What Andy Warhol got wrong about “Campbell's Soup Cans”

I recently read a Salon.com piece titled:
What Stanley Kubrick got wrong about “The Shining”.

O.o

Oh, Kubrick got The Shining somehow wrong?

Quite interesting assertion. Maybe akin to the assertion that Andy Warhol got the "Campbell's Soup Cans" wrong, when he painted them in false colors.

(And no, I am not going to dignify such a piece of click-bait with an link. Go use a internet search engine, if you must.)

"You Won't Believe That Mind Blowing Must See Video about how NASA confirmed they faked Moon-Landing UFO alien Monuments!"

If the title of a video contains any of the following (or variations thereof), I'm pretty sure I don't want to see the video:

• "You won't believe…"
• "Mind blowing"
• "Must see video"
• "NASA" and any of the following: "hides", "confirms", "secret", "alien", "UFO", "monument", "faked", "photo", "reality" or "evidence"

If these fools insists to upload such spam (and they DO spam the world with it), then it is my right to filter out such spam – and may you die of easily preventable deaths.

There are very very few exceptions (I'm looking at you, Vsauce), but in general: I don't want to see such dreck.

(And as a bonus point: I avoid anything with Michio Kaku in it…)

[Update 2013-10-28] XKCD along the similar line.

Wordpress suspended "The Road To Endeavour" blog for TOS-violation?

I can't believe that! The Road To Endeavour is gone! I am really scratching my head as to what went wrong there. There was nothing remotely that I would think of as being in violation of the Wordpress' Terms Of Service.

I hope this was an error and the blog will return shortly.

[Update] Stu already tweeted about it.

Stop Pagination Now

Stop Pagination Now
Why websites should not make you click and click and click for the full story.

Slate’s editorial guidelines call for articles to be split into multiple pages once they hit the 1,000-word mark, so I have to keep this brief: Splitting articles and photo galleries into multiple pages is evil. It should stop.

Pagination is one of the worst design and usability sins on the Web, the kind of obvious no-no that should have gone out with blinky text, dancing cat animations, and autoplaying music. It shows constant, quiet contempt for people who should be any news site’s highest priority—folks who want to read articles all the way to the end.

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NowPublic emails leaked/hacked?

Since recently I'm getting spam via an email account only used for NowPublic. Looks to me like they "lost" their user database.

F*#$ing a$$holes

I listen to online radio. Through iTunes. I have now a collection of fine online radio stations, which suit my taste. My list in iTunes contains the URL of the station-playlist in the form:
http://pri.kts-af.net/redir/index.pls?esid=…&url_no=1&client_id=7&uid=…&clicksrc=xml

That is the URL iTunes got from Apple

But now, none of these stations work anymore. Because some idiot has removed them from that server.

And the new station-playlist is in the form:
http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/play.pls?stationid=ynotradio&tag=itunes

pri.kts-af.net now redirects to apple.com.

I now have to go through all stations and manually change the URL.

m(

Why is there no secure HTTPS download for Adobe Flash?

I mean, come on! MITM?! You got Flash on the majority of computers today, and no HTTPS for updates? SRSLY?

vureel.com pushes etypesetup.exe adware

Just watched a video on Vureel.com and the website tried to push etypesetup.exe "Somoto" Adware onto my computer – Fuckers.

The Girl With The Black Dress And Turquoise Bike

The girl with the black dress and turquoise bike:

If you go to Governors Island with Google Street View, you'll see a girl with a black dress and turquoise bike driving in front of the Street View camera.

Huh.

I tried to google some more information, but could not find anything more: So this is all I could figure out so far ....

If you want to check it out yourself:

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If you know anything, leave a comment!

[Update] Thanks to a comment, I found this with many more images – but no explanation though.

How to make the text in Blogspot postings "Justified" by default

Please verify that you know what you are doing. If you break something on your blog, it is not my fault – but if it works, I will take all credit for it! :-)

To make all the text in all posting on Blogger "Justified" by default (to make text flush on left and right, and get rid of the ragged right edge), you can try the following:

1. Select Design from your Blogger Dashboard
2. Then select Template Designer 
3. Then select Advanced 
4.  Scroll down and select Add CSS 

Now you can add the following text to the box labeled "Add custom CSS":

.post-body {
text-align:justify;
}

Select "APPLY TO BLOG" and you should be done.

You can always overwrite the default behavior. If you want a paragraph with a ragged edge (or centered), just select the paragraph in the posting editor and select the appropriate text alignment icon from the toolbar.

Similarly, if you are crazy (and who am I to judge?) and want other default behavior, instead of text-align:justify; you could use text-align:center; or text-align:right; (or the default or text-align:left;) in your added CSS.

How to become a pirate

By the way, from the better-late-than-never-but-nonetheless-still-timely department, in honor of Martin Luther King day, go find a copy of his I-have-a-dream speech. If you obtain one, and you didn't pay for it, then you are a pirate. That speech is copyrighted.

"Google AdSense Display Ads Will Now Feature the +1 Button"

Don't be evil my arse, Google Adsense has added the +1 "Like" button to adverts. And to make it extra sleazy, they put the +1 button in YouTube adverts above the mute button – way to go, sleaze bags.

But I'll leave it to Bill Hicks to tell excactly how I feel about these advert pushers:

Bill Hicks on Marketing


Bill Hicks - Corporate Shills