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Just a quick little post about my favorite topic: Green. Well, kind of, at least everything in this post can be tied together under the Green heading.
First up, a website for Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth was hacked and loaded up with spammer links to sell Viagra, Xanax and the like.
It looks like only the pages associated with the blog were attacked and linked to other hacked pages from Westmont College (that or the Christian College is running a side business pushing drugs).
Looks like the hackers exploited a flaw in WordPress (a popular piece of publishing software) security. Might be time for us to up our own security here.
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I’m a complete freak for organizational tools. I don’t subscribe to a particular system (such as Franklin Covey, which my friend Rick has mastered), but I do give a lot of thought to ease of use and effectiveness, especially as compared to slickness and coolness.
So I was a little too excited at running across D.I.Y. Templates, which features a directory of To Do List templates. They range from the quirky (the note card template seen here) to more complicated layouts that include daily or weekly timelines and checkboxes. There are forms for work stuff, finances, money, blah and even blahblahblahblah (spoken quickly).
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Every now and then criminals do things that just baffle me. Like posting details about their crimes on the internet.
Associated Press has an article today about Lt. Charles Cohen who goes around talking with police officers and detectives about the internet, specifically sites like MySpace, Facebook and Second Life.
Basically what Lt. Cohen is lecturing about is how folks, specifically criminals, don’t quite get that the internet is not their private diary, and that things posted on the web are visible are available to the public and can be tracked back to them. He is also working on breaking the police department mindset that the internet is another realm, not worth monitoring. Read more »
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I hear so many people gripe and bitch about how expensive New York is and how there are no deals to be found in this town and that rent is too high and that they never have any money to do anything, and that is why they claim they have holed themselves up in their apartments on a Monday night watching Law & Order reruns on TNT rather then coming out and joining you for a drink.
Well it’s time to blow their excuses away with FreeNYC. FreeNYC is a listing of what you can find for free around the city today: special events, regular events and everything in between. Enjoy a free burger and beer at the Town tavern until the 11th, some bourbon in park slope, or free drinks and music on the Lower East Side. Each day a new set of free events is listed specific to that day.
They hope that “by scouring the city and its outlaying lands, FreeNYC helps you save a buck or two, while still enjoying all the city has to offer.” The site is updated daily and “supplies a variety of activities to keep you busy all week long. From bars and booty shakin’ good times to museums, performances and gallery openings, FreeNYC serves up culture that promises not to break the bank.”
So there you go, now it’s either time to admit you are obsessed with Jerry Orbach and S. Epatha Merkerson or get off your couch and spend some quality time with those friends you’ve been neglecting.
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I discovered a new gadget online simply called Your Salary.
It’s simple, you plug in what you make and it runs a clock/calculator function that tallies what you are making per second, per minute, per hour and per day. It even runs it while you are on the site, showing the pennies adding up, turning into nickels, dimes, quarters, fifty cent pieces (why don’t those have a nifty name like “quarters” or “dimes?”) and dollars.
Unfortunately it appears to be on a 24 hour scale (so it is literally telling you the value of every second of your day as long as you are employed), so you only know your worth during a 24 hour day when you worked as opposed to calculating your typical 40 hour week, though as I jumped back and forth between this page, some conversations I was having through IM and just staring at the money I was earning, I did make $1.97.