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Archive for December, 2006

I h4×0r3d j00: This letter is Phishing or Wells Fargo Needs to Hire Someone Who Can Write

Friday, December 8th, 2006 by Insider

“I h4×0r3d j00″ means “I hacked you” in hacker jargon and you really don’t want to have this pop up on your cell phone screen.
While on the subject of hacking, Insider just received this from someone claiming to be Wells Fargo. Unless Wells has lowered their standards for hiring (which is certainly possible given the […]

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Deb Frisch Update 9

Thursday, December 7th, 2006 by Chad

Well the saga of our favorite PhD/ “word warrior” Deb Frisch (chronicled here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here) is slowly grinding to a halt, and as many suspected it looks like the stopping point will be a jail cell. 
After being charged with telephonic harrassment in Oregon a restraing order was issued against […]

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Pearl Harbor Day

Thursday, December 7th, 2006 by Insider

65 years ago today:

This is a good day to ask your parents/grand parents where they were on that day and what it was like. What did they do, what did they think? It is a story you should hear from them and they will probably want to tell. Do it before you no longer have […]

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Blink! How to lose 6 hours listening to one lame-ass book-on-tape

Thursday, December 7th, 2006 by Insider

“The Tipping Point” author Malcolm Gladwell grew his hair long and found himself being hassled by cops, getting more speeding tickets and generally being treated like a second class citizen–all because of his looks. Based on these non-subjective and intensely scientific experiences he wrote one of the most useless business books of all time, “Blink: […]

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Wrongheaded USC Cheerleader Strikes Again (video)

Monday, December 4th, 2006 by Insider

One of our favorite posts was about the Wrongheaded USC cheerleader who was caught cheering for the wrong team in last year’s Rose Bowl (and here). It looks like it happened again.

Story tip: Onion.
tags: USC cheerleader USC cheerleaders

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Don’t even get me started about my town’s mayor…Captain Merrill Stubing!

Monday, December 4th, 2006 by Insider

Okay, he’s an “honorary” mayor. But Captain Stubing is my town’s mayor. Shouldn’t I have some sort of say in this? I guess he beats the previous guy…the always-zany Steve Guttenberg.

In fact, looking at all of the previous ‘mayors’ of Pacific Palisades one sees a ‘who’s who’ of bad actors (with a few exceptions):

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Apple MacBooks: Now With iPorn

Friday, December 1st, 2006 by A Senior Administration Official

A customer bought a refurbished MacBook from Apple’s London store and discovered a surprising bonus when he first booted it up: the desktop was covered with porn files.
Did someone forget to reformat the hard drive? Or is it the promotional campaign to end all promotional campaigns?
You just knew that the geeky guy in the […]

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