This scheme is so wrong-headed I don't know where to begin. First, it assumes that "unsubscribe" forms actually remove the address, which long experience has shown to be largely false. Secondly, it's abusive towards those who share network space with the Web sites being attacked. It assumes that those Web sites are actually hosted by spammers (it's been shown that many of the viruses that infect Windows "spam zombies" are capable of hosting Web sites, DNS service, and so... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 1:40 PM on July 23, 2005

I always heard it was James Taylor she was singing about. And now I'm supposed to believe it was Qusay Hussein? Come on.
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 8:54 AM on August 6, 2003

Why? Because, as Su says, because I can :) I was kinda stressed out, too many projects going on, and so forth, and needed some sort of fun project to take my mind off the rest.

What can I say? I'm funny that way.

I had a bunch of 96x128 jpegs I'd made over the past few years for the "obligatory fake webcam pic" section of the 'blog. So, I threw them together on the home page and used a 404 ErrorDocument to redirect everything else to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 2:49 PM on September 27, 2002

So, which is it? Was Madoc from the 6th century, or 1170? I'm confused, at best.
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 12:23 PM on August 30, 2002

Hi, all. I wanted to jump in and ask about any problems that you may have had (aside from the RSS feed, which isn't a feed of the whole site, merely of the weblog alone, and which was fixed a few hours after we launched). I see that at least one person here (stefanie) is having problems - what sort of problems? Can you send me a screenshot? What browser are you using? Details will help. (I hope that the snarky tone was just the result of a bad day, and not some irrational hatred of something we... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 11:38 PM on June 13, 2002

The Once and Future King by T. H. White. Not only is it the charmingly eccentric modern take on the Arthurian legend, but it starts from the perspective of a young, not-too-terribly-smart boy called the Wart (Arthur), and follows his struggle to understand the forces of time, hope, belief, despair, doom, evil and good, while all the while endowed with less than adequate tools. If nothing else, you'll never forget this book, and it may change the way you look at humanity.
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 1:30 PM on October 8, 2001

If you can't afford to patch (or don't trust the patch itself, as there are some reports coming in to BUGTRAQ that suggest it doesn't help) you can try creating a file named "notworm" in your C: drive root directory. I don't run IIS, but the advisory suggests that the worm stops if it sees a file named "c:\notworm". FYI.
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 4:08 PM on July 19, 2001

Vaguely related:

http://hesketh.com/schampeo/projects/namespace/

There are some other links, including the Cheswick map, at the bottom of the page.
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 1:14 PM on July 16, 2001

Jeb said: Presentation is Content!

Oh, jesus. Not this tired argument again. Why do people spend so much time arguing from bad starting points? The way you're arguing, it's like comparing apples to pepper or salt to oranges and proclaiming that "salt and apples" is the wrong way to go. Or something. It's pointless. Cut it out.

There are two sides to this story: the question of separation of structure from... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 9:48 AM on May 9, 2001

The problem with this election isn't the electoral college, but with the archaic systems used to collect the popular vote and the processes in place to ensure the accuracy of same.

Abolishing the electoral college is irrelevant to the outcome of this election. The fundamental issue is the popular vote, and a far more important issue is how the contenders' parties and camps are handling the fact that the election has not yet been won by any contender,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 12:21 PM on November 13, 2000

All things in moderation, including anti-smoking hysteria.
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 11:56 AM on October 13, 2000

I don't know why I'm even bothering to chime in here, but what the heck. Gary Zukav is brilliant. He's managed to con millions of people into thinking that animals have a "group soul", and so -- if you consider the logical consequences of that little theory -- they can be killed with impunity as long as there's enough left to breed. And this is because, hey, you're not killing an animal like you would a human, with our individual souls1. Whee! And he's made a lot of money... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 3:39 PM on September 21, 2000

Um, store.apple.com runs on Solaris.

http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=store.apple.com

So does www.openbsd.org, for bandwidth reasons. Don't assume :)
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 1:18 PM on September 13, 2000

Remarq was evil. They scanned a whole slew of mailing lists and listed them on their site as though they were lists Remarq offered, and kept archives on their site. I had to go to admin approved subscriptions on webdesign-L to keep them out. What a pain in the butt.
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 9:50 AM on August 17, 2000

Finally! A chance to get Stephen King to stop writing! Please, everyone, download the chapter and don't pay.
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 12:12 PM on July 24, 2000

And I suppose this guy recommends that people read the Bible, which is of course completely free of drug references, visions, and so forth. Uh-huh. Revelations, Ezekiel, et al. were tripping their prophetic heads off. Puh-lease.
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 10:02 PM on July 17, 2000

Oh, that? That was a typo. Personally, I prefer Lance's version, but don't anyone go drawing any conclusions...
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 10:35 PM on July 10, 2000

I used to play poker with a Japanese guy from Seattle. He claimed that his brother had once sold Kenny G a stolen sax out of the trunk of his car. I dunno if it's true, but hey, it's about all I can add to this thread. Pat M. pretty much says it all.
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 3:58 PM on June 15, 2000

Actually, the Rockefeller book was called Titan.
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 6:35 PM on June 7, 2000

"A pickup truck was found in the pond Monday but investigators don’t believe it was connected to a victim. "

I'm sorry, but this says more about the killer than anything having to do with the Internet or s&m.
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 1:27 PM on June 7, 2000

Oh, for pete's sake, people. Alexis Massie and Greg Knauss know eachother. Greg credits Alex with the idea and everything. As far as I know, Greg just thought it would be cool. And for Greg, that's usually enough.

posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 7:31 AM on June 2, 2000

No posting after four beers, the man said, and here I am posting before my first Coca-cola. Well, consider that a caveat of sorts.

I wish Glenn all the best; he's right when he says that he helped shape the Web, and we should take that to heart. Think of it: Glenn had little to do with the creation of the infrastructure, the definition of the protocols, the building of the browsers, etc., he simply pointed us to a new site every day for six years and in the process got... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 6:44 AM on May 6, 2000

I wouldn't want to be on any team that would have me. :) So, there. (Strange to check in and find that for some reason, I seem to be the most hotly debated member of the Metafilter Web dream team, mostly because nobody knows who the hell I am. :-)

Ahem. Anyway. I'd want a bunch of eager and relatively unknown folks on my team, because I like surprises. I've worked with Jason and Lance and Leslie and Derek and JZ and Greg and Alex and Michael and the rest, and they're... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 8:58 AM on May 5, 2000

For those of you who are running your own mail server on UNIX with sendmail, you might want to block this crud at the server. Here's how I did it under Redhat Linux w/sendmail 8.9.3. Just edit your sendmail.cf so that it includes the lines:

HSubject: $>CheckSubject

SCheckSubject
RILOVEYOU $* $#error $@ 5.7.1 $: "Virus denied! For more information, see http:
//www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.loveletter.a.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 1:13 PM on May 4, 2000

Um, why is he a cybersquatter if he's actually using
the domain blah.com? (Seems to be a publishing house of some
sort, IIRC). Of course, I may be missing the point entirely. I've got a bunch of domains I'm not using yet,
that I'd probably sell if someone offered me money.

Oh, and not to nitpick, but 'www.blah.com' isn't a domain. It's a hostname. 'blah.com' is a domain. If you're going to
complain about... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 7:50 AM on April 13, 2000

Hm. I guess using hard returns in these stupid textareas isn't the best idea in the world...
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 7:51 AM on April 13, 2000

Too bad the interlaced GIFs don't use the "window blind" display method anymore.
posted to MetaFilter by schampeo at 7:54 AM on February 28, 2000