Today I had my first distributed, coordinated comment spam attack. This one was interesting because within a five minute time span, twenty comments were posted to three separate entries. The comments used a similarly formated message but linked to different, legitimate web sites. They were also from completely different IP addresses (list below the fold). […]
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Here’s an edited excerpt on how a standard dating quiz might be molded into a pre-employment questionnaire for a sales and marketing person. 36. Does living on a sailboat sound like a good idea? Change “on a sailboat” to “in a Hyatt, Hilton or Holiday Inn” and the question is about how much travel you’re
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Eight hours on airplanes and four hours in airports left me smelling very rank when I finally got home. What little I did for NNWM was in longhand. If I can decipher my own handwriting, and find a nice, three-hour block of time this weekend, I want to write about organizational hijinks in the area
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Today, my story characters crashed in a blinding snowstorm in the Cascades and were forced to participate in one of those “prioritize these twelve items to ensure your survival” group bonding simulations. As bad as the (fictitious) crash was, the (real) group dynamics were far worse. Not only did we take four times longer to
Today’s keynote speaker, Daniel Simons, talked about inattentional blindness, the inability to perceive features in a visual scene you’re not paying attention to. It’s used in movies. For example, in The Matrix, the scene in which Neo and Morpheus first spar Kung-Fu style, there’s a stunt double for Keanu. Unless you’re looking for a tall
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Ginormous map! An interesting facet of the conference I’m attending is each subset has a “lightning round” whereby the presenters have one minute to pitch their subject matter. This and the bound copy of the presentations were enough to narrow down the list of things I would be sitting in on for the first few
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We checked out of our cheap, suburban motel this morning. As we were loading our bags into the cavernous trunk of the Ford Taurus, a huge guy with dreadlocks and wearing a Baltimore Ravens jacket walked towards us excitedly. Now, to thoroughly complete the scene, this is a motel parking lot, isolated from the surrounding
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Today’s travel tidbits: The motel has a do-it-yourself waffle machine. Cheapest gas: $1.99 in Laurel, MD. Prices increased to the south. To Maryland drivers, honking is equivalent to foreplay. The tone is closer to the gentle “pip” == “excuse me” you’d hear in Seattle than the naked aggression of a gristly New York cabbie. I
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