Don’t Fuck With the Little Guy
- A network administrator has locked up a multimillion dollar computer system for San Francisco that handles sensitive data and is refusing to give police the password, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday.
The employee, 43-year-old Terry Childs, was arrested Sunday. He gave some passwords to police, which did not work, and refused to reveal the real code, the paper reported.
I think this guy saw Live Free or Die Hard. Hope they don’t shoot him in the leg to get the code! See story here.
Pregnant Man Has Baby Girl
An American man who was born female but underwent gender realignment surgery, has given birth to a female baby.
IRS Spam Is Clever, Dangerous
I just had a pretty scary piece of spam show up in my inbox. It appears to be from the IRS, implicates my employer, and comes immediately on the heels of the US tax season. All in all, very well socially-engineered.
Long story short, it’s spam, but you need to be careful. There’s more where it came from.
More details here.
The search for Cindy’s Loch Ness poop
No poop, but I found this:
With the weekend upon us, someone will find this information useful.
Business spam evolves
I found an interesting spam email in my inbox this morning that’s basically a personalized approach that hints at a risk to an online trademark (domain name) due to a foreign application being made for the trademark name in country-specific versions (.asia, .biz, .cc, .cn, .com. cn., .hk, etc.). It looks valid enough to hook a reader at first glance, and only when some research is done do you discover what it’s all about.
This approach is obviously personalized to the owner/manager of a commercial Internet brand and hints at risk to our online trademark (miproconsulting) due to a foreign application being made for our trademark name in country-specific flavors (.asia, .biz, .cc, .cn, .com. cn., .hk, etc.). Being the nice foreign domain registrar they are, the sender of this message, SK Holdings, is asking us if we want to do business with them and secure all of the miproconsulting variants listed below so that we can protect our Internet brand from this foreign applicant.
This is pretexting: it takes a known fact or truism about an individual or business and uses that piece if information to get someone to divulge information or carry out some other action. In this case, the spammer wants the victim to purchase the extended domain names before the foreign applicant does, thereby allowing the victim to protect his Internet trademark. Not exactly the most aboveboard way to do business, but it is clever. I’ll grant them that.
Pinch Me
I just saw a television commercial for a prescription sleep-aid that included this phrase, spoken in that soothing voice they all use: “If you walk, eat, or drive while sleeping, contact your doctor.” Drive? Isn’t that a little like saying “If you happen to murder somebody while taking our product, contact your doctor”?
Old? Hell, Let’s See it Again Anyway
But Ross Perot, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel – even by the standards of modern politics.
‘McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory,’ he said.
‘After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history.’
I mentioned this to some McCain supporters the other day and, surprisingly, they hadn’t heard the story of how the man came to be married to his present wife. As the whole story here indicates, Carol was disfigured in a traffic accident and lost her looks–so hubby dumped her and set out to help the world of himself.
via Praxxus
Elephant Sits on Man’s Head
I Love Texas
A man used a loaded gun to scratch his back and shot himself.
Dear Clusterflock,
In defiance of the shocking exchange rate and all common sense, I am going to visit friends in London and Paris later this month. Both my hostesses have day jobs, so I’ll be at my own disposal much of the time. What should I do, see, or eat while I’m there?
Bonus points for activities that are free, cheap, or involve cake.
Hot Dr. Pepper Commercial
sex skills for christian husbands
Barry’s praise of Lawrence Weschler’s book prompted a google search which led to this.
This is the same Robert Irwin, right Barry?
Lace your shoes
Did you know there are 43,200 ways to do it?
design coding
SEO rapper m0serious explains best practices in web design. See the other offerings on his YouTube Channel for advice on linking, paid search, and social media.
(via)
How to Photograph Nude Women…
…For Free:
You don’t need to be a professional photographer to get hot women to take off their clothes and pose nude for free. You don’t even need to know anything about photography. What you need is a camera – even a crappy one – and a few tips from the guys (“heroes” we call them here at TNA) who have done it before.
(via conscientious)
Traditional Snow-Shovelers’ Songs?
Anybody out there know work songs suitable for singing while shoveling snow? I shoveled for three hours yesterday, and I have a feeling that the future holds more of the same.
A Smut Story
Dear Popular Mechanics,
I’ve enjoyed the reader letters in your magazine since first sneaking a peak at your pages as a boy, but I never thought that one day I would write in with an unbelievable story of my own.
Genius
When someone emails or calls to say, “Let’s meet on Tuesday at 3″, the appropriate response is: “I’m not keeping a schedule for 2007, so I can’t commit to that, but give me a call on Tuesday at 2:45 and if I’m available, I’ll meet with you.”
Or, if it’s important, say, “You know what, let’s meet right now.”
Friends, Romans, contrymen: send us your tips!
Clusterflock now has a tip line! Send your feedback, thoughts, suggestions and ideas to clusterflock at gmail dot com.
Goodwill
The list of errands
I found in the pocket
of this thrift-store shirt
should keep me busy
for a few years.
That’s fine with me.
I’ve got nothing
else to do.
Two Questions
1. What do you call that scaly stuff left behind by your cuticles?
2. What’s the most efficient way to remove it?
Movies Online For Free
Simplistic’s Movies wades through youtube’s junk in order to find entire movies which have been posted in parts. The list is pretty extensive considering. (via Lifehacker)
‘I used to Deep Quote but now I Cite Bite.’
CiteBite allows you to link to specific text anywhere on a given webpage. (via Lifehacker)
Divshare
Divshare is a website that requires no registration and gives you unlimited server space for sharing files. I don’t know how they do it, but it is incredible.
Embrace the Mess
But contrarian voices can be heard in the wilderness. An anti-anticlutter movement is afoot, one that says yes to mess and urges you to embrace your disorder. Studies are piling up that show that messy desks are the vivid signatures of people with creative, limber minds (who reap higher salaries than those with neat “office landscapes”) and that messy closet owners are probably better parents and nicer and cooler than their tidier counterparts.