Posted by peter on 2006-10-31 | Filed under General, Google and Tech News
Although I disagree with just about everything they stand for, Mother Jones magazine has a fairly interesting article about Google entitled Is Google Evil?. It’s worth a read just to hear about some of the often hypocritical things Google has been doing.
My answer to the question would be no, they are not evil. […]
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Posted by peter on 2006-10-31 | Filed under General, Google, Programming, Security and Web Design and Development
A post over at NewOrder.box.sk entitled The web has never been more insecure: Google code search makes a great point about Google’s new source code search, it’ll make it easier for attackers to find exploitable flaws in open source projects. It’s kind of scary… but on the other hand lets hope some of the […]
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Posted by peter on 2006-10-25 | Filed under General, Programming and Software
I just found this neat project on Source Forge:
Alchemi is an open source software framework that allows you to painlessly aggregate the computing power of networked machines into a virtual supercomputer (desktop grid) and to develop applications to run on the grid.
Of course even if you are able to come up with a project that […]
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Posted by peter on 2006-10-25 | Filed under General, Humor, News, Video and Weird News
See the video here: Boy crawls into an arcade machine
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Posted by peter on 2006-10-25 | Filed under General, News, Politics and Weird News
Reports of an elephant crossing the river or people trying to smuggle an elephant across were rampant Tuesday while an elaborate political stunt was taking shape near the mouth of the Rio Grande.
The last line of the article is my favorite: The mariachi band was not immediately available for comment.
Read the whole story here: Republican […]
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Posted by peter on 2006-10-19 | Filed under FireFox, General, Quote of whenever, Security and Tech News
“But for a truly secure Internet browser with more features, we still recommend Mozilla Firefox.” — C|net review of IE7
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Posted by peter on 2006-10-19 | Filed under General, TV and Thoughts
Congratulations to Jeffrey Sebelia, winner of season 3 of Project Runway. Out of the top four he was definitely my favorite and I was elated when he won.
Needless to say the other designers are all talented and have futures in fashion; I loved Uli’s collection and although I was rooting for Jeff, I […]
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Posted by peter on 2006-10-17 | Filed under General, Humor and Quote of whenever
“Finally, an animal that does something useful besides taste good!” — Homer J. Simpson
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Posted by peter on 2006-10-13 | Filed under Cool Website, General and Knowledge
Ever wonder where a saying came from? phrases.org.uk is a neat site that contains “The meanings and origins of over 1,200 English sayings, phrases and idioms.”
I stumbled upon the site when trying to find out the origin of the saying “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth“. Once you know the origin, […]
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Posted by peter on 2006-10-11 | Filed under General and Weird News
Prosecutor mulls charges in crash tied to flying bra - Any possible charges against the 17-year-old girls who hung a red bra out of a car on I-75 on Sept. 26, causing a single-car accident that hurt two men, would be filed next week, a Wood County Juvenile Court prosecutor said yesterday.
James Campbell, 37, and […]
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