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Super Man

Oct 11, 2004 rants

I found out this morning that Christopher Reeve died last night. Not only was he Superman, but an inspiration to me. He was one of the few people that didn’t give up. When life dealt him a spinal cord injury, paralyzing him, he didn’t just fade away— he became an outspoken proponent for research into repairing spinal cord injuries, and an opponent of President Bush’s shortsighted severe limitations on stem cell research which, if allowed, could have someday allowed Reeves and many others to walk again. I don’t believe in the afterlife, so it’s hard for me to feel comforted that he’s anywhere other than in the ground. A great man is gone from this earth, and it’s up to us to see that it wasn’t in vain. May he rest in peace.

Macintosh. 20 years later

Oct 10, 2004 geek

A series of posters detailing different aspects of the original Macintosh, and just what made it so revolutionary.

FireWalkWithMe

Oct 10, 2004 geek

So, my PowerBook (just recently saved from disfigurement by the fine folks at MBS) being named FireBook, and my recently acquired portable hard drive being named FireWalkWithMe, I decided to create a custom icon for it. With a little help from GIS and IconBuilder, I came up with this quick and dirty Laura Palmer icon. Feel free to download and share the love.

Download icon for Mac

Paypal Fraud

Oct 6, 2004 rants

So, I got a series of emails yesterday that seem at once like the recent Paypal spoof crap and also perhaps legit, if only because they don’t include the usual link “click here to verify your account, and enter your information on our fraudulent website.” One of them said that I may have been in […]

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Comment Spam, new twist

Sep 21, 2004 geek

Just in the past few days, I’ve been seeing a new form of comment spam coming through, and making it past my spam filters. Instead of using the words that they know I will probably have on my block list, I instead get a string of HTML codes like:

internetcasinos

…which ends up giving me "internet casinos", which my filter would normally detect.

It seem the simplest solution is just to put the string &# into my filter list, which should catch these letter substitutions — but once I add that, I get all sorts of errors from the WordPress code that runs the spam filter, because it doesn’t like the #. Anyone else have any suggestions?

Update:

With the help of WPBlacklist, I seem to have stemmed the tide. Thanks, Farook.org, and the rest of the WP community!

SKY CAPTAIN and the WORLD of TOMORROW

Sep 18, 2004 flicks

It is a gorgeous film. A designer’s wet dream.

But the pacing is off and the characters, for the most part, fall flat. It’s as if you gave today’s effects technology to someone used to making films in 1935. It tries to be charming and retro, but succeeds only in being… well, of the kind […]

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Lance’s Guide to Man Grooming

Sep 16, 2004 linkage

This should probably be required reading for many geeks, myself included.

Mark Boszko

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