404’s 4 U
404 Research Lab. I was inspired by this 404 and went searching for some more. Some of them are funny, some let you play games, some are just creepy.
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Jailed for using a nonstandard browser
A Londonder made a tsnuami-relief donation using lynx on a Solaris box. Nice normal day, right? Wrong. The site-operator decided that this “unusual” event in the system log indicated a hack-attempt, and the police broke down the donor’s door and arrested him. From a mailing list:
For donating to a Tsunami appeal using Lynx on Solaris 10. BT [British Telecom] who run
the donation management system misread an access log and saw hmm thats a
non standard browser not identifying it’s type and it’s doing strange
things. Trace that IP. Arrest that hacker.Armed police, a van, a police cell and national news later the police
have gone in SWAT styley and arrested someone having their lunch.Out on bail till next week and preparing to make a lot of very bad PR
for BT and the Police….So just goes to show if you use anything other than Firefox or IE and
you rely on someone else to interogate access logs or IDS logs you too
could be sitting in a paper suit in a cell 😦
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Blast from the past.
Just digging through my archives, and found this movie, hope ya enjoy.
For everything else there is mastercard (NSFW)
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A pronounced deficiency in IQ
Oh how I love redneck ebonics. Merriam-Webster online now gives "nu-kyu-lar" as an alternative pronunication of "nuclear." While dictionaries have become more descriptive and less prescriptive over the years, shouldn’t they at least list it as [idiotic variant]?
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Celebrating 100 years of Einstein’s influence on Physics
This year has been declared the World Year of Physics. Why 2005? To celebrate 100 years since Einstein published three papers that revolutionized physics. In the U.K. and Ireland it is being called Einstein Year, but there are many events planned around the globe.
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Exeem, From Suprnova
eXeem Lite , the spyware free version of eXeem! Violate eXeem’s copyright for fun and profit.
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FYI: Pink/Red Urine isnt just blood
Well, I found out this morning that I have red urine. But no worries kids, its thanks to eating a bottle of beats yesterday. Hah, glad I’m not a paranoid delusional freak, I’d be convinced that I was dying.. I’d so need a course on coping with discoloured urine to deal with that.
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Wanna be a hooker?
Rug hooking must be one of the simplest and cost-effective of crafts (basically, cut old clothes into strips, use burlap, insert hook, pull up loop of fabric), and so it.s all the more amazing that it can be used to achieve such cool, painterly and stunning results. If you click on just one link in this post, make it this one, made by a Japanese woman out of her grandmother.s old silk kimonos. I.ve selected just one excellent, comprehensive rug hooking web site, but there.s a lot of resources and information available on the web for this craft if you.re interested in it like The Jennifer is.
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Tron 2: this time, it’s personal
Disney is remaking Tron!
Disney has hired screenwriters Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal to fashion a remake of Tron, the 1982 film about a computer programmer who gets sucked into the parallel world of a computer program, Variety reported…
Sternthal told the trade paper that the new conceit is that the computer programmer gets trapped in a cyberworld, so that the film can utilize the Internet.
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Maps, All Interactive Like
Maps Looking for Maps? Please click on the country of interest.
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Handbag embossed with handgun
The “Guardian Angel” bag is embossed with the outline of a handgun, so it looks like you’re packing heat. The same designed has made a laptop bag with the outlines of groceries embossed into the sides, disguising the computer within as foodstuffs. The bags are sold to women in Rotterdam to assuage fears of muggings.
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RAM-stick with an LED ticker
Corsair has shipped a RAM stick with a mini-LED pixelboard built into it. It’s intended to show the temperature of the RAM, but you can use Corsair’s Memory Dashboard to program the memory to display your own personalized greeting (or obnoxious salute). Click here for an image
Type in a message, you can have three messages of up to 23 characters each, click a button, and your message gets sent to some spare bits on the memory. (Where exactly? According to Corsair “the default message is stored in a microcontroller on the DIMM; user programmable messages are stored on the hard drive and loaded in Startup.”) And from then on, that message will scroll across the display like your very own tiny Times Square Zipper…except it won’t be giving you the latest news headlines and sports scores.
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Sheet-music for Super Mario
This guy, who calls himself “The Blindfolded Pianist,” has gone through all of Super Mario Bros and figured out the sheet music for it.
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Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee damn it crashed.
CoasterSims.com. Just because nature is full of icy death outside doesn’t mean you can’t sit in your computer chair and scream like a damn fool on a roller coaster.
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Mininum wage or more?
How much does Oprah make every second? Find out that and more at The Salary Clock! Enter a famous person’s salary (or your own) and find out your real-time earnings.
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liquid gold
Every day, we urinate nutrients that can fertilize plants that could be used for beautiful landscapes, food, fuel, and fiber. Instead, these nutrients are flushed away, either to be treated at high cost or discharged to waters where they overfertilize and choke off aquatic life.
Liquid Gold: The Lore and Logic of Using Urine to Grow Plants tells you how urine.which contains most of the nutrients in domestic wastewater and usually carries no disease risk.can be utilized as a resource.
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Remember when everyone on the internet was a 16 year old girl?
I have no idea who this dude is, but some of us, like Paul, are born with karaoke skills, some of us are not.
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There can be no escape. . .
NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory recently detected [reg required] the largest explosion ever detected in the universe: an eruption releasing the energy of hundreds of millions of gamma ray bursts. Just to put it in perspective, a single GRB releases enough radiation to wipe out just about everything human beings would require for survival in a 1000 light year radius. (The Milky Way spans ~100,000 light years, while the United Federation of Planets spans about 8,000). Arthur C. Clarke has gone so far as suggesting that GRBs might be one of the reasons for Extra-Terrestrial silence: Gamma Ray Bursts are so large and inescapable, a single one would wipe out even an enormous galactic empire. Makes killer asteroids seem downright quaint.
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Exploding the Self-Esteem Myth
Scientific American: Exploding the Self-Esteem Myth. Four academic psychologists review the data in the latest Scientific American, and conclude: "Boosting people’s sense of self-worth has become a national preoccupation. Yet surprisingly, research shows that such efforts are of little value in fostering academic progress or preventing undesirable behavior."
Perhaps unsurprisingly, groups that promote boosting self-esteem haven’t shown much interest in this research. If you ask me, the whole ‘self-improvement’ thing went out with the mid-90’s, I mean, who actually still goes to those courses? If you’re more then 16 and “don’t know who you are”, trust me, you arent going to learn it from a bunch of psychobabble from some hippie teaching you to love yourself.
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Atlas of Canada
Atlas of Canada including environmental, social, and economic overlays. Similar resources for US and down under.
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Wow.
The before and after tsunami photos have been synced-up and they highlight even more (if that’s possible) the power of the sea. She has geo-aligned the various before and after aerial and satellite photos and adjusted the scale to provide a very accurate then/now comparison.
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Is That A Dragon or a Duck?
Adventure – based on the classic text game of the same name – was the first game ever to contain an easter egg.
It seems laughably primitive these days, but when it first hit shelves, Adventure was a programming masterpiece. The text version of Adventure (by Willie Crowther and Don Woods) required hundreds of KB and a mainframe computer to operate, so much that Atari told Warren Robinett not to even bother with a 2600 version. He did anyway, and the results are near legendary. The 2600 version of Adventure went on to sell over a million copies at $25 a pop. For his effort Robinett recieved absolutely nothing beyond his $22,000/year salary.
Play the 2600 Adventure. (Flash) If you’re one of those who requires some eye candy, why not download the Quake 3 Adventure Map, instead?
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