Monthly Archives: November 2008

Woot Spiders Team hacked me

I’m so proud of the hackers who recently tried to take down my site. This has been the 4th attack. Now I’ve been hacked by Russians, Saudi-Arabians, and Brazilians. For this special attack I’d like to give a shout out to team VBspider ( I think that stands for Visual Basic Spider). They have Spider man [...]
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My new Brooklynhome [photos]

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Thinking about Photos

I’m overwhelmed with a lot of aspects of New York. But when I think of what I want to photograph, it’s hard to think about what I wanna capture. After spending 21 days as a real resident of Brooklyn, NY, I definitely could see more to get that “critical distance” to finally start taking meaningful [...]
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Seven hundred and sixty seven dogs appear in my emails since 2003

It’s true. Tonight in a conversation with my esteemed colleague Cody who runs the fabulous misadventureblog ‘Thermos H. Christ‘ we found discussing dogs, and soon found ourselves searching our gmail for the term: dog OR dogs. We wanted answers. Dog or Dogs, the word we use in English to describe the pet or animal that sometimes [...]
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Keep Calm and Carry On. Now Panic and Freak out posters

Keep Calm and Carry On. Now Panic and Freak OUT on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
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Bailout Details: How much to Whom…

Via Probublica we see how much is being given to whom for the bailout. Number are in millions. Associated Bank-Corp 11/06/08 details $530 BB&T 10/27/08 details $3,100 Bank of America (incl. Merrill Lynch) 10/14/08 details $25,000 Bank of Commerce 11/13/08 details $17 Bank of New York Mellon 10/14/08 details $3,000 Banner Corp 11/04/08 details $124 Capital One 10/27/08 details $3,550 Capital Pacific Bancorp 11/06/08 details $4 Cascade Financial Corp 11/03/08 details $39 Citigroup 10/14/08 details $25,000 Citizens Republic Bancorp 11/14/08 details $300 City National 10/27/08 details $395 Columbia Banking System 11/04/08 details $77 Comerica 10/27/08 details $2,250 Fifth Third 10/27/08 details $3,450 First Community Bancshares 10/30/08 details $43 First Financial 10/31/08 details $80 First Horizon National 10/24/08 details $866 First Midwest Bancorp 11/10/08 details $193 First Niagara 10/27/08 details $186 First PacTrust Bank 11/12/08 details $19.3 FirstMerit Corp 11/13/08 details $248 Goldman Sachs 10/14/08 details $10,000 Heritage Commerce [...]
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Google Flu Trends: The Geolocation of Illness

Hypochondriacs rejoice! Google has released ‘Google Flu Trends,’ a service that tracks search queries involving the term ‘flu.’ It is an extension of the ‘trends‘ service that actually anticipates each state’s flu search frenzy, a methodology that doesn’t actually display the # of victims, but the eagerness to examine the term. The system therefore will be [...]
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Obama

did it.
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Election Night Cheat Sheet: We will know soon…

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On Election day, internet traffic goes nuts: Currently at 15% above normal

The world is tuned in, but we all know the result already.
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