KDE is starting to catch my attention. For years I’ve used Enligthenment but now that KDE is getting a little more robust I’m liking it. I’ve started to use it exclusively on the laptop. Here is a screenshot. One thing to try is to change your clock’s type to “fuzzy” – what a wh00t!
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Obsession
Despit the fact that I don’t really like Slashdot I post stories to it in the hopes of getting something other than YRO stories on the frontpage. As a result I’ve been slashdotted 9 times – the latest one is here.
Pot is (sort of) legal in Canada
Those of you suffering from cancer, ms, and other painful diseases might want to consider a move to Canada. It seems Canada has legalized the use of Pot for “medicinal usage.” I, personally, think we should legalize it completely and tax the hell out of it like we do beer and cigarettes.
Camworld
For those of you who live under a rock there is a really cool site called camworld that has found it’s way into my daily surfing habits. Apparently he found my I love Google t-shirts. Funny.
Cross Race Identification
If you are a fan of Law & Order you know that Cross Race Identification has been a part of a few episodes. I can see how I might be more efficient in identifying white people as opposed to asians or blacks. It appears the brain has an area that “lights up” with activity when it looks at a face, but not other parts. On patients looking at opposite races it didn’t “light up” quite as much. Incidentally it’s the same area that “lights up” when you look at something you are an expert in. This makes sense since I’d be an “expert” in identifying white people, since I interact with that race the most. I wonder if white people living in Harlem would react to blacks the same as they do to whites. The story is here.
Planet of the Apes Review
REALLY Scary!
The Honeynet Project has posted some scary stats in their FAQ. It makes me wonder how hax0r3d my b0x is.
Parents do the strangest things
Apparently, some parents aren’t as cool as mine. Here is a story of a father who limited his children’s bathroom activity in an effort to make them study more. On top of it he threatened his daughter’s life when she placed second in the national spelling bee. What a loser.
Funky Day
Today was one of those days were you question your existence. Needless to say I’m in a funk and need to get out of Ypsi, but can’t until my car gets checked out. On a good note I did win $15 on an instant win ticket and got my refund check from Mr. Bush today.
Code Red Worm
After reading this article I went and read this article at CERT and decided to look through my logs. It seems the Code Red worm tried to connect 23 times to my webserver. No luck though – I run Apache.