So, it wasn’t the caffeine after all…
 by in Health, Interesting Links |
For most of my (working) life, I have been an avid coffee-drinker almost since the day I first forced that cup down my throat out of politeness and, after a few cups thought that, “Hey that actually tastes & feels good.“.
Until, a few of months ago, my stomach started acting up on me after drinking [...]
MC Frontalot — Secrets From The Future
| by in Arts & Poetry, Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Interesting Links, Internet & Technology, Media, Religion & Politics, Music, Security & Privacy |
Hey again! Long time no post, I know…. busy, life, et cetera, but this I just needed to share.
I was just reading Bruce Schneier’s CRYPTO-GRAM and he linked to this suprisingly good track (direct link to MP3) by MC Frontalot, called Secrets From The Future (direct link to the lyrics).
To quote the chorus:
You can’t [...]
Everlast: Love War and The Ghost of Whitey Ford
| by in Arts & Poetry, Interesting Links, Music |
It’s been quiet for a long while … probably because I didn’t have anything to say or anything to vent… But I do so, now.
See, my girlfriend found the new site set up by Everlast (to spread the word about his new album, Love War and The Ghost of Whitey Ford, I assume) [...]
I’m a freak: I got calculi in my salivary glands
| by in Health, Interesting Links |
I have got calculi in my salivary glands and it sometimes acts up.
You know, if you had biology in school, there are 2 tiny little holes on the floor of your mouth, about where your tongue attaches, where your saliva comes into your mouth.
Basically, what happens is that sometimes — and this is [...]
Nice kit…
With the current iPhone hype it’s cool to see an open device like the Neo1973. There’s even an edition that includes a special screwdriver so you can really take that to the literal level.
“Know that it’s okay to call shit like it is and quit being cowards worrying about who we’ll offend”
| by in Interesting Links |
I just finished reading an article on guerrillafunk.com by Paris entitled “Are you a Hip-Hop apologist?”.
The Inuit and Christianity
I was watching a TV recording last night, in it they showed an old news-reel of Inuit celebrating Easter. I was immediately like “WTF” — Christian beliefs, way over there? I couldn’t believe it. Because I wouldn’t think Christians would’ve their balls frozen off trying to convert those folks. And second, because I would’ve thought [...]
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
A colleague and friend of mine whose name I won’t mention to protect the innocent, told me some stories about Sea Shepherd, an organisation whose mission statement it is to protect and conserve marine wild-life — and does this very actively by basically stalking and irritating the hell out of whale-hunters, et cetera.
A couple [...]
LMAO! Minister must explain how a guy, with Joker-style make-up job, got a passport an ID-card
My girlfriend just called me about this hilarious bit about a guy that had gotten a passport with his picture made while he looked like The Joker from the Batman series.
Apparently, after stating that ‘this was his way of life’, the municipal office didn’t see no problem with it, and issued a passport an ID-card.
This [...]
Linux distro timeline
I just discovered the linux distribution timeline.
Cool graph…
Online treatment for alcoholism
I just caught this news (Dutch) about on-line treatment for alcohol-addiction by some Dutch clinic that specialises in that type of thing.
This ‘treatment’ consists of 7 online chat-sessions with a professional.
Now, I can’t get this image out of my head:
i have a drinking problem
Come, come, elucidate your thoughts.
i drink too much
I’m not sure I understand [...]
To sit upright or to not sit upright…
| by in Health, Interesting Links |
In my profession, I have always sat behind a computer — I have never done any work that didn’t involve one.
People always noted my sitting position: I was either hanging backwards in my chair (hey the monitor is at eye-height then, too), or I’m sitting behind a desk at a slight angle (i.e. my [...]
I guess the truth really, really is inconvenient…
I have just caught this article here and it sickens me how, the ‘free world that the terrorist envy‘, is all run by money. I just hope some of the parents are wise enough to teach their kids, though… I mean, yeah, they’re American, but that doesn’t mean that they’re all morons, even a retard [...]
On the anti-smoking lobby and so-called ‘experts’
| by in Health, Interesting Links, Random Rantings |
I’m an person avidly against the anti-smoking lobby. It’s unfair.
I’ve always defended the position of the smoker, and have always doubted research into this field because, hell, cancer could just as well come from another source, not specifically second-hand smoke (it could be farts, or fuck, this is one of my latest gems: cancer could [...]
White-supremacist butt-fuckers messing wit’ MLK…
I just love this initiative to Googlebomb a white-supremacist website (found it while connecting*the*dots).
The content of the site really is sickening and vile. Of course, such a site should be taken down, but denial of service attacks are childish. And, everybody has a right to express themselves, even a white supremacist.
But… this isn’t expression… [...]
Forget the PS3 ! I want a Nedap voting machine
| by in Humour, Interesting Links |
It can play games too! I was just reading this relatively old dissection of these voting machines that coincidentally we will vote on in the upcoming elections.
It started with what we thought was a very obvious statement. We claimed on our website that
the Nedap was just another computer, and that as such it could just [...]
The lie detector and Wonder Woman…
| by in History, Interesting Links |
I learned some interesting facts this morning. Through this post on Slashdot I ended up on this page, on the release of the guys’ FBI files.
I didn’t know the creator of the first ‘lie detector’ and Wonder Woman were one and the same guy. And that, in 1938, William Moulton Marston once did some tests [...]
Recording an end-user’s movements on a website — copyright infringement?
This post on Slashdot got me thinking of something that I’ve been thinking about a couple of years ago.
Who says that websites aren’t already recording your movements?
I mean — earlier in this century I was thinking that, when you are a big corporation, and you have some ‘comments, complaints & suggestions‘ section on [...]
Bettie Serveert 15 year anniversary
| by in Arts & Poetry, Interesting Links, Music |
I just received an email from Fabchannel that they’re webcasting the 15 year anniversary concert of Bettie Serveert (Dutch band). I’m a long fan of Bettie Serveert — `Brain-Tag‘ in fact being my and my gf’s ‘song‘ (that’s some excellent guitar-playing).
But damn, my browser does not support Flash (well not the latest version anyways) and [...]
MythTV + MythStreams + lastFMProxy = fun too :)
Yesterday, one of my new colleagues pointed my attention to last.FM, an internet radio station. Well, there are plenty internet radio stations, but what sets this one apart from the rest is the fact that you can specify what songs you like, so that some kind of profile is created. I had already heard of [...]
Studying Latin..
| by in General, History, Interesting Links |
“Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur”
Over the recent years I’m having this increasing interest in history and the evolution of human knowledge, so to speak. The ancient Greek philosophers of course and stuff like etymology for instance quite interest me. It’s funny to see how words have evolved in different languages, coming from the same [...]
Analysis: Murder in the skies…
The Register runs a nice article analysis on the ‘foiled’ plane-bomb plan:
We’re told that the suspects were planning to use TATP, or triacetone triperoxide, a high explosive that supposedly can be made from common household chemicals unlikely to be caught by airport screeners. A little hair dye, drain cleaner, and paint thinner - all easily [...]
Sentiment…
| by in History, Interesting Links, Music |
When I was young I had this remix tape with Electro music on it. Lately, I tried searching for a couple of the songs on that tape. That once pointed me to this remix with a lot of old-school electro songs in it. (Incidentally, you might find the N.W.A. track Panic Zone quite funny to [...]
Firefox crop circle
| by in Interesting Links |
I just discovered this gallery of a Linux User Group creating crop-circles of the Firefox logo:
Pretty neat trick.
Firefox, Linux, Crop Circles
OMFG this is amazing
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, Interesting Links |
Yesterday I discovered these two posts on CuteOverload: a real life Bambi and Thumper.
Amazing…
Animals, Bambi, Thumper, Rabbits, Deer
Dutch population-growth is slow this year
The Central Bureau of Statistics (Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, CBS) reports that the Dutch population has barely grown: the last 6 months there was a mere increase of only 2.000 people, as opposed to 7.000 people in the same period, in the previous year.
Interestingly, the second quarter of 2006 only seen a decrease of [...]
Chomsky on Israel, Lebanon and Palestine…
After just reading a piece on morality, I incidentally discovered this Chomsky-interview published in the Middle East Online, in which he is asked whether the current actions by Israel are legally and morally justified…
The invasion itself is a serious breach of international law, and major war crimes are being committed as it proceeds. There is [...]
Why policing the police will be impossible…
| by in Interesting Links |
The already ongoing threat of video-surveillance being used against the public, rather than to serve it, is a very serious one.
People have said that, especially with an increase of (listening) camera’s in suburban areas, there’s all the more reason to keep the same ‘tabs’ on the police and the state: Watch Big Brother.
And because [...]
Web2DNA: Convert your website to a ‘DNA-like’ image.
| by in Arts & Poetry, Humour, Interesting Links, Software |
Through Sean’s site, I discovered this neat thingy that converts your websites’ HTML to a DNA-like sequence:
WEB2DNA will take you website, analyze it, crunch it to little bits and spit it out as a graphic representation of a human DNA.
The brightness of the lines is determined by the importance of the tags in terms of [...]
The Mythical Convergence Box
So, a Slashdot-post links to this article on the mythical convergence TV / PC that seems just that: a myth.
Obviously, the guy has never learned about MythTV: I got a PC running that in my living room — and it works like a charm.
The technology is already there, and peope are ready for it [...]
The irony: Windows broken before shipped…
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Humour, Interesting Links, Music Industry & DRM, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy |
So, while a Microsoft spokesman was trying to relay its wet-dream to listeners (i.e. was intellectually masturbating) on the security in Window Vista, a Polish female researcher was demonstrating how the ’security’ can be bypassed, thus resulting in exactly the same unsafe situation as with earlier Windows variants.
Real funny, that.
Safe computing is impossible if the [...]
BlackHat conference demoes US citizen-only targetting smart-bomb, triggered by RFID chip on their passport
| by in Freedom & Repression, Interesting Links, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy |
Just read that, at the BlackHat conference in Las Vegas, some folks demoed a bomb that will explode if an American passport is in its vicinity — a scenario not that hard to imagine.
Basically, RFID passports do not guarantee the safety and security they were invented for in the first place.
Now, I am not [...]
WordPress 2.0.4 security release available
If you haven’t already — please upgrade WordPress to version 2.0.4. According to the developers, over 50 bugs have been fixed and the issue with the ‘Anyone can register‘-thing has now been addressed.
Spread the Word, Press..
WordPress, Blogs, Vulnerability, Security
Engineering students to investigate whether the US gov’t themselves blew up the WTC
According to this article (Dutch), eight students of the TU Delft (Technical University in Delft) are going to investigate whether the US government blew up the World Trade Center in the 9/11 attacks.
Simply because the official answers to all the questions don’t seem to hold water. It has to be noted that the research shall [...]
Sysadmin Appreciation Day!
From sysadminday.com:
If you can read this, thank your sysadmin.
A sysadmin unpacked the server for this website from its box, installed an operating system, patched it for security, made sure the power and air conditioning was working in the server room, monitored it for stability, set up the software, and kept backups in case anything went [...]
OMFG!
Holy sh.., err, war!
Disproportionate death tolls indeed…
War, Iraq, Deaths
What really happened…. ?
Whatreallyhappened.com reports that, apparently it has been reported that the two Israeli soldiers were caught on Lebanon territory, as opposed to the Israeli statement that they have been captured in Israel…
Truth, Propaganda, War, Middle East
Nukes and Peace
| by in Interesting Links, Sad Stuff |
I just discovered this image through Sean Coon’s site.
Brilliant..
Writing in water!
| by in Interesting Links, Space & Beyond |
Researchers have discovered a way to write characters in water using waves.
Pretty amazing stuff.
WordPress users: Disable ‘Anyone can register‘!
Through Darknet I discovered that apparently a vulnerability has been found in WordPress that could allow evil people to do nasty stuff. Details remain vague though, but according to Dr Dave, one should disable the Anyone can register thingy in the Options of their weblog to prevent the vulnerability being exploited.
The details are kept vague [...]
Judge says teen doesn’t have to undergo chemo treatment (for now…)
In an interesting case in the US, AP reports about a judge concluding that a certain 16 year old kid (wanting alternative treatment) should not be forced to undergo chemo-treatment.
It sure as hell would be pretty insane if one cannot decide what’s to happen to ones own body. Isn’t that a persons’ own choice, just [...]
Blow-up doll for insecure female drivers
So some company is marketing a blow-up doll for women who are insecure about driving at night, alone. Apparently, the presence of what appears to other people as a real person, gives them enough security to drive around town.
Now, I wonder — do women over-estimate the blow-up dolls’ size, too?
However sexist the whole concept [...]
Verichip RFID clonable (thus totally unsafe), despite the company’s promises
I just heard from somebody that on HOPE, a presentation was given how easily the Verichip RFID chip implant can be cloned (thus identities stolen, people posing as other people getting easier because nowadays, somehow, everything must be digital or something.
Basically, the work is done by this device, called the proxmark3, that;
[it] can do almost [...]
Revealing how marihuana affects the brain
| by in Health, Interesting Links, Random Rantings, Visions |
OK so I was just reading this article right here telling about how scientists have developed a way to image cannabinoid receptors in the brain.
All fine and dandy — I see no problem there.
Until 1959, cannabis was available in pharmacies as medicine, under the name Extractum Cannabis Indicae. After that, cheaper, synthetic drugs appeared [...]
I really wonder what’s in US marihuana…
| by in Humour, Interesting Links |
I just discovered this news through ShaolinTiger: apparently, some guy broke into a tomb to cut off a bodies head in order to use it as a bong. WTF?!
Now I really wonder what they put in United States marihuana because, hell, I want some of that too!
Marihuana, Drugs, US, Funny
Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars
Don’t know if you ever read the document of that same title. If you haven’t, by all means do. Real or not, the document does give some interesting insight.
Any similarities with international money-tracking, under the guise of ’searching of terrorism’, must be purely coincidental.
War, Money, Society, Control
Programming the Cell Broadband Processor
A colleague just pointed me to this post linking to some articles on programming the Cell Broadband Processor (the technology that powers the Playstation 3). If you’re into that stuff you might want to check it out.
I also noted that, although Sony’s marketing machine is slowly being put into motion, there’s quite a bunch [...]
Wired: UFO-hacker tells what he found
I discovered through Darknet that Wired is running an article with an interview with Gary McKinnon, the guy that hacked NASA to find proof for the existance of UFO’s.
WN: Some say that you have given the UFO motivation for your hacking as a distraction from more nefarious activities.
McKinnon: I was looking before and after 9/11. [...]
‘Rabbit week’ at CuteOverload.com
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, Interesting Links |
Don’t know if you noticed — let alone care — but the last week some Japanese rabbit store’s website is being featured on Cuteoverload because of its dangerously high content of cute. Well, the images of the rabbits anyways.
Today’s image is really cute (check the ears).
You might want to check the others out if [...]
An Open Letter To Hip-Hop About Some Real Important Shit
Just discovered Davey D’s Open Letter To Hip-Hop About Some Real Important Shit through Guerrillafunk.com, regarding net neutrality and how these possible changes will change your life and the lack of focus on this issue.
Anyway your next steps should you choose is to call your Senator’s office and tell them to stand up and protect [...]
The Iranian Badge Hoax
When this was still fresh, I knew this was all bullshit. Few message boards I frequent were discussing it and debunked it quite rapidly. Somebody at kuro5hin recently wrote an interesting piece about it, and here’s a link to the article:
The world reacted with shock and dismay last month to the news that Iranian Jews [...]
The security implications of this exceed those of Google Earth!
| by in Humour, Interesting Links |
So, I received this link from a colleague, explaining how one can build their own Airbus A380 airplane. (Well, a paper model of it, anyway.)
Me, with my nasty ways, couldn’t resist saying `So, where’s the foldable model of the Twin Towers to go with it?‘.
After further Googling I realised that, hell, the security implications [...]
Native Google Earth for Linux — beta, of course ;)
A colleague send me a link to this post telling there’s a (beta) Google Earth for Linux now!
Finally, no more tinkering with Wine, which doesn’t really enhance stability and stuff….
You can download it here.
Google Earth, Linux
The Bilderberg Group
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Interesting Links, Media, Religion & Politics, The Netherlands |
So I read on Prison Planet the stuff about the Bilderberg group meeting in Canada and perused the list of attendees.
Of course there ar