So, this probably only will make sense to dementia, but as license plate scanners (something envisioned in William Gibson's novels) become prevalent, it only makes sense that SQL injection attacks be created to test their security:

Link to full post (en Español)

a moth brushes me
seeking the light from above
as i read the news

reminder to look
at the cherry tree in bloom
under the streetlight

i turn the light off
and sit down to write these words
inhaling all this

Another assault...

A good reason to have a septic system: sewage tests
And yet, they can't keep drugs out of the Potomac...

Condoms for flashdrives

So, a peace corps guy got annoyed because he kept picking up viruses just by using his flash drive in public computers. Guys, can you fix this problem? And can that make us rich? Just wondering...we now return you to your regularly scheduled, weird-but-cool content...

Oh, and if you're interested in an American's travels in Madagascar-

http://www.joeinmadagascar.blogspot.com/

The Blogging Barrage Continues

Someone stop me before I post again...

• Japan’s cyborg research enters the skull
• The Most Unwanted Music

A tizzy of stuff

For the pleasure of your internets:

• DreamWorks to make "Ghost in the Shell" in 3D
• Newseum shows front pages from around the world
• Subprime tenements

Just so the CIA doesn't feel left out...

Wired's Threat Level exploited a cross-site scripting bug on cia.gov to inject their own content. Don't you feel safe now?

Oklahoma Leaks Tens of Thousands of Social Security Numbers, Other Sensitive Data

This is just asinine. Be glad you don't live in Oklahoma, where the idiots program on the plains.

Sean, this might be sidebar stuff: www.crainium.net
Go to the photo archive, it's chock full of amazing, funny, or otherwise unique photos. And the design isn't half bad.
Also led me to Flex Your Rights.

I laughed, I cried...no wait, laughed some more.

It was better than cats. Evidently I went and started working at high-school without even know it. I'll post the details of the letter later, suffice it to say for now that I won a two week vacation from my work for being insubordinate to the time-clock computer. Apparently, the comments sections is not to be used for disgruntled utterances. The real beauty of the situation is that they sent me home on Friday, the busiest day of the week, when we were already short medics! I was told that I still had my job at the end of the 'suspension' if I wanted it, but I had better have a different attitude. I'm thinking apathy is a new attitude. I need a new job.

Update on Tax Day:
So here are some of the comments that earned some time off:
"Another day, another reason to hate the world"
"A great day, Yipee!" (I actually meant that one...)
"I don't get paid enough to care what I write here"
"I'm too tired to be disgruntled"
"If we run more calls than the counties and charge more for service, why do we pay so damned poorly?"
And my favorite:
"I'm the weasel in the pants of management"

Interestingly, comments that I'd expect to cause a stir didn't make the list:
"Another day, another $0.93 (adjusted for inflation)"
"Great, I got a 3% raise in a time of 4% inflation"
"meh"

It's interesting that I got a worse "punishment" for expressing my feelings to a purely internal system that's really only seen by the scheduling manager than I would have for cursing at facility personnel, letting my certs lapse, or giving the wrong medication to a patient...

Now this is a trick pool shot

So Sean pointed me to www.worldmapper.com, and I started looking at the maps that caught my fancy... like the preventabe deaths. I noticed that the US is small, but visible, while Canada is GONE! Weird.

Third Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest

In case ya'll are feeling squirrelly:

"For this contest, the goal is to create fear. Not just any fear, but a fear that you can alleviate through the sale of your new product idea. There are lots of risks out there, some of them serious, some of them so unlikely that we shouldn't worry about them, and some of them completely made up. And there are lots of products out there that provide security against those risks.

Your job is to invent one. First, find a risk or create one. It can be a terrorism risk, a criminal risk, a natural-disaster risk, a common household risk -- whatever. The weirder the better. Then, create a product that everyone simply has to buy to protect him- or herself from that risk. And finally, write a catalog ad for that product."

I love the BBC

Holy Hurling Hedgehogs!

Aussie's take over WV Or vice-versa.

How not to win elections

Proof that the Iraq campaign is floundering?

And one more from Down Under...Adding injury to... well, injury.

Venting

One red paperclip

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_red_paperclip

Did someone already post this a while ago? It seemed familiar when I read it, but I couldn't find it on the blog..So, without further ado..This guy takes the concept of barter to a whole new level. Good stuff!

Happy All Fool's Day

For your pleasure on this riotous day, may I humbly present The Extraordinary Astrologer Isaac Bickerstaff