Category: Miscellanea | 1 Comment
Random tid bit.
A friend of mine went to Africa a while ago and brought me back an odd, but cool souvenir. It’s a soft drink made by Guinness called Malta. Here is what it looks like:
While this may sound like something you may want to try, he said it is a “very acquired taste” [...]
Category: Miscellanea, Windows | 1 Comment
Yesterday my friend Geoff told me he got some weird redirect spam when he visited my site. It went to some viagra type site. I did a quick look through all the things I could think of, and nothing looked odd.
However, today I came across this uncorroborated post that Yahoo ads might be distributing malware.
Thinking [...]
Category: Miscellanea | 3 Comments
I find this interesting. There is a restaurant in Kirkland Washington that is going with the RadioHead model. They are letting dinners pay what they think the meal was worth (via NPR).
This seems kind of silly to me. I mean you have physical costs with a Sandwich that you need to cover. While with music [...]
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What’s wrong with these people - is nothing sacred?
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Category: Linux, Mac, Miscellanea, Windows | Leave a Comment
One of my favorite applications, VLC, appears to have a remote security vulnerability. The vulnerability is with the way VLC handles subtitles. The vulnerability is on all supported platforms - which means Mac and Linux in addition to Windows.
VLC is a media application that can play almost any kind of media file - it’s a [...]