What Dipps™ spewed on Twitter this past week — 2010-03-08

• WSJ: 2010 Census won’t contact anyone via online means, including email. Ignore the scams online - even legit looking ones http://tr.im/QfYR #
• And it is an office cavalcade of keyboarding. Hooray! #
• Tailg8.com massive: this new Threadless Tshirt shows what looks a lot like our famed boombox http://bit.ly/bvXJ6b #
• Damn. Old man bent over mail slot he held open peering in too long @ the Post Office today wasn’t an annoying obstacle but a missed photo op #

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Bad day on the Netertubes [Hacked twice]

Not a good day for me on the Netertubes yesterday.

My twitter account was compromised.  I got in long enough to delete the spam post, tweet an explanation and change my password, but made the mistake of logging out.

I tried to log back in last night and got the screen shot below.  This morning I got the same thing.  I’m trying to think where I may have a 3rd party twitter app open.  Or what the hell may be happening.  Blanking.  I’m still locked out.

Then I discovered a somewhat neglected website of mine also compromised. My site came up and loaded perfectly, but after about a minute, visitors to my site were automatically redirected to a different, unattended website.  Thanks M. Bernier for finding and eradicating the culprit code.  Make the jump if you’d like to lay eyes on the malicious code responsible.

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What Dipps™ spewed on Twitter this past week — 2010-03-01

• On chilly days like today I can’t wait for 100 degree weather. . . so I too can complain (about crappy weather.) #
• Now hearing: Phish and Jay-Z — “99 Problems”/”Big Pimpin” — Jay-Z guests at a ‘04 Brooklyn Phish show. Only a tad odd. http://tr.im/Plm5 #
• FCC may “pay broadcasters 2 vacate airwaves it could use 2 alleviate network strain caused by..surging use of smartphones” http://tr.im/PlMR #
• Can this “Stop Frowning Hipster, Stop Smiling Hippie” hoodie maintain balance? http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/4380058486/ #
• 1st Chatroulette, now Catroulette http://catroulette.tumblr.com If Rule 34=porn, Rule#?=internet kitties? Cats R N R intertubes 4 long haul. #
• Expect nothing but hope for the best–all the while preparing for a life-altering, reality-busting course of events (4 if something happens) #
• “Growth for growth’s sake is the ideology of the cancer cell.” — Edward Abbey #
• Weather kills! Al Gore, Global Warming deniers & weather people-meteorologists, civil engineers-start high level talks today to stop weather #
• @kevinckaiser It is actually Dipps©®™ but using all three is overkill . . . nah. It is pure kicks sir. in reply to kevinckaiser #
• Many will go well out of their way to bitch, moan, complain & mock rather than consider, even for a moment, a better way. #rant #
• Hmm (interesting). Someone twitted: ” @dippsi@raveesh ” and it shows up (to me) as an @ reply. #
• Use Gmail & other Google services often? You can now lump them together on one page w/ “Integrated Gmail” a Firefox add-on http://tr.im/PMfx #
• @youngamerican ask Luis Guzman the obvious: the number of leading roles he’d like to play during his career. #
• Got @TrueFalse tix to http://utopiainfourmovements.com & http://www.restrepothemovie.com - 1 US platoon in the Korengal Valley #tf10 #
• Internet service at my workplace isn’t working so everybody left. #metoo #
• What is all this new found fascination with the Olympics? A few years back, if anyone outside the media mentioned them it was to poke fun. #
• http://twitvid.com/EA03F - @nickthune on @comedydeathray talking about his altercation with a fan in CoMO. #
• If you are not blindly embracing, busy forming groups, or the nut getting pissed off by it all, you may not be American. #

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Visualizing the Mariana Trench [To Scale]

This visualization at i-am-bored.com puts the Mariana Trench into (some) perspective:

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$1,000 edition of ‘On the Road’?

In my youth I idolized Jack Kerouac.  Ran across this upcoming edition of his “On the Road” on Amazon.  It lists for $1,000.  I’m sure it is extremely limited with many great unreleased photos but still.  I’m almost curious to learn more.  I won’t ignore more details about it if they present themselves, but I’m not seeking out anything further either.

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860-589-0220

I missed a call from 860-589-0220. Fourteen minutes later, I called it back only to get this recording:

According to http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-860-589-0220 it seems many different people have many different experiences calling to, and receiving calls from 860-589-0220.

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What Dipps™ spewed on Twitter this past week — 2010-02-22

• Found out Key West, FL is slap central. Don’t ask. #
• @jwmb6c Nicely, nicely. Waiting around for any video that will surely be making the rounds soon. in reply to jwmb6c #
• Let us all honor the greatest Prez of them all, Rutherford Birchard Hayes and respect his robust beard on this finest of holidays: PRES DAY. #
• For all those who didn’t think you knew this, but likely do: Parkinson’s Law: “Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.” #
• @kevinckaiser Would like a Book Tweeport on “1,000 Dollars and an Idea” please. Or at least an “I recommend this book” or “ban this book.” #
• Dear Moms, Is there anything else I need to buy or do? #
• Not cross-training anymore. Certainly not jogging. It is called Running and it is serious. #
• Clean smells promote generosity and fair play; dark rooms and sunglasses promote deceit and selfishness http://bit.ly/bodvzp #
• @MGM_Studios is following little ole’ me. Must be my plea for more red band trailers, like the one I twitted about for Hot Tub Time Machine. #
• It’s Feb. Time to check up on those New Year’s Resolutions I just made up last week: 1) Don’t be a dick 2)Talk less about me 3)Ask less ?s #
• @rconc34 Ha. Good point. Not even prize fighters told to take a dive in the 4th round get any instruction on how to go about losing. in reply to rconc34 #
• @bryanhelmig @laughridge The Firefox AutoPager add-on automatically loads the next page when you reach the end of a page http://tr.im/OPVh ? in reply to bryanhelmig #
• Our Pasture Pool Lord will stop all the sexing for the children’s sake. #
• Attn. data/stat junkies & # ppl.: Businesses use http://swivel.com 2 dashboard their metrics & (privately) share reports of charts & numbers #
• Three decks of cards, 125,000 marketing ideas for $69 http://bit.ly/d8xvzx Could be *fun and helpful. #
• Ha. http://shadyurl.com URL “shortening” service turns NearlyaNerd.com into http://5z8.info/fake-gmail-login-page_z4f1r_amazon.com-phish #
• @nhogan411 you’re welcome. AutoPager is great for quick SERPing (+ many other Google flavors) especially for scrolling beyond 3-4 pages. in reply to nhogan411 #
• When people tell you something’s wrong, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly how to fix it they are almost always wrong. #
• Last twit sort of paraphrases Neil Gaiman from The Guardian article “Ten Rules for Writing Fiction” http://tr.im/P5Yb [This link now works] #

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Distilling ‘Ten rules for writing fiction’ into one or two words

I’ll now slaughter the multi-authored Guardian.co.uk article “Ten rules for writing fiction” by cutting several of the “rules” down to one or two words which may make more sense after reading the article.   Many of the rules could apply to other forms of writing, and possibly, some to life.

1. Write
2. Write
3. Write
4. Avoid prologues
5. Excise skippableness
6. Read aloud
7. Cut
8. Rewrite
9. Safeguard text
10. Hold attentions
11. Don’t whine
12. Show friends
13. Pray
14. Read often
15. Write quickly
16. Quality later
17. Title early
18. Less Internet
19. Hide thesaurus(es)
20. Change mind
21. Create rhythms
22. Reread, rewrite
23. Trash it
24. Memorize poems
25. Take walks
26. Forget posterity
27. Love survives
28. Write privately
29. Shun commerciality
30. Better-ize autocorrection

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4 8 15 16 23 42: Numbers ‘Gossip’ [Lost]

The Re-up of Wired magazine came yesterday.  And with it the revelation of NumberGossip.com offering: “Enter a number and I’ll tell you everything you wanted to know about it but were afraid to ask.”

What better sort of litmus/acid test than to let the site gorge on THE numbers — 4 8 15 16 23 42 — of TV’s “Lost.”

4

Unique Properties of 4

4 is the only compositorial square
4 is the only positive number that is both the sum and the product of the same two integers
4 is the order of the smallest non-cyclic group (submitted by Sam Steingold)
Every positive integer is the sum of at most 4 squares
4 is the smallest number of colors sufficient to color any planar map
4 is the only number in the English language for which the number of letters in its name is equal to the number itself
4 is the only composite number that is equal to the sum of its prime factors
4 is the only composite number n which doesn’t divide (n-1)!

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Digital artifact from ‘The Eclipse’ trailer

Captured while viewing “The Eclipse” trailer at 720p.  Extra creepy.

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