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Echelon is a Mac application that, if you try to register it with a pirated serial number, will
delete your entire home directory. (Windows users: This is a very, very bad thing, second only to wiping the entire drive.) Is this a good way to fight piracy, and can it even be legal?
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 10:42 PM on September 9, 2004
(42 comments)
Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Yo-Yo.
Health officials in New York are concerned about "water yo-yos", a hot new toy imported from Asia filled with a "foul-smelling liquid" that has made some kids ill. So far, they haven't been able to figure out what the liquid is, who manufactures the toys, or who brings them into the United States.
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 9:06 PM on April 11, 2003
(30 comments)
"Granted, we're a long way from resembling the kind of authoritarian state Orwell depicted, but some of the similarities are starting to get
a bit eerie."
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 11:54 AM on July 28, 2002
(54 comments)
It's Webby time.
You may now commence (or, in some cases, continue) mocking Tiffany Shlain.
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 1:02 PM on April 29, 2002
(37 comments)
HP shareholders vote to acquire Compaq... or not?
Stop me if you've heard this one before: One side has already declared victory while the other won't concede defeat until all the votes are counted. The margin appears to be less than one half of one percent, and a manual count is in the works.
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 10:57 PM on March 19, 2002
(4 comments)
Daniel Pearl's widow speaks out.
"Revenge would be easy, but it is far more valuable in my opinion to address this problem of terrorism with enough honesty to question our own responsibility as nations and as individuals for the rise of terrorism." (via the indispensable
rc3.org)
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 10:12 PM on February 22, 2002
(12 comments)
This year's Oscar race is shaping up to be populated
entirely by dark horses. In the absence of any clear shoo-in nominees, the disputes among Oscar voters (as well as the marketing campaigns mounted by the studios) are growing increasingly heated.
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 2:08 PM on December 31, 2001
(26 comments)
The WTC death count falls closer to 3,000
and the New York Times assesses the range of reactions. Some think the drop in the death toll makes a big difference; others consider it inconsequential.
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 2:58 PM on December 2, 2001
(16 comments)
HP's proposed buyout of Compaq has run into some unexpected resistance -- from a couple of guys named
Hewlett and Packard.
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 11:25 AM on November 7, 2001
(17 comments)
Call it the 0.5k.
Like a certain widely-heralded
Web design contest, the Minigame competition pits clever programmers against each other to see who can do the most with the least. But instead of Web pages, these competitors create games for obsolete 8-bit computers (Atari, Commodore, etc.) in two weight classes: 2K and 512 bytes (!).
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 8:15 PM on October 18, 2001
(5 comments)
Pauline has lockout;
attack milena, xiang until duffer done getlost after belmar merinof not isabelle, tunasand ginaster bliss get stuf.
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 8:52 PM on June 10, 2001
(14 comments)
65 minor characters battle it out, single-elimination tournament style. Sure, we all saw Troy McClure's rout of Uter coming a mile away, but did you really think Hans Moleman had what it took to knock off Rev. Lovejoy? Your votes help determine which supporting player is the supporting-est on
The Road to Springfield.
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 1:15 PM on June 2, 2001
(26 comments)
If you've ever wanted your first-person shooter to feel a little
less real,
NPRQuake may be just what you need. The
blueprint and
brushstroke versions are nice, but for my money you can't beat
sketchy Quake. Unfortunately, the NPR in the name stands for Non-Photorealistic Rendering, not
that other NPR, so don't expect Robert Siegel or Linda Wertheimer skins any time soon. (via
haddock.org)
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 7:47 PM on May 17, 2001
(4 comments)
Happy April Fool's Day! I just stumbled across my first
prank page of the season. How about you?
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 3:19 AM on April 1, 2001
(28 comments)
Chaos rules the classroom in
The Best & The Brightest. How many of these precocious tots can
you name? (Jeffrey, I presume you saw this coming.)
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 12:48 AM on February 20, 2001
(83 comments)
The truth is out there -- way,
way out there. Masons, Mormons, and William Shatner all play a role in this secret history of the millennia-old struggle between three alien factions for control of Earth. The battleground: a vast subterranean complex known as
Dreamland.
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 1:28 PM on February 13, 2001
(3 comments)
Author Caleb Carr argues in favor of
government regulation of the Internet. He suggests that if we don't have government making the rules, the corporations will make them instead. (Yeah, it's a Salon link. You got a problem with that? Keep it to yourself.)
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 12:29 AM on January 10, 2001
(21 comments)
"This is a painful reminder of the risks our agents take each and every day." Is this referring to the CIA? The FBI? Nope --
real estate. (via the
one true /usr/bin/girl)
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 12:08 PM on January 5, 2001
(11 comments)
Hey gamers! Do you still harbor a fondness for the '80s cult classic
Discs of Tron, but you're unwilling to give up your favorite first-person shooter? Welcome to
Discs of Quake.
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 3:17 PM on December 7, 2000
(3 comments)
If you tried to switch hosting services only to have your domain held hostage, and if no one else can help, maybe you can hire
DomainRescue.
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 11:51 AM on December 5, 2000
(8 comments)
Since 1965, the Pioneer 6 space probe has quietly maintained its orbit around the sun between Earth and Venus. This week, in commemoration of the anniversary of its launch, NASA will attempt to
re-establish contact with the oldest surviving spacecraft.
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 10:49 AM on December 4, 2000
(1 comment)
No matter what your situation, if you're sexually active, you have a responsibility to
get tested. Yes, it's scary, but knowing your status (and acting accordingly) is the only way the spread of HIV can be stopped. If you live in the U.S.,
this site can direct you to a local organization that can perform the test -- often for free. (via
randomwalks)
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 12:29 PM on December 1, 2000
(5 comments)
One thing you can do today is drop by
The Kids AIDS Site and click the button to donate health care to children around the world.
Then come back and do it again tomorrow. And every day until we don't need a Kids AIDS Site anymore.
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 12:24 AM on December 1, 2000
Q: What tastes like
lemon but
isn't?
A: Design theft at its most brazen and appalling.
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 12:31 AM on October 30, 2000
(10 comments)
More and more American girls are
hitting puberty at 7 or 8 and nobody seems to know why. Some say pesticides are to blame; Dr. Drew points the finger at MTV.
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 3:52 PM on October 23, 2000
(19 comments)
It's common knowledge that Tetris players often see the game in their dreams. Now scientists are using the game to help understand
the very nature of dreams themselves. But it doesn't address the question I've always had: Why Tetris? Why doesn't this happen with Quake or Ultima or even Super Breakout?
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 2:20 PM on October 14, 2000
(14 comments)
One word:
Creepy. (Note that IBM doesn't actually
own this patent -- they just run the patent lookup service.) Props to
Victor.
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 11:52 AM on October 5, 2000
(15 comments)
Remember, kids, make the most of every day, because you never know when you might be
crushed by a flying elk.
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 3:08 PM on August 23, 2000
(17 comments)
Short films have become a pretty standard propaganda tool in modern American presidential campaigns. When Al Gore set out to make his 2000 campaign film, there was only one guy he wanted for the job --
Spike Jonze.
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 11:39 AM on August 17, 2000
(8 comments)
"When you visit a site, you can't take that information and use it for your own purposes, especially for commercial purposes," the lawyer says. Is it just me, or will
this ruling render every single search engine illegal?
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 11:03 AM on April 17, 2000
(13 comments)
Keeping up with the breakneck pace of life at a San Francisco startup isn't as easy as
it looks.
posted to MetaFilter by jjg
at 5:01 PM on April 3, 2000
(8 comments)
