Posted in anecdotes at 1:55 am by Josh Peters
At first glance, I thought that my Mac’s system-wide spell-checker believed that “spammity” was in fact a real word.
I get some creative spam on this site. 100% of it (so far) comes from Amsterdam, home of spammers, marijuana, and other things that make you go hmm.
I’m not exactly sure why the spam posts I get are even posted, they have links to somewhat legitimate sites (the drudge report? come ON!) I don’t check all of the URLs in each post, so I’m guessing one is fake, a phishing site, or otherwise begging for some Google love (which I’m so not the source for).
I considered posting an example, but two things stopped me:
- I no longer have any spam (Wordpress deletes it when I mark it spam)
- I don’t want to accidentally post a link to a site that may be a spurious
Actually, as I type it I just figured out what the point of the spam I’m getting is: once a post is accepted in WP, WP allows the poster to post unregulated (in the way I’ve got it setup). So once a spammer or phisher gets in, they can start posting crap posts. That must be it.
Ha ha! I’ve bested you, Amsterspam!
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Posted in funny at 8:06 pm by Josh Peters
The Smoking Gun: Archive
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Posted in politics/government, society/culture/news at 3:23 pm by Josh Peters
I hope everyone had a good Christmas. I’ll be blogging on that later. Firstly, I want to get something down that’s been on my mind ever since last week…
I drove to my parent’s house on Friday, December 23rd after buying some last-minute presents for my two nieces (who loved them by the way). On the way home I turned on NPR since my iPod was without its radio broadcaster (I’ve since purchased a tape-adapter gadget for my truck).
NPR was talking about current events and mentioned how Congress is cutting 40 Billion Dollars out of the budget. The hardest hit program is going to be student loans.
If you didn’t read the CNN.com story I linked above, go read it now. I’ll wait.
Back already huh?
It’s pretty damn outrageous, and it’s gonna be law soon.
Essentially, the Republican party is continuing it’s war against the poor and middle-class of America. If you recall a few years back (say 2003 or so), when America was suffering one of it’s worst unemployment rates of recent history, our president in his wisdom (and his “State of the Union” address) encouraged Americans who were losing their jobs to seek out new education as a means to combat their situation (I think he used some phrasing like “in order to be more competitive in the world market” or something like that). Now however, the very party that the president is leading is hamstringing those Americans who would be pursuing higher education in order to attempt to pull themselves out of the muck of their place in life.
Two points mentioned in this New York Times article (and on NPR) were how Pell Grants will be available to those who have a specific major such as engineering (sorry artists!) or “a foreign language deemed critical to national security” (sorry English majors!) and that “virtually all the cuts in student aid would be borne by banks and other lenders” which translates into higher interest student loans.
I’m glad this bill wasn’t in place when I was looking to go to college, as I wouldn’t have been able to afford it.
Freakin’ Republicans crapping on the lower class. How long will we put up with this? When will a reckoning take place? Who will rise up and defend the 80% of Americans that are being mislead and harmed by those elected officials?
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Posted in technology, web, work at 12:53 pm by Josh Peters
WhatTheFont is a web service that helps you to figure out what font is used in a graphic. At work, I used it today to figure out what font our design student used on a wordmark (since he was out of the office and I couldn’t find his originals anywhere).
Technology is sweet!
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Posted in words/etymology at 7:12 pm by Josh Peters
From the Nazarene Way: Yeshua, the real name of Jesus.
The only problem I see with this article is the following sentence:
The name Jesus has no intrinsic meaning in English whatsoever.
It’s interesting to me, seeing as this historian-type-person used that sentence. It seems quite short-sighted, in a past-trensic® sort of way. So what if the English word Jesus wasn’t derived properly; the name gets intrinsic meaning over time. Eventually the acquired meaning becomes intrinsic meaning to those that pass on the name.
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Posted in art, books, swag at 5:35 pm by Josh Peters
Cute little paper bookmarks.
These would make a great little Christmas present if made more personalized. Imagine a Kilroy-esque cartoon (or even photo?) peeking over the corner.
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Posted in apple/mac/ipod at 4:20 pm by Josh Peters
MySync FAQ asks for omissions. I’ve got one that often is left out of software developers sites: why do you want me to register your product? It’s freeware but crippled unless I register it.
I’d also like to know what the license is going to be once the beta ends.
Other than that, you’ve piqued my interest.
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Posted in flamebait at 1:20 pm by Josh Peters
There is no “war against Christmas.” The war against Christmas was decided a long time ago. Storekeepers encouraging “Happy Holidays” versus “Merry Christmas” does not take away from the day. No child (or adult, for that matter) will should think something along the lines that “if Wal-Mart doesn’t wish me a merry Christmas, then Christmas must not matter anymore.”
Christmas is a national holiday, and has been since 1870. Until someone suggests otherwise, Christmas is no more under attack than any other holiday. Christians are not under attack for celebrating Christmas. No one has been harmed at this point (other those who expose themselves to the crap that is on Fox News).
Anyone who says otherwise is either informed by or is themselves a ratings-grubbing media-whore pundit.
I hope this clears up the issue. Have a merry Christmas, a killer Kwanzaa, happy Chanukah, et al.
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Posted in movies, society/culture/news at 1:03 pm by Josh Peters
An today’s the day Serenity comes out on DVD!
Joss Whedon lets ”Firefly” go.
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