Brits FTW!
May 21, 2007

Ah, the drama continues. It appears that the British Health Protection Agency agrees that Wi-Fi is not a danger to humanity as we know it.

The Health Protection Agency has said that sitting in a wi-fi hotspot for a year results in receiving the same dose of radio waves as making a 20-minute mobile phone call.

He added: "Radio waves (wi-fi) and other non-ionising radiations have been part of our lives for a century or more and if such effects were occurring then damage or other untoward effects would have been recorded and studied.

So, there we are. The Brits in all their omnipotent bureaucratic have dubbed Wi-Fi as less dangerous than a mobile phone. I think that the screaming memes have given up on mobile phones being the harbinger of death, so hopefully this will silence them.

Hotlinking Images Sucks
April 26, 2007

So, myspace users really shouldn't be on the great Intertubes - that's all I have to say. You know what sucks? Bandwidth drains by some dweeb hotlinking your image on his myspace profile. You know what sucks more? When I redirect all image links to my site from myspace to lemonparty. Enjoy your lemonparty themed myspace profile!

IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS, DON'T EVEN TRY FINDING OUT.

Technical Land here we come! This is how I did it;

$HTTP["referer"] =~ "myspace\.com" {
  url.redirect = ( "^/.*\.(jpe?g|png|gif)" => "lemonparty.gif" )
}

and certainly the inclusion of mod_redirect in my lighttpd.conf.

Update: Fun has been had. The users are now redirected back to myspace's page, to waste their own bandwidth.

BRB, Going to the Moon
February 01, 2007

"It had a very sinister appearance," Coakley told reporters. "It had a battery behind it, and wires."

Man... some people... I can think of 900,000,000 things that have batteries AND wires that are NOT a bomb. Interestingly enough there were two instances of fake pipe-bombs being planted on a bridge and in a hospital on the same day that failed to receive any sort of real news coverage or city-shutdowns.

I would actually be curious as to hear what Jesse thought of the whole thing, being exposed to real IEDs and what-not.