For those of you, like me, who were too damn tired to drag their sorry butts out of bed to catch the lunar eclipse two nights ago (21st December 2010), here’s a really cool video of what you missed. This time lapse video of the Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse was recorded by William Castleman, from [...]
Kill The Ping! The Ping Is Dead!
December 15, 2010 By 1 Comment
This morning, prompted by Jeff Chandler’s post, Another Part Of Blogging Dies – Pinging and Paul Maloney’s, WordPress Ping Lists: Is There A Point Anymore?, I decided to take a quick look at the sites that my installations were pinging and evaluate their usefulness. I was in for a bit of a shock. The “ping” for those of you [...]
Must Read: The Internet Goes to War
December 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
If you’ve been drawn in by the media flood of reports about WikiLeaks and the new “Internet-wide Cyber War”, or as ABC proclaimed it “Welcome to Infowar, Version 1.0″, then this is a must read post. Despite the thousands of tweets, press articles and endless hype, most of the attacks over the last week were both relatively [...]
Child Abuse is NOT a Cartoon
December 7, 2010 By 6 Comments
Daily Shite came under attack during the weekend after Sara posted a satirical image which made fun of the current slacktivisim campaign on Facebook, which is to change your avatar to a cartoon in order to raise awareness of child abuse: Congratulations Facebook, You Ended Child Abuse! My lack of affection for slactivism is well known [...]
A Few Thoughts On Google’s Ideas On Making Copyright Work Better Online
December 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Google’s General Counsel, Kent Walker, updated the Public Policy Blog yesterday to talk about some changes to their handling of DMCA take down notices on YouTube and how they are going to take action against spam blogs using AdSesne. Here’s a few choice and possibly random quotes from the post before I throw out my decidedly random thoughts: There are more than 1 [...]
Blog Cleaning
December 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
While I had removed a lot of the unnecessary stuff that was making it’s way to the from page of this blog and kept it so you were only seeing actual posts, (as opposed to webcasts for other sites and aggregated Twitter content) Sara pointed out to me that all of that stuff was still finding it’s [...]
Clearly Google Has A Sense Of Humor
November 30, 2010 By 1 Comment
Judging by the result Google just served me, either Google has developed a wicked sense of humor or somebody is trying to tell me that I’ve been working on Daily Shite and our new project a bit too much lately!
Ultra Geeky LCARS Home Computer (Video)
November 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vOvDFxn76g Ultra geeky software architect Pascal Heiden shows off the interface to a home computer he programmed to operate like the LCARS interface from Star Trek. This is what I built in my home and this video is my own work. Both the computer and the software is self made. The interface is inspired by the [...]
Internet Usage Lowers Your IQ
How else do you explain this, near unintelligible, comment which was posted on Daily Shite? i love to get the natzi with spray on my own old saying put someone in uniform turn in to hitlerite