your petitioners call upon Parliament to ensure generally that users are recognised as interested parties and are meaningfully consulted about proposed changes to the Copyright Act and to ensure in particular that any changes at least preserve all existing users’ rights, including the right to use copyrighted materials under Fair Dealing and the right to make private copies of audio recordings. We further call upon Parliament not to extend the term of copyright; and to recognise the right of citizens to personally control their own communication devices.
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No Images Were Harmed in the making of this webpage.
CSS Pencils is probably the most hardcore use of CSS I’ve seen – no images at all, but hey – what’s that? A picture? And you can manipulate it? Live? Yep – all with the power of CSS.
I use css on my page a lot, but damn. This is just wacked out to the point of a near PaulFirlotte.com level
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Heads are gonna roll…
Ford Motor Co. is pissed at ad agency Ogilvy & Mather after O&M leaked a viral marketing ad for the Ford Sportka depicting "a realistic-looking orange cat climbing on top of the car and curiously poking its head into the open moon roof…The roof slides closed and the cat struggles briefly to escape before its headless body slides to the ground." Apparently Ford never authorized the commercial’s (.mpg) release.
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