Monday, February 18, 2013

I like this guy

I'm tempted to buy something from him, even though I don't need it...

http://www.southernskiessoapsupplies.com.au/contact/info_6.html

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Suck it, Tynt

Ever copied a chunk of text from a news article to send to someone, and found that when you paste it you get an annoying attribution line on the end?  Something like this:


Some months after the attack in Al Majalah, Amnesty International released photos showing an American cluster bomb and a propulsion unit from a Tomahawk cruise missile.

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/02/john-brennan-and-the-truth-about-drones.html/#ixzz0oyLiD4Qh



That's irritating, arrogant and pisses me off.  And it's invoked using Javascript and a product from my Annoying Arsehole Company Of The Week, Tynt.


I love some of the comments from their product page:

Improve SEO rankings - read: helps you spam search engines and cheat on how popular your site is.

Drive incremental traffic - read: perpetuates the fallacy that clicks and views actually mean anything on the web.  Like the fallacy that single-click activism actually means anything more than someone troubled to move their mouse a couple of millimetres, don't you think that page views that you generated yourself through link spamming might not be a terribly good indicator of actual content attractiveness?

Actionable editorial insights - I'm not even sure what that combination of words means.  I think the blurb on the page comes down to pandering to your reader's tastes?

Enhance your user experience - yeah, by spamming.  Good move.

Get credit for your content - what for the eight words it takes to trigger the crap on TechCrunch?


Fortunately, there's a fairly easy way to block this bullshit.  Add this to your hosts file and null out the lookup from the Javascript to the Tynt server.


127.0.0.1   tcr.tynt.com


Fuck you, spammer, and goodnight.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Brilliant

http://www.news.com.au/world/woman-jailed-for-flipping-the-bird-at-judge-in-miami/story-fndir2ev-1226571432716

 

Excellent.  Next time, show some respect for authority, you overentitled little airhead piece of shit.

Monday, February 4, 2013

Muahahaha

Got a couple, in case one wasn't enough....





I see dumb people

Seriously, people....  some dude gets himself shot, and instantly the P2P networks are spammed with malware attempting to exploit the event.

I expect nothing less of your average scum sucking pusbag malware merchant, but seriously - 20,000 people are stupid enough to be resharing the crap?  And that's just the front page, there are heap more if you scroll down.


Sunday, February 3, 2013

Who would have thought?

Amazing… there *are* positives to spam after all!

 

http://www.news.com.au/technology/suicide-bomber-blown-up-prematurely-by-spam-text/story-e6frfro0-1225997374717

Friday, February 1, 2013

No shit, Sherlock

http://glennrowe.net/baroncohen/autismspectrumquotient/autismspectrumquotient.aspx

 

Your score: 40

0 - 10 = low

11 - 22 = average (most women score about 15 and most men score about 17)

23 - 31 = above average

32 - 50 is very high (most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score about 35)

50 is maximum

 

 

Wow, surprised.  Not.