Dropsafe

Pardon the caps, but this is fairly serious: the last 2 days I have found Akismet marking all of my comments sourced from Sun bloggers – Walker, Moffat, Skrocki – as “spam” and dropping them into the to-be-deleted greylist. I am not sure why this is so, for the moment I attribute it to a…

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Editorial: Beware the Child-Man? Hymowitz dubbed this new generation of young men with the derogatory title “Child-men”, saying that because of their attraction to [VIDEO GAMES AND CABLE TV] and their seeming lack of strong commitment skills that we had a maturity gap emerging within society. Young men were no longer rushing to the altar…

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Opinions of the Archbishop of Canterbury: Ruth Gledhill – Times Online – WBLG: Has the Archbishop gone bonkers? I don’t think Rowan Williams has “gone bonkers”. I think he is confused, misguided and mistaken, following his instinct like some secular social reformer, someone who views our community as a social worker and not the leader…

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Stanley Lombardo Reads Homer’s The Iliad in Ancient Greek Professor Lombardo has given dramatic readings of his translations on campuses throughout the country, as well as at such venues as the Smithsonian Institution and the Chicago Poetry Center and on National Public Radio. He is presently at work on an audio (tags: audio Homer Greek…

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I didn’t realise there was more to the iJam joke – there’s a complete website. With manuals. Gotta love the little apple-pig logo.

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It seems that no matter how hard you try, if you work in the software industry long enough, someone will eventually give you a patent for something you do. Bother. Method and apparatus for implementing a pluggable password obscuring mechanism One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that implements a pluggable password obscuring…

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The TSA Blog is working? Like they are actually listening to people and quoshing stupidities? Evolution of Security On Monday afternoon we began receiving questions about airports that were requiring ALL electronics to be removed from carry-on bags (everything, including blackberrys, iPods and even cords). This practice was also mentioned on several other blogs and…

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How I built an effective blog comment spam blocker – Snook.ca I indipendently discovered some of these tricks, and added a test for subject==username which caught more. Nice to see spam-awareness rising. (tags: spam blogging antispam commenting) The Notes of Japanese soldier in USSR This site holds [his] records about internation in prison camp, located…

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I remember these fondly from the Fudge Shop in Aber; thanks, Mel, for documenting the recipe: Bean Sprouts: Elephant Pancake Put a pancake on a large plate. Spread tinned cherry pie filling on top. Put another pancake on top and place tinned pineapple chunks on that. Pour maple syrup over the pineapple. Put another pancake…

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I run Growl as a notification daemon on Mac OS, but ever since updating to Leopard I have suffered problems – notifications pile up in a big block, are posted literally minutes after an event, the daemon eats tons of CPU and crashes occasionally, stuff like that. I still don’t know what the problem is,…

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A Molecular Gastronomy FAQK Are Pringles molecular gastronomy? No, Pringles are junk food. What’s the difference? About 30 bucks an ounce. 🙂

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CharlieDC mailed this to me – fantastic article about a musician, music “piracy” on Bittorrent, iTunes, and (essentially) why he prefers the former, since its (essentially) an effective business model for him. Pirated by iTunes, Artist Turns to BitTorrent The Flashbulb, aka Benn Jordan, became so outraged when he discovered that iTunes was effectively pirating…

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