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[via Boing Boing]
Author: Chris Barrus
Email alias trick
Garth of Deadly Bloody Serious points out a cool technique for dealing with spam.
It’s easy for me to manufacture email addresses on demand for registration with web sites, subscribing to mailing lists and so on because pretty much anything sent to my domain ends up in my inbox.
Even if you don’t have a domain of your own, though, you can get much the same effect:
username+nameofpotentialspammer@yourdomain.org
For some reason, SMTP servers stop analyzing the address at the plus sign, so as long as what’s before the plus is your usual email address, the mail will get through to you. Your mail filtering rules, on the other hand, will probably be able to match on the full address including what’s after the plus. Easy, huh?
The origin of Spacewar
Geeks + PDP-1 + Toho monster movies = the greatest video game ever. From the still much missed Creative Computing magazine.
Guitar-swiping man banned from Foreigner concerts for life
We should all be so lucky to be banned from Foreigner concerts. We’d never have to go to another Napierville rib-fest again.
‘Grab HTML’ script for BBEdit
Awesome BBEdit script that takes a URL and opens up the source in a new BBEdit window.
Four hours and 51 minutes with iCal
Not too shabby, especially for a v1.0 product. I’m impressed. Over the years I’ve gone through (in rough order) Dynodex, InControl, NUD, Claris Organizer, back to NUD, Palm Desktop, Chronos Consultant, Entourage, back to Palm Desktop after a Entourage database meltdown, and now to iCal. And out of all of these products, iCal is the first one that I’ve been more or less satisfied with out of the box (well, out of the .dmg file).
I think iCal’s real promise lies with being able to easily share events and schedules. The stuff up on Apple’s library is a nice start.
The one negative thing is that I’m *still* stuck with two calendar apps since work uses CorporateTime for scheduling. Bleh.
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries’ Flash fun
Cool collection of Flash movies by the mysterious Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries. Kinda pretentious, but in a fun and playful beatnik sort of way. Start with The Struggle Continues (works best in French, but there is an English version) or Artist’s Statement No. 45,730,944: The Perfect Artistic Web Site
PhD: Professor of Desperation
Mind-boggling article on what it is to be adjunct faculty. The opening paragraph says it all:
Bad pay, zero job security, no benefits, endless commutes. Is this any way to treat PhDs responsible for teaching a generation of college students?
The implied message for newly-minted PhDs? You’re no better than a temp worker.
The Doom that came to the Mystery Machine
My name is Daphne Pickman. Perhaps you’ve seen some of the fictionalized versions of our adventures. Don’t believe them. The truth is far more horrible. Yes, we have exposed a fair number of frauds, but there were cases we covered up. We had to. The feeble minds of the masses, laden in sitcom tripe, could not bear the lonely burdens we have borne. Perhaps some day, I’ll write down how we battled the band ‘God’s Lost Children’ or how we proved that Rush Limbaugh was a Deep One, his show an elaborate rite for unleashing Cthulhu upon the world. I laughed for relief when we successfully turned a shoggoth loose during one of his broadcasts and it ate him, then choked to death in the process. But that is a story for another time, and assumes your sanity survives reading this tale intact. Indeed, when I look back on the horrors we have faced, it is hard for me to understand how I have kept my sanity. Perhaps it is not so surprising that the dark knowledge which alone suffices to defeat the forces of the Mythos finally consumed the hearts and souls of my companions, thus forcing me to kill them and eat their brains.
[via FARK]
Crash Bonsai: Because your bonsai tree is just too damn serene
Crash Bonsai takes toy cars and carefully turns them into mini-wrecks – a perfect twisted addition to your carefully cultivated tree of peace.
I kinda like this one. The old pre-war car gives it a nice lurid police photograph look, as if it was taken by a miniture bonsai-sized Walter Winchell.
[via Boing Boing]