Don Parks Daily Habit – Visual Security: 9-block IP Identification
An interesting site I came across a few weeks ago, lost, then found again.
Look, I’m beautiful! Uh, well, at work anyway. My identicon at home looks like one of the bugs from the movie “Starship Troopers.”
Update: Since you wondered…
State senator sues God – Peculiar Postings – MSNBC.com
Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers has had it up to here with the terroristic threats God makes against His creations, not to mention 5000-plus years of floods, famine, plague and pestilence.
Since God is everywhere, He can be sued in Douglas County, Nebraska for the untold psychological damage His irrational actions have done to Senator Chambers’ constituents. Chambers is seeking a permanent injunction forbidding God to engage in further terroristic activities.
Screen capture of Meow Mix Sweepstakes error message.
They could give me time to get out to the kitchen for the UPC code plus feed whatever animals got in the way as I tried to get back to the computer with it.
Sheesh.
“Baseball bats are now the preferred weapon for many drug gangs and others who have a business need to administer behavioral reminders. They’re cheap, lethal, legal, untraceable, and hey! it’s the national pastime.”
— George Carlin
Any day that starts with an email from someone named “Bad Alice” simply has to be a great day!
Bad Alice is the acoustic duo formed by Suzy Johnston (author of The Naked Bird Watcher
– the positive account of developing and learning to manage a serious psychiatric disorder that included depression, psychosis and self-harm)
Leslie interjects: The other half of the duo is Lindsay Robertson. So far as I can tell, she is horribly normal except when she gets a hold of a box of crayons.
The CD by Bad Alice is now available.
Titled ‘Walk in my Shoes’ it is a further positive and reflective message on mental illness, self-harm and the issues that face the young of today.
The CD is available on the Bad Alice website where individual tracks can also be downloaded. http://www.badalicemusic.com
The hope is that the music will help people to feel less isolated and offer reassurance that they can get through this. It is also meant to raise further awareness, understanding and – hey – people might even like the songs!
Cheers,
Bad Alice
http://www.badalicemusic.com/
http://www.thecairn.com/
Excellent CD. It’s only number two in my 6-disc changer, but Bad Alice would have to play tuned chain saws to get ahead of Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters
I hope to get to Scotland on my next trip to Liverpool. If luck is with me, Bad Alice will have a gig when I’m there.
Suzy’s mum Jean is a great mum, I’m told, and a very cool lady. She even wrote her own book, To Walk on Eggshells
The CD costs £6.50 postpaid in the UK. Not sure about the rest of the world, but it’s also available as mp3s. Buy it with PayPal and download it on the spot.
SanDisk Takes Action Against Alzheimers
For some reason, Sandisk believes that selling special purple flash memory will fix Alzheimers. I have no idea why I think this is funny. I fully expect to spend the last few years of my life not remembering from moment to moment what I am doing. Oh, look, a plate of half-eaten something I don’t know the name of… should I eat it? Shudder.
They’re going to find out that Alzheimers is caused by a low-fat diet. Those plaques? They land in the empty spaces left behind when the brain – which is largely fat – melts away.
Sandisk was one of the major backers of the Secure Digital card format. I recommend the product highly, no matter what color it is.
I’ve been playing with the .mobi stuff and discovered that 2D codes have a use other than to count packs of cigarettes. I can put my web site URL into a QR-Code or a ShotCode, print it on stickers, and stick the stickers to things. Then folks can point their cellphone cameras at the code block and the URL will show up in their phone as a clickable hypertext link.
I was thinking I could sell my bumperstickers that way, put the QR-Code on them.
There is a nice java app for cell phones at QuickMark Mobile Barcode – Web Site QuickMark. This app also reads SemaCode. Some fun! QR-Code even has error correction built in so that if the code block is torn or partly obliterated the app can still get the information out of it.
Create your own code with the QR-Code Generator.
Another 2D code is ShotCode. This one is targeted for advertisers. You have the option of logging all kinds of information about the cell phone and user.
The common dogma [of fundamentalists] is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years…. That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defense against the dangerous new knowledge. … When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. … Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity.
G Gaia, AOL Member
Quoted on Wisdomquotes.com
Rethinking personal evolution.
Post-modernism is about creating a synthesis encompassing, integrating, and synergizing the existing, mutually exclusive domains of religion and science. A new spiritual paradigm, if you like buzz-words. Most of us have evolved far beyond the pre-industrial, that is, agrarian, monotheistic religions. Blind faith stopped being relevant before WWII, so you practically have to drop out of modern society to avoid moving to the next level. But don’t tell the poor devils unless you want a bloody Crusade right here in the US.
The atheists would claim that we have a god-shaped hole in our heads that we must fill with something, and this may be true. Now all the geeks don’t know what to do with this need for spirituality – or even exactly what it is that they’re needing!
KW has some great ideas, but he expressed an opinion in an interview that evolution is a sudden transformation rather than a process of gradual adaptation to the environment. I don’t agree that intermediate, incomplete forms are necessarily incompatible with survival. The universe doesn’t need miracles, *we* do.
To me, this idea that the Universe will bring you whatever you want if you are spiritual sounds a whole lot like the Protestant Work Ethic. If you work hard enough or if you believe hard enough, God will grant you grace. And all of your basest desires.
Look around you. There are a very few beacons shining above a sea of ignorance. Check out SoundsTrue. There are some excellent materials there – you just have to separate the wheat from the chaff.
In my opinion, we will achieve enlightenment only when humanity physically evolves enough to provide us with appropriate organs for it. I’m just burning karma until then.
Darwin loves you, man.
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