“Boing Boing”:http://www.boingboing.net/2004/03/23/office_plastered_in_.html had this link to someone who decided to play a prank involving “plastering a co-worker’s office with 2,500 postit notes!”:http://www.interactivetools.com/staff/dave/damons_office/ Complete with pictures!
I saw this over on “the tweney report”:http://dylan.tweney.com/weblog/000455.html and had to post. “What’s your favorite swear word?”:http://www.channel4.com/ads/index1.html (Caution: the audio is Not Safe for Work! Plug your headphones in!)
Lots-O-Links!
* “What’s in Your Gadget Bag, Cory?”:http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/whats_in_your_gadget_bag_cory.php - Corey, from “BoingBoing”:http://www.boingboing.net has posted a list of what gadgets he keeps in his bag. Very cool list of toys!
* “Asterix”:http://www.asterisk.org/ - The Open Source Linux PBX (found “here”:http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/12/2130236)
* “PayTrust”:http://paytrust.com - Looks like a pretty good bill payment system.
* “DSpam”:http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/ - Looks like an interesting piece of software that’s supposed to offer ‘Statistical Spam Protection’ (from “here”:http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/13/2048235)
* Update: “Paper Toys”:http://papertoys.com/ - This is a very cool site full of cool payer typs to print out and assemble! (from “boingboing”:http://www.boingboing.net/2004/03/15/free_paper_toys_to_p.html)
“SecurityFocus”:http://www.securityfocus.com has a good “security checklist for home computer users”:http://www.securityfocus.com/printable/columnists/220
Here’s a cool story I found over on “Boing Boing”:http://www.boingboing.net/2004/03/12/new_mobile_number_us.html. A woman in New York recently got a new cell phone. The kicker is “the phone number used to belong to Chris Rock”:http://www.laurasnyctales.com/current/chris-rock.html. It’s an entertaining read!
Security Focus has a good article about “some of the interesting things you can find using google”:http://www.securityfocus.com/printable/columnists/224. Very interesting reading.
“Lockergnome”:http://channels.lockergnome.com/news/archives/009383.phtml had this link to an extensive “Calvin and Hobbes Strip Search”:http://www.reemst.com/calvin_and_hobbes/stripsearch. No…not THAT kind of strip search.
Avi Rubin is a well regarded Johns Hopkins computer science professor and leading critic of e-voting. Recently he “spent a day working as an election judge in the Maryland primary”:http://www.avirubin.com/judge.html. He wrote the above article right after the experience, and it’s quite an interesting read.
Davezilla posted a great collection of aptly-titled Unfortunate URL’s.
My favorite? The Baptist Church that has cummingfirst.com!