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Be careful what you post online, career counselors warn
by alamat
(via)
NEW YORK – People concerned about their careers should be extra careful about what they post on the Internet during a recession, career counselors say.
Twitter-Streetart: This demonstrates perfectly just how stupid and pointless twitter is! | Nerdcore
by karlcow
Twitter-Streetart: This demonstrates perfectly just how stupid and pointless twitter is!
twitterstreetart
Twitter-Streetart von Questionmarc (via Urban Prankster) mit einem bemerkenswerten Kommentar darunter.
Das ist schon sehr, sehr lustig. Es ist ja nicht nur so, dass ein paar Journalisten Twitter nicht verstehen und darauf rumhacken. Es ist auch so, dass sobald man irgendetwas über Twitter schreibt, steht mindestens einmal der Kommentar „Dieses Posting ist der perfekte Beweis dafür, wie unglaublich belanglos und banal Twitter doch eigentlich ist.“ Jetzt könnte man sich ja denken, diese Twittmeckermentalität wäre ein deutsches Phänomen – da sah ich obige Streetart und darunter der Kommentar „This demonstrates perfectly just how stupid and pointless twitter is!“ Von wegen deutsch, das ist schlicht ein mentales Filterproblem der Rezipienten. Wenn ich die Worte „Fashion“ oder „Ballett“ lese, dann lese ich gar nicht erst weiter und ich schreibe erst Recht nicht einen Kommentar wie „Dieses Posting ist der perfekte Beweis dafür, wie unglaublich belanglos und banal Ballett doch eigentlich ist.“
Ich glaube, dieser Satz offenbart die komplette Absurdität solcher Kommentare. Geht auch so: „Dieses Posting ist der perfekte Beweis dafür, wie unglaublich belanglos und banal Blogs doch eigentlich sind.“ Bullshit. Ich kaufe mir auch keine Geflügelzüchtermagazine und beschwere mich dann, dass diese voller Geflügelzüchtercontent sind. Wenn man sich gerne und ausschließlich lange Abhandlungen zur Außenpolitik von Papua Neuguinea durchliest, wird man wohl schwerlich ein Fan von Twitter. Aber dann: Don’t fucking read it!
Ansonsten empfehle ich immer noch Julies Anleitung zum Glücklichtwittern: Twitter ist unnütz.
[update] Von Jeriko grade in den Kommentaren gepostet, auch sehr schön:
it’s a lesson in how the future of music is working -
fans are literally (and i mean that….literally) lining up at the signing table after shows and HANDING me cash, saying “thank you”.
i had to EXPLAIN to the so-called “head of digital media” of roadrunner australia WHAT TWITTER WAS. and his brush-off that “it hasn’t caught on here yet” was ABSURD because the next day i twittered that i was doing an impromptu gathering in a public park and 12 hours later, 150 underage fans - who couldn’t attend the show - showed up to get their records signed.
no manager knew! i didn’t even warn or tell her! no agents! no security! no venue! we were in a fucking public park!
life is becoming awesome.
2008
warn+delete GreasmonkeyScript By Schmickr:
by decembre
warn+delete : Send messages to group members and optionally eject or ban them at the same time. This script is a modified version of Steeev's famous script. My version lets you save messages with a label to make it easier to identify saved messages. It also has less aggressive defaults.
Riddle / Puzzle
by smartkit
But I warn you, don’t do it unless you have some time. Or, you know, are procrastinating papers. Basically, each page is a riddle, and once you figure out the answer to the riddle,
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2007
jessenoller.com - Guido van Rossum’s Weblog: Python 3000 Status Update (Long!)
by karlcow
Tres interessant dans l'évolution d'un langage. Une version intermédiaire envoyant des warnings sur ce qui ne marchera pas à la prochaine version. A reflechir.
Python 2.6 will support a "Py3k warnings mode" which will warn
dynamically (i.e. at runtime) about features that will stop working
in Python 3.0, e.g. assuming that range() returns a list.
SMARTReporter
by rmaltete
SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of some ATA hard disk failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the S.M.A.R.T.-status of your hard disk. S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a technology built into most modern hard disks that acts as an "early warning system" for pending drive problems. Because SMARTReporter relies on the S.M.A.R.T. implementation of Mac OS X, it only supports ATA or S-ATA hard disks, if you want S.M.A.R.T. support for your FireWire hard disk, send feedback to Apple.
SMARTReporter can notify you of impending hard disk failures by sending e-mails, displaying a warning dialog or executing an application. The current status of your hard disks is always displayed through the customizable menu item.
Chax - miscellaneous iChat improvements
by jpcaruana
& 8 others
(via)
Chax is a collection of minor modifications and additions that make using Apple's iChat more enjoyable.
Features include (full list):
User list:
* Toggle text status visibility of users
* Automatically resize the contact list to fit the number of visible users
* Set font of names, status messages, and group separators
* Show animated user icons
* Ability to hide iTunes music store links in text statuses
* Idle time included in tooltips
* Display Address Book nicknames instead of full names
* Option to show a warning before messaging mobile users
* Hide the audio/video status icon at the top of the user list
* Message a specific screen name for people with multiple screen names
Message window:
* Tabbed chats, allowing you to keep all of your chats together in one window
* Option to auto-accept text chats, skipping new message notification window
* Show status changes directly in the message window
* Disable the smiley button in text input lines
* Option to open images sent through direct connect directly in Preview
* Send away auto-reply only once per conversation
* Save and restore window positions for individual screen names
Other:
* Unread message notification in the dock
* Growl notifications for new messages and users changing status
* Properly use ICQ accounts without sending text formatting in messages
* Automatically set status to away when screensaver is activated
* Option to auto-accept file transfers
* Hide all iChat windows when iChat is inactive
* Always on top option for user lists, text chats, and audio or video chats
* Set a custom away auto-reply that is different from the away message
* Change the delay of or disable auto-away
* New message windows cascade properly instead of always appearing on top of each other
* Built-in log viewer
* Activity window shows history of user status changes
* Warn before quitting while there are active chats
* Option to disable pausing of AV chats while there are active file transfers
* Disable picture-in-picture in video chats
* Automatically reconnect when disconnected
* Disable alert sounds when away, idle, or available
Experts Warn Parents of 'Christian Sex'
by YukihiroKawashi
& 2 others
Teens are at risk of being more promiscuous as the Food and Drug Administration has decided to ease limits on the morning-after pill, giving girls easy access to nonprescription pills despite an age ...
2006
100 pirates in 100 days
by sbrothier
In September of this year I began my mission to draw one Pirate a day for 100 days straight, and today I cleaned up and uploaded Pirate number 100. I am mentally and physically exhausted. If this post is less than articulate it's because I have been up for many hours and my brain don't work properly. When I'm done posting this I am going to sleeeeeeeeeeeep. Still, It feels great to know I have finished on time or thereabouts.
I uploaded the images to a flickr set, where you can view the images as a slide show, leave comments and so on. For the sake of consistency with the rest of this blog I've also put all the images behind the cut tag below, but that might take a while to load and my friend whose webspace I use will hate me, so don't say I didn't warn you!
I should mention that since the drawings were originally commissioned for an online role-playing game, they depict not only pirates but the creatures whose world the pirates inhabit. I guess the title of this project might be slightly misleading, because a fish with a pirate hat on isn't strictly a pirate, but I hope no-one will hold that against me. I should also point out that I've ordered it so the first twenty or so are all the lowly skulking creatures and pirate children, the last 20 are the mighty warrior pirates, and then everything in between is everything in between. That's just so you don't get confused when you click the link expecting to see pirates and instead you see a bunch of fish wearing hats.
PC hard disk system warns of tsunamis - Network World
by RoseD1
Governments seeking inexpensive technology to warn of tsunamis could be interested in a free software application that monitors vibrations in the hard disks of computers in an attempt to detect the undersea earthquakes that cause tsunamis. Related links
Flickr Group Admin - Warn + Delete_Flickr: Flickr Hacks
by decembre
Group Admin - Warn + Delete view profile steeev is a group administrator steeev Pro User [ INT ? ] says: i wrote a new GreaseMonkey script: Flickr Group Admin - Warn + Delete the ultimate aim of the script is, if a group admin sees an image thats not foll
Free Speech at Risk, Canadian Proessors Warn
by Mumvy
As an academic -- and one, who as a child, was fortunate enough to have his parents take him from a "fear" to a "free" society -- I suggest that the principle of freedom of speech must be treasured over all other principles, especially in universities, wh
Free Speech at Risk, Canadian Proessors Warn
by Mumvy
So Wade MacLauchlan, the president of the University of Prince Edward Island, believes that censoring student newspapers is the best way to prevent potential violence and help his university strive towards "an engaged and positive learning environment."
Knight Ridder: Washington Bureau
by mikepower
A pair of reports by outside experts in the last two days warn that the Army has been stretched thin by repeated combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and could soon reach the breaking point.
2005
Google Safe Browsing for Firefox
by parmentierf
& 2 others
(via)
Google Safe Browsing is an extension to Firefox that alerts you if a web page that you visit appears to be asking for your personal or financial information under false pretences. This type of attack, known as phishing or spoofing, is becoming more sophisticated, widespread and dangerous. That's why it's important to browse safely with Google Safe Browsing. By combining advanced algorithms with reports about misleading pages from a number of sources, Safe Browsing is often able to automatically warn you when you encounter a page that's trying to trick you into disclosing personal information.
Mozilla Update :: Extensions -- More Info:Display Quota - All Releases
by digitalmonkey
"This extension will display the current status of your IMAP quota in thunderbird's statusbar and will warn you when you reach a configurable limit".
Analysts Warn Against Possible Skype Security Risks
by teleclick
Skype Technologies, the free internet VoIP provider being acquired by eBay Inc., is unlikely to be able to offer an enterprise-class system anytime soon, said a research firm on Friday.
:: the National Reconnaissance Office ::
by xenomorph
& 1 other
The NRO designs, builds and operates the nation's reconnaissance satellites. NRO products, provided to an expanding list of customers like the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Department of Defense (DoD), can warn of potential trouble spots around the world, help plan military operations, and monitor the environment.
ABC News: The President's Speech on Iraq: Truth vs. Spin
by multilinko
Key parts of his speech, however, were driven by spin, rather than a frank effort to warn the American people of the sacrifices necessary to win and the risks involved. The end result was to mislead in ways that could come back to haunt the administration and reduce longer-term public support.
