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25 January, 2003
Getting Lots of 404 Errors Today?
A rapidly spreading computer worm on Saturday infested networks and bogged down Internet traffic across the globe. Called "Sapphire" or "SQL Slammer," the worm carries a self-regenerating mechanism that enables it to multiply quickly across the Internet, said Mikko Hypponen, manager of anti-virus research at F-Secure, a Helsinki-based computer security firm.
"It is so good at replicating that it generates massive amounts of traffic that will slow down networks," Hypponen said. "The end user never sees it. They only experience the slowdown on the Net."
Posted on 25 January, 2003
Bush As Chimp
This interactive site is funny, and very nicely done
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(via Everlasting Blort)
Posted on 25 January, 2003
Excel Error Shirt
Now available: A baseball jersey that depicts Excel formula errors. $16.99.
Wear this shirt, and 98.5% of the people who see it won't have a clue as to what it means.
Posted on 25 January, 2003
Roman Number Confusion
Roman Numbers can be confusing:
The host committee logo of Super Bowl XXXVII is everywhere you look in San Diego. But if you take a close look on the city's transit system you will notice a little typo. The roman numerals on all the trolleys and busses in town read Super Bowl XXVII -- that's only 27 -- it should be XXXVII.
Apparently, these guys don't know about Excel's ROMAN function:
=ROMAN(37)
Posted on 25 January, 2003
Media Ownership
From mediachannel.org:
A handful of multinational corporations controls nearly everything we see and hear on the screen, over the airwaves and in print.
This humungous chart tells the whole story.
Posted on 25 January, 2003
Monster Salary Timer
Go here. Enter your annual salary, then pick a famous rich person. You can then see, on a second-by-second basis, how you compare.
Posted on 25 January, 2003
Bye-Bye Palladium
Well, the concept survives, but the name will change. From the Seattle Times:
Microsoft made a puzzling product name change yesterday when it rechristened its security technologies code-named Palladium as "next-generation secure computing base."
Apparently, some other company may have the rights to that name.
Microsoft, which aggressively defends its own trademarks, negotiated but ultimately decided to switch the name, said Mario Juarez, a product manager in the Windows trusted platform technologies group. "We did not want to be in a position of rolling over them," he said.
Ah... a kinder, gentler Microsoft.
Posted on 25 January, 2003
Tattoo Art by Anil Gupta
An very impressive collection of tattoos.
Posted on 25 January, 2003
Bald Heads
Some people
have no choice. Others
choose to be bald.
Posted on 25 January, 2003