General

Oh no, it’s the Bear Cavalry!

If the Russians had really had this, that whole WWII thing would’ve been completely different.

Here’s a slightly long but hilarious clip of Kevin Smith talking about his worst sexual experience.

iSpazz is a plugin for iTunes on OS X, controlling the MacBook Pro/PowerBook backlight keyboard and optionally the display backlight.

In other words, It turns your MacBook Pro into a disco ball.

Yay!

Lay-Lo is a catalog of Atlanta graffiti, starting around 2000. The photos are listed chronologically, and are indexed by artist.

Jim Hodgson has released a new record, Beep Beep Awooga. Go buy it now!

Way back in 1998, I got a job doing tech support for AIRnet, an ISP which serviced north Alabama. AIRnet had???? covered most of north Alabama, and was pushing farther and farther south — towards areas that didn’t know much about electricity, much less The Interwebs.

One of the high-growth areas was Blountsville, county seat of Blount County, Alabama. Blount being the opposite of ‘sharp’, I suppose.

One afternoon, the receptionist called out, “I’ve got a live one! It’s from Blountsville! Who wants it?”

I’m trying out Flock again. Hopefully it’s not as poopy as it was the last time.

So far, it seems pretty nice — better, in OSX/Intel, than Firefox, which has gotten noticeably sluggish lately.

I have experienced some random weirdness with blog posting, but the availability of an AdBlock extension made up for it.

According to this report, a photo of a person’s eyes increased tips in a tip jar up to three times the normal amount. We’ll see how this works out later.

I’ve been fairly pleased with rootkit hunter.???? It’s trivial to set up, self-updating, and easy to use.

Fairly often in my career, I’ve started a job as an additional sysadmin, or worse yet, a replacement sysadmin. I rarely have the luxury of setting up a system or a network from scratch. It’s always difficult to determine the security level of a given system, and I rarely [never] have been able to treat production systems as “untrusted” and take them down long enough to do a full audit.

Among other things, GNU grep now supports color.

When I first read this, I thought, “Wow, now I can pick out just the black socks! grep –color=30 /dev/room/socks* ”

Oh well.