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I know Adele is a great vocalist but I can’t work out what a “Skyfawww” is? #skyfall
I am actually quite worried that this may be a shark jump.
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To Encourage Biking, Cities Forget About Helmets – NYTimes.com
Kind of the definitive answer: Before you hit the comment button and tell me that you know someone whose life was probably saved by a bike helmet, I know someone, too. I also know someone who believes his life was saved by getting a blood test for prostate specific antigen, detecting prostate cancer. But is
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Twitter Updates for 2012-10-06
BEST SECURITY BLOG EVAR –> http://t.co/LPg6LwOc <!– /ht @glynwintle #THIS #PAINFULLY #FUNNY #MUSTREAD #SOMUCHTHIS # Exploit mitigations: http://t.co/LueN0Ldt via @sec_reactions # When I read mainstream news about security stuff: http://t.co/LNETZEtJ via @sec_reactions # Using Burp Sequencer: http://t.co/5kPxIBYS via @sec_reactions /fao @Matt_the_Geek # Fuzzing a website during pen-test: http://t.co/ZGSgtIwl via @sec_reactions /cc @Matt_the_Geek # Ok, I'll
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Etymology of Entomology: “Blue Arsed Fly”
Oxford Dictionary: Tracing blue-arsed flies and Bellinis Most of us are familiar with the meaning of “running around like a blue-arsed fly”, but where exactly did this peculiar phrase come from? Editors at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) are appealing for the public’s help in tracing the history of English words and phrases such as
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Dances with Manatees – #ohthehugemanatee again
A woman who police said was seen touching and riding a manatee in Fort De Soto Park in Pinellas, Fla., over the weekend turned herself in to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, Tampa Bay Times reported. Ana Gloria Garcia Gutierrez, 52, told police Tuesday that she wasn’t aware what she did was against the law,
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“Nominet: a website, by any other name, would be more secure?”
Nominet: a website, by any other name, would be more secure? Nominet propose to allow domain names directly under “.uk”; this is better? So Nominet – the people who own, manage and monetise the top-level .uk DNS domain – propose to allow creation of domain names directly under the UK suffix (PDF). Thus instead of
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GBP 1.39 (/ltr) * 3.79 (litres per USgal) * 1.62 (USD/GBP) = $8.53/gal for Gasoline in the UK
…and, by comparison: While the price at the pump has risen in every state vs. a year ago, in some states the price of gas has increased at a much slower rate, and many are much closer to $3.50 than to $4.00 per gallon, well below the national average price. In 10 states the average
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Twitter Updates for 2012-10-05
@ramtopsrac @inspirestories Kick fellow cycling atheist @chrisgerhard too http://t.co/Dbnbs0M4 – treat it as a form of ecumenicism # Still the most popular posting on my blog in terms of daily hits: http://t.co/amFtFMp0 # .@DarthNull My feelings entirely. Hacking EFTPOS and arguing Cybersecurity is ephemeral, but boiling an egg is an eternal, shared challenge # What's