Working Lego V8, 32 valve engine
Saw this on the interwebs somewhere. The man has mad crazy skillz… someone has to get him a job.
A scrapbook for my philisophical essays on the world, casual observations, and personal rants.
Monthly Archive for September, 2008
Just popped over to Twitter’s Election Coverage page and noticed two very odd tweeters repeatedly sending out odd tweets to the page. I went to their sites and they appear to be bots spamming Twitter’s coverage of the election. Check out these sites and you’ll see what I mean: http://twitter.com/hinnis and http://twitter.com/MonkPDX. Why do I think they’re bots?
Well, for one, they appear to be posting once a minute every minute. The general concepts of their tweets are the same, too. Hinnis, thinks Obama is a racist for his association to that church with the pastor who said things that would imply that he (the pastor) is bigoted in some way. MonkPDX appears to be praying on those who are racists (and was probably programmed by racist individuals) by calling Obama by his middle name of Hussein and saying Obama should have worn his robes and turban to the debates.
I hope I’m right in thinking these are bots releasing these tweets every minute. But the sad fact is that bot or not, someone his really thinking this hateful and misleading speak. While I’m glad that Twitter has this election coverage site, I wish they could get a hold of these bots before the site is overrun with tweets that don’t offer anything to the election debate.
At the risk of taking a break from work for a sec, I’m seriously thinking of taking my micro-blog entries (Twitter tweets) and turning them into regular posts on my blogs. Not sure I want to flood my blog with two sentence posts but I don’t update my blog often enough… this might help increase the number of posts I make per day. Although, it could have the net effect of flooding my blog with micro-blogging-banter that might dilute the “regular” posts.
Any thoughts?
So It’s Come To This: posted a photo:
Another HDR photo.
I’m a huge New York Giants fan. And after participating in the Susan G Komen Race for the Cure 5k in New York’s Central Park today, I came home and watched the Giants turn the Saint Louis Rams in to lambs. I have a bad cold or the flu and watching the game was what I needed to recuperate. Anyway…
In our house, my wife and I have these two embroidered pillows – one for my home state of New Jersey and one of her home city of New York. This picture shows the NJ one on the left which features the Jets and Giants (because the Meadowlands Stadium is in East Rutherford, NJ) and the NYC one on the right.
Thank goodness for one-click installs & upgrades!! Just upgraded this blog – and about 5 other WordPress sites I host in one easy single click. I can’t imagine what upgrading manually must be like.
I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to WordPress 2.7!! Of course, it will be just as easy to upgrade.