A malfunction of the public address system produces a rather pleasing strobe: At the end of this clip, a crude example of the wagon wheel effect, caused by what the brain, fooled by the camera, takes to be a succession of evenly spaced, identical Quercus ilex: More educational train journeys here.

22 hours ago · kalebeul · oreneta.com/kalebeul by Trevor 2 references

The May monsoon endowed plants with a Made-In-China verisimilitude: Knee-scratching thistles are now several metres high, and Karik and Valya could have told you all about the monstrous dragonflies: In the spot where just a moment or two ago there had lain a tiny dragonfly, there now moved a thick, ...

1 day ago · kalebeul · oreneta.com/kalebeul by Trevor 2 references

This is the trailer (currently unsubtitled) for El infierno vasco, about the ethnic cleansing conducted by the nationalist government and the terrorists with a view to reducing the non-nationalist vote and thus achieving a pro-independence majority. The process, of which the latest episode is the re ...

2 days ago · kalebeul · oreneta.com/kalebeul by Trevor 2 references

The Washington Posts Security Fix blog has a post, Amazon: Hey Spammers, Get Off My Cloud!, reporting on allegations that spammers are starting to use Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) servers. It only makes sense — you can sign up easily without committing to a contract of any length, the price ...

3 days ago · UMBC ebiquity · ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger by Tim Finin 3 references

Homosexuallord Fields votes for Los Shakers from Montevideo. Scroll down the post for MP3s.

3 days ago · kalebeul · oreneta.com/kalebeul by Trevor 2 references

A good fraction of the comment spam that makes it through our Akismet filter is from people who are trying to add a comment to one of our posts about spam blogs or comments. Here’s an example from today’s batch, a comment on a two-year old post Blog comment spam with plagiarized text: hard to spot f ...

3 days ago · UMBC ebiquity · ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger by Tim Finin 3 references

Here’s something I never expected: splogs as a political issue. Actually, it’s allegations of political blogs being splogs, or rather allegations of accusing political blogs of being a splogs in order to get Google to block them. The NYT Bits blog has a post, Google and the Anti-Obama Bloggers, that ...

3 days ago · UMBC ebiquity · ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger by Tim Finin 3 references

Best writing there for ages, too: Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /var/www/vhosts/avui.cat/httpdocs/inc/layout_main.php on line 1233 Fatal error: Call to a member function FetchNextObject() on a non-object in /var/www/vhosts/avui.cat/httpdocs/inc/layout_main.php on line 1238

5 days ago · kalebeul · oreneta.com/kalebeul by Trevor 2 references

Mr Wu has added our Weird Shit Guarantee™ to the Baldie Tours FAQs in response to a suggestion from some New Jersey clients following a conversation with a rather unusual street-organ performer. It may deter as many as it attracts, but what the hell.

5 days ago · kalebeul · oreneta.com/kalebeul by Trevor 2 references

For regular spammers and sploggers, banning their IP address is a simple and effective way to get rid of them. I will describe three methods here with the simplest at the very end. Let’s take a simple case study. ntoolz.net has been copying my posts with an automated content creation tool and then b ...

9 days ago · Simple Thoughts - Java and ... · blog.taragana.com by Angsuman Chakraborty 853 references