#1. We don’t have enough annoying strangers in our lives.
#2. We don’t have enough annoying friends, either.
#3. Texting is a shitty way to communicate.
#4. Online company only makes us lonelier.
#5. We don’t get criticized enough.
#6. We’re victims of the Outrage Machine.
#7. We feel worthless, because we actually are worth less.
I read this good article on how simple it is to break most passwords. As you all know most passwords are saved in hash form and not plain text.
Rainbow tables are enormous, pre-computed hash values for every possible combination of characters. The fast way to crack passwords is to compare the saved hash with the pre computed table (which can of course be downloaded).
Nice.
This is good in cases that you have the hash value of the password (password saved on your pc, in your db etc). The article explains how you can make your hash’ed passwords more secure by using the “salt” option when creating the hash values.
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk has been around for a while but I never seen/read about projects using it. This is a good cause even if the people participating in it are not pro satellite imagery readers. more here.
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works. I tried it on the pixies Gouge Away
I play the stock market and thought its time to add some stock market widgets to my blog. I rolled up my sleeves and went searching for some and here are the results:
Embedded Stock Data WordPress Plugin – http://abeautifultrade.com/?p=7 . Simply enclose a ticker in double brackets (e.g. [ [ AAPL ] ]) and it will be replaced with ticker data. The data is taken from the Yahoo Quote Server.
Comments – zip does not have directory structure. Needs Curl.
How it looks like – I don’t have curl installed so I am pasting a screenshot from their site
Andy Hill has created 2 very cool stock plugins:
Stock Quote Sidebar – http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/code/stockquotesidebar. This is a WordPress plugin that allows you to put a list of stock quotes in your sidebar.
Comments – Needs Curl.
How it looks like – I don’t have curl installed so I am pasting a screenshot from their site:
Stock Quote Tooltip – http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/code/sqtt . This plugin allows for automatic inclusion of stock quote tooltips when you mouseover a configured company name.
How it looks like – Google . As you can see the tooltip is seen but the data is missing.. my guess? that it needs curl like Stock Quote Sidebar. Since I dont have time to hack the plugin here is a screenshot from their site:
Stock Quotes Widgets – http://patrick.bloggles.info/2006/04/23/get-your-stock-quotes-widgets/ . You can display your favorite stock quotes on your blog’s sidebar.
How it looks like – You can see it in my sidebar 
and a screenshot from MY blog:
GStock WordPress widget – http://www.gstock.com/page.php?pg=wordpress . A plugin to see (and show) the stocks that interest you, last price and current GStock BUY or SELL signal generated by their supercomputer.
How it looks like – You can see it in my side bar and a screenshot from MY blog:
SaneBull wordpress plugin – http://www.sanebull.com/plugins.html . You can trigger SaneBull Live Stock widget whenever you write a stock simbol in your post.
Comments – took me time to understand how do i download the plugin. The download link is the image on the left.
How it looks like – No idea. Didn’t manage to get it to work and their demo page is down. I am keeping this plugin in my list since someone else might have the time to see whats wrong with it.
Stockinfo wordpress plugin – http://www.movethemarkets.com/downloads/stockinfo-1.0-README.html . This plugin scans your blog posts for stock symbols and makes a table at the bottom of your post with links to Yahoo! Finance, Google Finance, and StockTickr pages for those stocks.
How it looks like – It broke my wordpress (=error messages instead of blog). So I wont bother with screenshots or link to the site. It’s probably an old plugin that doesn’t work with wp2.2
Stocks Watchlist WordPress Plugin – http://www.traderknowledge.com/free/stocks-watchlist-wordpress-plugin/ . The Stocks Watchlist plugin allows you to store stock symbols in your WordPress database and then output these symbols along with their live prices to your WordPress blog. Needs curl
How it looks like – Curl again… screenshot from their site:
Conclusion:
2 plugins stood out – GStock WordPress widget and Stock Quotes Widget. The first is more polished but the second has a chart (small and unusable but cute). GStock plugin also displays their current buy/sell signal so you can know which stocks are hot.
Curl – I didn’t dig and try to find out which stock plugin was the base of all the others that use curl but my guess is that one originated the rest since curl, a great app, is not that popular. Most people use wget or some pear package. I dont use any downloaders since I am afraid of hackers 
A very interesting post about google’s new patents on sending advertisements to your friends.
The ideas of coupons and affiliates are not new. The strength of google in this advertising concept is the amount of common people that use google’s services and the ease of adding advertisements to content you send / share with your friends.
cool. like touch graph but without the java. Now I need to find a use for it
It was the biggest torrent site. Tons of visitors a day. Strange that their PR is 0. I guess being offline for so long kills your PR no matter how many backlinks you have.
A common virus caused human adult stem cells to turn into fat cells and could explain why some people become obese, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Amazing if true. I remember when stomach ulcer was an illness many people sufferd from. They took anti-acid had special diet and their life quality was sh*t. Then scientists found out that a small spiral bacteria was the cause of the illness in 80% of the people and in short time all were cured.
and in wikipedia words
Before the appreciation of the bacterium’s role, stomach ulcers were typically treated with medicines that neutralize gastric acid or decrease its production. While this worked well, the ulcers very often reappeared. A very often used medication against gastritis and peptic ulcers was bismuth subsalicylate. It was often effective, but fell out of use, since its mechanism of action was a mystery. Nowadays it is quite clear that it is due to the bismuth salt acting as an antibiotic. Today, many stomach ulcers are treated with antibiotics effective against H. pylori.
If they find out this germ really cures obesity. I am going to be very happy and VERY ANGRY that it took them so long to figure it out! All that time I spent in the GYM!
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