Monthly Archive for September, 2008

When Nerds Fight Back

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You see, I consider myself a nerd.  I just love to see when some loud-mouthed know-it-all taunts, then subsequently suffers the wrath of nerds:

Bill O’Reilly Gets Hacked

Someone with a little more liability on his hands is Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly, whose Web site was hacked over the weekend and subscriber information posted to Wikileaks. O’Reilly had been railing against Wikileaks and 4chan over the Palin (e-mail) hack all week on his show, The O’Reilly Factor.

“I’m not going to mention the Web site that posted this, but it’s one of those despicable, slimy, scummy websites. Everybody knows where this stuff is, OK, and they know the people who run the website, so why can’t they go there tonight to the guy’s house who runs it, put him in cuffs and take him down and book him?,” said O’Reilly on his show last week.

4chan, which revels in bad behavior, took this to heart, putting the words “DESPICABLE, SLIMY, SCUMY” at the top of the random talk channel, known as /b/, where Rubico (the alleged hacker) first posted his work. To them it was a joke.

Someone else took it as a challenge and O’Reilly’s personal site was compromised over the weekend. The list posted to Wikileaks contains at least 205 names, e-mail addresses, billing addresses and passwords of subscribers to O’Reilly, which were not protected or encrypted.

Way to go guys.  You bring tears to my eyes…

I don’t want to be probed!

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Taken from a Mason City news site:

Mason City, IA–Mason City police found themselves dealing with the great unknown on Saturday morning.

Police reports suggest officers were summoned to a man’s home in the 300 block of 5th Street Northwest just before 7 a.m.

A caller at the address had informed a 911 dispatcher he had “aliens trapped in his closet and needed help getting them out.”

At least 7 officers responded to aid in the effort.

An initial incident report does not offer any information about what they found.

Of course you have to wonder if the police just might have thought there was an X-Files moment because at least 7 officers responded…

Why I miss Mitch Hedberg

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He was a funny, funny dude.

Check out Smoother’s earlier post.

Here are some of my fav’s, taken from Wikiquote:

  • Fish are always eating other fish. If fish could scream, the ocean would be loud as shit. You would not want to submerge your head, nothing but fish going “Ahhh, fuck! I thought I looked like that rock!”
  • See, this CD is in stores. The only way I could get my last CD into a store was to take one in there and leave it. “Sir, you forgot this!” “No, I did not. That is for ‘sale’. Please alphabetize ‘it’.”
  • I want to hang a map of the world in my house then I’m gonna put pins into all the locations that I’ve traveled to. But first I’m gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won’t fall down.
  • I’ve got an oscillating fan at my house. The fan goes back and forth. It looks like the fan is saying “No”. So I like to ask it questions that a fan would say no to. Do you keep my hair in place? Do you keep my documents in order? Do you have three settings? Liar! My fan fucking lied to me. Now I will pull the pin up. Now you ain’t sayin’ shit.
  • I had this parrot. The parrot talked, but it did not say “I’m hungry.” So it died.
  • I order the club sandwich all the time, but I’m not even a member, man. I don’t know how I get away with it.
  • I saw this wino, he was eating grapes. I was like, “Dude, you have to wait.”
  • I hope the next time I move I get a real easy phone number, something that’s real easy to remember. Something like two two two two two two two two. I would say “Sweet.” And then people would say, “Mitch, how do I get ahold of you?” I’d say, “Just press two for a while. And when I answer, you will know you have pressed two enough.”
  • I bought a seven dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.
  • My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana, I said “no, but I want a regular banana later, so … yeah”.
  • I think Bigfoot is blurry, that’s the problem. It’s not the photographer’s fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that’s extra scary to me. There’s a large out of focus monster roaming the countryside. Look out, he’s fuzzy, let’s get out of here.
  • I like vending machines ’cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential.
  • I have a new CD; it’s in stores, and when you have a CD in stores, you have to do in-store appearances, and if nobody shows up, I just pretend like I’m shopping. That’s how I shop; I sit behind a table with a pen.

Funny stuff.  His new CD came out 9/9.  Get it.  Now.

Traveling for free on the informer highway

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 If you’ve ready this post you’re probably dying for more. So then you most likely visited this page and then this one and you’re still lacking in the ultimate night life (because I know you’re reading this on a Friday night). So without further delay, here are some more amazingly hot posts here at Stuck in Iowa!

Wendy’s and free travel tickets

Pull down me pants look up me bot ‘tom

Yeah, that’s good stuff. See you Saturday.

Cedar Rapids Iowa

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Cedar Rapids is a city in Linn County, Iowa. Cedar Rapids, which had a population of 120,758 as of the 2000 census, is currently the second most populous city in the state of Iowa, after Des Moines. Cedar Rapids is part of a combined urban area with Iowa City, which lies just to the South. The area was a whole is generally referred to, by locals, as the “Corridor”, and the combined population of the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City corridor is 360,326.

Here is some more information about the area:

- Some of the major companies headquartered in Cedar Rapids include McLeodUSA and Rockwell Collins.

- The main airport serving Cedar Rapids is The Eastern Iowa Airport.

- The main professional sports team in Cedar Rapids is the baseball team, the Cedar Rapids Kernels.

- Cedar Rapids is only one of a handful of cities in the world with its municipal buildings located on island in the river. In the case of Cedar Rapids, city hall and the county courthouse are located on Mays Island, an island in the middle of the Cedar River.

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