RIP Don Adams :[
People need to stop all this dying buisness.
The file linked here is a program I made a few years ago, using some complex code that simulated the interaction of bodies in a galaxy. I made it better.. with some flying triangles.
The real reason I’m posting this is to try out yet another new WordPress plugin I’ve installed called LMB^Box FilePress. It’s supposed to make the uploading and posting of images and files in posts much easier. So far, it works pretty well, especially for being in beta.
I’ve also installed LMB^Box Comment Quicktags, which adds quicktags above the textarea, when you’re commenting on an article. This one works great, and is quite easilly customizable. 19 thumbs up.
Egads, the transparency on that image makes it look like rotting ballsacks.
I fixed it in the lamest way possible, phew..
It seems two whole people registered for accounts here on gonad.org, without any coercing by me! I don’t know who they are, but to anyone that wants to contribute to the site, feel free to register and write something.
Currently, it’s set up so that new, registered users are at user level 1 (see the WordPress User Levels). This means they can only submit drafts of articles, that must be approved and published (to the main page, of course) by someone of a higher level.
If anyone wants to submit anything, go for it. I’ll check it out and publish it, then bump you up to user level 2 so you can publish for yourself. Only rules are: no rascism or bigotry and nothing illegal. Pretty simple, eh?
Personally I love “teh funny,” or anything that gets my geek juices (erm.. whatever they are) flowing. Also, I enjoy furry porn, but let’s pretend that I didn’t just type that. So, submit some.. funny, uhh, technically-minded furry porn… articles, and you’re all set!
While I was using google to see if “technically-minded” was hyphenated or not (I didn’t really ever find out, but I think it should be). I found a great Amazon.com Listmania list called “Assertive Office Politics for technically-minded.” I think my two favorite books, by title alone, are The Art of Napping at Work and How to Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive– Without Killing Your Boss. Both sound like valuable additions to any book collection.
Wow, I’m a posting machine. Unfortunately, I’m home sick today since I fear I’m going to explode into a fair-sized puddle of vomit. Besides that joyous news, I’ve discovered some really cool features in the new version of Winamp.
To put it simply, Winamp is good–the best music player around in my opinion. I’ve used it for as long as I can recall it existing.. since late 1990-something I’m thinkin’. A lot of people feared that once Nullsoft became affiliated with AOL, all that goodness might be lost. Winamp 3, many said, was just that failure. I stuck with good ol’ Winamp 2 during these days of turmoil. But, “fear not!” I told myself, “Winamp will pull through!”
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First of all, I didn’t stick to my stance on not capitalizing, I’ve noticed. Oh well.
I’ve been getting quite a bit of spam in my shoutbox, which uses Wordspew from Jalenack. I was going to write a comment on Jalenack about it, to see if there was a good solution, but to my surprise, my question was already answered! Yes, exciting.
So, anyway.. Bad Behavior is a plugin for WordPress (and a number of other content management whateveryouwanttocallthems) that does some kind of voodoo magic, and blocks spam!
Bad Behavior was designed and built by watching actual spambots which harvested email addresses, posted comment spam, and used fake referrers. By logging their entire HTTP requests and comparing them to HTTP requests of legitimate users, it is possible to detect most spambots. Bad Behavior blocks spambots with a 412 error. It also has three configurable User-Agent lists for spambots and other malicious bots which actually identify themselves. Bad Behavior can use string matching or regular expression matching against a User-Agent.
Bad Behavior also will target bots which fail to obey robots.txt. At this time some of these bots are banned by User-Agent, though in the future Bad Behavior will detect them automatically.
Sounds pretty promising, so I’ve installed it here. From briefly reading their website, they still have a number of features in the works, planned for future releases.
Hopefully Bad Behavior along with Spam Poison will keep all those nasty spambots away from the black hole of negative content that is gonad.org.
