They call it “The Evil Empire”. They call it “M$”. They call it “Microsuck”. Now, it seems, Microsoft wants to be known as The People’s Champion. It has taken a step that “Don’t Be Evil” Google and Firefox-creators Mozilla have vocally refused to do. It has announced that in the forthcoming Internet Explorer 10, the “Do Not Track” setting will be on by default. Continue reading
As the headline says, passwords to headhunting-slash-social-networking site LinkedIn and “headhunting”-slash-“social networking” site eHarmony have been hacked and are in the wild. A hacker posted files with literally millions of passwords to these sites in public, asking for help.
Security experts say that the hacker probably has many more passwords than he or she posted, and was just asking for help cracking the stronger ones (or subtly boasting about it). To be on the safe side, assume that this hacker and others by now have ALL LinkedIn and eHarmony passwords, and change yours (and if you used the same username and password on other internet sites, change it there too). Continue reading
This article contains terms that are NSFW unless you work at a women’s healthcare organization. Continue reading
Earlier today, the Discovery Channel’s Discovery News tumblr re-blogged a post by The Week Magazine that caught my eye:
A drink formulated by NASA scientists to protect astronauts from the sun’s radiation could become a hot-selling, age-defying beauty product. New research suggests that AS10, or “space drink,” can noticeably reduce facial wrinkles and obvious signs of aging in as little as four months.
I learned about a weirdly cool message board yesterday thanks to an old friend who happens to be in medical school. Apparently there’s a forum where medical students can go to practice diagnosing people’s diseases based only on photographs of skin lesions, bizarre growths and other disorders. It’s strangely fun reading the educated guesses of soon-to-be medical professionals. Is that toxic epidermal necrolysis? No asshole, it’s clearly a case of gengivostomatitis herpetica! Continue reading
When you search for something and then click on a resulting link the website you land on is sent the information about where your search originated (i.e. Google, Yahoo, Bing…) and the search term that brought you to their site. Many sites use Google Analytics to automatically record and monitor this information. It can be a useful tool for knowing which search terms are working and which are not. But depending on the search it can also reveal who you are and what you’re searching for. You might not want that, and here is how to protect your searches from Google Analytics. Continue reading
Momof3 posted a link to “a right wing blog that [she’s] not terribly ashamed of.”
I’m always game for opposing viewpoints, but within the first minute of perusing the article titles, I knew that this was a comedy gold mine. Not because it was particularly funny or interesting, but rather that it was the same conservative tripe wrapped in a veneer of disrespectability, which is admittedly something new.
So, because I can’t let stupidity like this go unridiculed, I picked a few articles from the homepage and had at them, FJM-style. Continue reading
This is the part where I lead with an elephant playing a harmonica to get you to click through. Continue reading
By now, we’ve seen the pictures of 39-pound Meow the cat everywhere- that lucky bastard’s been on Anderson Cooper’s lap; he lives in Santa Fe; he is all thick an’ shit. We know. We’re basically rewarding this cat for being obese. (And also a rescue and all those other things, LAY OFF ME).
But have you ever considered the opposite: the dangers of fat-shaming your cat? Continue reading