BlueGreenPlanet

Found via Rose Fox, BlueGreenPlanet is a virtual card site with a "save-the-Earth" mentality. In addition, there's no pop-up ads, and if you are an artist or writer and want publicity, you can submit your own text and images for cards.

Check it out!

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Yay! Back in black! :)

Amusement of the day.

Blogger has apparently decided this is a "spam blog," created by some automatic content generator.

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What, all this just because I post frequently? How sweet. Or do they think I'm just cutting and pasting content from elsewhere? Oh wait...

ETA: Took me three tries to type the stupid random letters right for the word verification! *grr*

Good News!

Happy News is a new source (mostly AP stories) dedicated to reporting the good things. Today's Horoscope was particularly juicy.

Horoscope
February 24, 2006: Good news! The stars do not control your destiny. You do.

And if the concept of vector time didn't break your brain...

...perhaps a computer that isn't on coming up with the right answer will. As I understand it, the "computation" would be performed on a photon (rather than how normal computers do their calculations on magnetic fields on hard drives, or people do calculations on graphite and wood pulp) - except that the computation isn't actually performed, the photon isn't ever released. It'd be kinda like if you were told to do a long division problem on a piece of paper, and instead of writing you thought about potentially writing, and the answer just came to you. It almost makes sense with people, but not with the traditional view of particles bouncing around, but then again it does make sense with probabilities and wave functions of particles...

Second Mac Worm!

Second ever, both in one week. This one is currently mostly harmless, in that all it does is send out more copies, however it is potentially very harmful as others will hijack its code and easily spread more malicious versions in the future.

Name: OSX.Inqtana.A
OS: Mac OS X
Type: Worm
Transmission mode: Bluetooth (short-range wireless devices)
From: Anyone (may not say)
How to infect: Accept a Bluetooth connection (either manually or automatically) when computer restarted
Prevention: Update Mac OS X, buy/update virus protection software
Consequences: Sends more copies to other Bluetooth-enabled devices and computers
Removal: Unknown, presumably anti-virus software
More Info: Sophos press release, Sophos virus profile, CNN/Reuters

Maybe it's not entirely scientific...

...but it's just soooooo adorable, I couldn't resist!



I guess there *is* an article with it, but I couldn't get past the image. *drools*