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Felicia Day awesome-ness. Have you ever been in a MMO (UO, EQ, AC, DAoC, WoW, etc) guild? These episodes are so funny because they are so true. Or if you are true curious what your S.O. used to do in World of Warcraft!

http://feliciaday.com/videos/

I can’t beat this guy at Guitar Hero and neither can you. Trust me, Dark Wing is just that good – pure perfection. Watch his hands fly across the buttons… but wait, what is that GREEN button?! Cheater? You decide!

Kids lie early, often, and for all sorts of reasons—to avoid punishment, to bond with friends, to gain a sense of control. But now there’s a singular theory for one way this habit develops: They are just copying their parents.

News flash! Kid’s are lying to their parents! This is a great article that goes into depth about possibly how children learn to lie. Yea nothing new when the article tells me all kids lie to their parents – even the honor students. However the ability to tell a convincing lie is an advanced skill and an early tell-tale sign of intelligence in your 2 year old. Forget about classical music in the womb, you should just pipe tapes of Nixon to the little future Harvard graduate in the womb. That’ll teach him a thing or two.

The Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) recently released Goolag which in simplest terms is a mass exploit scanner. Their Goolag specifications page has more information and makes for a pretty entertaining read. Though they are humorous, this tool is pretty serious stuff for identifying exploits on a remote host. I could easily find a use for this in my workplace; this could be one of many tools used to audit a website before it is placed into production. It’s better to scan and catch the security holes on your own, before an unknown attacker does it for you.

On a completely unrelated note, I had run across a means of using Google to locate and display live images from video cameras all around the world. This was several months ago and I had said to myself and friends that this would make for a great screensaver – a mosaic of live images from random web cameras from around the world. Well, looks like someone went and implemented it. Check out surveillancesaver which has versions for both Windows and OSX.

Turns out the MPAA is trying to install backdoors on students’ computers that monitor and relay information back to the MPAA. Fortunately, people have taken notice and some have even issued a DMCA takedown notice against them. There is alot of irony in this situation and it really highlights the MPAA’s greed and willful ignorance of copyright laws which do not benefit their organization directly.

References
• MPAA get DMCA Takedown Notice, Taste of its Own Medicine
• MPAA’s University Toolkit hit with DMCA takedown notice after GPL violation
• MPAA Trying To Rootkit Universities?
• MPAA University ‘Toolkit’ Raises Privacy Concerns
• Allegation of copyright infringement by the MPAA
• MPAA Called Out For Illegally Copying Doc About The MPAA.

The boys at CollegeHumor have been escalating their pranks for the better part of this year (since February) and the latest prank (number 6) happened just last week. If you haven’t been keeping up you can watch them in order here starting from the first to the last.

I wonder how other people feel about these pranks. The first two were pretty innocent and drew some good laughs from me. The later ones were funny but also drew some groans of sympathy pain; Streeter and Amir are escalating the war very rapidly. Amir’s latest prank has set a precedent by introducing a second “victim.”; Sharon (Streeter’s GF) has is an innocent casualty of war. Where is the epilogue to this latest skirmish!? This might be better than reality TV.

It Is Pitch Dark is the awesome video and song by MC Frontalot that pays homage to the classic Infocom text adventure game Zork. MC Frontalot cracks me up – I was first introduced to him by my friend Matt McNealy. This video brings back fond memories. I spent many hours after school playing the entire Zork series and most other Infocom games on my trusty 8086 with an amber monochrome monitor. Btw, nerdcore is hilariously fun and dorky.

Update: Try it now! A port of the original here: http://thcnet.net/error/index.php