Crazy Case Mod Contest Rich points to the Crazy Case Mod Contest: Meet the Contenders which has some pretty amazing mods.

MS Antivirus Details Leak I seem to remember them saying at one point they'd never get into the AV market, and the AV companies shouldn't worry. Or maybe they should?

Game Development and "Carmack's Reverse" A bit over my head, but anyone into game design and theory might enjoy checking out some info on shadow volumes and a method called Carmack's Reverse.

Apple Life Cyle Humor The Apple Product Cycle is an amusing look at the typical life cycle at (go figure) apple :)

PHP Upgrade Just FYI I'm in the middle of upgrading UFies.org to PHP 4.3.8 from 4.3.4. If you notice anything wonky let me know.

Great Funny Story for a lazy Monday Afternoon Hilarious read..... The Jews vs. The Drug Dealer over on Jeremy Zawodny's blog.

Kudos Derek.

Mach Movie Trailer Looks Awsome Chris Blizzard pointed to a trailer on the Japanese Apple Trailers site called Mach. I think. Or something. It's a trailer for what appears to be an absolutely kick-ass martial arts movie, and looks a bit like Jackie Chan's movies, with some wild stunts.

Selling my Soul Well, as some of you may have noticed I've (re-)sold my soul and signed up with Google Adsense to bring in a little extra money to help pay for the site bandwidth. Of course, if you love me you are welcome to click on the 'Donate' link on the right :) However, I haven't been getting any lovin' that way, so I am seeing if the text banner ads are worth it.

The ads have been put (for now) on a few select pages that seem to have brought in through google for one reason or another (ie: the 'how to hack hotmail passwords' page (which isn't)) and the Iambe comments page. I may put them in the main site at some later time however. We'll see how it goes.

If you really hate them, you're welcome to donate and / or bitch and whine at me.

Gimp Glossy Button Tutorial Gerog Veiz has posted a Gimp glossy button tutorial to the gimp-user mailing list. Not sure if it's "public" or not yet, but it's a nice tutorial with some nice sexy results.

Apollo Images The Project Apollo Image Gallery has a nice collection of images from pre to post apollo missions, both in high and low res.

Note To Self: Synergy My buddy random($foo) points me to Synergy, nifty keyboard/mouse/screensaver software.

Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all. Learn more about how it works.

The Gush NewsReader Am I the last one to hear about Gush? I thought I was pretty up on the blogging and RSS world but the mention this morning on Daily Dose Of Imagery was the first I'd ever heard of it. It's a newsreader written in flash, cross platform (os/x linux windows), has integrated instant messaging through Jabber (but not in an "in your face" way, more in a "IM should be everywhere so here it is" matter of fact way), special stuff for photoblogs, a damn sexy look.

Anyway, check it out.

Douglas Adams Interview from 1988

Nifty, check out this 90 minute Douglas Adams interview from 1988. He talks about HHTTG, Dirk Gently, and a host of other things. Via Alex and Boing Boing, which also points to a 90 min RealAudio of another talk he did.

Nearly live Planetary Backgrounds Old, but still cool.... here's some Nearly-Live Planetary Desktop Backgrounds for use with xplanet.

Inside Tiger's Mail and Spotlight AppleInsider nside Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger": Mail 2.0. Here's an article on Spotlight, the new WinFS-type technology that's coming out as well.

Best Song Ever Taint.org pointed out that the complete album of the Korean artist E Pak Sa is online! Encyclopedia of Pon-Chak is a must listen, and while it's all one file (realplayer), you I have to agree that his cover of YMCA is out of this world ;)

Gentoo Graphical Installer Random surfing found yet another thing to check out and try.... the Gentoo 2004.0 graphical installer based on Anaconda. Sure it's not nearly as 31337 as doing it all from the command line, but it looks purty!

Snort, MySQL Acid Guide for Gentoo Link for self: Complete guide to Snort, MySQL, and Acid on gentoo from the forums.

The FCC Song Keth threw out a link to the FCC Song, which, while not worksafe at all, is fucking hilarious :)

A world of Hurtin' This (wmv)really makes me not want to race motorcycles :)

Gnome Nitpicks Jorge has listed his Ten GNOME Nitpicks. Totally agree with him on many points, others I haven't had a problem with. Good food for thought though. One of these days I outta learn GTK+ programming and help these guys out fixing the stuff. Until then though, I am just bitching to the world :)

Moore Backs up Fahrenheit 911 Facts Michael Moore has published a long list of sources for the facts he presented in F911.

Perfect Day (Video) Boone threw me over a link to a video depicting a "Ducati 999 Perfect Day". It's a road safety ad, but very very cool.

Doom 3 Poster... Is it Almost Ready? A poster for Activision's Doom 3 marketting campaign shows that things might be closer than we think. I particularily like the bottom logo: "Doom III has slightly lower expectations around it than the second coming of Jesus." :)

Another Gentoo UDev Primer Note to self: Read and implement UDev and use Decibels UDEV Setup link for help.

Microsoft only Half Patches (again) Shocking as it may seem, apparently the patch release by Microsoft a few days ago to patch a serious hold in Internet Explorer only addressed the immediate problem, and left users open to another closely related security hold. Full story here. Isn't this the same thing that happened with WinNuke back in the day?

Maybe this is the sort of thing that they need to NOT do to increase shareholder value.

Spamassassin Logo Contest In other spam-filtering related news, I got this note from Daniel Quinlan saying that spamassassin is having a logo contest.

The SpamAssassin project is holding a logo contest to replace our old venerable logo with a new one for our upcoming 3.0 release which has both major improvements and will be our first release as an official ASF top-level project. Fame and fortune await the winner. Well, okay, maybe not, but we'll give you credit and like you very much. See http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/LogoContest for more information and to make an entry.

This is also mentioned on taint.org.

Sounds like fun. Bring out The GIMP and get to it!

New BogoFilter Installed Just for everyone who has BogoFilter spam filtering set up on ufies.org, I've installed a new version, 0.92.1 on ufies. This has some clean up, and among other things removed the now obselete option '-f'. If you have this in your .procmailrc (if you followed the directions to install it at least) you won't be getting any mail because bogofilter will be failing with an error. You can go into your .procmailrc and simply remove the '-f' option from the command.

Course, from a quick look it looks like I'm the only one on the server who uses this spam filter, so no worries :) If you are interested though, check the documentation on the bogofilter homepage.

I was kinda wondering why I was getting no mail :)

Rolling Robot This article on New Scientist about a nifty new type or robot wheel which can roll around by itself. It uses heat to shrink and expand the spokes, thus changing the center of gravity and allowing it to roll up inclines of up to 20 degress and jump up to 8cm.

How long before these are sold on ThinkGeek?

The Infinate Cat Project Thanks to Fred for pointing me to The Infinite Cat Project. Not what you first think, just click next cat at the top of the page....

GNOME Theming Tutorial Gnome Theming Tutorials. Nifty.

DIY Blog Rants Boone pointed me towards a Do-It-Yourself Rant entry on Words For My Enjoyment. How long till someone sets up a generator for this?

Using BreakMyGentoo Overlays A guide on how to use the BMG files.

Funny Letter to MS from Slashdot Reader Hidden in the /. story about the IE exploit being fixed is a gem of an open letter to Microsoft regarding their Security zones. A sample...

Code. Code belong on hard drive. Code tell a C.P.U. to do stuff. You get code, you save code, you tell box to run code! O.S. do what code say, so if you get owned, is your fault cuz you tell O.S. to run code! This just fine!

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