Archive for May, 2007

Greenfrog v4.1 – tagged and released

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Greenfrog 4.1 is done, no major changes just a version bump to track OpenBSD 4.1 and some website edits.

See the changes here, download it here and figure out what it does and how to use it here.

Friday: Engrish.com

Friday, May 11th, 2007

Some might think that making fun of someone’s poor English skills is mean, childish and unfair.

And they would be right.

So I present to you Engrish.com, a collection of “humorous English mistakes that appear in Japanese advertising and product design”.

Video Wednesday: High Voltage Cable Inspection

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

So they fly this inspector out on a chopper and he then climbs onto live(!) power lines and proceeds to crawl across them, presumably inspecting the cables for damage.

(The owners of the video don’t want to allow embedding it, so you will have to click through.)

Here Without You Acoustic

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Jwin is a interweb music star. You have been holding back on us…

Link to all Youtube videos.

Mystery revealed: Poppy quarter led to U.S. spy warnings

Monday, May 7th, 2007

Dear US sooper sekirt contractors, yes other currencies do look different then yours.

WASHINGTON — An odd-looking Canadian coin with a bright red flower was the culprit behind the U.S. Defence Department’s false espionage warning earlier this year, The Associated Press has learned.

The odd-looking — but harmless — “poppy coin” was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors travelling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them. The worried contractors described the coins as “anomalous” and “filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology,” according to once-classified U.S. government reports and e-mails obtained by the AP.

Link.