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Get rid of that stupid Slashdot comment section in your RSS feed

12 Mar 2010 No Comments

by ryanin Signs of the Horsemen, Technology, Uhm... yeah, Web Tags: cruft, idiocy, rss, slashdot

Slashdot recently began embedding this ridiculous comment section in their RSS feed. To get rid of it, add this to your favorite ad blocking extension:

http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&id=*

I’ll click through if I feel the need to read or spend karma.

50 things you are not supposed to know

01 Aug 2009 No Comments

by ryanin Signs of the Horsemen, Uhm... yeah Tags: "facts", lists

1. The Ten Commandments We Always See Aren’t the Ten Commandments
2. One of the Popes Wrote an Erotic Book
3. The CIA Commits Over 100,000 Serious Crimes Each Year
4. The First CIA Agent to Die in the Line of Duty Was Douglas Mackiernan
5. After 9/11, the Defense Department Wanted to Poison Afghanistan’s Food Supply
6. The US Government Lies About the Number of Terrorism Convictions It Obtains
7. The US Is Planning to Provoke Terrorist Attacks
8. The US and Soviet Union Considered Detonating Nuclear Bombs on the Moon
9. Two Atomic Bombs Were Dropped on North Carolina
10. World War III Almost Started in 1995
11. The Korean War Never Ended
12. Agent Orange Was Used in Korea
13. Kent State Wasn’t the Only – or Even the First – Massacre of College Students During the Vietnam Era
14. Winston Churchill Believed in a Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy
15. The Auschwitz Tattoo Was Originally an IBM Code Number
16. Adolph Hitler’s Blood Relatives Are Alive and Well in New York State
17. Around One Quarter of “Witches” Were Men
18. The Virginia Colonists Practiced Cannibalism
19. Many of the Pioneering Feminists Opposed Abortion
20. Black People Served in the Confederate Army
21. Electric Cars Have Been Around Since the 1880s
22. Juries Are Allowed to Judge the Law, Not Just the Facts
23. The Police Aren’t Legally Obligated to Protect You
24. The Government Can Take Your House and Land, Then Sell Them to Private Corporations
25. The Supreme Court Has Ruled That You’re Allowed to Ingest Any Drug, Especially If You’re an Addict
26. The Age of Consent in Most of the US Is Not Eighteen
27. Most Scientists Don’t Read All of the Articles They Cite
28. Louis Pasteur Suppressed Experiments That Didn’t Support His Theories
29. The Creator of the GAIA Hypothesis Supports Nuclear Power
30. Genetically-Engineered Humans Have Already Been Born
31. The Insurance Industry Wants to Genetically Test All Policy Holders
32. Smoking Causes Problems Other Than Lung Cancer and Heart Disease
33. Herds of Milk-Producing Cows Are Rife With Bovine Leukemia Virus
34. Most Doctors Don’t Know the Radiation Level of CAT Scans
35. Medication Errors Kill Thousands Each Year
36. Prescription Drugs Kill Over 100,000 Annually
37. Work Kills More People Than War
38. The Suicide Rate Is Highest Among the Elderly
39. For Low-Risk People, a Positive Result from an HIV Test Is Wrong Half the Time
40. DNA Matching Is Not Infallible
41. An FBI Expert Testified That Lie Detectors Are Worthless for Security Screening
42. The Bayer Company Made Heroin
43. LSD Has Been Used Successfully in Psychiatric Therapy
44. Carl Sagan Was an Avid Pot-Smoker
45. One of the Heroes of Black Hawk Down Is a Convicted Child Molester
46. The Auto Industry Says That SUV Drivers Are Selfish and Insecure
47. The Word “Squaw” Is Not a Derisive Term for the Vagina
48. You Can Mail Letters for Little or No Cost
49. Advertisers’ Influence on the News Media Is Widespread
50. The World’s Museums Contain Innumerable Fakes

via 50 things you are not supposed to know | Travel, Work, Life…!.

Weather Forecast Fail

04 Feb 2009 No Comments

by ryanin Signs of the Horsemen, Uhm... yeah Tags: bloody cold, fail, weather

Golf clap, Weather Channel 

Enough

17 Jan 2009 No Comments

by ryanin News, Politics, Signs of the Horsemen Tags: death, destruction, Gaza, IDF, Israel, Palestinians, war

This is only one of thousands, thousands, of Palestinians who have suffered at the hands of the IDF. (Click the triangle at the bottom right, then choose “turn on subtitles” option.)

As Americans, we should be ashamed that we have enabled this kind of suffering and destruction. This action by the Israelis has gone too far and needs to end.

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Contact the White House

ABC News: Match-o-Matic

16 Sep 2008 No Comments

by ryanin Politics, Signs of the Horsemen Tags: election, McCain, Obama, Politics

Too lazy to research candidates for the Presidency on your own? Then let a Flash cartoon from ABC News help you out. In 20 or so questions, a cartoon that lets you choose between quotes from the candidates will animate the way to your deicision for who to vote for as we decide the leader of the free world.

Or, yah know, you could read up on them. Just a thought.

ABC News: Match-o-Matic

Freak-out of the Week: THIS is How Easy It Is to Lose Your Identity

20 Aug 2008 No Comments

by ryanin Signs of the Horsemen, Technology

Herbert H. Thompson, a security strategistin New York, writes on just how easy it is to get access to your bank account, email, and identity, recounting his hack of a friend named “Kim”.

In Kim’s case some of that information came from a blog, but it could just as easily have come from a MySpace page, a sibling’s blog (speaking of their birthday, mom’s name, etcetera) or from any number of places online.

Queue a check of all my information. I also found the information mining via inference rather clever. Maybe an attacker can’t see your browsing history, but looking at your cache (specifically CSS files) gives just as good of information.

How I Stole Someone’s Identity: Scientific American.

Hmm..

11 Aug 2008 No Comments

by ryanin Politics, Signs of the Horsemen Tags: history, marriage, Politics, progress

Ghostbusters Remake?

01 Aug 2008 No Comments

by ryanin Entertainment, Signs of the Horsemen Tags: childhood, movies, remakes

As if the JC Penny’s ad featuing the total composting of The Breakfast Club wasn’t enough for you, the newest rumor has it that Judd Apatow and crew (Seth Rogen, etc..) might remake Ghostbusters.

Can an actual remake of The Breakfast Club be far behind? Come on John Hughes, give Uwe Boll and call!

One More Time, Let's Review

14 Jul 2008 No Comments

by ryanin Politics, Signs of the Horsemen, Uhm... yeah Tags: magizines, New Yorker, Obama, Politics, satire, whoring

This is satire. It’s also ham-fisted (thanks J–) and stupid for a cover, but satire nonetheless. If When you encounter someone who thinks it’s prescient or insightful or whatever, you have my permission to smack them upside their idiotic skull*. ‘Grats to the New Yorker for the best attention whoring of the election season so far.

* Note, my permission doesn’t mean crap in any court, workplace, or household, including my own.

One Function Review of the New Indiana Jones movie.

01 Jun 2008 No Comments

by ryanin Entertainment, Signs of the Horsemen Tags: film, indiana jones, movies, travesty

(with apologies to anyone who actually can code)

function toViewOrNotToView (seeFilmInTheatre) {

int fanboi = 0;
int literalism = 1;
int alteredState = 0;
int mentalAcuity = 1;

//note, we can’t let mentalAcuity dip below 1 to operate machinery safely

if (fanboi == 1 && alteredState ==1) {
return 1;
fanboi–;
mentalAcuity–;

}

elseif (fanboi ==0 && alteredState == 1) {
return 1;
alteredstate = 0;
mentalAcuity–;

}

elseif (fanboi == 0 && alteredState == 0 && literalism == 1) {
return 0;
alert (“How many more films must George Lucas ruin before he is stopped?”);

//I know we’re not subtracting from mentalAcuity
//here, but that should be covered in the viewDVDAtHome function

}

}