This article explains how a multimedia CD being distributed by the Republican party reports back to the party without informing the user that it’s doing so.
In other words: If you play the thing, and fill out the questionnaires, that info is being sent back without your consent.
Florian Schulz, my new hero.
Dude takes a risk, buys a shitload of camera equipment, packs it in a van, hikes in the Rocky Mountains between Yellowstone and the Yukon, takes lots and lots of pictures, and ends up with a coffeetable book publishing deal through The Mountaineers.
It’s possible. 
I love getting phishing email from the IRS, which contains a ‘click here’ link that would take you to IP address 200.21.49.67, which turns out to belong to a school in Bogota, Columbia. No doubt there are a few zombie computers on the school’s network, which pass your information along to some other faraway place.
I think human ingenuity is quite an amazing thing, and is nowhere more thoroughly expressed than in criminal activity. It’s a shame that whoever manages those zombie computers in Bogota isn’t as thoroughly expressing his or her ingenutiy, as well.
Via mefi, we get to a web site called QueerMusicHeritage.com, set up by a DJ from Houston’s KPFT, and this page about a label called Camp Records:
No comment. (MP3)
A link to Ross Wordhouse, who makes lovely 3:1 aspect ratio panoramas of central Oregon, along with some commercial work. Shooting golf courses probably pays well, come to think of it.
In other news, I discovered that most cities have a place that will rent you the Fuji GX617, so you, too, can make 3:1 aspect ratio panoramas without actually buying the equipment.
‘Wallace and Gromit – The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit’ – If it were any more charming I’d have to… Well, I dunno what I’d have to do.
‘Wheel Of Time’ – Werner Herzog travels through the landscape of Bodh Gaya, pilgrimage site for Buddhists from all over the world. The occassion is the Tibetan Kalachakra, or ‘wheel of time’ ritual, by which to plant the seed of enlightenment in the minds of participants. Herzog spends a lot of time exploring the social aspects of this event, talking to pilgrims who have traveled as far as 3,000 miles on foot, some offering prostrations with each step, to be there. Herzog also takes his camera to Mt. Kailash to follow another pilgrimage there: Circumambulating the mountain.
It’s often hard to come up with a paragraph or two to describe what you learn from Warner Herzog movies. ‘Wheel of Time’ is more of a cultural exploration than a religious or spiritual one, and after a short while, one begins to feel at home amongst the monks and pilgrims.
I finally got around to installing the last three (!) updates to Drupal on mile23.com and idesignedlifeonearth.com. Also did some spring cleaning of the comments and trackbacks… A whole bunch of online casinos and porn sites just lost their desirable Google ranking.
I used to remember the legal steps to take against comment and trackback spammers, but now I just don’t care so much. Everything’s moderated now, and it’ll be easy to just delete them all in a big fell swoop.
I was happy, however, to find that my post ‘An Open Trackback To IDTheFuture‘ is still referring readers my way.
Guess why I’m not going to buy this Jeep Grand Cherokee.
