I read the news today, oh boy ...If you're wondering what that cryptic message is about, well apparently there is a spam floating round in this electioneering year saying that PM John Howard has had a heart attack, and has a link to The Australian's website. Unfortunately for the n00bs out there, the link is actually not to The Australian but to a 404 not found page which attempts to look like the Aust's website, but is in fact a bad place which downloads a trojan to your machine. This then attempts to steal all your money. Kind of like the government, really.
about a lucky man who made the grade
and though the news was about spam
Well I just had to gasp
I really could not grasp ...
John Howard's had a heart attack
He didn't know it but his use has changed
A crowd of newbies got trojans
We'd seen his face before
Nobody is really sure if Norton filters out pollies....*
What got me going about this though was the comment in the SMH coverage, "Political and religious emails are not subject to the scrutiny of the Spam Act" ... so ... we can't even complain about emails that we don't want and won't read and that clutter our inboxes if they appear to contain political or religious matters. I can see it now ...
Subject: Jesus saves...
Message: all the money that we Nigerians can send him. Give us your bank details and your Bible bar code so we can spread the largesse.
Subject: John Howard for your PM..
Message: You need a personal masseur don't you, well our hosts are well trained and all named after prominent political figures.
Sheesh.
*apologies to the Beatles ...I was just perusing my bloglines, as you do, for something to read, and came across photojojo's latest post about making cubular photos. I quite like photojojo for supplying my needs in photography: namely, to have stuff to talk to D™ about over dinner... Like the awesomeness of the GorillaPod (in our house, now known as the drillerpod, for reasons best left unexplored) which ended up being an awesome Christmas present for D™ - up till then I'd had the exciting options of socks, jocks, or a box (of nothing).
Anyway back onto photojojo, they also often post links to other sites - like the runningfromcamera dude. They just make me giggle, which is always a good side benefit of using the InterWeb.So today they had this story about DIY cubular photos but they linked to a story from 2001 about cubular watermelons. Watermelons. Squared. For ¥10,000 each. That's about $105 aussie. Yikes! I like my watermelon round, if that's the price of cubed! Reminds me of that Donald Duck story about Square Aigs....
Which in turns puts me in mind of one of my dad's favourite jokes. Or is it one of my favourite dad jokes. Anyway.Q: How do you know how many pies to buy for lunch?
.. wait for it ....
..A: Oh, 2 Π R enough to go around.
Hehe.a million billion gazillion penquins
1 comments Published by butercup on Friday, February 02, 2007 at 5:45 pmDo you remember that Far Side comic that had an individualistic penguin standing up in a crowded rookery singing "I just gotta be me!!!" ?
Ok so maybe it's just me but that's always stuck in my head. Anyway tonight D™ and I are planning to go see Happy Feet, yes, the penguin movie. According to my mum (who does not have English as her first language) they are actually penquins, which is a lot cuter. And she'd know seeing as she and my dad have just returned from the superduper Antarctica boat trip where they saw millyuns and billyuns of penquins eating, sleeping, ice sliding, swimming, regurgitating, basically anything short of flying. (duh).
Penquins seem to be a theme in today's media. There's March of the Pengs, Happy Feetsies, and now the book publisher has started a wiki called amillionpenguins where they have launched the somewhat ambitious project of the world's first web-based collaborative novel.
I don't know whether I feel it will succeed or fail. Maybe a bit of both - after all, wikipedia is the prime example of how web-based collaborative resources that "anyone can edit" can have truly good bits, and truly bad bits.
Oh well, I might read some of it one day so I'll reserve my judgement till then.