I guess the ridiculous nature of “social networking” sites just gets dumber. In an article on Time Magazine’s website titled “Tagged: The World’s Most Annoying Website” spotlights a new “social networking” site named Tagged, and how irritating it is.
Another blogger mentioned snope’s information on Tagged and it pretty much sums up what the article on Time’s site has to say.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/Tagged.asp
So, I browse the Crime and Punishment forum for EVE Online regularly, and ended up directed to a website about a corp named “The United”.
It seems that they had a falling out with some people in the game (a good number of them) that used to be in their corp, but the most screwed up thing about the whole situation is, they started harassing people at home…
http://thebl3h.com/ and http://www.eve-druid.com/its-just-a-game-you-know/
The gist of is comes down to this: people leave their corp, other people in The United because someone makes fun of them and is disruptive on their corporation’s forums (corporation = collection of players like a guild etc in other games for those of you unfamiliar), people in The United band together to harass people in real life.
I was attempting to play EVE tonight, and well every system one by one started closing the jump gates…server crash…reboot…rinse…repeat….
So, I present to you the ultimate video on youtube…
It seems Chase has decided to make some accounts eligible for “skip a payment”. Unfortunately for me this morning I thought I missed a payment and called them while having a minor heart attack…
It appears Chuck Norris is protecting a bakery in Croatia…at least in spirit:
- © europics.at
“The posh bakery shop in Split, Croatia, had often been broken until they put up the poster of the karate champ with a sign saying: “This shop is under the protection of Chuck Norris.”
Now the bakery hasn’t had a single burglary for more than a month. “People seem to respect him,” said a sales assistant.”
-Croatian Times
It seems that our banks as so horribly run, they send non-existent people, dead people, people’s underage children, pets, etc credit card offers.
Bozo the Clown, who used to be a Chicago based children’s TV show, recently got a credit card application sent to him. It was recieved at the WGN studios a couple weeks ago, unfortunately, the last Bozo died a number of years ago, plus it was addressed to “Bozo The Clown”
I don’t think I would want my money being handled by a company that would do this.
OK, so I posted something I got off the FileFront website, a note to users that they are closing down as of 3/30/2009, but they’re still operational, ads, downloads, uploads and all…was it an April Fool’s joke from the folks at FileFront a few days early? From what it appears on their forums, it was all just a joke, or at least, that’s how it is being passed off now. Perhaps they did really intend on closing up and changed their mind? More than likely I’m sure they thought it would be a funny prank.
The farewell letter is still up on their site, but no obvious signs of shutting down. I wonder how many people went and downloaded all the garbage they could get their hands on in the last couple days.
Suppose this was all just a hoax, a cleverly designed experiment in social engineering on the internet?
I’m thinking that the worm was designed to do nothing other than propogate itself and make everyone think it’s going to turn into a giant botnet.
There’s a bit of speculation that a man named Daniel Adams may be responsible or in some way associated with the writers of conficker. I guess there was evidence of the domain name trafficconverter.biz inside Conficker.A’s code. The domain is registered thusly:
Domain Name: TRAFFICCONVERTER.BIZ
Domain ID: D22305317-BIZ
Sponsoring Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 303
Domain Status: serverHold
Registrant ID: DI_5540656
Registrant Name: Daniel Adams
Registrant Organization: eosads
Registrant Address1: 13 Baterman Street
Registrant City: London
Registrant State/Province: London
Registrant Postal Code: W1D 3AF
Registrant Country: UNITED KINGDOM
Registrant Country Code: GB
Registrant Phone Number: +41.225349854
Registrant Email: ddarkmaster@gmail.com
Dear FileFront User:
We regret to inform you that we are forced to indefinitely suspend the FileFront site operations on March 30, 2009. If you have uploaded files, images or posted blogs, or if you would like to download some of your favorite files, please take this opportunity to download them before March 30th when the site will be suspended.
We would like to give a warm thank you to all of you who have been part of the FileFront communities we have built together. Your support has had a meaningful impact for all of us here at FileFront. Again, we want to give you a sincere “thank you” for your support over the years and wish you all the very best.Keep gaming alive,
FileFront Management and Team.
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