Casiello Family Weblog

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IE allows malicious websites to spoof legitimate sites in the address bar and status bar, so they suggest typing in URLs by hand:

“The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from
malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your
intended destination in the address bar yourself. By manually typing the URL
in the address bar, you can verify the information that Internet Explorer
uses to access the destination Web site. To do so, type the URL in the
Address bar, and then press ENTER.”

Nice!

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Charles Shultz meets….Outkast?

(That link is down right now, try this one.

For folks with a fast connection, or lots of patience.

Hilarious, but sick! Slow download, but worth the wait. I wish I had seen this a month ago.

The BBC’s program archives will be freely downloadable. Cool! Bring on the Monty Python!

This is pretty cool…

You can donate your unused frequent flier miles to help troops travel home from Iraq, via a program set up by Maryland Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger. Over a dozen airlines have signed up for the program, including, I’m glad to say US Airways, the airline I’m flying with to Tampa. Many of the airlines have donated miles, and/or will match passenger-donated miles. Good stuff!

Redheads are harder to knock out, needing 20% more anesthetic before surgery than blondes or brunettes.

Remember Skittlebrau? Well, it turns out tomacco is real, too.

(via Nature)

Electronic paper fast enough to show video. Diamond Age, here we come!

(via The Shifted Librarian)

A collection of freely distributable, legally downloadable music in BitTorrent format.

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and since we’re on a LotR theme theme, you know the tune!

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A fan-generated trailer for The Hobbit. Maybe it’ll convince Peter Jackson to actually do the film!

“At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge,” said the gentleman, taking up a pen, “it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and Destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.”
(from A Christmas Carol, of course!)

Here’s a way to check up on your favorite charities, from the Better Business Bureau.

(via Dan Gillmor)

Diebold is apparently producing some seriously flawed voting machines. Swarthmore students posted some internal memos about these machines, and Diebold is serving them with cease-and-desist orders. Now several other sites are mirroring those memos.

Electronic Gaming Monthly shows the video games I used to play to some 10-13 year olds to get their reaction. They were not, um, overwhelmed.

Andrew: This is a lot like that game. Um, whatchamacallit?air hockey.

Sheldon: Except worse.

…

Becky: It looks like a Mario that got run over by a car.

Andrew: Really. I mean the man is almost flat.

…

Kirk: He’s only an inch tall. He’s a little short fat guy who eats way too much pizza.

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EGM: Football. It’s one of the first great portable games.

Brian: I thought it was Run Away From the Dots.

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Kirk: I’m sure everyone who made this game is dead by now.

Stooge Curly Howard was born 100 years ago today.

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A group of French chefs and others are petitioning the Pope to have Gluttony from the list of the Seven Deadly Sins

I wonder if they have any suggestions for a replacement? Maybe serving red wine with fish, or (gasp) saying ’email’ instead of ‘courriel’!

Oh, wait! No, I meant congratulations Yankees!

Oh, wait, no, I did mean aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

(via Nature)

The universe may be smaller than previously though…and and shaped like a soccer ball.

This is pretty cool. Just remember: Measure twice, eat once.

Can’t afford a Segway? Build one yourself. It’s ‘only’ $2000!