Thursday, May 31, 2007

Blizzard Takes Legal Action Against Gold-Selling Company Peons4Hire

WoW players are familiar with the name "Peons4Hire." Representatives of the gold-selling outfit incessantly spammed players via private messages, advertising the company's wares. As part of the lawsuit, the operators of Peons4hire have been asked to immediately cease all in-game spamming efforts by all entities and websites under their control.



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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

How Do You Get Access to a Gmail Account of Someone Who Dies?

When a person passes away, sensitive information might reside on a Gmail account. How can a family get access to this information if necessary?



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World's largest MP3 store launches

PayPlay has just launched "the world's largest MP3 download store" -- a store selling more than 1.3 million indie music tracks, with a search engine that allows you to search for your fave artists and get similar indie artists in the catalog.



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Upgrade Flickr with the Better Flickr Firefox extension

Everyone's favorite photo-sharing web application, Flickr, has had tons of ancillary applications and user scripts developed for it to tweak, mod and add to its functionality. Dozens of Greasemonkey user scripts have popped up that make Flickr better; so I've rolled a few of my favorites into a new Firefox extension called Better Flickr



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455FE10422CA29C4933F95052B792AB2 = AACS Processing Key

As the subject says. :)



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Thursday, May 24, 2007

Bush makes power grab, by Jerome Corsi

Probably the most important news story there is, and you will probably only find it on WorldNetDaily! "President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement, on May 9 signed an executive order that granted near dictatorial powers to the office of the president in the event of a national emergency declared by the president."



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Thursday, May 17, 2007

PSP hardware refresh coming this year, says report

So it looks like those endless rumors of a newly-spec'ed PlayStation Portable are finally about to come true, with an analyst from Lazard Capital Markets reporting that Sony has in fact copped to just such a device



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How Often Should You Have Sex?

"If you have more than 200 orgasms a year, you can reduce your physiologic age by six years," Dr. Oz says. ---------- I am so glad that my wife saw this on Oprah yesterday. Hopefully someone can find a link to the Duke study that this references but, in making the argument to a woman, isn't Oprah good enough :)



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More Firefox Bloat? Say It Ain't So, Mozilla

Anecdotal reports of problems, from sluggishness to slow page loads and frequent crashes, have begun circulating in web forums, along with increasingly loud calls for Firefox to return to its roots. The alleged culprit: bloat, the same problem that once plagued Mozilla...



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