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Archive for November 6, 2005
Unsecured WIFI to be Outlawed in NY
Nov 6th
According to a new proposal being considered by a suburb of New York City, any business or home office with an open wireless connection but no separate server to fend off Internet attacks would be violating the law.
Hah! Can’t wait to see if this actually passes through.
Either way, Enjoy! - Devious
Google Paying for Firefox Installs
Nov 6th
IBM invents new type of light
Nov 6th
Yahoo Maps pranks Google
Nov 6th
Found this hilarious article over at Sillicon Valley Sleuth. I read it myeslf and it is absolutely hilarious. Enjoy.
Yahoo engineers apparently couldn’t help themselves. The beta of the new Yahoo Maps for a short while listed “The Dude’s Fish Store” at 1600 Amphiteatre Parkway in Mountain View, CA.
The address is better known as the headquarters for Yahoo’s competitor Google.
Yahoo claimed to have further information (screenshot here) about the store, listing hours of operation (only open in summer) and an assortment of fish, hamsters, gold fish, snakes and spiders. Languages spoken are German and Russian.
The store even has a basic website More >
Ever wonder what its like to be color blind?
Nov 6th
While searching through Digg, I found a really cool site that can show you any website as if you were color blind.
Want to give it a try? go here: http://colorfilter.wickline.org/.
I’m not color blind, and I’ve definitely never wondered what it is, but hey, still a nifty link to check out!
Unfortunately, this is the top article on digg.com as I compose this, so it is getting a large volume of visitors. I can’t get to it, yet. Hopefully the volume of visitors will die down soon so we can all check it out.
Enjoy for now! -Devious
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