Google has changed the way they rank pages again, and this has inspired a search engine optimization group to accounce the DarkBlue SEO Challenge. The basic premise is that they made up a phrase (nigritude ultramarine), and are having people try to get the #1 ranking on Google after 2 months for that query. The […]
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4th Annual Worldwide Wardrive Coming Up
Got a wireless card, laptop, and GPS? Then get in your car for a few hours between June 12-19 for the 4th Worldwide Wardrive. Turnout has been low as of late, so we need to you head over to the WWWD forums and sign up to represent your area! For details on WWWD4, check the […]
Flak Monkey Lan Party
Alas, I have been bested once again in combat by Steve, whose skills with the flak cannon are indeed admirable. Steve won the UT2K4 tournament and got the prize of a dead laptop and a hammer. Pictures are up here.
NetStumbler 0.4.0
Heres for all you wardrivers: A new version of the popular wireless network discovery tool NetStumbler was released today. Updates include support for more wireless cards, ip address reporting, new scripting features, and several bug fixes. This is the first new release since late August of 2002, over a year and a half ago. A […]
Administration to launch War on Pr0n
(from the Baltimore Sun) “Lam Nguyens job is to sit for hours in a chilly, quiet room devoid of any color but gray and look at pornography” Ok, now how many of you just stopped right there and said “Damn, I want that job!” Sure, porn 8 hours a day, with government benefits would be […]
W32.Cone.D Virus
W32.Cone is now at version D. Its another one of your typical spoof from address, harvest emails, and spread virus. Some messages that it generates actually admit to this though: Hi lucky, The attachment is a virus do not open it. I write it to say : we dont want islamic republic in IRAN! Im […]
Quitting UO – Permanently
I will be quitting UO at the end of this week. Permanently. And, to dissuade myself from coming back, I plan on getting rid of all my belongings and houses, deleting all my characters, and getting banned from the service. I have 2 accounts that need to be purged like this. If you play UO, […]
Mr. Operator
Yes, genius. Call me before you call the person you want just so I can tell you if they are there or not. Actual phone transcript follows: “Hey Jim, its ___ in Minnesota. Is ___ there?” “Yes, shes here. Is she not answering her phone?” “Oh no, I havent tried yet. I was just calling […]
Martha – Guilty on all charges
Martha Stewart has been found guilty on all 4 charges relating to her insider trading. Her stock broker, Bacanovic, was found guilty on 4 of the 5 charges against him. Trading on the NYSE for Marthas company has been halted.
NASA to announce Significant findings
CNN is reporting that NASA will be making a statement regarding recent discoveries by the Mars rovers. Obviously it will be water-related, unless they got pictures of (according to eric) a little green man whacking it Hmmm…. Update – Disappointing. They have found evidence of previous water on Mars. Woop-de-doo, didnt we all but know […]