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Plusplusbot

Twitter gets a karma bot! Ladies and gentlemen, meet plusplusbot! For those of you thinking, “Jeez, what the hell is Derek on about this time,” read on:

Did someone go out of their way to help you? Is a web site being particularly slow and flaky? Make your feelings known with plusplusbot. You can ++ (pronounced “plusplus”) or — (”minusminus”) anything. Think brownie points (but archived forever).

Why plusplus and minusminus?

An Explanation: Programming: The Increment Operator.

Geek zone ahead:

If foo has the value 4, then the expression foo++ has the value 4, but it changes the value of foo to 5.

The decrement “–” operator does the opposite. Are we all clear on that?

Plusplusbot++ A mighty swell bot.

Is Linux For You?

A Checklist.

Is Linux the OS for you? Answer the following questions to find out:

  1. The thought of downloading my OS from a web page gets my juices flowing.
  2. Cryptic text streaming past my eyes on startup excites me.
  3. I know what one of the following means:
    • apt-get
    • rpm
  4. I like my icons big and ugly.
  5. Selecting the correct device driver from a long list gets me hot and bothered.
  6. Waiting for language kits to download is what computing is all about!
  7. I believe that free == better quality.
  8. I prefer KDE over Gnome.
  9. I prefer Gnome over KDE.
  10. I know what Gnome and KDE are.

If you answered yes to any of the above, then Linux is for you. Don’t hate me.

Geek Battle Themes: The Abbreviated and Diminutive #joiito List.

The question: Okay, what are some long standing or classic geek battles. The answers:

Something to think about: Personal Choice Elevated To Moral Imperative

Spammy Comments.

Protection Money?

Well, it looks like no one is safe from the mob these days. Richard, or Anikrichard, has offered to handle my little spam problem but for a price.

Anikrichard | anlikivanna.80@mail.ru | wwwwww.com | IP: 72.9.235.218

hello , my name is Richard and I know you get a lot of spammy comments ,
I can help you with this problem . I know a lot of spammers and I will ask them not to post on your site. It will reduce the volume of spam by 30-50% .In return Id like to ask you to put a link to my site on the index page of your site. The link will be small and your visitors will hardly notice it , its just done for higher rankings in search engines. Contact me icq 454528835 or write me tedirectory(at)yahoo.com , i will give you my site url and you will give me yours if you are interested. thank you

I just don’t know what to do. Do I trust Richard with his dodgy @mail.ru address or do I delete his “spammy comment” and blog about it?

Useful Spam.

Ave, gentleman

My goal is a serious relationship and I will do everything possible and impossible to build a strong and friendly family. I hope you are ready to be honest and I guess you can demand this from me too. I don’t want to meet in the future and to find out that you are 150 cm higher than me or that your seventh child is entering college this year. I want to find out everything before the actual meeting. I know for sure that all misunderstandings and quarrels start from lie. Any important detail, anything which you think can spoil our relations should be discussed and in the future it will not influence us any more…It will be very kind of you if you answer me to http://lovegalaxys.com/loveher and will tell more about yourself.

Please tell me about your plans for the future so that I could imagine what is waiting for me if we will be together. I am a serious lady, and I will give my heart to the man who will deserve it with honesty and respect to me.

Have a nice day

Lenusik

My New Online Toy: Tumblr.com

The Tumblr.com Bookmarklet.

Bookmarklet grabs highlighted text, image urls + thumbnails, and page title. With that you can create a variety of posts.

Standard text post:

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Bookmarklet grabs urls to photos on page:

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Want to quote?

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A simple link:

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Link with description:

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Video. I had nothing to embed. Sorry.

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Tumblr can also import RSS and display them directly in your tumble blog:

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Import posts from other tumblr users via the green reblog button in your dashboard:

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My tumblr.com blog: Gumnos.

Google’s Agents of Chaos.

Google.

Google is evil:

  • Google’s Tipping Point ::

    Now Google is in the position of dominance, and they definitely have the arrogance that goes with it. But they are in a very difficult spot because of that damned motto, and perhaps right on the tipping point where public opinion could change. More and more, people are hoping for Google to stumble. And every time they do, the press pounces.

  • Fear of Google ::

    Yesterday, during his speech at the Forbes shindig I attended, Geoff Ramsey, CEO of eMarketer’s funniest remark was when he told us that the “Fear of Google” was so prevelent that it even had a three-letter acronymn: FOG.

  • Why I Fear Google WiFi ::
    However, I want to set aside that question for a moment to once more ask an uncomfortable question: How much of your life do you want to put at Google’s disposal?

How much of my life is at “Google’s disposal?” As you will soon see, Google has mined all my data and knows everything about me. Things I didn’t know about myself.

Google Knows ALL! Panic! Panic!: Spooks on Board at Google. Spook == Matt Cutts.

Google knows two things about me a) I live near the Tama monorail and b) I want an AppleTV device. I can hear you asking, “Oh, come on, do you really believe all that whooey you just linked to above?” Yes. Yes I do. Let me prove it to you.

One of my operatives did a search on the following times [24:34 and 20:48] from his computer and did not receive the same query results as myself: He got bible versus. Obviously, Google knows that Operative BL has not attended church in over six years. That was Matt Cutts’ way of telling OBL to, “Go to church.” My search results from Mr. Cutts were a bit different.

Google, or Mr. Matt Cutts, is trying to tell me I should take my family to the Tama Zoo: Tama Monorail timetable for the Tama Zoo. Also, to purchase an Apple TV.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Grrrr…

iPhone. Why Can’t I Have One?

There are iPhone haters and detractors…eff yoo cee kay them! I WANT AN iPhone. Why? Lemme tell you why:

OS X + Phone + iPod (via iTunes: Video&mp3) + Syncing of Photos (iPhoto)/Events and ToDo (iCal)/Email Addresses(AddressBook.app) + the net (Safari) + your existing email accounts in mail.app (Not some carrier provided email addy)

etc…

Exceeding Your Standard Net Weirdness.

Visual Weirdness: YouTube.

Dialog:

“That girl is gorgeous,” he said. Mike, looking up from his laptop, said, “God, you’re right. Look at how tiny her waist is. She obviously steers away from fried chicken, biscuits, and beer. I wonder what machine she uses to stay so fit. Think she would show me her abs?”

Or Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show (Episode 1): Hang on to your shoes and hat!

New Math? Old Math? Not Math?

Did you know that 14 * 5 = 25? Neither did I. Demonstration here.

Text/Procedural Madness.

Normally, if one wants to cancel a service on the internet, you hit this: To remove your email address from DailyLit click here. Right? Well, apparently, no one told NTT that internet services should not require its users of to:

  • Download PDF.
  • Print out PDF.
  • Secure a pen.
  • Fill in blanks.
  • Find an envelope.
  • Address envelope.
  • Lick the glue. I actually miss the taste of the glue. Someone needs to make glue flavored gum or candy. I’d buy it.
  • Find stamp.
  • Affix stamp. more licking. yum.
  • Leave the HOUSE!
  • Find mail box.
  • Mail.

WTF! They offer an online signup.

Why Be Normal?

Abnormal vs. Normal Spam/Spammers.

Normal Spam:

  • pron
  • prescription
  • stock
  • scam

We have all seen this type of garbage floating about in our Junk Folder, yes? Well, I bet you have never seen educational spam. Check it:

afroditandloli | afapsfhoas@mail.ru | IP: 218.236.93.19

The United States of America is a country of the western hemisphere, comprising fifty states and several territories. Forty-eight contiguous states lie in central North g America between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bounded on land by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south; Alaska is in the northwest of the continent with Canada to its east, and Hawaii is in the mid-Pacific. The United States is a federal constitutional republic with Washington, D.C. its capital.

At over 3. 7 million square miles (over 9.6 million km?) and with more than 300 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area and third largest by 1population. With a gross domestic product (GDP) of more than $13 trillion, m the U.S. has the largest national economy in the world. GDP per capita ranks the U.S. first among large economies.

American society is the product of large-scale immigration and is home to a complex social structure as well as a wide array of household arrangements. The U.S. is one of the world’s most ethnically and socially diverse nations.

The nation was founded by thirteen colonies declaring their independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776. It adopted the current constitution (which has been amended several times subsequently) on September 17, 1787. The country greatly expanded in territory throughout the 19th century, acquiring further territory from the United Kingdom, as well as lands from France, Mexico, Spain, and Russia. With the collapse c of the Soviet Union in 1991, it became the world’s sole remaining superpower, and is a declared nuclear weapons state. The United States continues to exert dominant economic, political, cultural and military influence around the globe.

That’s it. Pretty funky, no?

Animals That Really Shouldn’t Exist: The Liger/Tigon.

Time for some Napoleon Dynamite:

  • Deb: What are you drawing?
  • Napoleon Dynamite: A liger.
  • Deb: What’s a liger?
  • Napoleon Dynamite: It’s pretty much my favorite animal. It’s like a lion and a tiger mixed… bred for its skills in magic.

Wanna see what a liger looks like? “Course ya do“! Click on this.

Animals That Really Shouldn’t Exist: Linkage.

We got your wikipedia links for ligers and tigons. And what kind of blogger would I be if I didn’t link to flickr.com? Liger here and a Tigon here.

Sound Advice

The Issue:

With the ipod nano, how do i know if the charging is complete? there’s a battery indicator on the top right corner, but it’s barely visible when it’s charging and it never gets light until you unplug the cable, so i dunno when the charging is actually complete.

Nano Battery Icon

  • DUDE: no i know about the icon
  • DUDE: but its too dim to be visible
  • ME: take your iPod to the Apple Store.
  • ME: Say, “My iPod nano is being a naughty boy.”
  • ME: and then spank your iPod’s bottom while shouting, “You bad little pony! *Spank Spank* Oh, you like that, do you? Have some more.” They will help you immediately.
  • DUDE: i am actualy very close to an apple store
  • ME: Well, there you go.