Nothin' but linkspam

[cleolinda]

Important! If you have played a Sony product on your computer, it apparently has downloaded a "rootkit" on your computer:

The software installs itself as a root kit, which is a set of tools commonly used to make certain files and processes undetectable, and they're the favored tool of crackers who are, as Wikipedia puts it, attempting to "maintain access to a system for malicious purposes." In fact, root kits are often classified alongside Trojan horses. And Mark Russinovich, who created a root-kit detection utility and was one of the first to blog about the Sony intrusion, discovered another little gem when he tried to remove the DRM drivers. It broke his computer--disabling his CD drive.

So, let's make this a bit more explicit. You buy a CD. You put the CD into your PC in order to enjoy your music. Sony grabs this opportunity to sneak into your house like a virus and set up camp, and it leaves the backdoor open so that Sony or any other enterprising intruder can follow and have the run of the place. If you try to kick Sony out, it trashes the place.

I'm hearing rumblings about a class-action suit. If anyone hears about anything more effective than a petition, let me know.


Australia foils major terrorist attack.

Police Find Bomb-Making Factory in Paris.

Defense lawyer in Saddam trial killed.

British author John Fowles, whose works include "The French Lieutenant's Woman" and "The Collector," has died. He was 79.

Urbina charged with attempted murder.

Drunk Death Row Escapee Captured in La.

Beatty Tries to Crash Schwarzenegger Rally.

Pirate Attack Repelled by Cruise Ship Crew.

Cheerleaders Had Sex in Bar, Witnesses Say. Yes, with each other.

Tom Cruise fires sister.

I've been sitting on this story for a while, because it's just too horrifying.

bacardibreezer7: "I'm sure you have already been told about this but check it out: so much cocaine use is going on in London that there are traces of it in the Thames." Actually, I hadn't, so: awesome. Now that Kate Moss has been to rehab, though, I expect those figures to start going down significantly.

Honey is medicinally awesome. Also: "When combined with water and oxygen, glucose oxidase forms gluconic acid and hydrogen peroxide—the very same stuff you probably have in your medicine cabinet right now. This means that diluted honey can serve as an excellent antiseptic, while being far less likely than ordinary hydrogen peroxide to harm already-damaged tissue."

Pictures: jenni_talula's books and her Lost bear have arrived.

BookCrossing: Discovered this the other day on scorpiosphynx's journal, and I'm having fun adding recently-read books to my bookshelf. The really fun part is that you can sign up for an alert for when someone releases a book "into the wild" in your city. (Eeeee! A book was released in the quad at my alma mater! Ooo, and it's a good book, too.)

Speaking of which: "Cleo, I'm sure you're tired of putting up these thefillintheblanksite things, but could you pimp The Literacy Site? It's like The Hunger Site, but it donates free books to children with every click. Today, every click is doubled. I don't know how long this will last." Actually, I'm not tired of them at all--they're all at the same hub site, so it's not like they're poser copycats or something. I just wanted to add a new one every so often rather than overwhelm people all at once, but if they're doing a special today, let's go for it.



ETA:

Alabama Governor Calls for Aruba Boycott

'Desperate Housewives' Actor Fired

Comments

[pride4u2.livejournal.com]

My mp3 player's a Sony...and obviously, so's the software that came with it. Oh, shit.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Man, I have been waiting for them to pull that movie together for *years.*

[spooke.livejournal.com]

Well, since you aren't tired of them... you can guess what's coming, right? One the same site as the others, there's the Animal Shelter site and the Rainforest site. I've made a little table with them in my journal that you're free to grab, if you want...

[spooke.livejournal.com]

...And the code keeps them behind a cut, to spare your journal.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

Hey, I've been meaning to ask - how do you do the indent text?

[edda.livejournal.com]

I'd look but I'm afraid he'd try to email me a sample or something.

[edda.livejournal.com]

"Tom Cruise Fires Sister, Realizes HUGE Mistake He Made Firing His Original Publicist In The First Place".

I actually did go over to Vincent's website, but there's nothing mentioned about it now. I'm willing to bet he took it down after the Jeering Spam Of Doom hit his inbox.

Honey is antiseptic and so is garlic. I once mixed them together and gargled them for a sore throat from an old folk recipe somewhere. I do not think this will be a new NyQuil flavor anytime soon.

[okibi-banshi.livejournal.com]

Oh okay, just wondering if you had seen that. Thought it might be easier than just putting separate links in every entry.

[bacardibreezer7.livejournal.com]

Yep...garlic rocks because it's an antiseptic, it's antibacterial, it's antiviral, and it's antiinflammatory. In big doses it's also antidelicious, which explains why a lot of people are yet to experience it's healing powaz. :)

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Hey,

I just don't know where to start about the Vicent Gallo thing. The Racism, the egomania... Hey, if you use his sperm and get preggers, do you get a refund if the kid doesn't turn out to be a talentless, self-promoting, unpleasant arsehat?!

I think I'll hang out for Seann William Scott's pale ale. Not that I expect to get pregnant by it, I just think it'd be a keen conversation piece *g*

[k-puff.livejournal.com]

Yegads, the Japanese are taking over. (http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20051107152609990002)

[edda.livejournal.com]

Also, going back to your earlier linkspam post that involved chocolate?

I thought of a few (http://www.ethelm.com/) more (http://www.lakechamplainchocolates.com/) brands (http://www.knipschildt.com/flash.html) I've (http://www.josephschmidtconfections.com/) seen (http://www.bridgewaterchocolate.com/) here (http://www.christophernormanchocolates.com/) and (http://www.christophernormanchocolates.com/) there (http://www.chocolatmoderne.com/), although (http://www.callebaut.com/html_en/) I've (http://www.recchiuticonfections.com/cgi-bin/chocolate/home/index.html?id=EkgWGhtZ) only (http://www.johnandkiras.com/site/Welcome_business.htm) tried (http://www.franschocolates.com/) a few. I thought you might want more to play with/order from/share my obsession with.

[edda.livejournal.com]

But for heartburn, I'd experience it more often than I do. Soft spreadable roasted garlic smooshed over fresh bread = LOVE.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

It's "blockquote" and "/blockquote," except with the <>s. : )

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

*weeps*

[kakusareta.livejournal.com]

Hi, sorry this doesn't really have to do with your entry, but as I couldn't find your email, I thought I'd leave you a comment here. I was wondering - what font is that you use on your icons? I've seen it on lots of other icons, and I've never known what it was called so I could use it myself.

Thanks in advance. :)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Silkscreen. : )

meh

[fxchip.livejournal.com]

This has actually been going on for a couple of weeks now; I'm surprised Cleolinda took a while to catch up. (not saying anything bad about you, Cleo; I often hear news from you long before anywhere else, which is why it was surprising :D)

Re: meh

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I don't read a lot of tech blogs (...well, none, actually, that I can think of), and so it didn't reach me until it had filtered through to the mainstream. That, and I've been too busy to read my LJ friends list lately, so even if other people were posting about it, I didn't see. I just keep an eye on JournalFen for the drama. : )

[(Anonymous)]

It's not so much the antidepressant itself, it's just that it's ONE MORE DAMN THING to deal with, ya know?

Started and finished the book last night, because your stuff is the literary equivalent of crack. :o) IT ROCKED!

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

Ooops.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

I saw the Vincent Gallo story a few days ago on www.wwtdd.com - which, incidentally, is hilarous. VG is NUTS.

I'm not sure I understand what BookCrossing's all about - what do you do?

[kakusareta.livejournal.com]

Ah. Thank you! ^^

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, you register books--the individual copy of that book. Like, my copy of Half-Blood Prince will have a different code from your copy. (I think this was the part that confused me the most at first.) So you can set up a bookshelf and people can look at it, and you can write journal entries about the books you read.

What the real purpose of the site is: to get people to release books "into the wild." You write a note inside the cover/on the front page, or you buy labels or an ink stamp or something, and you leave the book somewhere around town for someone else to read. Ideally, you've left them a message to the effect of, "Please go to bookcrossing.com and enter [this code] and let me know that you've caught this book." It's basically about getting people to read.

[seablues.livejournal.com]

Probably a wise decision. :)