Kara & Michael’s Blog

Maybe you guys have been following the upheaval in the light of Palin’s email being “hacked” last week. Maybe you’ve been watching Oprah discuss anonymous, describing it as a terrorist network of child molesters. Maybe you’ve been on 4chan laughing your ass off to a video of Oprah reading an obviously sarcastic comment posted on [...]

A collection of popular Google search terms, in poem form.
why do dogs eat grass
why do cats purr
why do men cheat
why do we yawn
why do divers shower
why do mosquito bites itch
why is the sky blue
why is russia attacking georgia
why is my computer so slow
why is a raven like a writing desk
why is my poop green
why is [...]

I have a mildly irritating little application called Pocket Express on my smartphone. Pocket Express delivers news, movie showtimes, and lots and lots of advertisements, and it’s apparently pretty ubiquitous in the world of PDA phones.
One of the items offered by Pocket Express is a travel blog. I read through it the other day, finding [...]

I’ve spoken a few times about how I fell victim to a phishing scam as a direct result of my utter and complete stupidity and lack of forethought. I was not so much threatened by the internet as by my own sleep-deprived decision making skills. I was angry and I was also pretty embarrassed because… [...]

From the NYT about “Trolls“.
I am sick of people saying this is shocking or frightening. You’re an idiot who shouldn’t be on the internet.
The internet is this grand dance of anarchy and humanity. It’s extraordinary. People do awful things without fear of repercussion on the internet. Isn’t that amazing and educational? I say this as [...]

Warning: Geekery.
Also, an update (7/25): I was concerned when I initally posted this that what I describe as the last portion of my hypothetical attack (taking over as the authoritative NS for an entire domain) would not be possible. The most recent exploit for this vulnerability, published today, appears to do exactly this. At the [...]

It’s time for my weekly trawl through the 4d2.org spam quarantine. This time I thought I would critically review spam messages, in the interest of improving the quality of future spam.
So without further ado, here are my favorite spams of the week:
Spam subject line: “SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT: breaking japan finish woods spot blake federer xA1gzbq3ug8gNfgN9u63oQ”
Why it is [...]

Washington Post has a feature this week about obese children, or, pejoratively, “fat kids.”
I think this feature has been remarkably well done thus far, and it’s pretty interesting. Check out your nutritional knowledge on their quiz. I got a 65%, which isn’t great, but I guess I can be glad I don’t have [...]

Someone sent me a message on Yahoo! Answers to start an argument the other day.  I gave them the benefit of the doubt.  I looked at the site they sent me, did some of my own research and sent back a reasonable reply, asking for the sources for some of their “facts” and questioning a [...]

I’ve been so amused and confused by gourmeton.com that I’ve continued to try to figure out what makes it tick, adding to my original post a couple of times. First I couldn’t figure out what translation system could possibly yield such terrible (yet strangely comprehensible) English, then I found a whole bunch of sister sites [...]