Web Wan­der­ing Dump

Male Mon­keys ‘Pay’ Females for Sex, Study Finds [del.icio.us]

Posted: 03 Jan 2008 09:29 PM CST

5 tips every new Linux user should know [Digg]

Posted: 03 Jan 2008 12:47 PM CST

We’ve been think­ing about what we most wished we’d been told on our first foray into Linux-land. These tips run the gamut from instal­la­tion plan­ning to how to best ask for help. We chose these tips because they are not distribution-specific, but rather gen­eral enough to be used by any new Linux user.

How to surf the web even if Inter­net Explorer is dis­abled [Digg]

Posted: 03 Jan 2008 12:19 PM CST

Crazy trick on how to use the Help func­tion from basic Win­dows pro­grams to surf the internets.

Why Face­book will never give your data back [Digg]

Posted: 03 Jan 2008 10:54 AM CST

Face­book won’t join Open Social, and you can for­get about the pipe dreams of the Data Porta­bil­ity move­ment. The sim­ple fact is, as the mar­ket leader, there is no ben­e­fit for or strate­gic advan­tage in Face­book mak­ing your data avail­able to you in any for­mat you wish.

TSA To Pun­ish Fliers For “Face­crimes” [Digg]

Posted: 03 Jan 2008 09:29 AM CST

Trans­porta­tion Secu­rity Admin­is­tra­tion (TSA) screen­ers are learn­ing to rec­og­nize a spe­cial set of for­bid­den facial expres­sions. If your face slips into one of these dur­ing a TSA inspec­tion, you will be taken aside and given a more detailed screening

Top 50 Design Posts of 2007 [Digg]

Posted: 03 Jan 2008 08:32 AM CST

Superb ref­er­ence posts on what hap­pened in the design year of 2007, cov­er­ing every­thing from the basic prin­ci­ples of design, via typog­ra­phy and colour to advanced design tips & tricks.Highly recommended!

Third Reich For­tune 500: 5 Pop­u­lar Brands the Nazis Gave Us [Digg]

Posted: 03 Jan 2008 07:41 AM CST

You know who else liked pop­u­lar brands?

IPv6: com­ing to a root server near you [Digg]

Posted: 03 Jan 2008 12:18 AM CST

On Feb­ru­ary 4, 2008, ICANN will add IPv6 addresses for four root DNS servers to the root zone file, mak­ing full IPv6 Inter­net con­nec­tions a real­ity. Time to check that DNS soft­ware and those fire­walls to avoid any pos­si­ble trouble.

Ohio Elec­tion Work­ers Sen­tenced to 18 Months for Rig­ging 200 [Digg]

Posted: 02 Jan 2008 11:17 PM CST

Judge Says He Believes the Con­spir­acy Goes Higher…

The Politico: Fred Thomp­son may drop out [Digg]

Posted: 02 Jan 2008 10:22 PM CST

GOP sources say a poor fin­ish in Iowa may cause him to give up and endorse John McCain.

Cre­ator of First Com­puter Virus to Take On Google [Digg]

Posted: 02 Jan 2008 09:58 PM CST

Rich Skrenta, who cre­ated the first com­puter virus (Elk Cloner), co-founded the Open Direc­tory Project, and co-founded online news site Topix, may have bit­ten off the biggest chal­lenge of his career — tak­ing on Google. In search.

All the Evi­dence You Need to Impeach Bush and Cheney [Digg]

Posted: 02 Jan 2008 09:42 PM CST

The past year has seen the pub­lic expo­sure of enough evi­dence of old, ongo­ing, and new crimes, abuses of power, and impeach­able offenses by George Bush and Dick Cheney that in any remotely rep­re­sen­ta­tive democ­racy, these two thugs would be out of office and behind bars. Here’s the evi­dence and why we should con­tinue to push for impeachment.

Ques­tions to Con­sider in the Com­ing Pri­vacy Wars [Digg]

Posted: 02 Jan 2008 07:40 PM CST

It seems obvi­ous that pri­vacy is going to be a major point of con­tention in the near-term future. It’s only going to get hot­ter as major online ser­vices com­pile huge amounts of data about us. There are a lot of “lit­tle ques­tions” that we need to engage with as soon as pos­si­ble. Here’s my list of impor­tant ques­tions, what’s on yours?

Sears: Come see the softer side of spy­ware [Digg]

Posted: 02 Jan 2008 06:16 PM CST

When you join an online “com­mu­nity,” are you join­ing so that you can inter­act with like-minded users, or so that com­pa­nies can track your every move on the Inter­net? Sears is bank­ing on the lat­ter, despite heavy crit­i­cism from secu­rity researchers.

cou­ple banned from shop­ping cen­ter for pho­to­ing grand­kids [Digg]

Posted: 02 Jan 2008 12:41 PM CST

for tak­ing a pho­toraph of their grand­kids in a shop­ping cen­ter the secu­rity “police” have banned them for life. sure this hap­pened in the UK, but “author­i­ties” here in the US want to play the same way, this is totally outrageous!