Author Archives: SCdF

(seen outside work this afternoon)

Hollywood studios have confused a glorified fan-fiction/decent Threadless t-shirt idea for a great movie script, and they’re now in a bidding war for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a not-yet-released parody of the Jane Austen classic that adds some extra content that implies a zombie invasion was simultaneously occurring… via iwatchstuff Will Clark is set [...]

Is, in a nutshell, that it isn’t funny. The element that makes Buffy, Angel and Firefly so good is their ability to weave comedy and drama in a way that doesn’t suck. The lines are genuinely funny, the drama is genuinely intense. You care about the characters, they care about each other. That last one, [...]

from Schneier This is truely, deeply stupid. Sadly though, possibly rather effective. I mean, it’s the woman from Law & Order, she must know about crime! It just goes to show that you can use fear to sell anything, even shitty ballpoint pens.

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The scary shit comes as rocks or powders. Again, being the khakis-and-necktie crowd, nobody really expects you to be shooting black-horse heroin in the shower. Effective Vices for the IT Professional You know how an eleven-year-old kid will get really excited over a single Christmas present? How he’s practically in tears when he gets it? [...]

On February 28th here in balmy NZ the amendments to section 92 of the Copyright act will come into effect. This has some interesting implications, but the general gist of it is this: ISPs are now required to deal with people who infringe copyright, with multiple infringements resulting in that users account being terminated. That [...]

How does Nabble store passwords? Nabble is a public forum where all users’ messages are public records. With Nabble, your user account is for public posting and identification, and contains no valuable private information. Because of this public nature, we do not see a need to encrypt password. Your password is stored in our secure [...]

Those are some insanely awesome melons you’ve got there!