If you can not trust a parking ticket....?

So that you do not have to worry about things to worry about...  From the BBC

 

Drivers found the following message on the yellow ticket on their windscreen: "PARKING VIOLATION This vehicle is in violation of standard parking regulations".

The ticket then instructed drivers to visit a website, where drivers could "view pictures with information about your parking preferences".

The website instructed users to download a tool bar containing a virus

According to internet security watchdog The SANS Institute, the website then had photos of cars in various car parks around Grand Forks and instructed users to download a tool bar to find photos of their own vehicle.

 

When you invent a better mouse trap, someone invents a better mouse I guess. 

Giving back to what got you there

From SceneDaily.com

 

Hamlin said during Thursday’s 2009 Media Day at Daytona International Speedway that he will give away the tickets on his official Web site, DennyHamlin.com.
“They can sit in my seats each and every week at every single race track we go to,” Hamlin said. “Basically, they just enter in there, and we’ll choose a handful to be sitting in my seats each week.”
Hamlin said he will give away a minimum of four tickets per race, with more tickets available at some tracks. They won’t be bad tickets, either, he insisted.
And you don’t have to be a Hamlin fan, either.
“That’s not to go out there and try to get more race fans,” Hamlin said. “It’s not [just] for Denny Hamlin race fans; it’s for everyone. It doesn’t matter if you’re going to be there in your Dale [Earnhardt] Jr. gear or your Carl Edwards gear. It doesn’t matter to me. I just want to help the race fans out that don’t have the means to or have gone for the last 20 years and now aren’t able to because of financial reasons.”
Hamlin estimated that the tickets have cost him between $75 and $150 apiece, and he isn’t getting any discounts or favoritism from tracks.
“They’re coming out of my pocket,” he said. “And it’s actually been a pretty big hassle, but it doesn’t matter.”
The economy has hurt race fans, Hamlin said, and everyone in the sport needs to be aware of the struggles of the fans.

 

Thanks Denny.  I may try to get tickets for Texas or Kansas, as they would be the closest to me, but I probally will not.  I cannot afford to take the time off from work to go.  I have never scene a race live, only on the TV, I would love to go.  

What I appreciate is that you, like most NASCAR drivers, know what got you where you are and appreciate the fans.  This however, is a step above and beyond.  Thanks again.

Did you have to make your point that way...

From Fox News

 

"Malaria is spread by mosquitoes," Gates said while opening a jar onstage at the Technology, Entertainment, Design Conference — a gathering known to attract technology kings, politicians, and Hollywood stars.

"I brought some. Here I'll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected."

I guess that it was a way of making a point, that there is need for all people to live in safety from disease.  He assured the audience that they did not contain malaria.  But what about other disease they could have had.

Forget about that, what about what someone next to me had.  The mosquito bites the person next to me, maybe they have aids.  Then it bites me. I now have their blood mixed with the bugs and injected into mine.

I wonder if Bill Gates is as smart as he things he is.

30 Seconds in to the future

From the Journal Now (Winston-Salem Journal)

 

In 1987, the science-fiction satire Max Headroom depicted a media-obsessed future in which television commercials were reduced to one-second bites.

Welcome to the world of tomorrow. During Sunday's Super Bowl, Miller High Life will show a series of one-second commercials. But let's hope they don't have the same effect as the "blipverts" on Max Headroom, which over-stimulated sedentary viewers and caused them to explode.

Since Budweiser is the official beer sponsor of the Super Bowl, MillerCoors had to go to individual NBC affiliates to buy airtime. Hank Price at WXII confirmed that the ads would air here, and that MillerCoors had bought four seconds of airtime. He said that the station does not discuss the rates it charges advertisers, so we don't know if they paid 4/30th the going rate or more.

 

OK, so I do not have my jetpack that I was told I would have when I was a kid (40 years ago), but stuff from 20 years ago is now coming true....  this is weird.  Here is hoping that those watching will not explode!

what a neat photo of the inauguration

From David Bergman a picture of the inauguration taken over several minutes.  You can zoom in on the picture with remarkable clarity.

What do these 10 songs have in common?

1. Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life - Eric Idle / Monty Python

2. Cabaret - Liza Minnelli

3. Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye - Gracie Fields

4. My Way - Sid Vicious

5. They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa - Napoleon

6. Fame! I Want To Live Forever - The cast of Fame

7. We’ve Gotta Get Out Of This Place - The Animals

8. Going Underground - The Jam

9. Spirit In The Sky - Dr and The Medics

10. Enjoy Yourself, It’s Later Than You Think - The Specials

 

 

Find the answer.

 

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Do not mess with a good thing NASCAR

I do not know where NASCAR thinks they are helping the sport when we read from Fox Sports the following piece of information that will help reduce cost (supposedly):

 

When the truck series first debuted, the series was able to limit expenses by having teams pit once at halfway under a competition caution and have fewer men over the wall.

A similar plan could be in the works that would bring trucks down pit road according to the order on the track. Teams would be allowed to pit and the trucks would then return to the track in the same order, similar to a TV time out in football or basketball.

One of the things that attracts me to NASCAR is the high speed chess match that takes place each week.  Do we pit now, do we wait to pit, do we take two or four tires?  All of these effect the results.  Do just do a competition caution would increase the yawn factor about 75%.  So much can be gained or lost in the pits.  No NASCAR, do not do it.  I realize it is the TRUCKS and that is a testing ground of sorts, but leave this stuff to your minor leagues or the ARCA Remax series.

Do not listen to the soundbytes and talking heads...

 

Listen to what the man says himself. It is amazing what you hear versus what he said.

From the Dept. of taking back what was not yours to give in the first place....

GREENFIELD, Calif. — Police have arrested a Greenfield man for allegedly arranging to sell his 14-year-old daughter into marriage in exchange for $16,000, 100 cases of beer and several cases of meat.
Police say they only learned of the deal after 36-year-old Marcelino de Jesus Martinez went to them to get his daughter back because payment wasn't made as promised.

FOXNews.com - Man Allegedly Tries to Sell Daughter Into Marriage for Cash, Beer and Meat - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
I thought that we had passed the era when woman were slaves about 1000 years ago or so.   Lock this guy up and throw away the key (providing that he is guilty - hard not to be when he admits he did something wrong so he can get his money back).

Finding Osama Bin Laden

Twitter Hack

From Mashable.com comes:

 

Twitter is being blindsided today by a new wave of attacks, this time involving the takeover of the accounts of prominent users. Barack Obama, Britney Spears, CNN’s Rick Sanchez, Fox News, and Facebook’s official accounts are amongst those that have been targeted thus far, with each sending out an obviously fake message ranging from explicit comments to ads for online scams. Here’s what the Fox News account looked like earlier today:

 

 

I wonder why they did not go after my account.  Maybe cause I just am not important enough.

 

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Time to track Santa

Thanks to the trackers at NORADSanta, we are able to know where Santa is on his trip this year....

Enjoy, stay safe and do not light a fire and burn Santa up, use the Video Yule log.

What Can We Learn From A Genealogy

New Sermon Notes posted.  It is from this past weekend.  I listened to it from their MP3 downloads page as I was in Children's church at the time.  Pastor Bob talks about the genealogies of Christ and just what we can learn from them.

From the 'Maybe Darwin was right' department

 

From WBZ-TV

Man Burns Home Melting Ice With Blowtorch

NEW BEDFORD (AP) ―

New Bedford fire officials say a homeowner using a blowtorch to melt ice on his back porch set the home on fire causing up to $30,000 in damage.
Fire Capt. Scott Kruger tells The Standard-Times of New Bedford that no one was injured during Monday's incident at the three-story home.

I do not have anything to add

Divorces are down because of the economy!

From Fox Business News web site:

 

SAN FRANCISCO--The recession and economic turmoil is creating a new class of casualties: Married couples who can't afford to get divorced. In these tough times many people are finding it's cheaper to stay together, even when they can't stand each other.

"The reason that the economy has such an enormous impact on divorce is that most people in the middle-income brackets are getting by on whatever income they have. They're just getting by," said Bonnie Booden, a family law and divorce attorney in Phoenix.

I guess there is something good to be said about this bad economy. 

I'm Watching you dad

Just how big is Santa's sleigh

If you are not on Twitter... this just in from NoradSanta... on Twitter

noradsanta Santa's sleigh is 75 cc long, 40 cc wide. 1 cc = 1 Candy Cane

Well is that the large or small Candy Canes.....
I am glad to see that NORAD Santa is upgrading its stuff, Annie used to love to check out the page with me each hour.

All your computers belong to us...

Your Computer is Under Investigation - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

Interesting little program. Have not seen prank viruses (assume it does nothing else) like this one in a long time.

Out of Town goes out

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — They survived when Barnes & Noble took over the Harvard Coop, and even when the Tasty, a 16-stool diner with a fanatical following, gave way to an Abercrombie & Fitch.

CJ Gunther for The New York Times

The newsstand’s fate is big news on Harvard Square. The Cambridge city manager is seeking another news vendor for the 431-square-foot kiosk.

But when word spread this week that Out of Town News, the landmark newsstand just outside Harvard’s gates, might close, the legions who love Harvard Square went numb.

 

Every now and then I hear news from back home in Massachusetts.  This was not good news to me. The New York Times reports that Out of Town News is going out of business.

I will have the Harvard Square of my teens and 20's to remember.  I spent many a few buck at the Out of Town.  In my comic reading days they always seemed to have the new stuff out first, and I had to have it.  Back then I liked getting an out of Massachusetts taste for news.  Since the Internet as we know it did not exist this was the only way possible.  It was the only place that you could get some off the wall, obscure publication also. If it was in print, the Out of Town had it.  And what a location.  In the middle of Harvard Square.  No. not on a corner, in the middle.

Out of Town, have not seen you in years, knowing that you will close makes me sad, but it is evolution.  Like they say in the article:

“Many people who are lamenting the loss of the kiosk,” Ms. Jillson said, “are certainly people who get up in the morning, turn on their laptop and get their news on the Internet.”